{"id":18554,"date":"2025-09-08T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18554"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:04:04","slug":"aziz-ansari-takes-inspiration-from-old-classics-for-directorial-debut-film-good-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18554","title":{"rendered":"Aziz Ansari takes inspiration from old classics for directorial debut film ‘Good Fortune’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Actor-comedian Aziz\u00a0Ansari\u00a0said he was inspired by films from the 1930s and 40s for his directorial debut Good Fortune, a fantasy-satire about an angel swapping the lives of a gig worker and an affluent Silicon Valley venture capitalist.<\/p>\n

The film,\u00a0starring\u00a0Ansari, Canadian actors Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Sandra Oh, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Reeves plays an angel named Gabriel with limited powers who swaps the lives of broke gig worker Arj, played by\u00a0Ansari, and tech millionaire Jeff, played by Rogen, hoping the two learn that money is not important. The outcome is not as he expected.<\/p>\n

“You look at films from the 30s and 40s, there were a lot of movies that dealt with these kind of issues (wealth, equality and class) that were comedies. The idea of doing that kind of movie today felt really fun,”\u00a0Ansari\u00a0said in an interview before the premier.<\/p>\n

The movie touches upon the challenges of the average worker today and the\u00a0disparities\u00a0in\u00a0wealth\u00a0between those at the top and those living paycheck-to-paycheck. “In those\u00a0old\u00a0movies whenever they showed really\u00a0wealthy people, they’d have a top hat, the modern version of that (is) cold\u00a0plunge and a sauna, wearing a bathrobe,”\u00a0Ansari\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Ansari, known for playing Tom Haverford on\u00a0the\u00a0TV series Parks and Recreation and\u00a0creating the show\u00a0Master of None,\u00a0said he was inspired by films such as Sullivan’s Travels and My Man Godfrey.<\/p>\n

Reeves’ part as Gabriel is a contrast from his popular role in John Wick\u00a0where he plays a hit man who comes out of retirement to seek revenge against the men who killed his dog.<\/p>\n

“(The film) gives you a good hug. It’s funny. It’s smart. (It gives you) things to think about,” Reeves said.<\/p>\n

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Actor-comedian Aziz\u00a0Ansari\u00a0said he was inspired by films from the 1930s and 40s for his directorial debut Good Fortune, a fantasy-satire about an angel swapping the lives of a gig worker and an affluent Silicon Valley venture capitalist. The film,\u00a0starring\u00a0Ansari, Canadian actors Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Sandra Oh, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}