Hearing Martin Scorsese praise Satyajit Ray makes me deeply happy.

Scorsese saw Ray’s films on TV.

He is Sicilian American, but he identified with films made in India!

Because the language of film is international.

Filmmakers have drawn comparisons between the lone, wandering ronin of Japan, and the lone, wandering gunslingers of cowboy America.

Both drew inspiration from European knights who were unmatched in battle prowess, and dedicated to performing good deeds in adherence to their, at times, ambiguous moral code.

Scorsese loved library books with movie stills in them.

He liked them so much, sometimes he stole the library books.

I grew up in the suburbs. I stole stuff off the Internet all the time. Remember LimeWire?

I heard stories of people stealing the “6” and “9” keys off of keyboards in the Bronx, where Per Scholas was founded.

Tetris, the 2023 biographical thriller directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink, centers on an international inspiration.

Based on the true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from 1980s Cold War Russia, I love the bromance between Henk Rogers and Alexey Pajitnov.

Video games like Tetris are international.

No matter what language you speak, it is easy to play a visual, math-based game like Tetris.

ACTION POINT: Seek (steal) international inspiration.