The Most Profound Moment in Movie History

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17 жыл бұрын

This short segment from Orson Welles' cinematic essay, F for Fake, may be the profoundest moment in cinema history. It is both uniquely moving, as well as stunningly deep philosophically---a truly rare cinematic combination. This clip should be required viewing, not only for every student of cinema, but for everyone who seeks an antidote to the world's increasing descent into cruelty and darkness. Here, Welles achieves the miraculous with amazingly simple means (note the lack of music as an emotional "guide", for example). God created Orson Welles...then broke the mold. Introduced by media psychologist, Dr. James N. Herndon.

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@tfenik8694 2 жыл бұрын

"Our songs will all be silenced. But what of it? Go on singing" That beautiful turn of phrase and empowering message always gives me goosebumps.

@here1334 10 ай бұрын

u left out the best part of it

@ironjade 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine him doing "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."

@samuelzins5089 2 ай бұрын

That would be a moment worthy of that speech

@TheRickie41 8 жыл бұрын

the proof that every true genius can not have any other goal in life than pure, decentered humility. Great man.

@nickmagrick7702 7 жыл бұрын

cant? why? is humility alone the mark of a genius? That can not be what you mean.

@bentodica4325 5 жыл бұрын

@@ericchamberlain9260 800 years ago the Western world did not exist

@otisbdriftwood6520 4 жыл бұрын

@@bentodica4325 eh ? He means western civilisation or Latin Christendom

@jonaichs1976 3 жыл бұрын

There will Never be another like him. Master of his craft. Orson Welles,Thank you.

@McCallahanIndustries 7 жыл бұрын

Our songs will all be silenced. But what of it? Go on singing.

@madahad9 3 жыл бұрын

I highly recommend Young Orson. It is a book which follows Wells from birth to the opening of Citizen Kane, attempting to separate fact from the mythology that Wells himself encouraged. The guy was a genius. His accomplishments before even making his trek out to Hollywood are astounding and makes most look like underachievers.

@philiphalpenny3783 2 жыл бұрын

Patrick McGilligan also wrote the best book on Cagney, whom Welles was rhapsodic about...

@thomaschacko6320 Жыл бұрын

With advanced film preservation technology, we have the pleasure of savouring Orson Welles as a Shakespearean actor: “Macbeth,” “Othello,” and his crowning achievement (and personal favourite), “Chimes At Midnight.” This is an aspect of his career most shamefully underrated.

@ryebread7224 5 жыл бұрын

I’m convinced Orson Welles is the closest thing in our time to a Da Vinci or Michaelangelo: a true renaissance man.

@darrelmorgan6266 4 жыл бұрын

I agree. And if a man of the caliber of John Huston apparently felt similarly about Welles, then albeit the more true.

@nexussymbiosis9270 4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahahabahahahahahahahahahahah unbelievable how people are suitable of inducted IGNORANT via entertainment renaissance LOLOL Ahahahahahahabahahahahahahahahahahah Ahahahahahahabahahahahahahahahahahah

@vksasdgaming9472 4 жыл бұрын

More like showman of nth degree. He made audience feel and had sense of immature mischief in grand displays of wit and dignity. Even hating work he was forced to perform by faceless money he was beyond magnificent.

@ryebread7224 4 жыл бұрын

@Nexus Symbiosis I think it’s time for your bedtime. Better have Mommy tuck you in.

@michaelknapp8961 4 жыл бұрын

Oh I 100% agree with you!!! I would have loved to have met him and talked about the world and art and anything else that popped in not his brilliant brilliant mind.

@hughmanatee7657 3 жыл бұрын

For me, this is surpassed by his Falstaff in his film “Chimes at Midnight”-perhaps the greatest portrayal ever of one of Shakespeare’s five or six most central human creations.

@AndreasSimon 17 жыл бұрын

Man only really learns and changes from tragedy. Welles is so much an embodiment of what the voyage of man, his glory, his search for grandeur and his humiliation is about. His voice, one of the most expressive I have ever heard, carries so much meaning that you find yourself drawn into what he is trying to convey. The title of this post may be a bit tough to live up to, but it is indeed a profound moment and a testament to what storytellers can achieve without dazzling camera moves and SFX.

@yorktown99 8 жыл бұрын

You note how the clip lacks any background music to guide emotion. But Welles, going all the way back to his production of "War Of The Worlds" in 1938, knew the music of spoken words themselves. He conducted, rather than directed, the ensemble of actors. This clip is his great solo as a "musician".

@Gr8Layks 5 жыл бұрын

yorktown99 Perfectly described.

@beflygelt 5 жыл бұрын

using no music or sound effect but only a narrator is also manipulating you in a way though because the voice, especially when you talk slow, will immediately sound more "important", no matter what is said

@rudolphguarnacci197 5 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Natal Star Wars is boring.

@bobdownes162 5 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Natal Check out a Dean Martin "Roast": The subject is James Stuart, Welles takes the Podium, and his Speech is amazingly moving.

@midnightwind8067 3 ай бұрын

Beautifully stated. I fully agree. Thank you.

@jkorshak Жыл бұрын

I'm not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination, but Well's portrayal of Father Mapple and his sermon on Jonah in John Huston's "Moby Dick" is as sublime and practically forgotten three and a half minutes of artistic accomplishment as I've ever seen.

@Snailbarf 7 жыл бұрын

This should have been that wine commercial he did.

@LenHummelChannel 8 жыл бұрын

This is a dramatic moment and insight that I absolutely love to watch and listen to every time I need an emphatic YES ! to humanity and civilization and going-forth in spite of it all.. thanks for uploading it.

@SAGHAJAR 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the screenwriter who left no signature.

@philiphalpenny3783 2 жыл бұрын

" he was some kind of man...what does it matter what you say about people?" Endless biographers have been pondering the enigma of Orson Welles ever since!

@alexkalish8288 4 жыл бұрын

Orson Welles was a great man - he owned most of Big Sur at one time but made enemies of Gay edgar Hoover and others that made it hard for him to work in the USA and the IRS targeted him to break him. Nobody could break him as he had immense integrity. That was a fine speech from one of my favorite documentaries.

@georgejuniorleedom4476 3 жыл бұрын

John E. Hoover is THE prime example of someone in American governmental history who had too much power way too long. He had files on Presidents, their relatives, politicians, their relatives and just about every recognisable personality of his era. If you own JFK, Nixon, LBJ., etc... Only death could remove him. And God took His own sweet time. If there is a god... Wells' case was brought up once when someone (ahem) asked about him at the Treasury Department conference. Without discussing Welles exactly, if you are lax about filing ON time the penalty for just that can be 25% of the tax. Then failure to pay penalty is one half percent a month. Then you're charged interest on the tax and the penalties. This rate has exceeded 20% per year. It can make the rates charged on a credit card seem mild. If someone gets bad advice HE is responsible for everything he signs. He can sue the advisor for compensation--- more expense, even if he wins. Wells might be one of brilliant people who just forgets "trivial" things. Or one so smart he thinks he can get away with anything. Hoover was a racist, insecure, in-the-closet, and voyeur in charge of the most sophisticated spy facilities of his time. It can happen again.🤔 We're very lucky the right person won in 2020... 😚 .

@punishedsnake6141 2 жыл бұрын

@UCxXSpT1A2VkJOyhxKJ2nFug Oh speaking of spying..isnt that what the Obama admin did to Trump? Haha you fuckin loser, we know Trump won.

@TheLolapuff 2 жыл бұрын

“J. Edgar Hoover was the worst public servant in American history” WW2 POW and AG Nicholas Katzenbach.

@dontherealartist 2 жыл бұрын

You are an idiot. Trump won in 2020 too SELF-LOATHING TOOL.

@dontherealartist 2 жыл бұрын

@@georgejuniorleedom4476 ''YOU'' SELF-LOATHING TOOL. But you knew what I meant.

@Cernunnnos 6 жыл бұрын

This sort of reminds me of Ozymandias. It just draws a different conclusion from the realisation that we are insignificant. Rather than mocking man for his futile desire to accomplish and be remembered. It says yes, your attempts are in vain. But keep trying anyway, what else can we do? I like that!

@Sgt_Glory 3 жыл бұрын

boundless and bare , the lone and level sands stretch far away...

@mottopanukeiku7406 Жыл бұрын

Nailed it- thank you! Was thinking similar. It’s not all for naught. Great works like this are a big middle finger to the cold empty universe. And if they don’t last through eternity, then so what. At least humankind made a stand for beauty or God or something greater than the void.

@Recoil816 Жыл бұрын

I love this. The complete lack of any ambient noise or background music deepens the impact of what he is saying, immensely.

@GG1991 8 жыл бұрын

I've watched this film a few times, but not in quite awhile now, this video sent shivers (literally) down my spine. Thanks for the reminder!

@tuxguys 4 жыл бұрын

Given the (well-intentioned, respectful) introduction, I had my doubts about this, but given Welles' profundity, I shouldn't have: "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Shakespeare could have (perhaps, easily) equaled this, but he could not have surpassed this, and that's paying a compliment to the both of them.

@joechill1 3 жыл бұрын

@@julioviloria3289 You are entitled to that opinion.

@madahad9 3 жыл бұрын

Wells had one of the great speaking voices. I'm not sure when the audiobook industry began but what I'd give to hear him read the great works of literature, both classic and contemporary. I'd love to hear him read either 1984 or Animal Farm. Despite my mixed feelings about audiobooks the best that I have heard were by actors who knew how to bring the text to life. One favourite is Brian Cox reading Heart of Darkness --- another I could imagine Wells reading brilliantly.

@a_voice_in_the_wilderness Жыл бұрын

Check out Edward E French my friend, often compared to Welles, he has numerous spoken stories here in youtube.

@a_voice_in_the_wilderness Жыл бұрын

Here, listen: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8yAdJB30JzTfKs.html

@michaelmcdonagh5104 Жыл бұрын

Brian Cox has a beautiful speaking voice, and he's a great actor too. One of the only reasons to see Mel Gibson's "Braveheart", and in "Troy". Cox was Hannibal Lector in Michael Mann's. He also was in a Brit series on several Shakepeare plays. "Julius Caesar" if I recall aright.

@michaelmcdonagh5104 Жыл бұрын

correction : in Michael Mann's "Manhunter."

@paulkennedy6060 Жыл бұрын

I think he did a Mercury Theater radio production of Heart of Darkness (not an actual recitation of the novel).

@Marazrael 17 жыл бұрын

"Go on singing." That's sad and inspiring at the same time.

@JohnInTheShelter Жыл бұрын

I love Welles. If you're just getting into his work, I envy you. Take your time going through his catalog. Make sure you see F FOR FAKE, THE IMMORTAL STORY, THE TRIAL...and I haven't even mentioned any of his greatest movies.

@frankpat 8 жыл бұрын

Utterly profound truth.

@SpiritintheSky. 4 күн бұрын

Tremendous, even by Orson Welles' standard. Once heard, never forgotten, like the man himself, RIP.

@irishelk3 7 жыл бұрын

That was one of the best movies ive ever seen. Very simple and individual and just fucking brilliant.

@RandomDustBunny 10 күн бұрын

Wow - when you said this is possibly the most profound moments in cinema, you were absolutely right!! I’m left dangling in an existential void.

@LenHummelChannel 10 жыл бұрын

WHAT A WONDERFUL, BRILLIANT ANTIDOTE TO the cruel and rotten, festering nihilism and the endless crassness and stupidity of our Age ! Welles was a modern Shakespeare with drama and cinema. those who have tried to belittle him are like stinky little ants before a warrior with bloodied brow.

@robertbishop5357 5 жыл бұрын

Such an incredible talent who is greatly appreciated and missed.

@krkf8 Жыл бұрын

The more I see of Orson Welles' work, the more I am convinced he was a fine of Ecclesiastes. I am as well...

@kenscar 5 жыл бұрын

I come back to this again and again, and each time it's just as profound.

@ellisonhamilton3322 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. But then Welles was always a fascinating character. Larger than life in every sense he never failed to intrigue. I'd never before seen this clip. Many thanks for sharing.

@johnsaetre7071 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload and the introduction. When I last saw this movie decades ago, my English knowledge wasn't up to really comprehend the depth of these texts. I will have to see this piece again.

@Hyperborius 17 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this. I own the F for Fake DVD and am glad for the opportunity to show this clip to friends online. As far the statement being discussed here,... I find it immensely profound and chilling... but it is essentially a spoken word performance accompanied by a rather rudimentary montage... essentially not cinematic but brilliant none-the-less.

@bbbartolo 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. And also for recalling for me some of his great moments as an actor. As with the moment when Falstaff recognizes that Prince Hal aka King Henry has cast him aside--the whole plot in one shot of Welles' face. Dramatic flair was his ground of being.

@jetaime82 16 жыл бұрын

-Just amazingly done, I felt like I was not breathing when listening to this. I miss orson welles.

@LadyFan05 4 жыл бұрын

You know, up until now, the most I've seen of Orson Welles (so far) was his cameo in The Muppet Movie but even then, he acted without even trying! His presence alone was commanding! And when he looked at them, you could see in his eyes that the character he was playing could truly see their potential. In a five minute cameo he delivered better acting than I've seen in some full length movies. I'm gonna shut up now and hit him up on Amazon!😆

@DP715 16 жыл бұрын

With his enigmatic vocal stylings and love for talk, Orson Welles makes me proud to be from Wisconsin!

@nanny287 4 ай бұрын

Orson’s “ Chimes at Midnight” is a great film to watch for all Welles fans; he stated that it was his personal favorite of all his films. He remains iconic.

@oldmanfigs Жыл бұрын

I needed to hear this today. Some of us will never have children of our own, yet, they are all our children…

@alidabaxter5849 3 ай бұрын

His voice was like the most beautiful music you have ever heard, and he knew exactly how to use it. Unique man.

@orangebetsy 5 жыл бұрын

Actually the voice dry inside the silence is indeed perfect. This is indeed a great moment!

@Artiej0hn0 7 ай бұрын

Extraordinary. A thousand thanks for posting this.

@davidcawrowl3865 5 жыл бұрын

The finale: "Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much."

@corinnecivish7673 Жыл бұрын

He never ceases to impress me...

@JCMcGee 14 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh...touchy. You obviously read it and have a deep understanding of the message. I love you.

@rexmanning5116 4 жыл бұрын

For the last 13 years I have watch this video

@Orsley 10 жыл бұрын

This clip has produced a lot of comments, some wise, some deeply not, but if it piques anyone's interest (and how could it not?), they should see it in context, in the semi-documentary, somewhat autobiographical masterpiece "F For Fake" (1975), Welles' first-person guided tour, mostly joyful but sometimes not, of art, fraud, forgery, trickery, Howard Hughes, Picasso, Welles' own career, and the absolute magic of film editing when performed by a master illusionist. It's available on DVD.

@scattjax3908 7 жыл бұрын

1:44 Does he say "poor forked radish"? What does that mean?

@orsley9227 7 жыл бұрын

It's a phrase from Shakespeare, and is used here as a put-down of man and his endless, pointless folly. I think it appears in Welles's "Chimes at Midnight," his Shakespearean masterpiece. The fuller quotation goes: "Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring. When naked, he was for all the world like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife." As you see, it is a particularly elegant insult.

@scattjax3908 7 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Thanks!

@bevaconme 3 ай бұрын

@@orsley9227 specifially, Henry IV, part 2, III.ii, 319-23. you're welcome.

@abmangaka 15 жыл бұрын

It's deeper than that, it's not a plug for religion, it's praise for the passion and accomplishments of a culture. Our personal beliefs, personal faith, and politics are impermanent. The visuals are not showing the church as a testament of Christianity but as a work of art, of something greater than need or pomp. A symbol of lasting humanity. It's beyond "that we will die" and more than "we have made". For all the more aware and intelligent we think we are makes us cynical.

@jacktheripoff1888 Жыл бұрын

"The premier work of man, perhaps in the whole Western world." When he said that I thought wow, Chartres Cathedral, what a backdrop to show the 1969 Ford Cobra Jet 428. Which is what I initially thought he was talking about and was just using the Cathredral as a lead-in. But then I realized the designer of the 428 had to be known. So it was actually Chartres itself. Very well I thought, still about as good a choice as one could make. It's splendor is hard to surpass, but let's see what it could do against the 428 in the quarter-mile. "Our engines will one day all be silenced. But what of it? Let not the price of gas and having to get lead additive and octane booster deter us. Go on driving. Maybe the name of the driver doesn't matter, all that much."

@gambitscuba 15 жыл бұрын

Out of all his accomplishments.... calling THIS the "profoundest" moment in Welle's lifetime... is preposterous... ABSOLUTELY Preposterous.

@KutWrite 4 жыл бұрын

It got us all to click on it, though. THAT was "Mission Accomplished."

@GayRocker81 3 жыл бұрын

@Omar Baligh Gotta love irony, right?

@rantingsw3de 4 жыл бұрын

What's profound is that Orson went from this to 'Mwaaahaaa the French champagne...'

@Deutschie 4 жыл бұрын

That definitely had to be a low point in Orson Welles' life. At that stage of his life he was taking any job he could get for "Food Money" as he called it.

@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 4 жыл бұрын

The duality of man.

@KutWrite 4 жыл бұрын

I suspect the latter was his good laugh at the rest of them.

@anakin2236 3 жыл бұрын

It's fermented in the bottle....

@Peter43John 11 ай бұрын

"Here's to love on my terms: the only terms each of us ever know" -to Joseph Cotton in, "Citizen Kane".

@balcorn9211 Жыл бұрын

“Go on singing” is a fantastic quote.

@RussMcClay Жыл бұрын

Excellent. Good choice of clips.

@sclogse1 15 жыл бұрын

Somehow you forget that he transformed radio, created new theatre, and at a phone call, stars would leave their plush surrounds in a second to come work for him without pay. Watch his performance as Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil. He completely disappears. Watch the other performances in that film...especially Dennis Weaver. The whole thing is an enlightened space...occupied by your dreams....Heston's best role...watch the camera moves and choices...Akim Tamiroff's death..a celebration....love.

@FrankIsAlwaysRight 4 жыл бұрын

Orson Welles command of the English language is phenomenal

@raykellywellesnet 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this.

@BoomTribeEntertainment 11 ай бұрын

This gave me chills. What an extraordinary man

@LolaGK96 9 жыл бұрын

Dr.James I applaud you sir,what you said about Orson Welles I couldn't have said it better,my thoughts exactly

@kennethbrady 6 жыл бұрын

Sublime. Thanks for posting.

@dmontes133 3 жыл бұрын

One of the few people, who deserve to be called, genius.

@BareknuckleRealist 16 жыл бұрын

It was profound. The ticking clocks of the intro connected to Orsons underlying theme that Time consumes all things was well thought out. His cadence, his depth of meaning, and the undeniable truth that death is vast, leaving behind the wasting monuments of our achievements, should strike one personally awake. We are all meat for the worms, meat for the worms.

@timirish2563 6 жыл бұрын

Sincere--and brave. Who tackles such profundity--and beauty--today?

@GreenMorningDragonProductions 5 жыл бұрын

Probably the best KZfaq clip in the worrrrrrrrld.

@billmarsh3767 4 жыл бұрын

His reading from the pulpit in Moby Dick is truly magical. Gregory Peck emulated it in the Patrick Stewart version but was no where near as good.

@chickenwingcrossface9269 9 жыл бұрын

Most profound moment for me is the ending of Au Hasard Balthazar. This is extraordinary though.

@Boudosaved 7 жыл бұрын

Bresson was a genius as well and Au Hasard Balthazar is my favorite of all his films. That ending was a gut-wrenching tear jerker...all for a donkey.

@ShawnaGraham50 5 жыл бұрын

Every word he speaks has such deep meanings What a master

@jesusggrimaldo6955 4 жыл бұрын

Best Actor a Renaissance Man mr "Orson Wells" R.I.P. 🙏🌟

@gregoryphillips3969 4 жыл бұрын

You're right about Welles. But he comes from a different time where people were often well read and thoughtful about what they were seeing and experiencing. So many now have no sense or appreciation of history let alone a level of understanding which would even allow an enjoyment for or of what Orson Welles has left us. During his time he was probably the best interview subject there was. His personal references/experiences connnecting to people like Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle and yes Adolf Hitler, just to name a few are endlessly fascinating. Would have loved to have known him. At the end of the day Welles was one of the true irreplaceable geniuses. If it wasn't for William Randolph Hearst we could have had even more of his work to point to and enjoy.

@connoroleary591 4 жыл бұрын

I have little in the way of education, my IQ if you were kindly disposed, could at best be described as average. Yet even i am astonished at how gormless much of the world has become. Few of us read books now, apart that is from Facebook, and unfortunately, our lack of knowledge doesn't come with the inate wisdom and charm of humility. The ignorant are ignorant of their own ignorance and are as bellicose as bull elephants in the musth of their stupidity.

@gregoryphillips3969 4 жыл бұрын

@@connoroleary591 Well said great observation.

@connoroleary591 4 жыл бұрын

@@gregoryphillips3969 thank you!

@thejimdoherty 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps not THE most profound moment in movie history, but a great moment nonetheless. Welles shows us all how to use introspection and inflection to deliver the greatest emotional impact from the written word.

@JoshPaulMedia 15 жыл бұрын

"But what of it? Go on singing." great clip.

@a.t.3192 6 жыл бұрын

I need to start seeing more Welles films. I've only really got into serious movies in the last year.

@daviddarkmaster 15 жыл бұрын

There are those who say God makes us and when we die we are sent back to live and learn more. And it is repeated until we discover why it is done. But ever so often, one will be sent. Someone, only once because they already know why. I don't believe in that, but if I did; Orsen Welles, I think, would have been one of those one only sent once because he knew why. This is proof of that!

@Hannibal082 3 жыл бұрын

Truth.

@imleksutra933 Жыл бұрын

This is it. Well done for pointing it out.

@davehyde6207 4 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable to think so deeply on all that surrounding one to see the a world that others choose not to see or ignore or its so vast in its reality only few are cursed to see it for what we and it are.... How beautiful the gifts in others

@christophersmithsr5545 5 жыл бұрын

Just listening to this man is inspiring

@wurly164 3 жыл бұрын

Orson, then walked up to Morgan Freeman, looked him dead in the eye and dropped the mic.

@barbaroja.mp3 5 жыл бұрын

this is the longest Paul Masson ad yet

@kaiser1963 3 жыл бұрын

In the digital age I suppose a scene like this that questions the craftsmanship of manking and the significance of its beholder is even more relevant than ever, relevant 30 years ago and most certainly now.

@Sierpinski1 10 жыл бұрын

I heard somewhere that Welles, in this scene, was trying to come to terms with Kael's attempt to downplay Welles' role in the making of Citizen Kane.

@tamibrandt 3 жыл бұрын

He left an indelible mark on cinematic history... but my fascination with Orson Welles was the HISTORY he lived through in his personal life. He's met Chancelors and Statesmen, Presidents and Prime Ministers... he was friends with FDR and knew Winston Churchill well enough to pull pranks with him. He said once to Merv Griffin that when he was younger he used to take a girl out and pretend it was his birthday and pay the waiter to bring out a cake and sing happy birthday. He shared a birthday with Tyrone Power (May 6) and Tyrone went into a restaurant in February and saw the birthday stunt and gave Orson the dirtiest look Orsen had ever seen on a person in his life. He was married to Rita Hayworth and had an affair with Judy Garland. And the AMAZING stories he would tell of all the people he knew. He could have taught a history class without notes or plans. And yet, he was written off by Hollywood for most of his mid to late career.

@littleiceage 15 жыл бұрын

Anyone who looked long enough at Notre-Dame de Chartres would come to the same conculsion, he just simply drew out the words that are the essence of the thought that brought such a work into existence, that one who experienced the place would also experience, if looked deeply and purely enough. Chartres cathedral is made to astonish, to enlighten, Welles remains unoriginal in his observations of it, though he may speak part of its essence and convey its awe, thus better than a mere historian.

@ravingpurist 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh Pinky just asked you “what are we gonna do today, Brain?” you ain’t had to go into that much detail

@slappy8941 6 жыл бұрын

I could listen with rapt attention to Orson Welles talk for hours about paint drying.

@septimuswarrensmith879 Жыл бұрын

And one can never forget Father Mapple's awe-inspiring sermon in New Bedford. "Shipmates"....he addresses the congregation, in the best-ever film of Moby Dick.

@vicepresidentfru1tly 15 жыл бұрын

For me it's that bit in Star Wars when Chewy is trying to piece C3PO back together again. Friendship is beautiful man *sniff*

@crowe 3 жыл бұрын

Welles pretends to praise anonymity while filming himself wearing a fancy hat.

@julioviloria3289 3 жыл бұрын

He never said he was a saint

@marc.lepage 2 жыл бұрын

"We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives. Every July, peas grow there."

@hugh-johnfleming289 5 жыл бұрын

Be the youth that renders the tallow and makes the candles of maturity.

@scottd.1700 Жыл бұрын

I named my son Orson, partly because of this exact scene.

@malcolmwatt4866 4 жыл бұрын

Bravo! Well said Orson, even though you can't possibly read my posthumous review and we will/may never get the chance to compare notes.

@stevendaniel8126 2 жыл бұрын

STUNNING.......

@evfich 16 жыл бұрын

one of my very fave movies..

@merccadoosis8847 6 жыл бұрын

"Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much." Awesome words. As a song said back in the 1960s: "you've gotta make your own music Sing your own special song, Make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along."

@oozealot Жыл бұрын

"To testify to what we had it in us to accomplish."

@jakmak1199 3 жыл бұрын

An Orson audio book would be awesome.

@douglashogg4848 2 жыл бұрын

One thing I found astounding about Notre Dame, an iconic symbol of France and French culture, was how it deteriorated to such a degree that it caught fire and was nearly destroyed. Apparently the French don’t have the same appreciation of the cathedral as Mr. Welles does.