Wright had invited producer Steve Golin, which was enough to satisfy the die - hard cinephiles in the audience who knew him as the architect of Anonymous Content and Propaganda Films, but even without that, he
charmed everyone with stories of Lynch's good
luck rituals before a film like checking license plates in a parking lot for his initials and how he had a lunch meeting with Lynch where moments after he said he wanted Nicolas Cage for the part of
bad boy Sailor Ripley, Cage walked into the restaurant they were eating at.
They all present a poetic re-working of Greek popular tradition, which develops around three themes: KARAGIOZIS, POSTCARDS of old Athens, the EVIL EYE, a bead
charm used to guard against ill omen and
bad luck.