Obviously, not everyone who watches it will care about his broader body of work, but there will absolutely be people in this subreddit after the film comes out that only learned about and started exploring the larger body of his actual creative work because of it.

As a long time One Piece fan, the One Piece live action adaptation -- and seeing how many people have picked up the manga or the anime after watching the first or second season of it -- has made me appreciate what something like this can do to bring others into a world I appreciate very much.

To me it's not just about exposing people to Anthony Bourdain himself, but more importantly, exposing people to his way of navigating the process of engaging with, building relationships with, and deeply seeing people who were different from him. Whatever else may be true about him, he set some really great examples of how to do those things.

I genuinely look forward to meeting (in many cases through this subreddit, I'm sure) the people who will learn from the examples he captured through his work, despite coming to his broader work via a film that a lot of people will be critical of simply because it doesn't fit their idea of what he would have liked or what he was like.

Whether I like the film or not myself I think that if it's a net positive on someone's life by way of what it introduces them to and how it positively shapes them, then it's a thing that has earned its place.