Ghost Island | جزيرة الأشباح

In this episode of Yasir Alyasiri's (Masmoo) Podcast, Yasir shares the intense and surreal adventure of scouting filming locations for his short film, "Murk Light." Driven by a vision, Yasir sets out on a challenging quest to find a unique bus, an essential piece of the film's visual story, only to discover that tracking down this elusive element is nearly impossible.

Through a series of unexpected obstacles and tough moments, Yasir reflects on the highs and lows of his journey. He also offers practical filmmaking tips and insights, sharing how each setback led to valuable lessons in creativity and resourcefulness.

Join Yasir as he recounts this captivating story filled with cinematic ambition, perseverance, and the relentless pursuit of a vision.

في هذه الحلقة من بودكاست ياسر الياسري (مسموع)، يشارك ياسر مغامرته المثيرة والغامضة في البحث عن مواقع التصوير لفيلمه القصير "ضوء دامس" مدفوعًا برؤية خاصة، ينطلق ياسر في مهمة شاقة للعثور على حافلة فريدة تشكل عنصرًا أساسيًا في سرد الفيلم، ليكتشف أن العثور عليها أشبه بالمستحيل

من خلال مجموعة من التحديات والمواقف الصعبة، يتأمل ياسر في لحظات هذه الرحلة وما تعلمه من كل عقبة واجهها. ويقدم نصائح عملية في صناعة الأفلام، موضحًا كيف تحولت كل عقبة إلى دروس قيمة في الإبداع والمرونة.

انضموا إلى ياسر وهو يسرد هذه القصة الشيقة، المليئة بالطموح السينمائي، والإصرار، والسعي لتحقيق الرؤية الفنية.

Chapters

• 0:00 Music Intro | مقدمة موسيقية
• 0:11 Headlines | العناوين
• 1:13 Recap | في الحلقة السابقة
• 2:45 Important Stuff | اشياء مهمة
• 6:13 Recruiting Talents | تجنيد المواهب
• 8:53 Road Trip | رحلة برية
• 9:28 The Red Island | الجزيرة الحمراء
• 11:00 What is Scouting? | ماذا يحصل في المعاينة؟
• 15:21 The Bus | الباص
• 18:04 Ghost Island | جزيرة الأشباح
• 21:59 The Golden Fleece | البعوضة الذهبية
• 25:28 Build a Bus? | نبني باصاً؟
• 29:24 No Go | لا تصوير!

Transcript

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[Music]
The movie is in one hand, and the bus is in the

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other hand. On the terrifying island, this is what happened between
ambition and experience. Who will emerge victorious? All

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these topics and more. We will discuss them later in
the 16th episode of the Audible Podcast. With me, I am

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Yasser Al-Yasiri. Of course, at the beginning of the podcast, it is
very important that I hint. The work is important. Maybe. It turns out

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in the audio today that I usually record the podcast,
I mean, in my office, in the office, in a window

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overlooking the garden. Today, our friends, the birds
and the doves, decided to be present in

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the podcast. So, if I heard birds chirping,
they carried it a little bit today. This is a change. I mean, it might bring

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some activity to the listener’s feeling and to
my feeling, maybe. In the performance of today's episode,

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today's episode will be a continuation of what we discussed
in the previous episode, which is the behind-the-scenes preparation

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for the first short film or the first feature film,
which is a shining light that we came to in the direction

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of the 2454 Foundation in Abu Dhabi, which means
they covered it with 500,000 dollars, and the rest is me. It was necessary

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to balance what I wanted to
achieve with the film and the equipment

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and high technologies I wanted to use, and in fact
the amount I had

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was the most important elements I had was
the equipment I used for filming. There was

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coordination between the equipment we had at
Dubai Voice Company

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and the equipment I took from Pro Action Company, which They
entered with me in the film.

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The main actors were chosen, which are the artist Hoda
Al-Khatib, the artist Mansour Al-Fili, the artist Jassim

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Al-Kharaz, the artist Abrar Al-Hamad, and all the artists,
of course. I mean, they were almost entering, not

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almost entering. They are without wages for a stage.
I mean, they even bear their transportation, because

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I am one of the first. I was thinking that I would be filming in
one of the northern emirates, and this will lead us

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to talk today about the things that we will talk
about in our episode, which is choosing the local network

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and choosing the bus. I mean, maybe this bus. If
I can ask it, maybe four episodes is enough

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times. Is it simple, I mean, it's possible
to watch. Not everyone pays attention to it, but

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it took a lot of time
to prepare or search for it to find

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and use it, and vice versa. Sometimes there are things
that are not intended at all, and the viewer

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sees them, meaning something wonderful, meaning, or, or something
of the imagination, and tries to add an aspect of

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philosophy or an aspect of the Whoever praises
the creativity of anyone other than the director and the director is

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not at all intentional, and I remember, I mean, the opening of a
great book by the director Sidney Lumet. He has a book, so

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I advise everyone to read it. It is in English,
but God willing, I mean, God will enable me to

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translate it into Arabic because it is very important. The book is called
Making Movie, so this is considered. There are many books

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in Hollywood, meaning the basic ones are that you should read them if
you want to become a filmmaker. Then he opens the book,

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meaning something very important, that he says, “I met one
of the fans, one of the fans,

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and this fan was sitting telling me a clip from one of
his movies, and he says to him, ‘I mean, this is the great clip

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that you are. ’” When I chose the angle of the factory so that
only a part of it was visible, this means that he is in the depths

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of the depths, meaning he is
philosophizing the shot in a way that means

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great. What Sidney Lumet says is that after
the admirer finished with all this flattery and all this praise,

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he who does not know that I am in this photograph, if he were
to go, it would mean a centimeter to the left. There was a garbage container

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that we could not see. I mean, we could remove it by filming.
If it were a little bit higher up, the

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electrical wires would have come out, which I wanted to try to
hide. If a little bit to the right, it would have turned out. I don’t

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know what this is. This is the nature of filmmaking. It means
overcoming obstacles. Maybe it’s a hobby that people

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see as philosophical. What it means is that. Things that are
not, and sometimes the opposite, and I, with complete light, think

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that the opposite has happened because it has become an experience for later. I mean,
I will say it. I think at the end of this episode, if

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we stop talking about it, or there is another solution, because it is
the subject of the movie. I mean, it will take more than

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one episode with me, because it is very important that I want to focus.
On the details, even the listener, or whoever

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has the intention of entering the world of film making,
may have the benefit of these episodes. I mean,

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we have reached the point where I have covered the two most important elements.
I had problems, or they may have

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problems with the budget, and now the next plan
is to start attending with people. Or the smallest

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possible number of people so that I do not pay the
preparation fees, and I am trying to put in double the effort,

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working on my own job as a director
and as a director, in addition to the many hats

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that I will wear in preparing this work so that I can
save on the material, so we need, I mean, what I need.

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There were two of them in this disaster. He was the director
of the production department, Omar Al-Bayati, meaning

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production designer Sami Al-Amiri, and the one
I mean, and the one I trust the most frankly, is

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Omar Al-Bayati, Sami Al-Amiri. He means
a musician in a famous Iraqi band called

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Storms,
and I mean, I got to know him around 2003 or

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the end. In 2002, Yana worked in the company, meaning he
is a musician and singer, and he is interested in singing purely, but he has

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an interest in the visual aspect. In the year 2008, from
the conversations that take place between me and him, I always felt

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that he was Sam, or his full name is Saman Al-Amri.
I felt that he had something that could be special in

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the world of production design or art direction in the world.
In 2008, I mean, God gave me a mission to make

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this song the greatest in a video clip. Of course,
the video clip did not come out. Then

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the video clip was called Zamal Al-Awalin, by the artist
Ibrahim Al-Hakmi.

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Wissam worked in R-Director, and to be honest, he was creative.
I mean, it was actually according to my good opinion or expectation, and it surprised

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everyone. Everyone was surprised
by the level he presented with this work, and

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behind it I started to go ahead and start doing
second works with other directors, and Akko’s hobby. I said

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in the previous episode, Akko’s hobby is one of the groups that
resemble Sam and Yai’s journey, that I saw

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something in him and said, “No, come, close this post,”
and it is always the same. I am trying to find people

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for the positions that I am struggling with who are competent, and even
Omar Al-Bayati, I mean, it is true that he used to work

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in production in advertisements, and he started
working with me almost in the year 2008 in the video “

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Emirates of Existence” by Al-Hussein Al-Jasmi, and since then,
I mean, I began to try, I mean, to raise it in, I mean,

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it was. I made him a production assistant in the series, and I made him a
production manager, and for a little while, no, this happened, God willing,

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and I mean, a supervising producer of all the work of the company,
which I mean I own and work

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through, so Omar and I started. I told him, “Come, let’s
get the car.” At that time, I had

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a Chevrolet Camaro sport car. I was supposed to go .
We are going to the Northern Emirates, and I know

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that it means I want to see places that might be
dirt roads or off-road. I mean, we took someone from

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the company, Dubai Voice Company, owned by my brother Nour
Al Yasiri. We took the van, which is Four Wheel,

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and we went on a trip, saying that we were going to Ras Al Khaimah first
thing to go to the site.

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I mean, I know it was filmed twice before, it was filmed twice.
There were two video clips. It was a video clip by the artist

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Wasmi Salam Al-Eshq, and another video clip.
Honestly, I don't remember now, but it's old, so

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we went hoping that this would mean one of
the scenes, or all of the scenes in the movie,

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could be in this place. It is
an island close to the sea called

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Al-Jazeera Al-Hamra. This is how it is called Al-Jazeera Al
-Hamra.

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It means in the Emirati dialect, and this island
means it has a whole neighborhood of houses

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, schools, mosques and all neighborhood facilities.
It means it is completely deserted. It means its people. I don’t

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know. We have heard any stories. I mean, but what I mean is that
I think the bigger logical story is that I mean,

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its people may have happened. It means that it is related
to the sea or the waves of the sea, that the tides come and

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may affect them, so they were forced to abandon it.
But of course, we are like making films. The place is

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about magic. I mean, you imagine yourself as a whole area
that is deserted and open, with all

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its institutions and all its elements. You can
go and wander around. It even means that

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the scout is a stage. I mean, the inspection is when we go
and inspect the set or the filming locations that we are going

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to photograph. I always love it. It means that the correct thing
is that this inspection is done from the location manager.

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He hears the summary, or I mean, the summary from
the director, and he goes and gives him options. He narrates pictures,

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so the director says from the pictures. I want this. Okay, okay
. There are no calculations to enter that it must be located

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in an area. It must not be far, for example, from
a specific place, so that movement during

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the day does not become difficult. I mean, with calculations related to production
as well. Then the director and the location

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manager go and make sure that the location is perfect
later. Little by little,

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the majority of the department heads, according to each one,
at what time, when we do an official inspection, we

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call it the technical or technical inspection
, so we go with the technique, so we go. I mean,

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with the messages, it is important that I, as a director, explain
what I see in this location and hear the opinions from

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them. What should we add? All
the technical stuff should be ready. No, I

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like it a little, especially with projects like this.
I work on it for fun and enjoyment. I mean, I'm going to go.

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In the beginning, without the location, I keep driving
in my car or going with someone. Honestly,

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I mean, Omar Al-Bayati is the one with me and
my camera, and I take pictures in the place of the actors, standing

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with the location. I mean, Omar Al-Bayati has an archive
of my photos. It means it is scary for me to use him

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as an actor until I see how the actor would be if he stood in this
place, how he would go. It looks like it and I take pictures and go and

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study it later until I know what it means for this place.
I mean, choose it or not. Why do I like to go alone? Because

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I don’t like the pressure that puts me under it. I feel like
a work team is waiting for me for an answer or opinion. I mean, I like

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to be free of pressure. I mean, I walk alone
and the optimal decision or feeling is made. The best thing

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I have is the one that concerns this place, and the one that concerns
this corner, I choose because it is not just

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my opinion. Of course, in any case, I will choose it
of my own free will, but I choose it without any pressure. I want

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to make sure that it is my choice, there is no pressure coming from it,
that it is my ego. I swear I felt that he and I

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were tired, for example. Because my hobby is to walk, I
mean, I can get up, or park the car in a far place and

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get out and walk. I mean, sometimes we get back by taxi to the car.
Wherever we rode, we don't walk. I mean, even

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in later works, I will talk about it, for example, in
Georgia. I mean, I might have finished

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walking. Tbilisi, the capital, I mean, I like to walk and explore. I said
that there was a clip in Istanbul, which

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was the clip of the artist Mansour Zayed. From
walking, I discovered the locations

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of the Turks themselves. They asked me, “How did you
find it? Where did you find it? I love this process so much.

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I mean, Omar Al-Bayati and I were happy and we took the car, the
van, it’s a semi-bus.” A little smaller

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than a bus, and we set off. We went to Ras Al Khaimah. The first
thing we saw was the Red Island, which I was filming

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on before. I felt it was a very suitable location for the film. Since
our film is a fantasy, we did not

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exactly choose any stage, but we know that the stage
before the union could be the stage

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before the discovery of oil in the region, because Our response is
to show the places a little poorer than the people, meaning their distance

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is simple. I replied to a place that shows this
era, meaning it shows this antiquity. The island could have been

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shown more because I think the building means
more seventies

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, but that means
time and the factors that left the place made the place appear

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as if it were from an older era, so I know this thing
. At the same time, I am looking for the bus. The bus,

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of course, means a character. It means that whoever
chose the actors must choose the bus. It means

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that he is one of the actors. Absolutely. I mean, we were happy
for Ras Al Khaimah. We said, “The first thing we go to Al Jazeera

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Al Hamra is to check it.” It means that it is a location for filming,
and behind it we keep wondering. I mean, Ras Al Khaimah is

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a little simpler. From the Emirates, meaning it is simpler
than Abu Dhabi, Dubai,

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and Sharjah, so we said we can find these
old cars. I was thinking about the reference to the shape of the bus,

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of course, after I entered Sweet Research on the buses
that they actually used to move between

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the village and the city, or sometimes they took them
to go for Hajj, meaning in the Gulf region, I found them.

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It is close to a bus that is famous for us in Iraq in
the Najaf Governorate, which is called Daq Al-Najaf.

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I mean, it is a bus that looks a little closer. It may be an
Indian or Pakistani bus. I mean, it looks strange from the outside,

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from the recent visits to Iraq. To be honest, I have not seen it,
but in the days when I was in Iraq before, I mean,

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my departure. To the Emirates, he was there. I saw him
on the street. I mean, I said I wanted this bus.

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I had hope that he would find the bus.
It was in Ras Al Khaimah. We were happy for Ras Al Khaimah

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and a nice trip, Tunisian. Of course, I live in the car
listening to songs and Red Bull. You drink Red Bull. I don’t

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know if it will be considered. Propaganda or not, but
we went to the Red Island, and as usual, we stopped

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the car in a far place and started to walk around the island,
taking pictures of a lifetime in more than one place. I mean, this

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place will be, for example, Ibrahim’s house. This
place is the place where Hassan Al-Awar, who is the bus driver,

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sees this place . This
place is the bus that this one walks on. The place

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where this scene takes place means that I have to transcribe
all the scenes for the movie. I don't really need to transcribe,

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they are in my brain. I mean, I mean every place in
my doctor's office. I say this place is a candidate because this is

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for this scene. Omar B has movements similar to the movements
of the artists or actors that will later become,

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meaning the movements of the characters in the work. Then I will
have a group of nominations. I mean, for example, for

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Ibrahim’s house, I will throw in the archive, for example, five
and six places. Then I will soak them and settle them in two places.

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Then I will go a second time to the same place until
I choose the most appropriate place, and I notice something strange.

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In the Red Island, I did not mean that I saw
before, and before I touched on this strange thing,

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that it was something very important related to the island, according to the
popular legends that exist in the Emirates, that this island

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is inhabited by jinn. I mean, the people actually do so
at night, so no one dares to go to it. I mean,

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I photographed it before, and we photographed it at night, right?
To be honest, we were afraid because it was a

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strong and very famous rumour, and it was very famous in the Emirates
. I even thought that there was a movie once, except one of

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my friends, that it was like someone investigating and watching for
jinn at night in this area. So, of course,

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Omar and I, I mean, we were arguing and joked about this
topic, saying it was gone. The madness came, we stayed at night

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because I see places, meaning night scenes,
so I will not be able to photograph them with my camera or

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see them during the day. I mean, it is very important that the
night places you see at night,

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and the day places you see during the day, depending on
the events of the movie or the events of the story until you choose

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the ideal place, meaning the island is famous
for people who Outside the Emirates, of course,

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everyone in the Emirates knows that the island of Hamra
is famous. I mean, it is said that it is inhabited by jinn.

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Other than that, while we were sitting photographing,
I noticed that something new had happened. The area

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adjacent to the sea on the island was deserted
before Omar and I went. We found Deson there, like

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operations. I mean, the new constructions were arranging
the old market, which was deserted. We met workers

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from India, and we tried to inquire.
Of course, they did not speak English or Arabic. What

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are they doing? They said, “It means we were accused of
repairing the area.” So we took this information

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and completed the inspection, or scouting,
and Omar, and we finished. We said all the things that we could

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finish on the first day
of our departure. We said that we would plant

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in Ras Al Khaimah until dawn, and in the morning we would start
to go and look for the bus, and then we would go back and see

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the other places. We were happy at night. They took our pictures,
I mean, in the Red Island, and then I went out to Ras

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Al Khaimah and took pictures of reserve places, so I could see some
of us. As for the places we can use, then we went

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around, meaning on the bus at night, of course, we couldn't
see a hobby, so we said, let's go back to the hotel, and in the morning

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, I mean, we'll go around, and we actually went the second day. I mean, I'm not
exaggerating when I say Ras Al Khaimah, meaning we found

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a street, a street, and a hot alley, and we drove down it until
we caught the bus, and I didn't find anything nearby. I mean

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, by a percentage, I mean, 10% of what I was going, and
it was a little bit disappointing,

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to be honest, because I wanted, I mean, I have to want
this bus. I was trying to insist on it. I mean,

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let's go around and around, Omar and I. My line is that Omar is the one who
drives, and we keep walking, for example. I mean, if we find something

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on the street, the line means. We don't want us to stop and see
for sure. This bus is standing next to a house, or a

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store, or a factory near him. We ask people, "
Who is this bus coming back from?" We talk about the bus and say, "We

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want to use the film and settle the agreement." This
plan is ours, or so we thought. I mean,

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we kept going around until we found the bus
and then... I mean, we're back. I finished the look. Net

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report that I saw it day and night in the
Red Island and in

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other nominated places. However, it is, I mean, we can
use it in the movie. I mean, we returned to Dubai and I took

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the pictures that I took and started looking at them. I mean,
with careful consideration and scrutiny, I chose that it means

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the nominated places. The next stage I will
go. He took with me, meaning a larger portion of the department heads,

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I could take it, meaning Art
Director, for example, and we would go, I mean, we would discuss that

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the decor was ugly. What could we build? What could we add? What
could we change the color of these things? So the group chose.

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At the same time, we sat down. I mean, Omar kept calling me
about the bus issue, and he said, “Are there places in Dubai

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that you can go to ?” You can find this thing. It was
very important for the bus to be in what

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we call it in Iraq, Sibayeh, which is
on top of the bus like the seat. The rim was put on it

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before. I mean, in the past, I mean, I thought it
meant the character of

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Ibrahim and Hassan in
the movie. They are on top of the bus, not sitting on the bus

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. I mean, it's a charming, beautiful situation. I mean, he thought about
the two of them out in the open. They might be naked because

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of any side effects. They might be inside
the bus with the other passengers, so there would be

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more scope for the truth. I mean, they told him, Al-Omar,
that they should go to the places for him. Maybe you'll find this

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bus. I mean, maybe the places will be there,
and we left. In fact, we found a bus with this one on it, which is

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the one above the tire on which the wheels are left.
We loaded more than one bus and arrived, of course.

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It was easy for us to get off, and most of the areas were
people from the country of India

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, so it was difficult to communicate with them, frankly, because they did not
speak English and did not speak Arabic. Until we took

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the number to tell the driver, the driver would take the bus out
as owned, not owned by the company or owned by the person.

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We would talk back to the person. I mean, almost all of them
refused because they used it for work, and we

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did not have the attractive sums. We had
certain sums, but it was not about the attractive sums.

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We would entice the bus owner, for example, by saying we will give you
money to rent a bus for you. This was not possible

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with the budget of this film, and of course with films and
the other uncle, we can do this. The second thing is

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that there are series and other films. We bought cars,
destroyed cars, and blew up cars. This is normal in

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the film industry, but with independent films and
short films, it means that personal efforts

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have more scope and space. So I returned
to the company, and after all these failed attempts, we went to

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an area called Al-Wair in Dubai. We went to see
the buses that It means car showrooms, I mean,

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for almost two days
we did not find the bus, and the bus we met means

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we found a bus nearby. I remember, but it meant turn
right, meaning the steering wheel was driving on the right side,

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because it means coming from another country, so I didn’t feel it
at all, or it could be from the outside, but it’s nice from the inside. It is not

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nice from the outside. It is not nice. The important thing
is that all these places and all these attempts failed

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. We
were sitting in the company at the Dubai Voice Company.

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Me, Omar Al-Bayati, Wissam Al-Amri Production
Designer or Art Director,

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and Sam said something that means an idea. Zain said, “Why
don’t we answer? It’s normal.”

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A bus and we dress like this that you want to wear.
So I said to him, “What do you mean?” He brought it. He brought paper and a pen and a drawing

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for me. He told me that we can. I mean, we can do it, oh
, oh, a carpenter and a blacksmith, like disbelief. I mean, imagine it as a proverb. It

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means like a blanket. It means that it rides on top of the bus
and completely changes its shape. So

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I said to him, Okay, the idea is fine. But my
only problem

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is that the one that is on the top of the car that you leave it in
means the rims, and what I think about is that

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the main characters sit in it. I told him that I
want to make up for it. I mean,

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like, how can I describe it? It means a set of irons
laid out

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in it. It means the distance until we create like a platform
or or or a place to build. Around the bus so that

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we can leave the camera with it, we move with it,
we stop with it, we make it light, meaning that it is not part of

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the bus. This is what they call the rig in English, or
the regen, meaning the process of installing the iron. I mean, like,

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how do you fix the wheel, a scuff in English,
this is the wheel that we leave around the bus, so I told

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him, “This is
blasphemy.” I mean, Wood could not bear that we were

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leaving this slavery on him, so Zain told me that in
this case, the plan is that we should find a bus, regardless

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of its model, regardless of its appearance, that it
already exists on it this past time, so I told him that it is true, this

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father is finished, this is what will settle our joy at
seeing the other one. Sam and I went to

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the places and were explaining to him that I was explaining to him
, meaning the places I chose and what to do with them,

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and this time when we went, there were people present
close to the construction issue, so they came

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to us in a car and said, “What is this, soon?” We said, “
We mean photographing,” and so on, as we are accustomed

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to. After we choose the places and go,
we get approval from the municipality and the police, and we

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already have a permit, which is the security permits and the
approval permit from Dubai, Studio City

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, and these things, meaning routine. They said, “No, no
, this time, the matter is different, and this island

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is now under a certain administration, and you must obtain
approval from the administration,” so we said. Okay, so

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there's no problem, so he said, "This is the person's number, and he will be
there in the afternoon." Sam said that he was going

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to meet them, greet them, and Omar and I went to look for
the bus. Of course, it is very important. The bus, other than the presence

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of C-Pay, must have a suitable shape inside
and fit the shape I had in mind, because we don't. We will

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be able to change a bus from the inside. I mean, we are this bus.
We said, I mean, I don’t have the money. I won’t buy it. I can’t

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break it. Surely its owner will come back and use it
later. I mean, I have to find a bus that looks

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good from the inside as well. So we turned around. We turned around. By God, we found
a bus. We found a bus from the outside in perfect shape. So I said, oh.

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Oh Lord, it looks like it from the inside. Okay. We got out of
the window. No, by God, it looks like it from the outside. Okay. We found

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his owner there. He is the driver. He is his owner himself.
So, hey means facilitation, as they say.

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So we agreed and, guys, we told him that it is such and such
and we explained the matter to him. He said that I mean, but I have it.

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He worked on a line and now he was getting money for me, so we said
we would pay him this amount, that is, for

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this matter, so he agreed. He took Omar’s number
and we went back to Sam, who was at the meeting and

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the village administration, so Sam sat down. We told him what
the procedures were. He said, “By God, I mean, they said that

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the procedures had changed, and he paid an amount and the amount
they wanted.” I mean, almost half of the budget is the money

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I have, and even if I was supplying, I already had problems
with the budget, so it was a big problem because I was

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expecting that, as usual, I had photographed there
twice before, so the place would be free, meaning

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free, but this time it seemed that there should be
fees, so

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I was very upset and told him to try and stay. I mean, Omar and Wissam
kept calling people from Al Jazeera, and they were

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saying, “No, if this amount is not my hobby,
there are movies I came to film in the area, and my hobby is there are

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works that were filmed in this area.” I mean, I don’t
have money, and that’s it. I mean, it’s time for him

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to give money and other things, if he leaves.
You keep distorting the topic at all. There is no photography.

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I mean, almost, I can say that if it is not the
Red Island, it is almost not a movie, because all the other places

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that I saw in Ras Al Khaimah or
in the rest of the Emirates are not suitable.

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I also do not have
the material that I built, for example, an entire city, a regular studio for films, and with subsequent films,

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entire cities were built with its streets. In its homes, or we went to the place of
an Ordi studio, they were building a city, and we used it, so

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neither this one existed nor this one existed,
and the studios,

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meaning those
in which they built cities, the series were, I mean,

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specialized, meaning traditional, meaning older, meaning
the 1940s era, and I mean, before, I did not want

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to go to that era, especially on the bus mode.
So that it would be appropriate for the story, I kept trying

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to occupy all the acquaintances I had, and at the same
time, I did not insist on them because they had reached a point

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where they said, “If I have a beard, and after that, I don’t,” then the issue was
very thorny, so I communicated, of course, and, oh father of

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difficult tasks, the artist Mansour Al-Faili, of course, the artist
Mansour Al-Faili is well-known in the Emirates.

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He is a very sociable person, and God willing,
he has a set of relationships and friendships,

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the likes of which I may never see in the world. So I said to Abu Saud, “
We have a problem like this and this and this.” He told me, “Finish, come

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early.
We will go to Ras Al Khaimah and sit down, people, and one

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of the senior officials.” I mean, it will definitely be
solved for us. We will see, of course, I was in

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a state of despair. The basic location for photography
is not available, but at least it means, thank God,

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the bus is almost there, and Sam began taking measurements
of the bus until we settle the structure that we talked

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about. In the next episode, I will see the topic of
the location: how it will be solved, whether it will be solved or not. No,

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it has become very strange things, and you seem to be someone who
has been going on for four years

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already in a negative way, not a positive way. It means something
very strange, funny, and scary at the same time.

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In the next episode, God willing, we will discuss it.
I hope it was a light episode for you. Thank you very much.