Orson shmoozes about a cockatoo
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Cavett, "I can't get one pretentious answer out of you!" It's great when someone like Welles plays down or tells the truth about the significance of his work.
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@sd02231 I don't know if it's so much to do with the American Dream - Kane didn't earn his way up to riches from nothing, which is supposed to be the American Dream. Rather, he was given money and from it created public stature and influence.
But I agree, it's certainly a dreary film for wartime. It's the sort of movie that should temper a period of excess.
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Love Welles and Lewis equally but for different reasons.
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@darkprose Oddly enough its not a bad cut - SMOKE enters the the shot prior
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@shnoepie1 My comment had nothing to do with comparing the talents of either man. To gain or maintain creative freedom in Hollywood, your movies have to be commercially successful. It's as simple as that. Welles was a great filmmaker but was terrible at the business side of "the movie business". That's why he couldn't succeed in Hollywood.
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@sd02231 Lol, Welles had more talent in his pinky than Lewis had in his entire body. Jealous is the wrong word, perhaps resentment is more fitting.
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People in their 29s have now reversed from what Welles complained about back in the '70s.
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@fcampbell696 I know what you mean. I was struck by a flashback of my loud, boisterous grandfather who loved cigars and a good ribald joke.
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@darkprose he reminded me so much of my dad with that cigar in his mouth.
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To continue my post (I got cut off), it's a message that in many ways we're still not ready to hear.
When Dick asks "do you have any recurrent dreams?" and they cut to Welles and his cigar -- LOL! Nice editing.
darkprose 3 years ago 20
Orson welles had such a strong and commanding presence. It makes me smile that in nearly all the interviews ive seen of him the interviewer is close to shaking with anxiety- see michael parkinson's.
madamoiselle0sahara 3 years ago 17