Filosofi Kopi 2 : Ben & Jody is not merely a sequel to the 2015 award winning movie as the makers moved to expand the universe to where all the troubles of serving a good cup of java exists.
The slang word for coffee profoundly explained why production house Visinema Pictures thought of reliving the heyday of Indonesian coffee and the coffee culture by producing a web series, a radio drama and merchandise as well as opening artisan cafes to complement the movies with more sequels to come.
It also envolved the public in the story making by holding a competition to add new characters to the original story in the original novel Filosofi Kopi (Coffee Philosophy), which made the sequel the country's first "user generated" movie.
The book author, Dewi Lestari, or Dee, even gave a nod to the story's expansion and the development of her brainchild characters.
"You gave them a life of their own," she said after a media screening on July 5, adressing the scriptwriter team of Jenny Jusuf, M. Irfan Ramli and Angga Dwimas Sasongko, t he latter of which also took the helm again for the sequel.
She could not have said it better.
In theaters since July 13, Ben & Jody follows the titural characters while entering the second "coming of age" phase of finding a sense of self that offers a bit more than traditional romance with coffee, and the philosophy of it, as the mainstay.
If it sounds just like the previous movie, then this one has more complex conflicts, a longer road trip and a real struggle that does not involve a rich man willing to drop a lot of cash in exchange for the perfect taste of a coffee.
Two years after being back in business, the idealist, hot headed coffee artisan Ben (Chicco Jerikho) talks the coffee shop owner and long time friend, by the book Jody (Rio Dewanto) into selling their Jakarta shop and traversing the archipelago in a modified VW Kombi van instead because everyone deserves "the best coffee".
The trip stops abruptly in Bali when all three employees resign and the two friends have no other choice but to get on their feet running a coffee shop again. They cross paths with Tarra (model, actress, TV personality Luna Maya) who wishes to invest in the business and agriculture graduate w ith a passion for brewing coffee named Brie (crowned Putri Indonesia in 2010, Nadine Alexandra).
The conflicts that rise among the four are heartfelt, which is organically developed from the characters of Ben & Jody, their past experiences and the unspoken competition between them. The way they resolve their issues is genuinely theirs, nothing like over the top attempts at ending it but just young men and women with dreams facing reality and leaving their comfort zones.
And this is how the story branches out with a promise to tie up the vast swaths of the coffee industry in the archipelago the coffee universe.
Chicco and Rio, who both co produced the film with Anggia Kharisma and also run the Filosofi Kopi shops, showed heartfelt chemistry of the titular characters despite each being the exact opposite of the other.
It is nice to see Luna and Nadine tried to give life to their character. Both Tarra and Brie are strong willed and independent women and have essential roles in the story and are not just flashy embellishments, but there's still some room for improvement for the actresses.
Angga brought in a dynamic shoot angle that added to the masculine energy that undeniably oozed from the film and was only balanced by the panoramic view of the regions known for their coffee culture, such as Lampung, Bali, Makassar and Toraja.
It is also noteworthy that the film tried to re introduce how Indonesians tradionally take their coffee, not sipping it but by slurping for the entire experience.
Ben & Jody as a drama is a job well done because it can awake a sleeping conscience about the long black drink by your work station where it comes from and the hands that serve it. As Ben put it, it's an as yet unwritten coffee philosophy : "Anything that comes with flavors has a soul of its own."
Filosofi Kopi 2 : Ben & Jody
(Drama, 108 minutes)
Production : Visinema Pictures, 13 Entertainment
Director : Angga Dwimas Sasongko
Scriptwriter : Jenny Jusuf, M. Irfan Ramli, Angga Dwimas Sasongko
Cast : Chicco Jerikho, Rio Dewanto, Luna Maya, Nadine Alexandra, Ernest Prakasa, Tio Pakusadewo, Joko Anwar, Whani Darmawan
Rating : 13+
The slang word for coffee profoundly explained why production house Visinema Pictures thought of reliving the heyday of Indonesian coffee and the coffee culture by producing a web series, a radio drama and merchandise as well as opening artisan cafes to complement the movies with more sequels to come.
It also envolved the public in the story making by holding a competition to add new characters to the original story in the original novel Filosofi Kopi (Coffee Philosophy), which made the sequel the country's first "user generated" movie.
The book author, Dewi Lestari, or Dee, even gave a nod to the story's expansion and the development of her brainchild characters.
"You gave them a life of their own," she said after a media screening on July 5, adressing the scriptwriter team of Jenny Jusuf, M. Irfan Ramli and Angga Dwimas Sasongko, t he latter of which also took the helm again for the sequel.
She could not have said it better.
In theaters since July 13, Ben & Jody follows the titural characters while entering the second "coming of age" phase of finding a sense of self that offers a bit more than traditional romance with coffee, and the philosophy of it, as the mainstay.
If it sounds just like the previous movie, then this one has more complex conflicts, a longer road trip and a real struggle that does not involve a rich man willing to drop a lot of cash in exchange for the perfect taste of a coffee.
Two years after being back in business, the idealist, hot headed coffee artisan Ben (Chicco Jerikho) talks the coffee shop owner and long time friend, by the book Jody (Rio Dewanto) into selling their Jakarta shop and traversing the archipelago in a modified VW Kombi van instead because everyone deserves "the best coffee".
The trip stops abruptly in Bali when all three employees resign and the two friends have no other choice but to get on their feet running a coffee shop again. They cross paths with Tarra (model, actress, TV personality Luna Maya) who wishes to invest in the business and agriculture graduate w ith a passion for brewing coffee named Brie (crowned Putri Indonesia in 2010, Nadine Alexandra).
The conflicts that rise among the four are heartfelt, which is organically developed from the characters of Ben & Jody, their past experiences and the unspoken competition between them. The way they resolve their issues is genuinely theirs, nothing like over the top attempts at ending it but just young men and women with dreams facing reality and leaving their comfort zones.
And this is how the story branches out with a promise to tie up the vast swaths of the coffee industry in the archipelago the coffee universe.
Chicco and Rio, who both co produced the film with Anggia Kharisma and also run the Filosofi Kopi shops, showed heartfelt chemistry of the titular characters despite each being the exact opposite of the other.
It is nice to see Luna and Nadine tried to give life to their character. Both Tarra and Brie are strong willed and independent women and have essential roles in the story and are not just flashy embellishments, but there's still some room for improvement for the actresses.
Angga brought in a dynamic shoot angle that added to the masculine energy that undeniably oozed from the film and was only balanced by the panoramic view of the regions known for their coffee culture, such as Lampung, Bali, Makassar and Toraja.
It is also noteworthy that the film tried to re introduce how Indonesians tradionally take their coffee, not sipping it but by slurping for the entire experience.
Ben & Jody as a drama is a job well done because it can awake a sleeping conscience about the long black drink by your work station where it comes from and the hands that serve it. As Ben put it, it's an as yet unwritten coffee philosophy : "Anything that comes with flavors has a soul of its own."
Filosofi Kopi 2 : Ben & Jody
(Drama, 108 minutes)
Production : Visinema Pictures, 13 Entertainment
Director : Angga Dwimas Sasongko
Scriptwriter : Jenny Jusuf, M. Irfan Ramli, Angga Dwimas Sasongko
Cast : Chicco Jerikho, Rio Dewanto, Luna Maya, Nadine Alexandra, Ernest Prakasa, Tio Pakusadewo, Joko Anwar, Whani Darmawan
Rating : 13+
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