ilker sönmez WOW. That’s a fantastic description. On point, man.

U know the true stature of the man genius.

Like kubrick 🤔

Or they ignore them. I think the hardest thing is to keep working when you’re being completely ignored. That was the case with Van Gogh. Only his little brother’s belief in and support of him kept him working.

@@C.Hawkshaw That's very insightful. It had never struck me like that. There is a slight difference in that albeit prevented from working in the conventional sense, Welles was 'celebrated' throughout his later career. Both of them, however wonderful in their ways, also had fairly serious character flaws.

Yeah he's wrong on one point though, Touch of Evil is indeed a great movie, and stands now as one of the most original Noirs of all time.

Heston knew that Wells was coming back from having been blackballed. That layers my interpretation of him late in life having been such an NRA advocate.

Very well said.

its all acting

> johnnydtractive Precisely. Very well said .

@@davidmoser3535 Isn't everything?

​@@johnkuckowicz781 no

Seriously…these two can make anything sound incredible.

Three. My God that's Marlene Dietrich!

really? cause they finished filming in 1957..

I was only -12 years old.

The film was shot in Cuba, in fact, Fidel Castro was a background extra.

Mug is the right name for you

Tom DeLaCruz i

I feel the same way about Sam Peckinpah.

Well said.

When you got the Trail, Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, McBeth, Citizen Kane and Mr Arkadin, I find it a lil' bit audacious for you to say that man has an aborted career. I'd say the same about Sam Peckinpah. They fought and maybe they lost during their living - I'd rather say they had to fight and quite enjoy a good living in the way, - but in the end they won. People and most directors are more into Welles and Peckinpah than into William Wyler, Stanley Kramer or even Richard Brooks for that matters (all due respects)... Wild Bunch is cited in almost every list of the best Westerns, and Citizen Kane in EVERY best movies lists... And more important : the influence they have on young filmmakers is tremendous.

True. He had such charisma.

Yes, it's sad that he ended his life as a caricature... he is, indeed, thoughtful and interesting, here.

Yes. He started out as a liberal with a vision of a better society. Before he became a right-wing reactionary.

Heston was one of the better actors in Hollywood

Welles was also terribly intelligent. And they were as opposite in political views as two individuals can be. Hyowever, they managed to work and collaborate handsomely, and to produce a brilliant piece of art. Nowadays, in spite of all the pro-difference pseudo-humanist official discourse, the slightest departure from the party line, whether it is neo-liberal or neo-con, isn't tolerated, and the unfortunate who doesn't walk the line is demonized and ostracized. Not just in Hollywood but in the media in general, as well as in the political arena. Sad times we are living in.

@@farerolobos9382 There was a time when one's political disposition was a private affair and was not the central focus of every aspect of life.

@@farerolobos9382 Unfortunately, the media is complicit in this, taking sides and playing both sides against each other to generate ratings and ad bucks. It leaves little room for compromise and mutual understanding.

@@farerolobos9382 very good observation.

No he wasn’t.

The strange thing is that Welles earned his living playing the monsters that he fought with at the studios. Quinlan is a studio boss. Cardinal Wolsely is a studio boss, Will Varner is a studio boss (Long Hot Summer) and so on. You might think that since he inhabited them as an actor, he might have understood how to outwit them as a director. But it wasn't to be.

@@waltermurch5570 good insight ! But again, they were words on a page and not his words to boot...

Tangerine is pretty good 🙃

If only he had had our modern technology, where anyone can do it fairly cheaply, instead of having to raise millions of dollars to make his films, his whole career would have been so different.

@@premanadi iz u kiddin me

@@eggbertinkabod1121 Nope, I'z ain't kiddin

@@eggbertinkabod1121 Not thinking of a smartphone, more like a fancy digital movie camera.

The world -by and large -has an enmity and intolerance for people with independent minds. The norm get very threatened . I think they fear that this person is going to take over or is going to ruin everything. They will be exposed as the criminals that they really are.

John Agresti well said, thx 👏👏👏

@@bellavia5 true that

@@ericfurst6091 Roger that

@@bhansen52 maybe huh?

He was too intelligent to live in this shallow idiotic society.

I could not have said it better.

Hell yes! Welles was a national treasure, but we wouldn't know it given the shoddy treatment given him by the studios. He makes one masterpiece after another, and can't get financed? Can't get a final cut?! Pathetic. The saving grace of course is his films did get made, somehow, and have achieved their rightful merit. Touch of Evil is superb. What a monumental film, ahead of it's time. I can watch anything Welles made or acted in. The least of his efforts, tower over the competition. Fortunately, the Europeans supported his work, when it came out. A great film like The Trial, almost didn't get made, but for overseas backing. He was a true visionary artist.

Even outside of film, Welles is worth study. The boy-wonder who.made a voodoo Macbeth and a Mussolini Julius Caesar for the stage that were were smashes when he was barely.out of diapers.Then his radio career as the first Shadow in1938( the best Lamont Cranston if only for less than 2 years), His Mercury Theater Players putting on War of the World's and convincing.millions of Americans that Earth was being invaded by Martians in real life, his other radio parts ( Max de Winter in Rebecca, the star of a half hour one-shot called.The Hitchhiker guaranteed to keep you awake all night...). I taped mine off TV in 1998 and I cannot find it online, but there is a terrific documentary, 50 minutes long called Martian Mania about the Notorious Welles broadcast featuring talking heads of now elderly men and women who were child witnesses to that Halloween Eve broadcast. There is a clip of a seemingly humble, innocent, shocked Orson speaking to reporters the next day. Someone remarked, THAT was the greatest performance of Welles life. When the broadcast without Welles in it was done years later in South America, the infuriated listeners burned down the studio where the show was done...

​​@@charlottebuchanan3193not idiotic society. But idiotic Hollywood machinations. He was too original for their non cinematic minds.

"Art s life plus, life plus caprice" W.E.Hocking...

Spot on. This is the kind of deep thinker and artist Welles was. His F for Fake and the recently released Other Side of the Wind are both fantastic: check them out! Totally different style: each in its own way a melding of documentary and narrative film.

Back when you were stuck watching whatever was on TV, sometimes starting to watch a film at 3am because it was one of the Great's and that was the only time it was on, James Cagney was probably the only actor I would watch in a film soley because he was in it. As a fan of the art of acting, Cagney is always fun to watch. Thank you Orson for your comments. When I expressed my opinion of Cagney to my film professor in.college his remark was "Why watch films of an actor who all he does is beat up.women." !!?!!?

@@colleencupido5125 Any "film professor" who could make such an asinine comment obviously knew very little about movie history and next to nothing about Cagney's remarkable diverse career. Probably saw the "grapefruit scene" from the great film Public Enemy and stopped at that, and doubtless never heard of his comedy gems like Strawberry Blonde. But one can't educate those who refuse to be educated, and who prefer the narrow comfort of their own prejudgments.

@@yusufu9 I really enjoyed your comment. Strawberry Blonde may be a comedy, but when the Cagney character came back from the slammer to find his loving wife Olivia de Haviland waiting for him, I got teary-eyed. I've seen 37 Cagney films. As a fan, you might want to check out the TCM 4 movies each DVD packages on.gangster films and Cagney. Featurettes with each film, like "Beer and Blood" for Public Enemy, or Molls & Dolls: Women of Gangster Films, or The Immigrants Hero are highly enjoyable- I've watched 9 of them in all. The best was the featurette on White Heat. ( These were made 2005) One Professor said he loved to show his classes White Heat. Quote "It blows them away." And Martin Scorcese showing a small group of young actors the film Public Enemy and overjoyed to see these kids' reaction to a early talkie B&W film. They were transfixed, and applauded at the end. So much for a "dated"film.

@@colleencupido5125 That was a moving scene. Strawberry Blonde is near perfect: superb cast, great script, wonderful story. Olivia and Rita play a great match! Another Cagney comedy gem I like is the underrated Jimmy the Gent, especially the bit where he is introduced to tea drinking. And of course his banter with the divine Joan Blondell in all those early movies -- endlessly entertaining!

"unreal but true" is like the definition of all art, not just the peerless James Cagney...

Yes I think he summed up what Cagney was trying to achieve as well.

@@philiphalpenny9761 exactly. The good art, at least. Films are obviously unreal, but they can be true...performances can be. They have to be, or I'm not buying it.

@@JohnDoe-dj3lw An acting coach once opined that good acting is about truth, whereas bad acting is about deception. Orson, himself, once said what's the point of a film being well directed,written or edited, if the audience don't relate to the actor they are watching. He had a point!

First statement is true, Second statement is true. The last is nonsense

Not very hard to follow bro all it takes is careful watching

Narf

Yes -- can't agree with Heston here that it's "not a great film" but it has "patches of brilliance" -- the brilliance pulsates all the way through, from beginning to end.

@@jazzmanchgo Actors rarely think the films they've starred in as "great," it's some kind of modesty complex.

Horse's, rather...

Charlton had a bad day at the NFA. Bad press & School shootings an all...

@@pendejo6466 Yup, many actors don't even watch their own movies, and even then, it comes down to personal taste whether they like it or not. I don't think I'd watch my own movies if was an actor tbh, it would bug me how I could have done stuff differently/better, and if I'd been edited out.

Listening...

So true.

juan altredo

juan altredo

*its

Hes almost too intelligent to be a believable American. Like "other worldly" type of intelligence. Id be curious to know what his IQ was.

@@charlottebuchanan3193 why the slight on americans?.... its that americana that is his genius. he always loved the nations ideals. it comes thru in his films, even the dark ones. its always a warning to not go this way.

...well described.

he foreshadowed lbj

Fellini achieved the same effect with Antholy Quinn in the unforgetable final shots in La Strada.

I think you just described Trump.

Beautifully put. Loathing and pathos swirled together as in ALL of us. He made and makes viewers uncomfortable. Without him, no Fincher, etc. Damn, I want to watch this again

Evan Torch Jews*

@Steve Brule - Why do you say that? What do the Jews have to do with what Evan Torch said? You must be pathetic or something!

@@stevebrule9343 bingo !

He was too intelligent and intellectually superior for shallow idiotic Hollywood.

It's a fat suit.

Yes, he was great. I really liked Janet Leigh in this film, as well. She was a scene stealer. Heston was miscast, but gets an A for effort. Leigh, Wells, Dietrich, Tamarof were steller. Dennis Weaver was commendably bizarre, in a small role. Epic.

"creative minds always overcome bad teaching"

Seems to me he suffered a drastic loss of his sense of irreverence and his sense of humor somewhere along the line. It's something I don't like to see happen to people and I fear that it has occurred in myself in a gradual and subtle way.

*Welles