Jean-Claude Kalache surrounded by Ed Catmul, President of Walt Disney and John Lasseter, President of Pixar Studios.
Jean-Claude Kalache went to the United States to continue his studies in 1990, and six years later was offered a job by Pixar. He was part of the team that produced Oscar winning movies such as Geri’s Game AK, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, Cars and last but not least the movie UP that won two Oscars back in 2009. Jean Claude Kalache is currently the director of photography at Pixar.
“Ce qui me manque le plus c’est la famille, les amis et les manakishes !, dit-il en souriant. Il n’y a rien que je déteste vraiment au Liban… bon peut-être la conduite parfois”.
When asked what he misses most about Lebanon, he said family, friends and Manakish. Read his full interview [Here].
Oh comon, more threads about how smart and creative the Lebanese are, all we’re good at building is toilet seats.
FFS we can’t even create our own national anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kHRtcFhcdhw
He is a highly achieved proud Lebanese. Nothing wrong in praising him. As for the national anthem, get your facts right.
https://blogbaladi.com/why-our-lebanese-anthem-is-not-copied/
Well I read that post and it sounded real emo, most of the points you made were false:
1- Minute 0:29 The memo sent noticed that there was absolutely NO similarity between the Lebanese National anthem adopted in 1927 and the Moroccan Royal anthem adopted in 1956.
2-Minute 1:03, You have no proof it’s from 1959 and even if it was it is irrelevant when a video was made.
3-Minute 1:49 It was written with a tune, since when was an anthem written without a tune?
4-The lyrics are very similar.
5- Mohammad Flayfel’s own son didn’t claim that his father didn’t compose it, he claimed it was done by the Flayfel brothers all together.
6- And Last but not least, Rahbanis have composed masterpieces and less than 1% of their music is plagiarized.
Sorry I know this is a very old topic that has no place here.
Gonad,
That still doesn’t allow you to question the anthem or the achievements of the Lebanese I just posted about. Had Al Jadeed provided enough proof, they would have published it but it’s all to get some media attention, nothing more or less. If Ghassan was serious about this, he could have gone far.
Rahbanis have composed masterpieces indeed and adapted old tunes. I never said there was something wrong with that.
Actually Al Jadeed didn’t go far with it because humiliating their own country is not a popular thing to do. Even though it’s true, everyone just wanted it to lie down and become forgotten quietly.
And nobody has ever officially tried to disprove it, except for some angry bloggers who twist a few truths and facts to satisfy their point of view.
As for your claim of a conspiracy involving Ghassan Rahbani who was fabricating this whole thing so he could create his own new anthem, watch this, go to 4:13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyRBIOldTtU&feature=relmfu
If that’s so, then they should havent done it from the start. Pulling something like that then remembering they could be humiliating their own country is not really the smartest thing to do.
As for Ghassan coming up with his own anthem, I was probably being sarcastic.
Telling a commenter that he is not allowed to question the anthem or achievements of the Lebanese is not exactly allowing freedom of expression.
Besides, his point about the praise of expat Lebanese stands. Those that are successful had to leave here to do so and will NEVER return.
All the “I miss manakish” and other idiocies are just their way of saying “never coming back”.
The praising of their success (as well as claiming 2nd or 3rd generation Lebanese expats as Lebanese a la Salma Hayek) is akin to saying that only by leaving this country will you have a better chance of being successful – which in turn renders the whole argument of Lebanon’s qualities null.
Imagine the losses of a country that doesn’t nurture its own home-grown talent.
Just to correct the photo’s legend: Ed Catmul is the President of Pixar Animation Studios (owned by Disney), and John Lasseter is the Chief Creative Officer at both, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios…
I personally know J.C. Upstanding, respectable family man, genuine.
People making negative comments on someone achieving something,their dreams, goals, are simply jealous and have no idea what the hell they are talking about.