Orson Welles on Falstaff

Orson Welles on Falstaff from Chimes at Midnight, from a BBC interview, Stories of a Life in Film

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[2dogstalking]

Four Men on a Raft - Its All True By: Orson Welles 1942 Filmed in the Fishing Village of Caponga Brazil You tube - duration 9:56 Walk in the footsteps of Orson Welles. His legendary shadow still shimmers on the golden sands and warm waters of the traditional Brazilian fishing village of Caponga. The fishermen are still there. The rafts are still there. Orson is still there! Brazil’s best kept secret Pousada Meu Refugio / Hotel ‘My Refuge’ - Caponga

[pissedllama]

@psychometrictestuk Harold Bloom agrees with you.

[kurono1999]

Genius of a Welles.

[jaqqqqqqattack]

Wahaaaa, the French.

[psychometrictestuk]

Hamlet and Falstaff are in my opinion the Bard's best characters.

[nokomarie1963]

Heh, Falstaff as a greedy, powerless, Tom Bombadil. I guess it is an English trope.

[endersgame55]

@jjay75 Quoi?

[jjay75]

@endersgame55 You misunderstood - you apply significance where there was never intended to be the kind of significance you apply.

[buda4u]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar and @endersgame55, might I remind both of you that with philosophy and writing, there is no such thing as a "wrong" interpretation. Some may be more valid than others, but they're all quite valid. To clear something up: the Germans read Nietzsche in a very literal sense, which helped them along the way with Facism, but many others read it semi-sarcastically, as if he was making fun of the idea. He's a man of many possible interpretations, regardless of what schools may say.

[rivethead1982]

Chimes at Midnight is one of many underrated films out there. It's one of the best films of the 1960's.