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- Rosebud...
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- Orson Welles:
A magician is just an actor.
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Just an actor playing
the part of a magician.
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You know, one sunny morning
in Kenosha,
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a chubby little one, you know.
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(audience laughter)
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- Simon Callow: Welles' family
background was complex.
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His parents broke up
when he was about seven,
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and his mother
and he moved to Chicago.
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She was something of
a social reformer
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and a bit of
a cultural figure, too.
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- She used to take a long
piece of cord,
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and she was
such a dignified lady
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that if she would come
to the street corner
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and say to a man,
"Will you hold this, please?"
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And then go around to the other
side of the street corner
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and find somebody and say,
"Would you hold this, please?"
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And then leave the two men
holding the cord.
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So that was her idea
of a fun thing to do.
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Very tall and handsome,
and she was a great beauty.
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My father lived in Peking
for quite a long time,
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and I spent five or six years there,
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or the greater part
of those years.
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- His father was a businessman
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who then went on
to become an alcoholic,
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a gambler,
and a womanizer.
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- He was just a playboy.
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He inherited some money,
and he spent it.
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- And in the meantime,
his mother had taken up
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with this Hungarian doctor,
Maurice Bernstein,
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a sort of...
very slippery character.
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- Simon Callow:
Controlling, wheedling,
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emotionally blackmailing
kind of a person.
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- Mr. Bernstein?
- Yes, Mr. Kane.
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- Mr. Carter, this is Mr. Bernstein.
- How do you do?
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- Mr. Bernstein is
my general manager, Mr. Carter.
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- Chris Welles Feder:
When his mother died,
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he was forced to make him
his legal guardian.
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- Simon Callow: He was,
from the earliest age, formed on,
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identified as being
remarkable and charming.
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His mother's position
was that a child had
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to justify themselves
in the room.
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You had to say
something interesting,
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you had to do something
extraordinary,
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otherwise, you were
exiled to the nursery.
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Welles was not about to spend
any time in the nursery.
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- Orson Welles: I played the violin,
and I played the piano,
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and there's nothing more
hateful on earth.
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I was one of those.
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And my mother,
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who was
a professional musician,
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died when I was nine.
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And I stopped playing
immediately.
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As a kid, I was
moved around everywhere.
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I have lots of homes,
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but I would like
to have the one.
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But I don't.
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See, I suppose
it's Woodstock, Illinois,
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if it's anywhere.
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I went to school there
for four years,
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and if I try
to think of the...
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home, it's that.
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- Feder: I think
the most exciting thing
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that ever happened
in Skipper's life
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was the arrival of Orson Welles
at his school
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because he had never
seen such a prodigy.
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- The kids,
of course, hated him.
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- I must have been
intolerable as a child.
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- He didn't want
to do anything.
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He... he couldn't
play athletics,
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he just was not athletic.
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He was overweight,
even as a kid.
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Skipper said,
"Okay, what we'll do
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"is have him do
what he wants,
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which is the theater."
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- I played Mary,
the mother of Jesus,
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at the age of 1 3.
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Yes.
Very good in drag.
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- Joanne Hill Styles:
He could talk about China,
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I think he'd been
to China.
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He could talk
about Shakespeare,
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which... my father's
favorite author.
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And he could talk
about the Bible.
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At 11,
he could do all this.
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It's like...
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Mozart playing music
at four years old,
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you can't believe
it happens,
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but it does happen.
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But he was
without a doubt
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the only person
I know who had
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absolutely no
empathetic skills.
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I told him just what
I thought about him.
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He looked at me.
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"Joanne...
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everybody has their
little idiosyncrasies."
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This was a very
unusual boy.
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- Man: This is truly where Orson
started his theatrical career.
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He was putting on "Twelfth Night,"
he was putting on
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a variety
of Shakespeare plays
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when he was a child,
and he was Orson.
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There's a warmth
that I think
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much of the world
never experienced.
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- Emcee: So it is a pleasure that
we here in the city of Woodstock
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dedicate this stage
to an individual
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who got it all started.
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Even though he was
a humble person.
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- (sighs)
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- "He made
his American debut
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"as a professional
theater director
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"upon this stage,
now named in his honor...
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the Orson Welles Stage."
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(applause)
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- Man: I feel his hand
on my shoulder.
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- All: "Rosebud!"
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(ship horn blows)
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- Simon Callow: He did a sort of deal
with Dr. Bernstein
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that he would go
to university,
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but that they would
let him go to Ireland
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on a painting holiday.
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That was what
he pretended he wanted.
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- Orson Welles:
I'd come to Ireland
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and found myself
in Dublin
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without what are
technically referred to
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as financial resources.
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Oh, I had a few shillings,
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but I blew those
on a good dinner
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and a ticket
to the theater.
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The theater was the Gate.
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I was 16 years old,
my career, as you might say,
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was at the crossroads.
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- I saw this brilliant,
not necessarily an actor,
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but a brilliant
creature of 16
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telling us he was 1 9
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and telling us
he'd had lots of experience,
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which was obvious to us
he'd had none at all.
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- And just as...
for the fun of it,
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I'd like to stay with them
and play a few leading roles.
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They were nice enough
to pretend they were fooled,
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and they were
desperate enough for actors.
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They gave me a star part.
I began as a star.
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(audience laughter)
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And I've been working my way
down slowly ever since.
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(audience laughter)
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- Simon Callow: The parts got smaller
and smaller and smaller,
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and eventually Welles,
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after about nine months,
left and via London, perhaps,
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we're not sure about that,
went back to America.
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Went off again
on another trip,
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and then he came back
to Chicago
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and felt
very much at a loose end.
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- Joanne Hill Styles: He came
to the theatre festival.
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That's the last time
I knew him,
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in the theatre festival.
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One of the students,
he had a camera,
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and it just
fascinated Orson.
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I'm sure this guy was
not very knowledgeable,
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and Orson would
tell him what he'd want.
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First he'd say,
"We don't want it right here,
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we want you to zoom up,"
so they'd go this silly way
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up and down the stairs.
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- Orson Welles:
It's not a film at all.
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It was a little joke
one Sunday afternoon.
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We'd all seen either
Bunuel or Cocteau
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or somebody's
surrealist movie.
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We said, "Let's make one."
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And from 2:00 in the afternoon
till 5:00,
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we shot some dumb stuff.
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- Feder: My father was married
three times.
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I was
his oldest daughter.
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He had a daughter by
each of his three wives.
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My half-sister Rebecca,
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she was Rita Hayworth's
daughter,
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and then Beatrice was
the youngest daughter
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by Paola Mori, who was
an Italian countess.
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He was not really
a family man, you know?
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That's not where
his head was.
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His head was
entirely in his work,
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and I think having
wives and daughters
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was actually
an encumbrance for him.
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- Welles had picked up
a huge amount of knowledge
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about stagecraft,
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added to what
he already knew.
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He plugged into
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the absolute latest
developments in the theater,
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and that meant, above all,
expressionism.
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A very "now"
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and aggressive
form of theater.
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- He brought, in one word,
theatricality.
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He united
the performance,
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the script,
the music,
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the lights,
the sound.
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As audience,
you had an experience
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you had with
no other director.
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I was six months older
than Orson, and I met him
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in his office
with John Houseman
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who was Orson's partner
at that time.
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John Houseman had
great elegance,
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spoke beautifully.
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He had the one grey flannel suit
at the time,
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because nobody had
any money.
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The Federal Theatre
was a theater
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created by
the government,
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putting people to work
throughout the country.
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Orson and Houseman
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used it
to their advantage
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to create a theater.
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- Lay on, Macduff!
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- Announcer: The Negro Theatre unit
of the Federal Theatre Project
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produced a highly successful
version
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of Shakespeare's
immortal tragedy, "Macbeth. "
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- Tyrant,
show thy face!
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- What is thy name?
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(laughing)
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My name is Macbeth.
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- Orson Welles: There were
so many curtain calls,
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that finally
they left this curtain open,
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and the audience came up
on the stage.
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That was...
that was magical.
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- Norman Lloyd: There was
thunderous reaction to it
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in the audience.
Thunderous.
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Except for one critic,
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a very fine critic,
Percy Hammond.
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There were two
voodoo companies,
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and they were going,
"Bom, bom, bom, bom,
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Percy Hammond,
bom, bom..."
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Percy Hammond died
three days later.
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- (laughing)
No, sorry, that was rude,
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I beg your pardon.
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- Lloyd: We all left
the Federal Theatre
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at a given point.
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Houseman and Welles left
because they weren't allowed
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to do "Cradle Will Rock."
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They formed
the Mercury Theater.
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- Newscaster: In a single year,
the first in the life
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of the Mercury Theater,
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Orson Welles
has come to be
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the most famous name
of our time in American drama.
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Time Magazine declares,
"The brightest moon
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that has risen
over Broadway in years. "
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- He was ruthless, tough,
disciplined.
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- Ruth Ford: We just worked
all the time, we worked until
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2:00 and 3:00
in the morning.
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- Julie Taymor: I don't think there are
rules for any of that.
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If that's what he needed,
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if that's when
his inspiration came
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and he thought
he would get
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the best out of
his performers...
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You know,
the crazy thing is
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it might be fine for him,
but if they're dragged
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out of bed
and are exhausted,
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I'd... they're slaves then,
you know what I mean?
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- Newscaster: Robert Benchley writes
in "The New Yorker, "
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"The production at
the Mercury is,
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"I should say,
just about perfect.
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"Welles should feel
at home in the sky,
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the only limit which
his ambitions recognize. "
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- The play made
absolutely no sense
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without the film.
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- The film could not
be shown in the theater,
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because there was no real
projection booth.
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- He is an arrogant...
- I am Orson Welles!
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And every single
one of you stands here
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as an adjunct
to my vision.
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You want a career
in the Mercury Theater
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and in everything else
I plan to do?
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Then remember
one simple rule.
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I own the store.
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- Newscaster: The Columbia Network
is proud to give
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Orson Welles
the opportunity
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to bring to the air
those same qualities
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of vitality and imagination
that have made him
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the most talked-of
theatrical director
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in America today.
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- Good evening,
this is Orson Welles,
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inviting you to listen now
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to one of the strangest
stories ever told.
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I'd been contributing
from my radio salary.
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I kept putting $1,000
or so every week,
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and we got all our plays
on before anybody else
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because I was doing
radio all day long.
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You out there! Look down!
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Behold!
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- Sound is the...
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first stirring
of the infant.
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Sounds have
a romance.
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Radio was a medium
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which employed
that magic.
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- Man: I don't like that literature
of yours going out
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all over the country
with my town's postmark on it.
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I don't like it to be
a return address
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for all that
anti-Semitic garbage.
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- He'd never rehearse.
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He'd walk in,
and they'd say,
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"Chinaman, 85 years old."
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- Orson Welles character: I'm sorry,
sir, but my identity must be...
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I used to go
by ambulance from one...
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one radio station
to another because
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I discovered there was
no law in New York
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that you had to be sick
to travel in an ambulance.
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- Man:
Shadow. Why are you here?
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- I anticipated your
performance, Mr. Kent.
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- Interviewer: How did
"The Shadow" originate?
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- Was it a...
- Orson Welles: I don't know.
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- A show before you
took over the part?
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- No, no, I was the original
Lamont Cranston,
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as far as I know,
but I wouldn't want to...
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- But you didn't write that?
- Oh, no, my God,
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I didn't even know
how they came out.
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** (ballroom music)
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(static)
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- Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen,
we interrupt
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our program of dance music
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to bring you
a special bulletin from
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the Intercontinental
Radio News.
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At 20 minutes before
8.:00 Central time,
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Professor Ferrell of
the Mount Jennings Observatory
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Chicago, Illinois,
reports observing
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several explosions
of incandescent gas
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occurring at regular intervals
on the planet Mars.
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- A lot of people just
accidentally tuned in
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to "The War of the Worlds"
while...
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the Jack Benny commercial
was on or something,
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and it freaked them out.
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It was the turning point
in Welles' career.
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- Male character: Something
smacked the ground,
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knocked me clear out of
my chair.
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- Interviewer: Well, were you
frightened, Mr. Wilmuth?
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- I reckon I was
kind of riled.
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- Were you aware of
the terror that was going on
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throughout the nation?
- Oh, no, oh, no,
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of course not,
we did "Dracula,"
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and it seemed to me,
during "Dracula,"
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I had high hopes
that people would react
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as they do in a movie
of that kind,
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and I don't
know that they did.
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- What scared them is
very interesting.
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It was all done
as news reports.
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Until that moment
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when the guy is describing
this horrible monster...
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"It's coming out,
oh, my God! Aah!"
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- Man: Wait a minute,
something's happening.
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Some shape is rising
out of the pit.
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Aah!
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- And it went dead.
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00:16:16,008 --> 00:16:19,671
(silence)
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The people in the booth
were going...
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And he just held it.
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- Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen,
due to circumstances
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beyond our control,
we are unable to continue
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the broadcast from
Grover's Mill.
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- Man: Citizens of the nation,
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I shall not try
to conceal
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the gravity
of the situation
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that confronts
the country,
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nor the concern
of your government
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in protecting the lives
and property of its people.
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- We will have to sit down
and think very carefully
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about future broadcasts.
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- Reporter: Have you made any specific
changes of any programs
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that were already scheduled,
such as next week's,
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for instance?
- No.
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- Police were already in
the control room
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during the broadcast,
not knowing who to arrest.
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- Male voice: Flash, country overrun
by men from Mars!
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Millions of Martians are
landing in our fields!
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Strange creatures are dropping
from the stratosphere!
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- M-m-m-m-m-men from Mars!
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00:17:16,235 --> 00:17:19,830
- Orson Welles character: Army bombing
plane, V-8-43, off Bayonne, New Jersey,
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- Don't you think that
somebody here would have
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been able to gauge
the reaction
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which in fact has occurred
throughout the United States?
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- Well, every radio program tries
to be more dramatic than life.
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- Woman:
Oh, my gosh!
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- Man on radio: There's another
group of spaceships...
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00:17:34,453 --> 00:17:36,717
of the alien ships, they're
coming out of the sky!
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00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:38,984
- Woody Allen character narrating:
Despite his bravado all evening,
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00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,424
Mr. Manulis panicked
and bolted out of the car.
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He was so frightened
by the reports
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of interplanetary invasion
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that he ran off,
leaving Aunt Bea
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to contend with
the slimy green monsters
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he expected to drop from
the sky at any moment.
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00:17:52,171 --> 00:17:54,935
When Mr. Manulis called her
for a date the next week,
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she told my mother
to tell him
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00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:57,799
she couldn't
see him anymore.
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00:17:57,876 --> 00:17:59,400
She had married
a Martian.
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- Reporter, as bells ring:
I'm speaking from the roof
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00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,246
of the broadcasting building,
New York City...
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the bells you hear
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are ringing to warn
the people
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to evacuate the city
as the Martians approach...
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- This is Orson Welles,
ladies and gentlemen.
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Out of character
to assure you
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that "The War of the Worlds"
has no further significance
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than as the holiday
offering it was intended to be.
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- Reporter: ... crowds
like New Year's Eve in the city.
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- Orson Welles: In fact, we weren't
as innocent as we meant to be
400
00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:31,773
when we did
the Martian broadcast.
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00:18:31,844 --> 00:18:34,039
We were fed up
with the way
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00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:37,412
in which everything that
came over this new magic box,
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00:18:37,483 --> 00:18:39,474
the radio,
was being swallowed.
404
00:18:40,853 --> 00:18:42,184
People, you know,
do suspect
405
00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:43,812
what they read
in the newspapers
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00:18:43,889 --> 00:18:45,288
and what people tell them,
but when the radio came,
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00:18:45,357 --> 00:18:47,791
and I suppose now,
television,
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00:18:47,860 --> 00:18:51,523
anything that came through
that new machine was believed.
409
00:18:52,998 --> 00:18:55,057
I didn't go to jail...
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00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:56,897
I went
to Hollywood.
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00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:00,101
**
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00:19:00,172 --> 00:19:01,901
- James Naremore:
He had established a celebrity
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00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:04,340
that made Hollywood have
an appetite for him.
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00:19:04,409 --> 00:19:07,310
He was an extremely
successful and ambitious
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00:19:07,379 --> 00:19:09,973
designer of conceptual
theater in New York.
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00:19:10,048 --> 00:19:11,811
He had been on
the cover of Time magazine.
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00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:14,045
He was an important
radio performer,
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00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,054
which had made him
a worldwide celebrity
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00:19:17,122 --> 00:19:18,851
and the studios saw
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00:19:18,924 --> 00:19:20,289
that they could make
a buck from this.
421
00:19:26,198 --> 00:19:27,927
- Peter Bogdanovich:
RKO wanted him,
422
00:19:28,066 --> 00:19:29,533
and he kept
turning it down,
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00:19:29,601 --> 00:19:32,161
and so every time
he turned it down,
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00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:33,898
the contract would
get better,
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00:19:33,972 --> 00:19:35,405
'cause he'd ask
for something
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00:19:35,474 --> 00:19:36,964
that they just
wouldn't give him,
427
00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:39,272
and then they would
give it to him.
428
00:19:39,344 --> 00:19:41,471
- Orson Welles: When you honestly
didn't want to go,
429
00:19:41,547 --> 00:19:44,209
then... then the deals got
better and better.
430
00:19:44,283 --> 00:19:45,477
In my case,
I didn't want money.
431
00:19:45,551 --> 00:19:46,984
I wanted authority.
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00:19:58,964 --> 00:20:00,431
- Orson Welles: There was this guy
with a beard
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00:20:00,499 --> 00:20:02,899
who was going to do it
all by himself, you know?
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00:20:02,968 --> 00:20:05,562
I represented
the terrible future
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00:20:05,637 --> 00:20:08,970
of what was going to happen
to that town.
436
00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:10,474
- James Naremore:
His initial project was
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00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:12,100
an adaptation
of "Heart of Darkness,"
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00:20:12,177 --> 00:20:14,042
which he had done
on the radio.
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00:20:14,112 --> 00:20:17,275
- Orson Welles character: ... a black
and incomprehensible frenzy.
440
00:20:17,349 --> 00:20:19,977
- We were a bunch of 22-,
23-year-old kids, really,
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00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:21,610
and we had... (laughs)...
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00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:23,479
moved in and taken over
this studio,
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00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:25,352
and all these people were
looking around, wondering
444
00:20:25,424 --> 00:20:27,051
who the hell we were
and what did we think
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00:20:27,125 --> 00:20:29,320
we were gonna be doing?
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00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:31,157
- We were not
in a very strong
447
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:33,460
financial situation
at the time.
448
00:20:33,532 --> 00:20:36,990
And we thought
this acquisition of Mr. Welles
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00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,367
would have done it,
but it didn't.
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00:20:39,438 --> 00:20:41,269
- Man: He wanted to shoot
the whole movie,
451
00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:44,070
more or less,
from the perspective
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00:20:44,142 --> 00:20:45,666
of Marlowe,
the central character.
453
00:20:45,944 --> 00:20:47,673
So we didn't get
a close-up of Welles
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00:20:47,946 --> 00:20:49,504
until pretty late
in the movie.
455
00:20:49,581 --> 00:20:51,947
There were no big
movie stars until then,
456
00:20:52,017 --> 00:20:53,575
and people wanted
to see Welles.
457
00:20:53,652 --> 00:20:56,382
And it was a film
about blackness,
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00:20:56,455 --> 00:20:58,355
and RKO tried
to convince him
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00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:01,551
just to hire ordinary extras
in blackface in the background.
460
00:21:01,627 --> 00:21:04,221
But he wouldn't go with that.
461
00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:07,322
- Orson Welles: Not knowing
anything about it,
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00:21:07,399 --> 00:21:10,061
there was
no basis for fear.
463
00:21:10,135 --> 00:21:12,535
In other words, if you're walking
along the edge of a cliff,
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00:21:12,604 --> 00:21:15,095
and you don't know
it's the edge of a cliff,
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00:21:15,173 --> 00:21:17,437
you have perfect
confidence.
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00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:27,477
- Orson Welles: The first day
that I directed a film
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was the first day I had
ever been on a movie set.
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00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:32,590
- The Union forever!
469
00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:34,626
- Be careful, Charles!
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00:21:34,693 --> 00:21:36,320
Pull your muffler around
your neck, Charles.
471
00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:38,955
- Mrs. Kane, I think we shall have
to tell him now.
472
00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:40,589
- Yes.
473
00:21:40,666 --> 00:21:43,294
I'll sign those papers now,
Mr. Thatcher.
474
00:21:43,368 --> 00:21:46,064
- You people seem to forget
that I'm the boy's father.
475
00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:47,605
- It's going to be done exactly
the way I've told...
476
00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:49,538
- Steven Spielberg:
It's about courage and audacity
477
00:21:49,608 --> 00:21:51,599
and "I'm making this my way."
478
00:21:52,744 --> 00:21:55,577
We're gonna see from one inch
to infinity in every shot.
479
00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:57,308
We're gonna
see ceilings, and...
480
00:21:57,382 --> 00:22:00,249
we're gonna tell
a very convoluted
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00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:04,653
mystery story
about a man's life.
482
00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:10,651
It is just...
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00:22:10,729 --> 00:22:13,698
one of the great movies
ever made.
484
00:22:13,765 --> 00:22:15,596
- I didn't know
what you couldn't do.
485
00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:19,626
I didn't deliberately set out
to invent anything.
486
00:22:19,705 --> 00:22:22,105
It just seemed
to me, "Why not?"
487
00:22:24,609 --> 00:22:27,043
- Simon Callow:
He grasped the medium
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00:22:27,112 --> 00:22:29,478
with such brilliance,
enthusiasm,
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00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:31,709
he completely mastered it.
490
00:22:31,783 --> 00:22:33,250
It's the first film
of somebody
491
00:22:33,318 --> 00:22:35,377
who had never
even acted in a movie.
492
00:22:35,454 --> 00:22:39,447
- I make no
campaign promises!
493
00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:42,357
Because,
until a few weeks ago,
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00:22:42,427 --> 00:22:44,554
I had no hope of
being elected.
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00:22:46,331 --> 00:22:48,265
- Orson Welles:
It was intended...
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00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:50,563
consciously as a sort of
social document,
497
00:22:50,635 --> 00:22:52,660
as an attack on
the acquisitive society,
498
00:22:52,738 --> 00:22:54,035
but I didn't think that up
499
00:22:54,106 --> 00:22:57,507
and then try to find a story
to match the idea.
500
00:23:00,812 --> 00:23:03,781
- John Houseman: The picture was
about William Randolph Hearst
501
00:23:04,049 --> 00:23:06,483
and two or three other
newspaper barons,
502
00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:08,712
but the picture was
also about Orson.
503
00:23:08,787 --> 00:23:11,415
- You're a 24-year-old
novice director.
504
00:23:11,490 --> 00:23:12,752
This is
difficult material,
505
00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:14,286
maybe impossible.
506
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,452
And old man Hearst is
gonna come down on us
507
00:23:16,528 --> 00:23:17,688
with all he's got.
508
00:23:17,763 --> 00:23:19,663
- Think of
the free publicity.
509
00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:23,064
- Kane: "I'll provide the people
of this city
510
00:23:23,135 --> 00:23:27,401
"with a daily paper that will
tell all the news honestly.
511
00:23:27,472 --> 00:23:28,769
I will also provide..."
512
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,138
- That's the second sentence
you've started with "I."
513
00:23:31,209 --> 00:23:32,676
- People are gonna know
who's responsible.
514
00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:36,180
- John Houseman:
Basic script was
515
00:23:36,248 --> 00:23:38,273
a Herman Mankiewicz
script.
516
00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:41,581
A great deal
of that picture is,
517
00:23:41,653 --> 00:23:44,622
in every respect,
is Orson's picture.
518
00:23:44,689 --> 00:23:46,281
- Orson Welles: One day
in the office they said,
519
00:23:46,358 --> 00:23:49,452
"There's a man called Toland
waiting to see you."
520
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,796
He was, of course,
the leading cameraman.
521
00:23:53,865 --> 00:23:56,527
He said, "I want
to make your picture."
522
00:23:56,601 --> 00:23:58,762
And I said, "Well,
that's wonderful.
523
00:23:58,837 --> 00:24:01,533
Why? I don't know
anything about movies."
524
00:24:01,606 --> 00:24:03,631
He says, "That's why
I want to do it."
525
00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:05,437
**
526
00:24:05,510 --> 00:24:07,705
Well, it was pretty much
like my...
527
00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:09,644
My beginnings
in the theater.
528
00:24:09,714 --> 00:24:11,511
I had the confidence
of ignorance.
529
00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:14,108
(woman singing opera)
530
00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:24,327
- William Friedkin:
It contains the very best
531
00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:28,526
of cinematography,
editing, lighting,
532
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,330
performance,
screenwriting.
533
00:24:35,273 --> 00:24:37,366
It's a quarry for filmmakers.
534
00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:41,637
- It was obvious when you saw it,
it was a great picture,
535
00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:43,237
but that doesn't
always mean
536
00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:45,613
that it's gonna do
big money at the box office.
537
00:24:45,684 --> 00:24:48,482
- Peter Bogdanovich: A lot of the
theater chains were afraid to book it
538
00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:50,578
because they were afraid
539
00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:52,680
their ads wouldn't run
in the Hearst papers.
540
00:24:52,757 --> 00:24:56,625
- I sometimes forget
that you're all Jews.
541
00:24:56,695 --> 00:24:59,459
Apparently, quite a number
of people forget,
542
00:24:59,531 --> 00:25:01,931
if they ever knew.
543
00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:09,340
See what you can do about
this "Citizen Kane" picture,
544
00:25:09,407 --> 00:25:10,635
will you, Louie?
545
00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:15,908
- Peter Bogdanovich: Orson said
he wanted to open it in tents
546
00:25:16,181 --> 00:25:17,205
all across the country.
547
00:25:17,282 --> 00:25:18,840
He'd say, "This is
the picture you... not...
548
00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:20,509
they won't let you see."
549
00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:22,212
But RKO wouldn't
hear about it.
550
00:25:22,287 --> 00:25:23,720
- James Naremore: In the next
70-something years,
551
00:25:23,788 --> 00:25:26,518
it became one of the most
admired films ever made.
552
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:33,195
- You can see a change
in films after "Kane."
553
00:25:33,265 --> 00:25:35,392
I said, "Don't you think you
had a tremendous influence?"
554
00:25:35,467 --> 00:25:36,934
He said not really.
He said they didn't...
555
00:25:37,202 --> 00:25:38,692
They really weren't influenced
by anything important.
556
00:25:38,770 --> 00:25:41,705
There were just a lot
of ceilings and shadows.
557
00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:43,934
- Many people can agree,
it's just one of the great
558
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:46,370
American experiences
in the cinema.
559
00:25:46,444 --> 00:25:48,378
- Welles as Kane:
Rosebud.
560
00:25:48,446 --> 00:25:49,879
- Orson Welles:
I'm ashamed of Rosebud.
561
00:25:49,948 --> 00:25:51,279
I think it's the...
562
00:25:51,349 --> 00:25:52,976
A rather tawdry device.
563
00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:54,980
It doesn't
stand up very well.
564
00:26:00,959 --> 00:26:05,225
- Orson Welles: Well, I've regretted
early successes in many fields,
565
00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:07,492
but I don't regret that
in "Kane"
566
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:11,730
because it was the only chance
I ever had of that kind.
567
00:26:11,803 --> 00:26:14,636
I'm glad I had it
at any time in my life.
568
00:26:17,909 --> 00:26:20,571
I was spoiled
in a very strange way.
569
00:26:20,645 --> 00:26:22,579
I didn't know
what was ahead of me.
570
00:26:22,647 --> 00:26:23,375
(laughing)
571
00:26:32,958 --> 00:26:35,654
- Man narrating:
The magnificence of the Ambersons
572
00:26:35,727 --> 00:26:38,491
began in 1 87 3.
573
00:26:38,563 --> 00:26:40,997
Their splendor lasted
throughout all the years
574
00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:42,824
that saw
their midland town
575
00:26:42,901 --> 00:26:46,268
spread and darken into a city.
576
00:26:46,338 --> 00:26:48,499
In that town, in those days,
577
00:26:48,573 --> 00:26:50,473
all the women
who wore silk or velvet
578
00:26:50,542 --> 00:26:53,010
knew all the other women
who wore silk or velvet,
579
00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:55,269
and everybody knew
everybody else's
580
00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:57,508
family horse
and carriage.
581
00:26:57,582 --> 00:26:59,743
- One of the reasons he liked
"Amberson" so much
582
00:26:59,818 --> 00:27:01,547
was 'cause
he wasn't in it.
583
00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:02,848
- Too slow for us nowadays.
584
00:27:02,921 --> 00:27:04,650
- Often, he was the...
you know, a name
585
00:27:04,723 --> 00:27:06,520
that he used
for himself in a movie,
586
00:27:06,591 --> 00:27:08,786
'cause he was
a name actor.
587
00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:11,454
As he said to me once,
he said,
588
00:27:11,529 --> 00:27:14,464
"I don't enjoy acting
as much as I should."
589
00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:19,766
- Orson Welles: The real point
of "Ambersons,"
590
00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:22,966
everything that is
any good in it
591
00:27:23,041 --> 00:27:24,440
is that part of it
592
00:27:24,509 --> 00:27:27,342
which was really just
a preparation
593
00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:30,313
for the decay
of the Ambersons.
594
00:27:30,382 --> 00:27:31,747
- Pride of the town.
595
00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:33,681
- Hot and cold
running water?
596
00:27:33,752 --> 00:27:35,913
- Woman:
Upstairs and down.
597
00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:37,045
- Man: I want to look at that
598
00:27:37,322 --> 00:27:39,313
automobile carriage
of yours, Gene.
599
00:27:39,391 --> 00:27:40,551
- Franny, you'll catch cold!
600
00:27:40,625 --> 00:27:41,614
- Man: We're gonna ride
in that thing tomorrow.
601
00:27:41,693 --> 00:27:42,853
I want to see
if it's safe.
602
00:27:42,927 --> 00:27:43,985
- Good night, Isabella.
- Good night, Eugene.
603
00:27:44,062 --> 00:27:45,654
- You be ready at
ten minutes after 2:00.
604
00:27:45,730 --> 00:27:46,958
- No, I won't.
605
00:27:47,032 --> 00:27:48,499
- Yes, you will.
606
00:27:48,566 --> 00:27:49,897
Ten minutes after 2:00.
607
00:27:51,436 --> 00:27:53,563
- Yes, I will.
608
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,104
- Get a horse, get a horse!
609
00:27:58,376 --> 00:28:00,367
Get a horse.
610
00:28:00,445 --> 00:28:01,469
- Look out, Lucy!
611
00:28:01,546 --> 00:28:02,535
- Oh!
612
00:28:02,614 --> 00:28:03,876
- Woman: What's happened to them?
613
00:28:03,948 --> 00:28:05,108
- Oh, George...
614
00:28:06,384 --> 00:28:09,512
- Orson Welles: A good film, I think,
should not be an illustrated,
615
00:28:09,587 --> 00:28:14,547
all-talking, all-moving
version of a printed work
616
00:28:14,626 --> 00:28:17,959
but should be itself,
a thing of itself.
617
00:28:18,029 --> 00:28:19,496
- George, you tried
to swing underneath me
618
00:28:19,564 --> 00:28:21,998
and break the fall for me
when you went over.
619
00:28:22,067 --> 00:28:24,433
I knew you were doing that.
It was nice of you.
620
00:28:24,502 --> 00:28:26,436
It wasn't much of
a fall to speak of.
621
00:28:26,504 --> 00:28:27,766
How about that kiss?
622
00:28:27,906 --> 00:28:30,466
- (with others) * Can hear them sigh
and wish to die *
623
00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:32,874
* And see 'em wink the other eye *
624
00:28:32,944 --> 00:28:36,539
* At the man who broke
the bank at Monte Carlo **
625
00:28:36,614 --> 00:28:37,603
(laughter)
626
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:43,988
- Orson Welles: About the time
Major Amberson dies,
627
00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:46,080
the picture starts to
become another picture,
628
00:28:46,157 --> 00:28:47,818
becomes their picture.
629
00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:49,587
An actual plot was changed.
630
00:28:49,661 --> 00:28:51,686
- Robert Wise: Well, I'm sorry
about that,
631
00:28:51,763 --> 00:28:52,855
'cause I was involved
in all the cuts,
632
00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,398
but it was one
of those circumstances
633
00:28:54,466 --> 00:28:55,490
that couldn't
be helped.
634
00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,829
He was in
South America
635
00:28:56,901 --> 00:28:58,425
making a film
for the government
636
00:28:58,503 --> 00:28:59,697
to help our war effort
637
00:28:59,771 --> 00:29:01,534
in that good neighbor
policy we had.
638
00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:06,002
The studio was very...
naturally, very upset.
639
00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:07,510
They had a lot of money
in this film,
640
00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:08,910
and they wanted
to get it out.
641
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:10,413
Consequently,
we did cut
642
00:29:10,548 --> 00:29:12,675
about 25 or 30 minutes
of the original film,
643
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:15,185
and we had to make
two or three or four
644
00:29:15,453 --> 00:29:17,683
new bridge scenes
to tie it together,
645
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:19,087
and there was
a new ending shot.
646
00:29:19,157 --> 00:29:20,556
- How is Georgie?
647
00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:22,593
- He's going to be all right.
648
00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:23,718
Annie.
649
00:29:23,795 --> 00:29:25,956
I wish you could have
seen Georgie's face...
650
00:29:26,030 --> 00:29:27,429
- Orson Welles:
There's no scene in a hospital,
651
00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:30,593
nothing like that
ever happened.
652
00:29:30,668 --> 00:29:31,999
- I can only say that
all of us up here
653
00:29:32,070 --> 00:29:34,766
did the very best job
we could with the problem.
654
00:29:37,041 --> 00:29:38,804
- James Naremore: As one
important critic has said,
655
00:29:38,877 --> 00:29:40,777
RKO had hired Welles
656
00:29:40,845 --> 00:29:42,870
to make them
masterpieces,
657
00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:45,609
and he delivered
a masterpiece,
658
00:29:45,683 --> 00:29:47,116
and they didn't like it.
659
00:29:47,185 --> 00:29:48,812
- Orson Welles: The key long scene
at the end,
660
00:29:48,887 --> 00:29:50,081
which was
Aggie Moorehead
661
00:29:50,155 --> 00:29:53,488
in a third-rate
lodging house,
662
00:29:53,558 --> 00:29:56,049
that was the best scene
in the picture.
663
00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:58,721
That was what
the picture was about.
664
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:02,699
It's gone.
665
00:30:02,767 --> 00:30:04,200
I was sent
to South America
666
00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:08,496
by Nelson Rockefeller
and Jock Whitney.
667
00:30:08,573 --> 00:30:11,736
I was told that
it was my patriotic duty
668
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:13,675
to go and spend
a million dollars
669
00:30:13,745 --> 00:30:17,647
shooting the Carnival
in Rio.
670
00:30:17,715 --> 00:30:19,910
They put it to me
that it would be
671
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:22,885
a real contribution
to inter-American affairs,
672
00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:24,751
and so...
673
00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:33,225
Anything that I've done
in any medium,
674
00:30:33,498 --> 00:30:35,728
if it's ever been
any good,
675
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,931
has been my way,
to quote the song.
676
00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:48,669
I was in terrible
trouble then.
677
00:30:50,982 --> 00:30:54,577
In the meantime,
RKO has now a new government,
678
00:30:54,652 --> 00:30:56,779
and they asked
to see the rushes
679
00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,789
of what I'm doing
in South America,
680
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:02,258
and they see a lot of people,
black people,
681
00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:05,189
and they...
682
00:31:05,263 --> 00:31:07,697
made a great
publicity point
683
00:31:07,765 --> 00:31:09,596
of the fact that I had gone
to South America
684
00:31:09,667 --> 00:31:12,534
and thrown
all this money away.
685
00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:16,301
- RKO said, "Well, maybe
we'd better stop this."
686
00:31:16,574 --> 00:31:18,633
- So I was fired from RKO.
687
00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:27,182
And its slogan for
that year
688
00:31:27,252 --> 00:31:29,277
printed on
every piece of paper
689
00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:31,647
that went out
from RKO was
690
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,658
"Showmanship
Instead of Genius."
691
00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:36,853
I really wouldn't want to try
692
00:31:36,928 --> 00:31:39,897
to edge my way into
an elevator
693
00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:42,933
that's for
geniuses only.
694
00:31:44,669 --> 00:31:46,660
- Julie Taymor: Sometimes you get
frustrated that
695
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:49,605
people want to do things
to your projects,
696
00:31:49,674 --> 00:31:51,733
in theater or film,
'cause I've had both,
697
00:31:51,809 --> 00:31:53,674
and then
you have to fight,
698
00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:56,236
and I'm sure Orson Welles
had a lot of struggles,
699
00:31:56,314 --> 00:31:59,750
as we know,
and lost battles
700
00:31:59,817 --> 00:32:01,284
and hopefully
won a few.
701
00:32:01,352 --> 00:32:04,150
- He was a brilliant man,
he had a lot to offer,
702
00:32:04,222 --> 00:32:07,020
he made
two wonderful pictures,
703
00:32:07,091 --> 00:32:10,219
but he also...
704
00:32:10,295 --> 00:32:13,355
went bad after
the second picture.
705
00:32:13,631 --> 00:32:16,828
- Horrendous. I mean, there are some
who've committed suicide.
706
00:32:16,901 --> 00:32:20,166
- An Italian waiter came
and said to me in Italian,
707
00:32:20,238 --> 00:32:24,197
"Did you ever make a picture
after 'Citizen Kane'?"
708
00:32:26,978 --> 00:32:28,309
I didn't get a job
as a director
709
00:32:28,379 --> 00:32:30,142
for years afterwards.
710
00:32:31,716 --> 00:32:33,240
So then I did
"Jane Eyre."
711
00:32:37,855 --> 00:32:38,844
Aah!
712
00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:42,048
(dog barking)
713
00:32:47,365 --> 00:32:49,333
- Can I do anything?
- Stand out of the way.
714
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,163
- I'm sorry I frightened
your horse.
715
00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:52,998
- Apologies won't
mend my ankle.
716
00:32:53,071 --> 00:32:54,231
Down, Pilot!
717
00:32:56,007 --> 00:32:57,372
- Orson Welles:
I was obsessed
718
00:32:57,642 --> 00:32:59,371
in my hot youth
719
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:04,104
with the idea that
I would not be a star.
720
00:33:04,182 --> 00:33:06,810
I was in a position
to promote myself as a star...
721
00:33:06,884 --> 00:33:08,909
- Who's that?
...And I should've.
722
00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:10,750
I should've gone back
to New York
723
00:33:10,822 --> 00:33:14,087
and played Hamlet
and as long as it was going,
724
00:33:14,158 --> 00:33:15,955
I didn't...
I had this idea that
725
00:33:16,027 --> 00:33:18,757
I wanted to be known
as a director and that was it.
726
00:33:24,035 --> 00:33:26,299
The next picture I did do
was "The Stranger,"
727
00:33:26,371 --> 00:33:28,805
and I did that
to show people
728
00:33:28,873 --> 00:33:30,704
that I didn't glow
in the dark,
729
00:33:30,775 --> 00:33:33,107
that I could say
"action" and "cut"
730
00:33:33,177 --> 00:33:34,804
just like
all the other fellas.
731
00:33:42,253 --> 00:33:44,221
- (gasping)
- What is it, dear?
732
00:33:44,288 --> 00:33:45,846
- When you grew up in
that era, you thought...
733
00:33:45,923 --> 00:33:47,390
you saw movies for
the junk that they were,
734
00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:48,686
nobody took them
seriously.
735
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,990
- You'll become
part of the crime.
736
00:33:51,062 --> 00:33:53,462
- But I'm already
a part of it.
737
00:33:53,731 --> 00:33:57,064
'Cause I'm a part of you.
738
00:33:57,135 --> 00:33:59,399
- And I now that
people dislike it,
739
00:33:59,470 --> 00:34:02,803
but I just love his love
of using the medium
740
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:05,968
for all of its tricks
and playing with them.
741
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,342
This is what
a studio movie could be.
742
00:34:12,183 --> 00:34:13,912
- It was supposed to be
a hammy performance.
743
00:34:13,985 --> 00:34:17,045
It wasn't
unconsciously so.
744
00:34:17,121 --> 00:34:19,112
That's all I can say
about that.
745
00:34:20,158 --> 00:34:21,819
- James Naremore:
They cut that one up, too.
746
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:25,158
Welles was an ideological
challenge to Hollywood.
747
00:34:25,229 --> 00:34:27,322
He was simply not
a Hollywood filmmaker.
748
00:34:30,668 --> 00:34:32,158
- Peter Bogdanovich:
None of his pictures
749
00:34:32,303 --> 00:34:33,395
really received wide distribution
750
00:34:33,471 --> 00:34:35,268
except for
"The Stranger,"
751
00:34:35,339 --> 00:34:37,398
which was the only picture
of his that made any money.
752
00:34:37,475 --> 00:34:39,875
- It's not an accident
that it comes in a can.
753
00:34:39,944 --> 00:34:42,310
They welcomed the adventurer
754
00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:44,940
in the 1 9th century much more
than they do today.
755
00:34:45,016 --> 00:34:47,246
My kind of fella is
the real outsider.
756
00:34:57,195 --> 00:34:59,390
Good evening, everybody,
this is Orson Welles,
757
00:34:59,464 --> 00:35:01,125
the Mercury Wonder Show
broadcasting tonight from
758
00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:02,530
the Air Service
Command Training Center
759
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,267
at Fresno, California.
760
00:35:06,237 --> 00:35:07,795
Last week,
an American president
761
00:35:07,872 --> 00:35:09,772
fell in the midst
of battle.
762
00:35:09,841 --> 00:35:11,103
- Announcer:
Guess who's taking Jack's place
763
00:35:11,175 --> 00:35:12,540
on the program tonight?
- Man: Who?
764
00:35:12,810 --> 00:35:14,277
- Orson Welles,
that's who!
765
00:35:14,345 --> 00:35:16,040
Orson Welles!
766
00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:17,479
(audience laughter)
767
00:35:19,350 --> 00:35:21,784
- Orson Welles: I did
"Around the World in 80 Days,"
768
00:35:21,853 --> 00:35:23,844
and it was, I think,
769
00:35:23,921 --> 00:35:25,354
the best thing I ever did
in the theater,
770
00:35:25,423 --> 00:35:27,050
but it was
a financial disaster.
771
00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:28,524
Before the opening
in Boston,
772
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,557
the costumes were sitting
in the railway station,
773
00:35:31,829 --> 00:35:34,923
and there was
$55,000 to pay for them.
774
00:35:34,999 --> 00:35:38,059
And I was trying to think
who in Hollywood could send me
775
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:39,797
$55,000...
776
00:35:39,871 --> 00:35:42,806
in the next three hours.
777
00:35:42,874 --> 00:35:45,308
I thought, "Harry Cohn."
778
00:35:45,376 --> 00:35:47,503
Only one with
the courage to do it.
779
00:35:47,578 --> 00:35:50,138
I called him up, I said,
"I've got the greatest story
780
00:35:50,214 --> 00:35:51,374
you've ever read,"
and I turned
781
00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:53,110
the paperback around
782
00:35:53,184 --> 00:35:56,312
that the girl in the box office
was reading.
783
00:35:56,387 --> 00:35:58,184
It was called
"The Man I Killed."
784
00:35:58,256 --> 00:36:00,986
And I says, "It's called
'The Man I Killed, '
785
00:36:01,058 --> 00:36:04,152
written by such and such,
a paperback, buy it!"
786
00:36:04,228 --> 00:36:08,289
I said, "You get me
$55,000 to Boston."
787
00:36:08,366 --> 00:36:10,527
"And I will make it for you
if you'll send me
788
00:36:10,601 --> 00:36:12,432
$47,000 in two hours."
789
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:15,131
55,000 came.
790
00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:16,537
- Welles always liked
to pretend that he had
791
00:36:16,607 --> 00:36:18,871
absolutely no idea
that Harry Cohn
792
00:36:18,943 --> 00:36:20,877
had asked him to make
a movie with Rita Hayworth.
793
00:36:20,945 --> 00:36:22,344
He had no idea
what to do.
794
00:36:22,413 --> 00:36:24,506
The stage door keeper
of the theater that he was
795
00:36:24,582 --> 00:36:27,016
working in when he was doing
"Around the World"
796
00:36:27,084 --> 00:36:30,110
happened to be reading a book
called "The Lady from Shanghai."
797
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:31,450
- It's called
something or other,
798
00:36:31,522 --> 00:36:32,955
it wasn't
"Lady from Shanghai" then.
799
00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:34,457
- Sometimes he told
the story one way,
800
00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:35,958
and sometimes
he'd tell it another way.
801
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:37,187
- It's all nonsense.
802
00:36:37,261 --> 00:36:38,455
- Maybe that comes from
one of those
803
00:36:38,529 --> 00:36:40,019
foreign language interviews
804
00:36:40,097 --> 00:36:42,122
where I pretend
I understand the question
805
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,997
and say yes, you know?
806
00:36:44,068 --> 00:36:50,337
(reporter and Welles speaking Italian)
807
00:36:58,583 --> 00:37:02,383
- Host: We are bringing together,
for the first time on the air,
808
00:37:02,453 --> 00:37:05,217
one of Hollywood's best-known
married couples,
809
00:37:05,289 --> 00:37:07,553
Rita Hayworth and
Orson Welles.
810
00:37:07,625 --> 00:37:11,652
- Orson Welles:
I had divorced from Rita.
811
00:37:15,132 --> 00:37:18,067
She came to me and said,
"I want to make your picture."
812
00:37:18,135 --> 00:37:20,968
- Welles would say anything
at any time
813
00:37:21,038 --> 00:37:23,563
if it sounded
good at the moment,
814
00:37:23,641 --> 00:37:26,235
and he often admitted
to that himself.
815
00:37:26,310 --> 00:37:27,937
- Orson Welles:
Harry sent for me and said,
816
00:37:28,012 --> 00:37:30,981
"I want you to do that
with Rita, for her sake."
817
00:37:31,048 --> 00:37:32,174
- * Then don't... *
818
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,512
- I was lucky enough
to be with her
819
00:37:33,584 --> 00:37:37,577
longer than any of
the other men in her life.
820
00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:39,145
She is a dear person,
821
00:37:39,223 --> 00:37:41,020
and she was
a wonderful wife
822
00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:44,425
and an extraordinary girl
in every way.
823
00:37:44,495 --> 00:37:47,396
- Hayworth character: There've been
many women, haven't there...
824
00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:49,456
- Welles character: Yes.
825
00:37:49,533 --> 00:37:52,093
- Orson Welles: I think
the first sex biologically
826
00:37:52,169 --> 00:37:53,431
is the female sex,
827
00:37:53,504 --> 00:37:55,563
and there are
many creatures
828
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,541
in our world who
are women
829
00:37:58,609 --> 00:38:02,067
and only become male
as long as is necessary
830
00:38:02,146 --> 00:38:03,670
and then revert
to their original
831
00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:05,210
and superior condition.
832
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:09,379
You know, I think we're
a kind of decoration.
833
00:38:09,453 --> 00:38:12,445
I think the basic
and essential human
834
00:38:12,523 --> 00:38:15,117
is the woman,
835
00:38:15,192 --> 00:38:16,659
and all that we're doing
836
00:38:16,727 --> 00:38:19,059
is trying to brighten up
the place
837
00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:22,031
because we've got to try
and justify our existence.
838
00:38:22,099 --> 00:38:23,225
Look how little we do
839
00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:25,098
to keep
the race going.
840
00:38:25,169 --> 00:38:27,364
I've had a marvelous
sex life.
841
00:38:27,438 --> 00:38:29,702
- Dick Cavett: Is it too personal
to ask what age it started at?
842
00:38:29,974 --> 00:38:31,271
- Well, if I tell you,
you won't believe it,
843
00:38:31,342 --> 00:38:32,366
so I'd better not answer.
844
00:38:32,443 --> 00:38:37,540
- He was notoriously
flirtatious with both sexes.
845
00:38:37,615 --> 00:38:40,982
He used to love to
lie in a bath
846
00:38:41,052 --> 00:38:43,145
and do interviews
with his associates,
847
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:44,687
which embarrassed
some of them
848
00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:46,484
and perhaps delighted others,
I don't know.
849
00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:51,261
I myself have
absolutely no evidence
850
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:52,694
that Welles ever had
851
00:38:52,763 --> 00:38:54,731
any kind of sexual
relationship with a man,
852
00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:56,159
but he was
very, very conscious
853
00:38:56,233 --> 00:38:58,030
that it was something
that he could use.
854
00:38:58,102 --> 00:39:00,297
- Orson Welles: It's the business
of the director,
855
00:39:00,371 --> 00:39:02,999
is to carry on
a continual courtship
856
00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:05,269
with the people he sticks
in front of the lens.
857
00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:08,073
And when
you deal with stars,
858
00:39:08,145 --> 00:39:11,672
you know, real stars,
you have to...
859
00:39:11,749 --> 00:39:13,774
You have
to really make love.
860
00:39:24,161 --> 00:39:25,753
- Orson Welles character:
Personally, I don't like
861
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:27,657
a girlfriend to have
a husband.
862
00:39:27,732 --> 00:39:30,599
If she'll fool a husband,
I figure she'll fool me.
863
00:39:30,668 --> 00:39:32,431
- Rita Hayworth character:
George.
864
00:39:32,503 --> 00:39:34,368
- James Naremore: Even though
this is a more conventional thriller
865
00:39:34,438 --> 00:39:36,804
with a movie star
at the heart of it,
866
00:39:37,074 --> 00:39:38,598
the film is much more
surrealistic,
867
00:39:38,676 --> 00:39:41,736
much more strange,
and all the more strange
868
00:39:41,812 --> 00:39:43,803
because, when the studio
doctored it,
869
00:39:44,081 --> 00:39:47,244
they put into it
these big close-ups
870
00:39:47,318 --> 00:39:48,444
of Rita Hayworth,
and they add
871
00:39:48,519 --> 00:39:50,384
to the surreal quality
of the film.
872
00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:02,699
- Welles character: I thought
it was me that was crazy.
873
00:40:02,767 --> 00:40:04,632
After what
I'd been through,
874
00:40:04,702 --> 00:40:10,072
anything crazy at all
seemed natural, but now...
875
00:40:10,141 --> 00:40:13,076
I was sane
on one subject, her.
876
00:40:13,144 --> 00:40:15,339
I knew about her.
877
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,381
And I was the fall guy.
878
00:40:19,817 --> 00:40:21,512
- Martin Scorsese: He was not afraid
of being self-conscious
879
00:40:21,585 --> 00:40:23,849
with the camera.
880
00:40:24,121 --> 00:40:26,248
He did it with such conviction
and with such brilliance
881
00:40:26,323 --> 00:40:28,120
that you began to realize,
"Ah, I see, the camera moves."
882
00:40:33,464 --> 00:40:36,729
- James Naremore: Bewildering,
astonishing things
883
00:40:36,801 --> 00:40:38,735
are happening
all the time,
884
00:40:38,803 --> 00:40:41,738
building up to the great
mirror maze at the end.
885
00:40:47,344 --> 00:40:49,539
- I knew I'd find
you two together.
886
00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:52,343
But you'd be foolish
to fire that gun.
887
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,818
With these mirrors,
it's difficult to tell.
888
00:40:56,887 --> 00:41:00,118
You are aiming at me,
aren't you?
889
00:41:00,191 --> 00:41:02,557
I'm aiming
at you, lover.
890
00:41:02,626 --> 00:41:05,254
Of course, killing you
is killing myself.
891
00:41:05,329 --> 00:41:07,524
(gunshots)
892
00:41:28,219 --> 00:41:31,188
- Michael...
893
00:41:31,255 --> 00:41:33,416
Come back here.
894
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:35,550
Michael.
895
00:41:35,626 --> 00:41:37,457
Please!
896
00:41:38,629 --> 00:41:40,893
- Simon Callow: This is one of
the great mysteries,
897
00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:44,266
why this extraordinarily
smart guy was outwitted
898
00:41:44,668 --> 00:41:46,932
by so much
less remarkable
899
00:41:47,204 --> 00:41:49,536
and intelligent people
so often.
900
00:41:49,607 --> 00:41:50,869
- Money.
901
00:41:50,941 --> 00:41:52,636
(audience laughter)
902
00:41:55,246 --> 00:41:57,237
(voice)
Macbeth!
903
00:41:57,314 --> 00:41:58,781
Beware MacDuff!
904
00:41:58,849 --> 00:42:02,376
Macduff!
Beware MacDuff!
905
00:42:04,255 --> 00:42:05,916
- I don't know what I haven't
done about this play
906
00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:08,283
except do it
as well as I'd like to.
907
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:10,793
It's a great feeling
to be dealing with
908
00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:13,261
material which is
better than yourself.
909
00:42:13,330 --> 00:42:15,457
Answer me!
910
00:42:21,338 --> 00:42:24,637
- Witches: Double, double,
toil and trouble,
911
00:42:24,708 --> 00:42:28,474
fire burn
and cauldron bubble.
912
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:30,514
- He had nothing.
The sets are bad.
913
00:42:30,581 --> 00:42:33,812
But the way that
he then had to light them
914
00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:37,581
and choreograph the camera
and the actors in those sets...
915
00:42:37,655 --> 00:42:40,886
It had
tremendous power.
916
00:42:44,261 --> 00:42:47,492
- Which of you
have done this?
917
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:50,830
- Julie Taymor: Sometimes,
when you can do it all, you...
918
00:42:50,935 --> 00:42:52,493
you know, it's like
too much ice cream,
919
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:54,629
too many flavors,
you can't even make a decision,
920
00:42:54,705 --> 00:42:58,402
but how you fill
the limitation
921
00:42:58,475 --> 00:43:00,568
shows the real artist
or not.
922
00:43:02,379 --> 00:43:03,676
- Jonathan Rosenbaum:
None of his Shakespeare films
923
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:06,272
were ever really supported
by the critics.
924
00:43:06,350 --> 00:43:08,944
They complained about
the Scottish accents.
925
00:43:09,019 --> 00:43:10,680
(banging at the gate)
926
00:43:10,754 --> 00:43:14,815
- Knock, knock.
Never at quiet.
927
00:43:14,892 --> 00:43:16,325
The plague of these...
928
00:43:16,393 --> 00:43:17,758
- Rosenbaum: He had to do
all these changes
929
00:43:17,828 --> 00:43:20,991
in the soundtrack
and cut "Macbeth,"
930
00:43:21,265 --> 00:43:22,926
but he was the one
who did the cutting.
931
00:43:30,708 --> 00:43:35,873
- Orson Welles:
It was a big critical failure.
932
00:43:35,946 --> 00:43:37,880
It was the biggest critical
failure I ever had.
933
00:43:37,948 --> 00:43:41,440
- (screaming)
934
00:43:44,622 --> 00:43:46,681
- What is that noise?
935
00:43:54,865 --> 00:43:56,628
- Orson Welles:
I'm very happy in America,
936
00:43:56,700 --> 00:43:59,794
but it happens that America
is not as happy with me
937
00:43:59,870 --> 00:44:01,462
as I am with it.
- Muchas gracias, senor.
938
00:44:01,538 --> 00:44:02,971
- Julie Taymor:
He was different.
939
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,406
He was really
doing something
940
00:44:05,476 --> 00:44:09,071
so unique to his own
imagination,
941
00:44:09,346 --> 00:44:11,871
and whether that means
his films were successful
942
00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:13,472
is a whole
different matter.
943
00:44:13,550 --> 00:44:14,915
They are successful.
944
00:44:19,089 --> 00:44:21,785
- Like the fruit pickers,
I go where the work is.
945
00:44:26,964 --> 00:44:31,025
I don't think of myself
as in exile at all.
946
00:44:31,101 --> 00:44:33,695
In fact,
I've spent most of my life
947
00:44:33,771 --> 00:44:35,500
not quite unpacked.
948
00:44:38,475 --> 00:44:39,942
- Henry Jaglom: One of the things
that had driven him away
949
00:44:40,010 --> 00:44:42,638
was the McCarthy-ite period.
950
00:44:42,713 --> 00:44:44,908
He was very messed up
by what was going on
951
00:44:44,982 --> 00:44:46,074
in America politically,
952
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:47,840
had been a real
progressive, you know,
953
00:44:47,918 --> 00:44:50,352
and he was horrified.
954
00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:55,818
- He was never a communist,
but the FBI was following him,
955
00:44:55,893 --> 00:44:57,554
since "Citizen Kane,"
956
00:44:57,628 --> 00:44:59,789
when Hearst was
a friend of Hoover.
957
00:44:59,863 --> 00:45:02,525
- Orson Welles: I've been investigated
over and over again.
958
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:05,659
It's one of our favorite
indoor and outdoor sports.
959
00:45:05,736 --> 00:45:07,067
(audience laughter)
960
00:45:14,445 --> 00:45:15,537
(car horn honking)
961
00:45:16,714 --> 00:45:20,548
(woman speaking German)
962
00:45:29,526 --> 00:45:30,515
- Harry.
963
00:45:32,096 --> 00:45:34,121
- Rosenbaum: The most successful
thing he was ever part of,
964
00:45:34,398 --> 00:45:37,834
commercially, was offered
a percentage as part of the deal,
965
00:45:37,901 --> 00:45:39,994
but he couldn't afford it
because he needed the money,
966
00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:42,163
so he would have been
a wealthy man.
967
00:45:44,007 --> 00:45:45,872
- Look down there.
968
00:45:45,943 --> 00:45:48,503
Would you really feel
any pity if one of those dots
969
00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:50,547
stopped moving forever?
970
00:45:50,614 --> 00:45:53,777
If I offered you #20,000
for every dot that stopped,
971
00:45:53,851 --> 00:45:55,842
would you really, old man,
tell me to keep my money,
972
00:45:55,919 --> 00:45:57,887
or would you calculate
973
00:45:57,955 --> 00:45:59,946
how many dots you could
afford to spare?
974
00:46:00,023 --> 00:46:01,854
Free of income tax,
old man.
975
00:46:01,925 --> 00:46:04,416
- Rosenbaum: What's also kind of
interesting and ironic
976
00:46:04,495 --> 00:46:05,860
is that Harry Lime, for him,
977
00:46:05,929 --> 00:46:08,193
was the most detestable
character he ever played,
978
00:46:08,465 --> 00:46:09,898
but everybody else
loves Harry Lime.
979
00:46:11,201 --> 00:46:12,691
- Woman:
I have never in my life
980
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:13,964
seen anything
in the same
981
00:46:14,037 --> 00:46:17,803
category of hideousness,
but I adore him!
982
00:46:20,677 --> 00:46:22,542
(both screaming)
983
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:24,080
- Don't be so gloomy.
984
00:46:24,148 --> 00:46:26,480
After all,
it's not that awful.
985
00:46:26,550 --> 00:46:28,541
You know what
the fella says.
986
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:30,587
In Italy, for 30 years
under the Borgias,
987
00:46:30,654 --> 00:46:33,452
they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed,
988
00:46:33,524 --> 00:46:34,991
but they produced
Michelangelo,
989
00:46:35,058 --> 00:46:37,049
Leonardo da Vinci,
and the Renaissance.
990
00:46:37,127 --> 00:46:39,595
In Switzerland,
they had brotherly love.
991
00:46:39,663 --> 00:46:42,188
They had 500 years
of democracy and peace,
992
00:46:42,466 --> 00:46:44,457
and what did
that produce?
993
00:46:44,535 --> 00:46:47,527
The cuckoo clock.
So long, Holly.
994
00:46:47,604 --> 00:46:49,572
- Orson Welles:
A great many of us have been
995
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,005
in Europe during
these last years.
996
00:46:51,074 --> 00:46:53,565
It's been a kind of frontier
for us in films,
997
00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:57,808
and it's a more anarchistic
and freer atmosphere.
998
00:46:57,881 --> 00:46:59,644
- Elvis Mitchell: You know, a lot of
people, I think, conceptually,
999
00:46:59,716 --> 00:47:01,650
like the idea of change,
1000
00:47:01,718 --> 00:47:03,515
but they don't want
things to change.
1001
00:47:03,587 --> 00:47:05,782
But Welles' impatience
was about that change,
1002
00:47:05,856 --> 00:47:07,949
and his interest in
the Scottsboro Boys case
1003
00:47:08,025 --> 00:47:09,754
and in early civil rights.
1004
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:11,055
Speaking out,
which you could only do
1005
00:47:11,128 --> 00:47:12,686
if you were
an independent.
1006
00:47:12,763 --> 00:47:14,196
- Orson Welles:
My own loyalty is greater
1007
00:47:14,264 --> 00:47:17,233
to the idea of myself
as a member of the human family
1008
00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:21,528
than it is to a... as a member
of any profession.
1009
00:47:21,605 --> 00:47:24,699
I don't take art
as seriously as politics.
1010
00:47:27,244 --> 00:47:30,839
- Rosenbaum: One of the great things
about Welles as a filmmaker
1011
00:47:30,914 --> 00:47:32,882
is him capturing
the periods...
1012
00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:35,748
of whenever
he was making the film,
1013
00:47:35,819 --> 00:47:38,117
the paranoia of what
was going on in America.
1014
00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:40,656
It's really reflected
in "Othello."
1015
00:47:40,724 --> 00:47:42,055
- Orson Welles:
Black Othello, the outsider,
1016
00:47:42,125 --> 00:47:43,114
the mercenary, the foreigner,
1017
00:47:43,193 --> 00:47:45,286
must feel
a certain insecurity
1018
00:47:45,562 --> 00:47:49,054
when he contemplates
this curious conquest of his:
1019
00:47:49,132 --> 00:47:51,532
The senator's daughter
who fled from her palace
1020
00:47:51,602 --> 00:47:53,900
in the dead of night
to marry a black man.
1021
00:47:53,971 --> 00:47:56,940
- Man: It's partly a kind of an
atmosphere and a mood,
1022
00:47:57,007 --> 00:47:59,168
but it's like a horror film.
1023
00:47:59,243 --> 00:48:00,540
- (speaking French)
1024
00:48:07,918 --> 00:48:10,648
- Has he said anything?
- I know not what he...
1025
00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:12,120
- What, what?
1026
00:48:12,189 --> 00:48:14,157
- Lying.
1027
00:48:15,859 --> 00:48:17,622
- Lie with her?
1028
00:48:17,694 --> 00:48:21,562
- With her.
On her.
1029
00:48:21,632 --> 00:48:22,860
What you will.
1030
00:48:24,968 --> 00:48:28,870
- Orson Welles: Came to Mogador on
the west coast of Africa to shoot.
1031
00:48:28,939 --> 00:48:31,066
We got a telegram...
Scalera, with whom I had
1032
00:48:31,141 --> 00:48:32,768
a contract to make
the picture,
1033
00:48:32,843 --> 00:48:33,867
had gone bankrupt.
1034
00:48:33,944 --> 00:48:36,174
We had no costumes,
nothing.
1035
00:48:36,246 --> 00:48:39,738
That was the big scene
of the murder of Rodrigo.
1036
00:48:39,816 --> 00:48:43,013
And what can you shoot
without costumes?
1037
00:48:43,086 --> 00:48:45,111
That's a Turkish bath.
1038
00:48:45,188 --> 00:48:49,648
Nothing was designed,
everything had to be found.
1039
00:48:49,726 --> 00:48:51,023
We had to do it
1040
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:52,254
with whatever money
I could raise
1041
00:48:52,329 --> 00:48:55,093
and stop until
I raised some more.
1042
00:48:55,165 --> 00:48:58,100
Now, that took almost
four years.
1043
00:48:58,168 --> 00:49:00,033
Now, there are still people
today who say,
1044
00:49:00,103 --> 00:49:01,593
"I don't want
to hire Welles as a director,"
1045
00:49:01,672 --> 00:49:04,197
it took him four years
to make 'Othello."'
1046
00:49:05,709 --> 00:49:07,973
- Peter Bogdanovich: "Othello"
was his own production.
1047
00:49:08,312 --> 00:49:11,713
However, there are
various versions of it.
1048
00:49:11,782 --> 00:49:13,147
There's his version,
and then there's a version
1049
00:49:13,216 --> 00:49:14,877
that Beatrice redid.
1050
00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:17,216
- Called some friends
who were in the business,
1051
00:49:17,287 --> 00:49:19,221
the movie business,
and so I said,
1052
00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:21,883
"Where do you think
one could find, you know,
1053
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:25,725
a negative or whatever is
left of 'Othello'?"
1054
00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:27,730
And they ended up
finding it
1055
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:30,289
in some lab
in New Jersey.
1056
00:49:30,367 --> 00:49:32,733
It really was in
perfect condition.
1057
00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:34,395
- They made, I think,
a few mistakes.
1058
00:49:46,216 --> 00:49:47,808
- In June of 1 955,
1059
00:49:47,884 --> 00:49:50,785
he finally got round
to nailing "Moby Dick."
1060
00:49:50,854 --> 00:49:54,312
Of course, he'd appeared
in John Huston's movie of it.
1061
00:49:54,391 --> 00:49:57,656
He staged what he called
"Moby Dick Rehearsed" here.
1062
00:49:57,728 --> 00:50:01,164
It only ran for
three-and-a-half weeks,
1063
00:50:01,231 --> 00:50:03,358
but I think
it's one of the landmarks
1064
00:50:03,433 --> 00:50:05,367
in British theater
of the 1 950s,
1065
00:50:05,435 --> 00:50:07,096
and it's certainly
a great landmark
1066
00:50:07,170 --> 00:50:09,001
in Welles' own life.
1067
00:50:09,072 --> 00:50:10,767
They'd filmed
a little bit of it.
1068
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:12,866
The possibility is that
it was impounded
1069
00:50:12,943 --> 00:50:15,741
by the tax people here,
1070
00:50:15,812 --> 00:50:18,406
that it was lost,
that somebody stole it.
1071
00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:21,708
A very Wellesian episode
altogether.
1072
00:50:21,785 --> 00:50:23,946
- Hands off,
you two are of mankind!
1073
00:50:24,021 --> 00:50:26,683
Old Ahab stands alone
1074
00:50:26,757 --> 00:50:28,952
among the millions
of the peopled Earth,
1075
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:31,460
nor gods nor men
his neighbors.
1076
00:50:31,728 --> 00:50:32,922
Cut, no good.
1077
00:50:36,233 --> 00:50:38,701
- Sir Peter Brook:
Television was the medium
1078
00:50:38,802 --> 00:50:41,737
for great freedom
and experiment.
1079
00:50:41,805 --> 00:50:43,432
We started working.
1080
00:50:43,707 --> 00:50:48,440
Both of us believed
that you don't hang on to any idea,
1081
00:50:48,712 --> 00:50:50,145
but the moment
that you'd had an idea,
1082
00:50:50,213 --> 00:50:51,874
and you begin to try it,
1083
00:50:51,948 --> 00:50:53,916
that leads to you think
of something else.
1084
00:50:53,984 --> 00:50:56,976
And then, as I was doing that,
turn around,
1085
00:50:57,154 --> 00:50:59,486
"Yes, Peter, but what if,
instead of that,
1086
00:50:59,756 --> 00:51:01,018
"we started
with him here,
1087
00:51:01,091 --> 00:51:03,150
and he leapt over
to that point?"
1088
00:51:03,226 --> 00:51:04,784
- Blow winds...
1089
00:51:04,861 --> 00:51:09,093
- Orson suddenly took off
with tremendous passion.
1090
00:51:09,166 --> 00:51:10,155
- Rage... blow...
1091
00:51:12,803 --> 00:51:14,771
You cataracts
and hurricanoes!
1092
00:51:14,838 --> 00:51:16,829
- One thing one can
be sure is that
1093
00:51:16,907 --> 00:51:19,740
there wasn't before him
an Orson,
1094
00:51:19,810 --> 00:51:21,107
and there'll never
be a second.
1095
00:51:21,178 --> 00:51:26,411
- I think I made, essentially,
a mistake in staying in movies,
1096
00:51:26,483 --> 00:51:27,950
because I... but it...
1097
00:51:28,018 --> 00:51:29,747
It's a mistake
I can't regret,
1098
00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:31,913
because it's like saying,
1099
00:51:31,988 --> 00:51:34,081
"I shouldn't have stayed
married to that woman,
1100
00:51:34,157 --> 00:51:35,454
but I did
because I love her."
1101
00:51:37,027 --> 00:51:38,961
- Julie Taymor:
In theater, you're in space,
1102
00:51:39,029 --> 00:51:41,122
and the lighting
can focus
1103
00:51:41,198 --> 00:51:42,961
where you want
the audience to look,
1104
00:51:43,033 --> 00:51:46,264
but, in general, the audience
can look anywhere they want.
1105
00:51:46,336 --> 00:51:48,361
The actual
complete manipulation
1106
00:51:48,438 --> 00:51:50,770
of the image is something
you can do in film.
1107
00:51:55,178 --> 00:51:59,012
- I can't change
this condition of love,
1108
00:51:59,082 --> 00:52:01,414
but I think I would be
better off without it.
1109
00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:05,414
- Orson Welles narrating:
On December 25th,
1110
00:52:05,489 --> 00:52:08,390
an aeroplane was sighted
off the coast of Barcelona.
1111
00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:10,790
It was flying empty.
1112
00:52:10,861 --> 00:52:13,159
This motion picture is
a fictionalized reconstruction
1113
00:52:13,230 --> 00:52:15,061
of the events leading up
1114
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:16,929
to the appearance
of the empty plane.
1115
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:25,333
...was talking to you,
what was it?
1116
00:52:25,408 --> 00:52:27,535
...it was just a name.
He was dying.
1117
00:52:27,811 --> 00:52:29,005
- Man:
What name was it?
1118
00:52:29,079 --> 00:52:30,239
- Arkadin.
1119
00:52:30,313 --> 00:52:34,113
- It's a story about a...
a high financier,
1120
00:52:34,184 --> 00:52:37,017
a man of
many countries
1121
00:52:37,087 --> 00:52:38,247
and three passports.
1122
00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:40,448
In the morning,
I think it's splendid,
1123
00:52:40,524 --> 00:52:42,992
in the evening,
I wonder.
1124
00:52:43,059 --> 00:52:46,051
- Woman: How much obligation
do you feel to a mass audience?
1125
00:52:46,129 --> 00:52:49,462
- I would love to have
a mass audience.
1126
00:52:49,533 --> 00:52:52,229
- I knew what I wanted.
1127
00:52:52,302 --> 00:52:54,293
That's the difference
between us.
1128
00:52:54,371 --> 00:52:58,205
- Did my poverty help
my creativity?
1129
00:52:58,275 --> 00:53:00,004
Uh, no.
1130
00:53:21,631 --> 00:53:24,600
Ladies and gentlemen,
please.
1131
00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:26,995
I must beg you
1132
00:53:27,070 --> 00:53:29,937
not to make
the slightest sound,
1133
00:53:30,006 --> 00:53:33,908
as the princess is in
a state of trance.
1134
00:53:33,977 --> 00:53:35,239
(audience laughter)
1135
00:53:35,312 --> 00:53:37,007
- Orson really,
it seems to me,
1136
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,604
just wants to work.
1137
00:53:38,882 --> 00:53:42,045
But at the same time,
there is something in him
1138
00:53:42,118 --> 00:53:45,952
that drives him to alienate
the people with the money.
1139
00:53:46,022 --> 00:53:48,547
- Excuse me, sir?
1140
00:53:48,625 --> 00:53:51,150
- Yes?
1141
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,594
- Well, I'm a young filmmaker
and a real big fan.
1142
00:53:53,663 --> 00:53:57,190
I... I just wanted
to meet you.
1143
00:53:57,267 --> 00:53:59,394
- My pleasure,
I'm Orson Welles.
1144
00:53:59,469 --> 00:54:02,233
- I'm...
Edward D. Wood, Jr.
1145
00:54:05,075 --> 00:54:07,009
What you working on?
1146
00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:08,942
- Well, the financing
just fell through
1147
00:54:09,012 --> 00:54:10,639
for the third time
on "Don Quixote."
1148
00:54:10,914 --> 00:54:13,405
I hate when that happens.
1149
00:54:13,483 --> 00:54:17,920
- Man: He had just done a picture
for Universal as an actor.
1150
00:54:20,657 --> 00:54:24,991
They asked him to play
the heavy in this thing.
1151
00:54:25,061 --> 00:54:28,121
He needed the money,
so he said okay.
1152
00:54:28,198 --> 00:54:30,291
- I said,
"Who's gonna direct it?"
1153
00:54:30,367 --> 00:54:32,028
And he says, "Well, we haven't
picked a director yet.
1154
00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:34,468
We have Orson Welles
to do the heavy, though."
1155
00:54:34,537 --> 00:54:36,402
This was on
the long-distance phone,
1156
00:54:36,473 --> 00:54:39,533
and after
a static-filled pause,
1157
00:54:39,609 --> 00:54:43,010
I said, "Why don't you
have him direct it?
1158
00:54:43,079 --> 00:54:45,445
He's a pretty good
director, you know."
1159
00:54:45,515 --> 00:54:47,608
And the reaction at first
1160
00:54:47,684 --> 00:54:49,584
was a prolonged silence
as though
1161
00:54:49,653 --> 00:54:52,645
I had suggested that
my mother direct the film.
1162
00:54:52,722 --> 00:54:54,280
- Ed...
1163
00:54:55,425 --> 00:54:56,449
- Yes?
1164
00:54:56,526 --> 00:54:59,051
- Visions are worth
fighting for.
1165
00:54:59,129 --> 00:55:03,623
Why spend your life making
someone else's dreams?
1166
00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:05,395
- I said, "I'll direct it,
1167
00:55:05,468 --> 00:55:07,493
"but if I also
get to write it.
1168
00:55:07,570 --> 00:55:09,629
Every word of it,
an entirely new script."
1169
00:55:09,706 --> 00:55:10,730
They said yes.
1170
00:55:11,007 --> 00:55:12,497
- You won't have
any trouble with me.
1171
00:55:12,575 --> 00:55:15,373
- You bet your sweet life
I won't.
1172
00:55:15,445 --> 00:55:17,970
- Charlton Heston: "Touch of Evil"
is, of course, really
1173
00:55:18,048 --> 00:55:20,346
the story of the decline
and fall of Captain Quinlan,
1174
00:55:20,417 --> 00:55:21,679
Orson's part.
1175
00:55:21,751 --> 00:55:26,245
- Orson Welles: He's everything
we... we hate.
1176
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:29,554
But he isn't what we hate,
it's his method,
1177
00:55:29,626 --> 00:55:32,424
and it's that ambiguity
1178
00:55:32,495 --> 00:55:34,486
which gives tension
to a story.
1179
00:55:37,734 --> 00:55:40,430
They loved the rushes.
1180
00:55:42,439 --> 00:55:45,169
Then they saw
a rough cut of it,
1181
00:55:45,241 --> 00:55:47,175
they were so horrified
that they...
1182
00:55:47,243 --> 00:55:50,576
wouldn't let me
in the studio.
1183
00:55:50,647 --> 00:55:52,274
I gave a dinner party
1184
00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:53,782
not long after
I started the picture
1185
00:55:54,050 --> 00:55:57,508
for all my old producer friends
and big star friends,
1186
00:55:57,587 --> 00:56:00,021
the old
Hollywood brigade.
1187
00:56:00,090 --> 00:56:01,455
I was a little late,
1188
00:56:01,524 --> 00:56:03,287
so they were all there
having their drinks on.
1189
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,624
I came in,
in order to arrive in time
1190
00:56:05,695 --> 00:56:08,562
in my makeup
and costume.
1191
00:56:08,631 --> 00:56:10,292
And they all said,
"How are you, Orson?
1192
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:12,267
You're looking great."
1193
00:56:13,603 --> 00:56:15,798
It was too dark for them,
too strange.
1194
00:56:22,278 --> 00:56:25,304
- Welles had been
fired off the film,
1195
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:27,282
kicked off the lot.
1196
00:56:27,350 --> 00:56:29,545
He wrote
this 58-page memo
1197
00:56:29,619 --> 00:56:32,486
about what should
happen to the movie,
1198
00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:34,546
um, and pretty much,
1199
00:56:34,624 --> 00:56:38,754
Universal at the time
took the memo and tossed it.
1200
00:56:38,828 --> 00:56:41,126
(ticking)
1201
00:56:41,197 --> 00:56:42,221
(woman laughing)
1202
00:56:42,298 --> 00:56:44,357
It's not like with
"Magnificent Ambersons,"
1203
00:56:44,434 --> 00:56:46,299
as if we found
the missing last reel,
1204
00:56:46,369 --> 00:56:49,566
but the film became
more itself.
1205
00:56:49,639 --> 00:56:52,233
Orson,
above everything else,
1206
00:56:52,308 --> 00:56:55,209
was a master filmmaker
and knew exactly
1207
00:56:55,278 --> 00:56:57,246
how to make a film,
1208
00:56:57,313 --> 00:56:59,543
as it turned out,
from beyond the grave.
1209
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,088
In Welles' memo,
1210
00:57:06,156 --> 00:57:08,681
he said two things
about the opening shot.
1211
00:57:08,758 --> 00:57:12,125
He didn't want
titles over it,
1212
00:57:12,195 --> 00:57:14,629
and he wanted
a montage
1213
00:57:14,697 --> 00:57:16,597
of different
music tracks.
1214
00:57:16,666 --> 00:57:21,330
(opening theme merges
with rock-and-roll playing in street)
1215
00:57:21,404 --> 00:57:24,805
At that time, this was
seen as a B-movie.
1216
00:57:24,874 --> 00:57:27,342
It was very rare
that somebody
1217
00:57:27,410 --> 00:57:29,139
would not have titles
1218
00:57:29,212 --> 00:57:31,305
at the beginning
of a film in a B-movie.
1219
00:57:32,682 --> 00:57:34,707
So there they are,
walking through the town,
1220
00:57:34,784 --> 00:57:36,649
and oop,
there's that music,
1221
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:39,688
and there's a car,
and, right now...
1222
00:57:39,756 --> 00:57:42,850
boonk! ...that car
could've blown up.
1223
00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:44,855
Whereas... but if there are
titles over that,
1224
00:57:45,128 --> 00:57:46,823
you just know
it's not gonna blow up.
1225
00:57:46,896 --> 00:57:48,864
So by removing
the titles
1226
00:57:49,132 --> 00:57:51,862
and having this
sort of freeform music,
1227
00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:54,296
it puts a suspense
under this scene
1228
00:57:54,370 --> 00:57:57,635
that didn't
really exist before.
1229
00:57:57,707 --> 00:58:00,232
He'd spent those years
in radio doing
1230
00:58:00,310 --> 00:58:01,675
exactly this kind of stuff.
1231
00:58:01,744 --> 00:58:03,177
We did this in "American Graffiti,"
1232
00:58:03,246 --> 00:58:04,873
which was
the same kind of thing.
1233
00:58:05,148 --> 00:58:07,412
- George Lucas: What we called
"worldization" of the sound,
1234
00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:08,781
which is to make it
sound like it was
1235
00:58:08,852 --> 00:58:11,150
in the environment
in "American Graffiti,"
1236
00:58:11,221 --> 00:58:13,348
and having it pass by in cars
and that sort of thing,
1237
00:58:13,423 --> 00:58:16,688
which Welles had already
thought of in "Touch of Evil."
1238
00:58:16,759 --> 00:58:18,249
I think both
Walter and I were
1239
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:21,422
very charmed by that...
that whole concept.
1240
00:58:21,498 --> 00:58:25,798
He's definitely way ahead
of all the rest of us.
1241
00:58:31,407 --> 00:58:34,308
- Well, Hank was a great
detective all right.
1242
00:58:34,377 --> 00:58:36,845
- And a lousy cop.
1243
00:58:36,913 --> 00:58:38,778
- Is that all you have
to say for him?
1244
00:58:40,250 --> 00:58:42,445
- He was some kind of a man.
1245
00:58:45,655 --> 00:58:48,351
What does it matter
what you say about people?
1246
00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:59,191
- Quinlan: Goodbye, Tana.
1247
00:58:59,269 --> 00:59:00,497
- Adios.
1248
00:59:00,570 --> 00:59:02,401
- Adios.
1249
00:59:03,506 --> 00:59:04,666
Wow, huh?
1250
00:59:04,741 --> 00:59:07,642
You know, Welles didn't even
want to do this movie,
1251
00:59:07,710 --> 00:59:09,644
but you know, sometimes
you do your best work
1252
00:59:09,712 --> 00:59:12,203
when you got a gun
to your head.
1253
00:59:14,217 --> 00:59:17,482
- Orson Welles: I do think working
for posterity is vulgar.
1254
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:21,456
(man speaking French)
1255
00:59:21,524 --> 00:59:24,891
Because posterity is
just as big a whore
1256
00:59:24,961 --> 00:59:26,986
as the present.
1257
00:59:27,263 --> 00:59:31,427
- Filmmakers of today can do what
they do because Orson did it.
1258
00:59:31,501 --> 00:59:32,866
Every art form that I know
1259
00:59:32,936 --> 00:59:34,904
has somebody who
blazed new trails,
1260
00:59:34,971 --> 00:59:36,768
and their influence
starts being felt
1261
00:59:36,839 --> 00:59:38,397
about a generation later.
1262
00:59:38,474 --> 00:59:41,409
- Plato told us that
we should know ourselves,
1263
00:59:41,477 --> 00:59:44,878
and the object
of every artist,
1264
00:59:44,948 --> 00:59:47,280
good, bad or indifferent,
1265
00:59:47,350 --> 00:59:51,411
is a lifelong inquiry
into that subject,
1266
00:59:51,487 --> 00:59:55,423
and his work is
testimony to that effort,
1267
00:59:55,491 --> 00:59:58,460
but I'm in no position
to sum myself up.
1268
00:59:58,528 --> 01:00:00,291
- It's a peculiar thing.
When you have an artist
1269
01:00:00,363 --> 01:00:02,627
who works
so outside the box,
1270
01:00:02,699 --> 01:00:04,724
not everybody gets it
at the time.
1271
01:00:04,801 --> 01:00:08,760
- Do you know that I always
liked Hollywood very much?
1272
01:00:08,838 --> 01:00:10,533
It just wasn't reciprocated.
1273
01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:11,938
(audience laughter)
1274
01:00:31,594 --> 01:00:34,825
- Costa-Gavras:
He freed the directors
1275
01:00:34,897 --> 01:00:37,730
from the kind of static ways
1276
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,030
they used to have
about the way you light,
1277
01:00:40,303 --> 01:00:42,032
about the way
you put your camera,
1278
01:00:42,305 --> 01:00:44,967
the way you have
the setting and so forth,
1279
01:00:45,041 --> 01:00:48,670
and it's very clear
in "The Trial," the Kafka.
1280
01:00:48,745 --> 01:00:50,406
He didn't do really Kafka.
1281
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,573
He did
Orson Welles' Kafka.
1282
01:01:01,324 --> 01:01:03,656
**
1283
01:01:03,726 --> 01:01:05,694
- Orson Welles: I was living in a hotel
on Tuileries,
1284
01:01:05,762 --> 01:01:08,663
pacing up and down in my bedroom,
1285
01:01:08,731 --> 01:01:10,790
Iooking out the window.
1286
01:01:10,867 --> 01:01:12,767
And I'm not such a fool
1287
01:01:12,835 --> 01:01:15,702
as not to take
the moon very seriously,
1288
01:01:15,772 --> 01:01:18,036
and I saw the moon,
very large,
1289
01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:22,402
what we in America call
a harvest moon, enormous.
1290
01:01:22,478 --> 01:01:25,504
And then, miraculously,
two of them.
1291
01:01:25,581 --> 01:01:27,640
And on each moon,
there were numbers,
1292
01:01:27,717 --> 01:01:29,776
and I realized they were
the clock faces
1293
01:01:29,852 --> 01:01:32,116
of the Gare d'Orsay.
1294
01:01:32,388 --> 01:01:35,357
And I remembered that
the Gare d'Orsay was empty.
1295
01:01:35,425 --> 01:01:37,689
And at 5:30 in the morning,
I went downstairs,
1296
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,853
got in a cab,
crossed the Seine,
1297
01:01:39,929 --> 01:01:43,763
and entered this empty
railway station
1298
01:01:43,833 --> 01:01:46,529
where I discovered
the world of Kafka.
1299
01:01:51,607 --> 01:01:55,634
- Orson Welles narrating: It has been
said that the logic of this story
1300
01:01:55,712 --> 01:01:58,408
is the logic of a dream.
1301
01:01:58,481 --> 01:01:59,709
- Come with me, Mr. K.
1302
01:02:17,467 --> 01:02:19,094
- Anthony Perkins:
Orson's view of Josef K.
1303
01:02:19,168 --> 01:02:22,501
was that, far from being
the innocent victim
1304
01:02:22,572 --> 01:02:26,008
of bureaucracy that
Kafka had written that...
1305
01:02:26,075 --> 01:02:28,771
but, in Orson's version,
1306
01:02:28,845 --> 01:02:30,005
and I can hear him saying,
1307
01:02:30,079 --> 01:02:31,410
I can hear
his thundering voice,
1308
01:02:31,481 --> 01:02:32,971
"He's guilty as hell."
1309
01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:36,685
- Costa-Gavras: He would like
to tell a story
1310
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:40,553
to make a metaphor about
his vision of the world,
1311
01:02:40,623 --> 01:02:43,421
speaking about
how we can feel guilty
1312
01:02:43,493 --> 01:02:44,983
without being guilty.
1313
01:02:45,061 --> 01:02:47,689
- You came to see me
about this case, that's good.
1314
01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:53,532
- Orson Welles:
I saw it as a European story,
1315
01:02:53,603 --> 01:02:56,436
full of old European
bric-a-brac,
1316
01:02:56,506 --> 01:03:01,068
with IBM machines
lurking in the background.
1317
01:03:01,144 --> 01:03:03,009
- Costa-Gavras: You think
it's a major movie,
1318
01:03:03,079 --> 01:03:05,547
whatever the critics
said about it.
1319
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:08,978
- There really wasn't
indie filmmaking
1320
01:03:09,051 --> 01:03:10,951
in the '40s, '50s,
1321
01:03:11,020 --> 01:03:12,988
you know, when Welles
was doing it.
1322
01:03:14,123 --> 01:03:15,112
He wasn't happy doing it.
1323
01:03:15,191 --> 01:03:16,453
He had no choice.
1324
01:03:17,527 --> 01:03:19,995
- Orson Welles: There's
a new moment in filmmaking.
1325
01:03:20,062 --> 01:03:22,462
It's not that we're better,
the filmmakers,
1326
01:03:22,532 --> 01:03:24,693
but that
the distribution system
1327
01:03:24,767 --> 01:03:26,029
has broken down a little,
1328
01:03:26,102 --> 01:03:29,936
and the public is
more open, more ready
1329
01:03:30,006 --> 01:03:31,030
for difficult subjects.
1330
01:03:31,107 --> 01:03:32,768
Imagine what
it means for me
1331
01:03:32,842 --> 01:03:34,537
to have had the chance
to make it.
1332
01:03:34,610 --> 01:03:36,771
Indeed, to have had
the chance to work.
1333
01:03:41,984 --> 01:03:44,214
- He was an unbeatable man.
1334
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:45,749
You couldn't, you know, if...
1335
01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:47,255
Something didn't work,
1336
01:03:47,523 --> 01:03:49,821
he said, "Okay,
let's move forward,"
1337
01:03:49,892 --> 01:03:51,519
and he would do
another thing
1338
01:03:51,594 --> 01:03:52,993
and one other thing.
1339
01:03:53,062 --> 01:03:54,962
There was no way
of stopping him.
1340
01:03:57,834 --> 01:04:00,268
I said once to him,
"My God, you looked
1341
01:04:00,536 --> 01:04:01,696
wonderful in 'Jane Eyre."'
1342
01:04:01,771 --> 01:04:03,238
That's the first time
I saw him.
1343
01:04:03,506 --> 01:04:05,269
And he said, "Yeah,
1344
01:04:05,541 --> 01:04:08,840
but you should have seen
the corset I had."
1345
01:04:08,911 --> 01:04:10,879
We are on
the Dalmatian Coast,
1346
01:04:10,947 --> 01:04:13,006
on the Adriatic.
1347
01:04:13,082 --> 01:04:15,676
Down there is
a small place
1348
01:04:15,751 --> 01:04:18,185
called Primosten where
we shot "Dead Reckoning,"
1349
01:04:18,254 --> 01:04:20,586
later entitled "The Deep,"
1350
01:04:20,656 --> 01:04:22,180
with Lawrence Harvey,
Jeanne Moreau,
1351
01:04:22,258 --> 01:04:23,885
Orson Welles, myself.
1352
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:24,984
Jeanne Moreau.
1353
01:04:25,061 --> 01:04:27,052
I was pretty girl
when I was young.
1354
01:04:27,129 --> 01:04:29,893
No woman ever looked
at me like this.
1355
01:04:29,966 --> 01:04:32,799
He said, "Jeanne,
I don't want to...
1356
01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:35,201
"I don't want to be rude,
but you're not the age
1357
01:04:35,271 --> 01:04:37,239
of playing
a young bride."
1358
01:04:37,306 --> 01:04:39,536
Look, I don't care
what these people are
1359
01:04:39,609 --> 01:04:41,042
going to think of me.
1360
01:04:41,110 --> 01:04:42,577
I'm not in
the movie business,
1361
01:04:42,645 --> 01:04:45,079
I'm 72 years old,
I want to have a farm,
1362
01:04:45,147 --> 01:04:46,842
I dream of chickens,
literally,
1363
01:04:46,916 --> 01:04:49,043
and have a donkey
and a dog and so on,
1364
01:04:49,118 --> 01:04:51,985
so I'm going to tell anything
that comes into my mind.
1365
01:04:52,054 --> 01:04:56,115
I was in the elevator,
and Polanski stepped in,
1366
01:04:56,192 --> 01:04:58,092
and he said to me,
"You know,
1367
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:00,822
"I was thinking
of using Orson,
1368
01:05:00,897 --> 01:05:03,331
"but I hear that
1369
01:05:03,599 --> 01:05:08,127
"he's late on the set,
that he's difficult.
1370
01:05:08,204 --> 01:05:10,172
I'm not very sure."
1371
01:05:10,239 --> 01:05:11,866
I said,
"If you are not sure,
1372
01:05:11,941 --> 01:05:13,238
don't engage him."
1373
01:05:13,309 --> 01:05:16,801
He would have been
the happiest man in the world
1374
01:05:16,879 --> 01:05:19,871
if Geraldine,
whatever her name is,
1375
01:05:19,949 --> 01:05:21,576
came and said, "Orson,
1376
01:05:21,651 --> 01:05:23,642
this is your son,"
you know?
1377
01:05:23,719 --> 01:05:26,085
I hear that the guy is
very good-looking
1378
01:05:26,155 --> 01:05:28,248
on top of everything,
it would be wonderful.
1379
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:32,222
They were showing
"Magnificent Ambersons"
1380
01:05:32,295 --> 01:05:33,922
in the middle
of the night.
1381
01:05:33,996 --> 01:05:36,021
I see the light,
1382
01:05:36,098 --> 01:05:38,259
I go to the living room,
1383
01:05:38,334 --> 01:05:40,165
and, just before
I open the door,
1384
01:05:40,236 --> 01:05:43,103
I see his reflection
in the mirror,
1385
01:05:43,172 --> 01:05:45,936
and I see him crying.
1386
01:05:46,008 --> 01:05:48,203
And I don't
open the door.
1387
01:05:49,645 --> 01:05:51,977
What's the use to cry?
I do cry enough for Orson.
1388
01:05:52,048 --> 01:05:54,710
I cry...
Too often.
1389
01:06:00,056 --> 01:06:02,786
But I also smile,
1390
01:06:02,858 --> 01:06:07,192
because I'm so happy
that I have known him.
1391
01:06:08,898 --> 01:06:11,230
- Orson Welles: I think man
is a crazy animal.
1392
01:06:11,300 --> 01:06:13,734
(audience applause)
1393
01:06:13,803 --> 01:06:15,202
I think we are also...
1394
01:06:15,271 --> 01:06:17,364
I think we're also
marvelous people,
1395
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:20,837
divine in our potentialities.
1396
01:06:20,910 --> 01:06:21,968
(applause)
1397
01:06:22,044 --> 01:06:23,341
You see, there you are.
1398
01:06:23,412 --> 01:06:25,243
You can say anything
with passion and get a hand.
1399
01:06:25,314 --> 01:06:26,747
(audience laughter)
1400
01:06:32,054 --> 01:06:35,182
If you're going to try
to finance movies and live,
1401
01:06:35,257 --> 01:06:37,384
you have to earn
your money somehow.
1402
01:06:39,662 --> 01:06:41,960
Is there any man with
a decent regard for human life
1403
01:06:42,031 --> 01:06:43,328
and the slightest bit of heart
1404
01:06:43,399 --> 01:06:48,029
who doesn't understand it?
1405
01:06:48,104 --> 01:06:50,937
I would have sold my soul
to play the Godfather,
1406
01:06:51,007 --> 01:06:54,238
but I never get
those parts offered to me.
1407
01:06:56,746 --> 01:06:58,805
20 million years ago,
1408
01:06:58,881 --> 01:07:02,408
an ape-like creature
inhabited the Earth.
1409
01:07:04,787 --> 01:07:07,017
I'm a king actor,
maybe a bad one.
1410
01:07:07,089 --> 01:07:09,023
They weren't
necessarily the best actor,
1411
01:07:09,091 --> 01:07:11,150
they were the actor
who played the king.
1412
01:07:11,227 --> 01:07:13,252
- Aah!
- Aah!
1413
01:07:13,329 --> 01:07:16,389
- Mike Nichols knows
how to deal with actors.
1414
01:07:16,465 --> 01:07:18,365
Orson would
turn to Mike,
1415
01:07:18,434 --> 01:07:20,231
as, I guess, he did
to every director
1416
01:07:20,302 --> 01:07:22,202
and say things like,
1417
01:07:22,271 --> 01:07:24,000
"You're really gonna
do that shot
1418
01:07:24,073 --> 01:07:25,973
when you know
you're not gonna need it?"
1419
01:07:26,042 --> 01:07:29,205
- Knucklehead fool!
1420
01:07:29,278 --> 01:07:30,905
You empty-headed yokel!
1421
01:07:32,481 --> 01:07:33,914
- Richard Benjamin: You say,
"My God, I'm in a scene
1422
01:07:33,983 --> 01:07:35,712
"with Orson Welles,
there's an actual
1423
01:07:35,785 --> 01:07:37,218
"piece of film in my life
1424
01:07:37,286 --> 01:07:39,277
that has
Orson Welles in it."
1425
01:07:39,455 --> 01:07:41,480
- I don't want the men
to pay any attention to me,
1426
01:07:41,757 --> 01:07:43,384
just carry on
as usual.
1427
01:07:43,459 --> 01:07:45,086
- Don't pay
any attention to Dad,
1428
01:07:45,161 --> 01:07:46,185
just carry on as usual.
1429
01:07:46,262 --> 01:07:47,320
- Will you clam up?
1430
01:07:47,396 --> 01:07:49,455
- Orson Welles character:
Money, money, money.
1431
01:07:49,732 --> 01:07:51,495
I never concern myself
with this madness.
1432
01:07:53,335 --> 01:07:55,496
- Elvis Mitchell: There's this complete
sort of self-knowledge
1433
01:07:55,771 --> 01:07:58,069
and almost the arrogance
of an athlete, like,
1434
01:07:58,140 --> 01:08:01,007
the ownership of
his body on camera
1435
01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:03,511
before he got to be, you know,
the size of a Buick.
1436
01:08:03,779 --> 01:08:06,976
- My salads are...
a bit complicated.
1437
01:08:07,049 --> 01:08:09,142
- But he would just
slice through.
1438
01:08:09,218 --> 01:08:10,207
- Dinner, ho, dinner!
1439
01:08:12,455 --> 01:08:14,013
Would you take
this away, please,
1440
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:15,751
and... and bring me
1441
01:08:15,825 --> 01:08:17,486
the steak au poivre,
thanks a lot.
1442
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,456
- When I watched
Orson Welles eat,
1443
01:08:20,529 --> 01:08:22,326
it was like...
1444
01:08:22,398 --> 01:08:24,798
somebody making love
to the food.
1445
01:08:24,867 --> 01:08:26,391
He really
loved to eat,
1446
01:08:27,269 --> 01:08:29,169
and you could see,
his eyes lit up.
1447
01:08:29,238 --> 01:08:31,138
When he put
that forkful in,
1448
01:08:31,207 --> 01:08:34,040
and his whole face was
like a sunshine.
1449
01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:35,372
- You think he'd
remember the lunch.
1450
01:08:35,444 --> 01:08:38,845
There was
a marvelous mousse.
1451
01:08:38,914 --> 01:08:41,906
Got any donuts
or sweet rolls?
1452
01:08:41,984 --> 01:08:44,282
- And he could
describe every dish,
1453
01:08:44,353 --> 01:08:45,547
the way it tasted.
1454
01:08:45,821 --> 01:08:47,482
- Welles: Schwartzwalder torte...
1455
01:08:47,556 --> 01:08:49,023
Kugel...
1456
01:08:49,091 --> 01:08:51,992
(continues in German)
1457
01:08:52,061 --> 01:08:53,289
Cafe creme torte.
1458
01:08:53,362 --> 01:08:55,455
- Obviously, when you looked at him
and said, you know,
1459
01:08:55,531 --> 01:08:57,829
this is not a guy
who is on a diet.
1460
01:08:57,900 --> 01:09:00,494
- Welles: (continues in German)
1461
01:09:00,569 --> 01:09:01,968
...und Sachertorte.
1462
01:09:02,037 --> 01:09:04,403
How sweet it was.
1463
01:09:04,473 --> 01:09:08,432
- Even when he lost some idea
of himself physically...
1464
01:09:08,511 --> 01:09:10,979
- Overweight, me?
1465
01:09:11,046 --> 01:09:13,412
- The words still had
the same kind of precision
1466
01:09:13,482 --> 01:09:14,540
that his body once had.
1467
01:09:14,817 --> 01:09:17,411
- More...
1468
01:09:17,486 --> 01:09:19,454
Are you going to help me?
1469
01:09:22,591 --> 01:09:25,583
Have I your support,
or have I not?
1470
01:09:25,861 --> 01:09:28,091
- No, Your Grace.
1471
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,098
I'm not going to help you.
1472
01:09:32,935 --> 01:09:36,427
- Then good night,
Master More.
1473
01:09:42,611 --> 01:09:44,238
- Simon Callow: You have to wait
quite a long time
1474
01:09:44,313 --> 01:09:46,281
before Welles makes
his masterpiece,
1475
01:09:46,348 --> 01:09:48,976
which in my view and the view
of many other people
1476
01:09:49,051 --> 01:09:52,020
is Falstaff,
the "Chimes at Midnight,"
1477
01:09:52,087 --> 01:09:54,282
which is, to me,
one of the great,
1478
01:09:54,356 --> 01:09:57,223
great achievements of filmmaking
in the 20th century.
1479
01:09:57,293 --> 01:10:00,854
- Falstaff!
Good night.
1480
01:10:00,930 --> 01:10:04,593
- Now comes in the sweetest
morsel of the night.
1481
01:10:04,867 --> 01:10:06,095
And we must dance.
1482
01:10:07,102 --> 01:10:09,366
- Joseph McBride: I saw it three times
in a row in one night
1483
01:10:09,438 --> 01:10:11,872
because I thought
I might never see it again,
1484
01:10:11,941 --> 01:10:14,466
so you had intellectuals
from the University of Chicago
1485
01:10:14,543 --> 01:10:15,942
and you had winos
off the street,
1486
01:10:16,011 --> 01:10:18,036
and they all loved the film.
1487
01:10:18,113 --> 01:10:19,978
- This chair shall be the state
1488
01:10:20,049 --> 01:10:22,210
and this cushion... my crown.
1489
01:10:22,284 --> 01:10:24,616
(laughter)
1490
01:10:29,525 --> 01:10:32,153
- Simon Callow: Welles had, by now,
mastered the art
1491
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:34,162
of making independent films,
1492
01:10:34,230 --> 01:10:36,664
and making them in the way
that he wanted to make them
1493
01:10:36,932 --> 01:10:38,524
in this kind of
improvised way.
1494
01:10:40,269 --> 01:10:41,930
Although he had a script,
of course, for it,
1495
01:10:42,004 --> 01:10:44,302
but he didn't stick
very closely to the script.
1496
01:10:44,373 --> 01:10:46,568
Unless, of course,
it was Shakespeare's words.
1497
01:10:46,642 --> 01:10:50,203
- What is honor? Air.
1498
01:10:50,279 --> 01:10:52,440
A trim reckoning!
Who hath it?
1499
01:10:52,514 --> 01:10:55,642
He that died o' Wednesday.
Doth he feel it? No.
1500
01:10:55,918 --> 01:10:57,510
'Tis insensible then?
Yea, to the dead.
1501
01:10:57,586 --> 01:10:59,986
But will it not live
with the living?
1502
01:11:00,055 --> 01:11:01,579
No. Why?
1503
01:11:01,657 --> 01:11:03,181
Detraction will not suffer it.
1504
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:04,920
Therefore, I'll none of it.
1505
01:11:14,637 --> 01:11:16,229
(loud crash)
1506
01:11:16,305 --> 01:11:19,035
(screaming, yelling)
1507
01:11:35,391 --> 01:11:38,121
- Orson Welles: Violence always
has been part of our story.
1508
01:11:38,193 --> 01:11:40,058
It is, you know,
I've seen it
1509
01:11:40,129 --> 01:11:42,597
in my own lifetime
long before this period,
1510
01:11:42,665 --> 01:11:45,566
and we certainly
read about it in history.
1511
01:11:45,634 --> 01:11:48,569
That's the way we won the
country and stole it away
1512
01:11:48,637 --> 01:11:50,605
from the Indians
and all the rest of it.
1513
01:11:50,673 --> 01:11:55,440
(screaming, yelling)
1514
01:11:58,247 --> 01:12:00,681
- Welles: If I wanted to, uh,
to get into heaven
1515
01:12:00,749 --> 01:12:03,343
on the basis of one movie,
1516
01:12:03,419 --> 01:12:05,512
that's the one
I would offer up,
1517
01:12:05,587 --> 01:12:09,250
because it is, to me,
the least flawed.
1518
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:10,451
Let me put it that way.
1519
01:12:10,526 --> 01:12:13,689
- I banish thee,
on pain of death,
1520
01:12:13,762 --> 01:12:17,220
as I have done the rest
for my misleaders,
1521
01:12:17,299 --> 01:12:22,760
not to come near our person
by 10 mile.
1522
01:12:23,038 --> 01:12:24,369
- Simon Callow:
"Chimes at Midnight" is true,
1523
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:26,271
through and through and through,
1524
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:28,435
and is profound
and is moving
1525
01:12:28,510 --> 01:12:31,104
and contains an absolute essence
of Shakespeare
1526
01:12:31,180 --> 01:12:35,082
and an absolute essence
of Orson Welles.
1527
01:12:36,418 --> 01:12:38,113
- Falstaff?
1528
01:12:38,187 --> 01:12:41,520
- Falstaff is dead.
1529
01:12:55,571 --> 01:12:59,405
- Simon Callow:
It's human to the core.
1530
01:12:59,475 --> 01:13:03,707
- Jesus, the days
that we have seen.
1531
01:13:10,386 --> 01:13:11,683
- Stefan Drossler:
The Munich Film Museum
1532
01:13:11,754 --> 01:13:15,554
is part of the municipal museum.
1533
01:13:15,624 --> 01:13:18,491
We are very much caring
1534
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:21,552
to keep the legacy
of Orson Welles.
1535
01:13:22,831 --> 01:13:25,595
All the material Orson had
1536
01:13:25,667 --> 01:13:27,430
was shipped to Munich.
1537
01:13:30,839 --> 01:13:32,830
- Sometimes I try to imagine
1538
01:13:33,108 --> 01:13:37,272
Orson having different bedrooms
in different motels and hotels,
1539
01:13:37,346 --> 01:13:40,713
and the doors to this room,
bedroom is locked,
1540
01:13:40,783 --> 01:13:43,809
and under the bed
are hidden,
1541
01:13:44,086 --> 01:13:46,680
you know,
boxes and boxes of film.
1542
01:13:46,755 --> 01:13:48,245
Who knows?
1543
01:13:50,092 --> 01:13:53,528
- Stefan Drossler: Some believe
these films look more amateurish
1544
01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:56,189
because they are not really
Hollywood productions.
1545
01:13:56,265 --> 01:13:58,460
Many others
see him as a hero
1546
01:13:58,534 --> 01:14:01,128
of the independent filmmaker.
1547
01:14:01,203 --> 01:14:03,763
The problem is only that, uh,
1548
01:14:03,839 --> 01:14:06,239
few of these films were
really finished,
1549
01:14:06,308 --> 01:14:10,438
that he still was working
and working and working on them.
1550
01:14:10,512 --> 01:14:11,877
- Pellegrina's dead.
1551
01:14:12,147 --> 01:14:15,378
Even the servants think so.
1552
01:14:15,451 --> 01:14:18,284
I had no chance
to say good-bye.
1553
01:14:18,353 --> 01:14:20,617
Will you do that for me?
1554
01:14:20,689 --> 01:14:24,386
- Everybody who is
an intellectual artist
1555
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:26,724
starts on many things
1556
01:14:26,795 --> 01:14:29,286
and sometimes
doesn't complete them.
1557
01:14:29,364 --> 01:14:32,492
- Since it's my own little picture
and I put my own money on it,
1558
01:14:32,568 --> 01:14:35,162
I don't know why
they don't bug authors
1559
01:14:35,237 --> 01:14:37,398
and say, "When are
you gonna finish 'Nelly, '
1560
01:14:37,473 --> 01:14:39,703
that novel you started
10 years ago?"
1561
01:14:39,775 --> 01:14:42,437
- If the wolf is
not really at the door,
1562
01:14:42,511 --> 01:14:45,480
it's a big temptation to say,
"Well, this isn't...
1563
01:14:45,547 --> 01:14:48,380
this isn't my best,
I'm gonna put it away."
1564
01:14:48,450 --> 01:14:49,849
- Orson Welles narrating:
A newly-wedded couple
1565
01:14:49,918 --> 01:14:51,749
are here on their small yacht
1566
01:14:51,820 --> 01:14:54,448
cruising up
the west coast of Africa
1567
01:14:54,523 --> 01:14:56,582
on their way
to the Mediterranean.
1568
01:14:56,658 --> 01:14:58,250
Out in these waters,
1569
01:14:58,327 --> 01:15:01,194
they might expect
to be very much alone,
1570
01:15:01,263 --> 01:15:03,629
but there's someone else
out there.
1571
01:15:06,235 --> 01:15:10,501
- He said once, I'm not going to
call Don Quixote "Don Quixote."
1572
01:15:10,572 --> 01:15:13,541
I'm going to call it "When Are You
Going to Finish Don Quixote?"
1573
01:15:17,412 --> 01:15:19,710
- Stanley Kubrick had projects
that he never completed.
1574
01:15:19,781 --> 01:15:22,875
The difference is, Welles
actually got footage in the can,
1575
01:15:22,951 --> 01:15:24,782
as opposed to a number
of projects by people
1576
01:15:24,853 --> 01:15:28,516
in much better financial position
or industry position,
1577
01:15:28,590 --> 01:15:30,683
never even getting them
off the ground.
1578
01:15:30,759 --> 01:15:33,523
- Man: Are you happy
when it's all done and cut
1579
01:15:33,595 --> 01:15:36,291
and goes out to be printed
and into the movie houses?
1580
01:15:36,365 --> 01:15:38,230
- No.
1581
01:15:38,300 --> 01:15:40,768
No, because you always hope
you can make it better.
1582
01:15:40,836 --> 01:15:42,861
- James Naremore:
I don't think it's a...
1583
01:15:42,938 --> 01:15:44,963
at all any failure
to want to finish
1584
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:46,867
or be a fear of finishing
or whatever.
1585
01:15:46,942 --> 01:15:48,807
That sounds like some kind of
bizarre sexual malady.
1586
01:15:51,413 --> 01:15:53,381
- Eric Sherman: I don't know
why he didn't finish it,
1587
01:15:53,448 --> 01:15:55,575
and I never asked him.
1588
01:15:55,651 --> 01:15:57,983
But we have an unbelievable
body of work,
1589
01:15:58,253 --> 01:16:00,585
including the greatest
film on Shakespeare:
1590
01:16:00,656 --> 01:16:02,851
"Falstaff," "Chimes at Midnight,"
1591
01:16:02,925 --> 01:16:05,689
the short color film
"lmmortal Story,"
1592
01:16:05,761 --> 01:16:07,661
one of the most
brilliantly shot films ever.
1593
01:16:09,765 --> 01:16:13,292
Film after film
was phenomenal.
1594
01:16:34,256 --> 01:16:36,588
- Henry Jaglom: The studios had
lost interest in him,
1595
01:16:36,658 --> 01:16:39,855
and he could put together his
projects in a more European way,
1596
01:16:39,928 --> 01:16:43,420
financially, getting bits
of money from here and there.
1597
01:16:43,498 --> 01:16:46,626
So it was comfortable for him to
be in Europe during that time.
1598
01:16:48,804 --> 01:16:51,796
- Orson Welles: The way I figure is
that you've only got so much luck,
1599
01:16:51,873 --> 01:16:54,535
and it doesn't matter
when it happens,
1600
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:56,703
and I was incredibly lucky.
1601
01:17:04,386 --> 01:17:05,375
- Salud.
1602
01:17:05,454 --> 01:17:07,922
(crowd cheering, music playing)
1603
01:17:07,990 --> 01:17:09,480
- So the central figure
in this story
1604
01:17:09,558 --> 01:17:10,718
is the fellow with,
you know,
1605
01:17:10,792 --> 01:17:11,986
who can hardly
see through
1606
01:17:12,060 --> 01:17:13,789
the bush of the hair
on his chest.
1607
01:17:13,862 --> 01:17:14,954
(laughter)
1608
01:17:15,030 --> 01:17:16,998
- Reporters:
Mr. Welles! Mr. Welles, please!
1609
01:17:17,065 --> 01:17:18,828
(man speaking French)
1610
01:17:18,900 --> 01:17:20,492
Thank you!
1611
01:17:20,569 --> 01:17:23,402
- Oh, I'm going to go on
being faithful to my girl.
1612
01:17:23,472 --> 01:17:24,530
I love her.
1613
01:17:24,606 --> 01:17:29,703
(woman speaking French)
1614
01:17:29,778 --> 01:17:32,406
In school,
you should be making movies.
1615
01:17:32,481 --> 01:17:33,914
(man translating into French)
1616
01:17:33,982 --> 01:17:36,644
Not letting the professor
tell you about
1617
01:17:36,718 --> 01:17:38,811
Eisenstein
and D.W. Griffith.
1618
01:17:38,887 --> 01:17:40,912
(man translating into French)
1619
01:17:50,899 --> 01:17:52,764
- 'Cause up to that time,
it was the seamless film,
1620
01:17:52,834 --> 01:17:54,927
in a way, um,
the hidden camera.
1621
01:17:55,003 --> 01:17:57,699
The obtr... the camera that you
couldn't tell was there.
1622
01:17:57,773 --> 01:18:00,367
So Welles was the one
to really break open,
1623
01:18:00,442 --> 01:18:02,103
open up the Pandora's box.
1624
01:18:02,377 --> 01:18:06,541
In a funny way, I guess, picking
up where silent films left off.
1625
01:18:10,652 --> 01:18:13,450
- Every single...
1626
01:18:13,522 --> 01:18:15,547
not just every scene,
1627
01:18:15,624 --> 01:18:18,388
but every shot has an idea.
1628
01:18:18,460 --> 01:18:20,394
There's a concept
1629
01:18:20,462 --> 01:18:24,364
and an idea being
executed at every second.
1630
01:18:29,004 --> 01:18:31,564
- Welles stands kind of
above everybody's work.
1631
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:34,473
I think every filmmaker
has some relation with Welles,
1632
01:18:34,543 --> 01:18:38,138
if nothing else, you know,
he created the air we breathe
1633
01:18:38,413 --> 01:18:40,438
in that regard, you know?
1634
01:18:40,515 --> 01:18:42,676
He's sort of the patron saint
of indie filmmakers.
1635
01:18:48,957 --> 01:18:50,151
- Elvis Mitchell:
So much of what he did
1636
01:18:50,425 --> 01:18:51,414
came with quotation marks around it.
1637
01:18:51,493 --> 01:18:52,892
Postmodern.
1638
01:18:52,961 --> 01:18:55,623
And I think about just
the beginning of "F for Fake."
1639
01:18:55,697 --> 01:18:58,689
It's just all about saying,
"This is what you're seeing
1640
01:18:58,767 --> 01:19:01,702
"and this is what I'm doing,
and this is what you're seeing,
1641
01:19:01,770 --> 01:19:02,998
but this is what I'm doing."
1642
01:19:03,071 --> 01:19:06,768
That sort of
mirror-on-a-mirror effect.
1643
01:19:09,010 --> 01:19:11,501
- Orson Welles: It was a pretty great
experience to start making
1644
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:14,140
yet another movie
with a storyline
1645
01:19:14,416 --> 01:19:16,407
rotten with coincidence.
1646
01:19:16,485 --> 01:19:20,581
For instance, that the author
of "Fake," a book about a faker,
1647
01:19:20,655 --> 01:19:23,089
was himself a faker
and the author of a fake
1648
01:19:23,158 --> 01:19:25,956
to end all fakes.
1649
01:19:26,027 --> 01:19:28,689
During the next hour,
everything you'll hear from us
1650
01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:31,699
is really true
and based on solid facts.
1651
01:19:31,767 --> 01:19:35,601
- Walter Murch: Not only are we
aware of the edits as they go by,
1652
01:19:35,670 --> 01:19:39,128
but he's showing the editing
process at the same time.
1653
01:19:39,207 --> 01:19:43,871
It's like watching
a talented juggler do his job.
1654
01:19:43,945 --> 01:19:46,641
- This is a film
about trickery.
1655
01:19:46,715 --> 01:19:48,842
Fraud.
1656
01:19:48,917 --> 01:19:51,215
About lies.
1657
01:19:51,486 --> 01:19:53,454
Tell it by the fireside
1658
01:19:53,522 --> 01:19:55,615
or in a marketplace
or in a movie.
1659
01:19:59,060 --> 01:20:03,497
- Walter Murch: Editing is cinema
in a certain sense.
1660
01:20:03,565 --> 01:20:06,056
Because everything
is broken into bits,
1661
01:20:06,134 --> 01:20:08,694
you can have a great deal
of invention.
1662
01:20:12,974 --> 01:20:16,239
- Orson Welles:
I did promise that for one hour,
1663
01:20:16,511 --> 01:20:18,240
I'd tell you only the truth.
1664
01:20:18,513 --> 01:20:21,209
That hour,
ladies and gentlemen, is over.
1665
01:20:21,483 --> 01:20:25,044
For the past 1 7 minutes,
I've been lying my head off.
1666
01:20:30,525 --> 01:20:34,825
- Elvis Mitchell: That kind of
self-awareness is great for art.
1667
01:20:35,897 --> 01:20:38,764
He's part of that movement
that includes Picasso
1668
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:40,699
and Duke Ellington,
all those artists
1669
01:20:40,769 --> 01:20:44,261
who were aware in a way that
artists had not been before.
1670
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:47,706
- Orson Welles:
Our works are spared,
1671
01:20:47,776 --> 01:20:49,869
some of them
for a few decades,
1672
01:20:49,945 --> 01:20:52,038
or a millennium or two.
1673
01:20:52,113 --> 01:20:54,741
The treasures.
And the fakes.
1674
01:20:56,585 --> 01:20:58,815
Our songs.
1675
01:20:58,887 --> 01:21:04,291
Our songs
will all be silenced.
1676
01:21:04,559 --> 01:21:06,754
But what of it?
1677
01:21:06,828 --> 01:21:09,262
Go on singing.
1678
01:21:17,839 --> 01:21:20,933
- Wow, how are you?
1679
01:21:21,009 --> 01:21:22,909
Orson Welles,
ladies and gentlemen.
1680
01:21:22,978 --> 01:21:24,809
(cheering and applause)
1681
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:26,575
- Thank you.
1682
01:21:26,648 --> 01:21:28,809
Thank you very much.
1683
01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:30,215
- I...
- Thank you.
1684
01:21:30,285 --> 01:21:31,752
Thank you all very much.
1685
01:21:31,820 --> 01:21:33,685
- I don't believe this,
this is...
1686
01:21:33,755 --> 01:21:34,915
- Who is that?
- That's the, uh,
1687
01:21:34,990 --> 01:21:35,979
That's our director,
Mr. Welles.
1688
01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:37,581
- That... is a director?
- Yeah.
1689
01:21:37,659 --> 01:21:39,991
(laughter)
1690
01:21:40,061 --> 01:21:41,995
- Heh heh.
What?
1691
01:21:42,063 --> 01:21:43,690
I'm on my mark.
1692
01:21:43,765 --> 01:21:44,993
(laughter)
1693
01:21:45,066 --> 01:21:47,830
Yes, always.
1694
01:21:47,903 --> 01:21:49,165
Move your camera.
1695
01:21:49,237 --> 01:21:52,001
(zany music)
1696
01:21:52,073 --> 01:21:54,598
(cheering and applause)
1697
01:22:00,815 --> 01:22:03,750
- He came back in the late '60s.
1698
01:22:03,818 --> 01:22:06,252
Films were beginning to be made
in a different kind of a way.
1699
01:22:06,321 --> 01:22:08,221
- The money guys didn't trust him,
1700
01:22:08,290 --> 01:22:11,225
and they had good reason
not to trust him.
1701
01:22:11,293 --> 01:22:14,922
It doesn't matter
how great the material is.
1702
01:22:14,996 --> 01:22:17,362
Ultimately, it has to...
1703
01:22:17,632 --> 01:22:20,897
It has to pay off
for somebody.
1704
01:22:20,969 --> 01:22:24,234
- We will sell no wine
before its time.
1705
01:22:26,007 --> 01:22:29,101
- Orson Welles: We know a little place
in the American far west
1706
01:22:29,177 --> 01:22:34,012
where Charlie Briggs chops up
the finest prairie-fed beef and takes...
1707
01:22:34,082 --> 01:22:36,209
This is a lot of shit,
you know this?
1708
01:22:36,284 --> 01:22:39,014
Come on, fellas,
you're losing your heads.
1709
01:22:40,655 --> 01:22:42,054
- Henry Jaglom:
They all wanted to meet him,
1710
01:22:42,123 --> 01:22:43,750
they all wanted
to have lunch with him,
1711
01:22:43,825 --> 01:22:45,292
they all celebrated him.
1712
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:46,827
And then somehow, you know,
1713
01:22:46,895 --> 01:22:48,863
this man is not gonna
be predictable.
1714
01:22:48,930 --> 01:22:51,626
Here's a scene
from one film
1715
01:22:51,700 --> 01:22:52,997
that Orson is just finishing,
1716
01:22:53,068 --> 01:22:55,696
called "The Other Side of the Wind."
1717
01:22:55,770 --> 01:22:57,237
I must say,
it's a fascinating scene.
1718
01:22:57,305 --> 01:22:58,772
It's about a celebration
1719
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:04,278
in honor of a famous movie
director who is not Orson.
1720
01:23:04,346 --> 01:23:06,075
- Paul Mazursky:
I get a phone call.
1721
01:23:06,147 --> 01:23:08,843
"Orson wants you
to do his picture."
1722
01:23:08,917 --> 01:23:10,646
I said, "Orson Welles?
I don't know Orson Welles.
1723
01:23:10,719 --> 01:23:11,981
"He doesn't know me.
1724
01:23:12,087 --> 01:23:14,180
"I mean, I know
'Citizen Kane' is the...
1725
01:23:14,255 --> 01:23:17,190
"probably the best picture
ever made, but why is...
1726
01:23:17,258 --> 01:23:18,953
Are you fucking around with me?"
1727
01:23:22,197 --> 01:23:23,425
(knocking on table)
1728
01:23:23,698 --> 01:23:24,892
I knocked at the door,
1729
01:23:24,966 --> 01:23:28,959
and I figure some lackey
is gonna open the door.
1730
01:23:29,037 --> 01:23:31,369
The door opens and it's...
1731
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:33,771
"Oh ho ho!
Oh ho ho ho ho!"
1732
01:23:33,842 --> 01:23:34,831
(laughter)
1733
01:23:34,909 --> 01:23:37,776
"Oh ho ho!
Ah ha ha ha ha.
1734
01:23:37,846 --> 01:23:40,713
"Paul Mazursky, come on in!
1735
01:23:40,782 --> 01:23:44,309
I'm making a film called
'The Other Side of the Wind."'
1736
01:23:44,386 --> 01:23:46,217
- Orson Welles: We're going to shoot it
without a script.
1737
01:23:46,287 --> 01:23:47,982
- Man: Without a script?
1738
01:23:48,056 --> 01:23:50,957
- We're gonna make the picture
as though it were a documentary.
1739
01:23:51,026 --> 01:23:53,085
The actors are
going to be improvising.
1740
01:23:53,161 --> 01:23:57,325
- He started in 1 970 and he worked
on it through his passing in '85.
1741
01:23:57,399 --> 01:24:01,130
I never saw Orson sleep.
1742
01:24:01,202 --> 01:24:03,397
- It was a stop-and-start
situation.
1743
01:24:03,471 --> 01:24:06,804
It seemed to me that every time
Orson got a little bit of money,
1744
01:24:06,875 --> 01:24:09,810
he would bring the cast back
and start shooting again.
1745
01:24:09,878 --> 01:24:12,142
- I'm still confused about
1746
01:24:12,213 --> 01:24:15,273
the area of the magician,
as director.
1747
01:24:15,350 --> 01:24:17,841
- This is crap!
This is intellectual bullshit!
1748
01:24:17,919 --> 01:24:19,944
- Orson Welles:
When I tell you that my partner
1749
01:24:20,021 --> 01:24:23,320
is the brother-in-law
of the late Shah of Iran,
1750
01:24:23,391 --> 01:24:25,154
you will understand
why we're having
1751
01:24:25,226 --> 01:24:26,887
a little legal difficulty.
1752
01:24:26,961 --> 01:24:28,895
- He owes me $25.
1753
01:24:28,963 --> 01:24:31,830
- Frank Marshall:
I sort of felt that we would just
1754
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:33,891
keep making the movie
until he died.
1755
01:24:36,204 --> 01:24:38,365
(cheering and applause)
1756
01:24:38,440 --> 01:24:42,069
- Let us raise
our cups, then,
1757
01:24:42,143 --> 01:24:47,410
standing as some of us do
on opposite ends of the river,
1758
01:24:47,482 --> 01:24:52,351
and drink together, to what
really matters to us all...
1759
01:24:52,420 --> 01:24:56,356
to our crazy
and beloved profession.
1760
01:24:56,424 --> 01:25:02,795
To the movies, to good movies,
to every possible kind.
1761
01:25:02,864 --> 01:25:05,298
- Peter Bogdanovich: There is
this terrible consolation of being
1762
01:25:05,366 --> 01:25:07,129
40 years ahead of your time.
1763
01:25:07,202 --> 01:25:09,466
I wish I'd be
on time sometimes.
1764
01:25:09,537 --> 01:25:13,405
The night he won the Oscar,
the special Oscar,
1765
01:25:13,475 --> 01:25:16,308
and he had asked John Huston
to pick it up for him.
1766
01:25:16,377 --> 01:25:21,144
- "Genius" is a word that
must be used very sparingly,
1767
01:25:21,216 --> 01:25:23,480
especially in this world
of films.
1768
01:25:23,551 --> 01:25:25,815
- He said,
"I'm... I'm not gonna go."
1769
01:25:25,887 --> 01:25:27,115
I said, "Why not?"
and he said,
1770
01:25:27,188 --> 01:25:28,815
"They're not gonna
get that out of me."
1771
01:25:28,890 --> 01:25:30,118
- On my way back to Ireland,
1772
01:25:30,191 --> 01:25:33,217
I'll stop in Spain
and give him this.
1773
01:25:33,294 --> 01:25:36,229
- We were sitting
at the Beverly Hills Hotel,
1774
01:25:36,297 --> 01:25:38,322
watching the Oscars,
and Orson says,
1775
01:25:38,399 --> 01:25:40,299
"Yeah, come on
right over, John!"
1776
01:25:40,368 --> 01:25:41,858
(applause)
1777
01:25:41,936 --> 01:25:43,403
- Merv Griffin: You celebrated
a big birthday, didn't you?
1778
01:25:43,471 --> 01:25:45,302
- Orson Welles: I didn't celebrate it,
I just had it.
1779
01:25:45,373 --> 01:25:46,567
(laughter)
1780
01:25:46,841 --> 01:25:48,900
I used to pretend
it was my birthday
1781
01:25:48,977 --> 01:25:51,104
when I took a girl
out to dinner,
1782
01:25:51,179 --> 01:25:53,977
and then I'd have the waiter
bring a cake in
1783
01:25:54,048 --> 01:25:55,538
and sing "Happy Birthday,"
1784
01:25:55,817 --> 01:25:58,445
and I'd use that as an excuse
to extend the evening.
1785
01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:00,044
- Aha...
- (laughter)
1786
01:26:03,191 --> 01:26:07,924
- I have a sentimental
inclination toward hope.
1787
01:26:07,996 --> 01:26:10,897
I believe in bravery.
1788
01:26:10,965 --> 01:26:12,262
Worship it.
1789
01:26:12,333 --> 01:26:14,301
- Jeanne Moreau:
To me, Orson
1790
01:26:14,369 --> 01:26:19,204
is so much like a destitute king.
1791
01:26:19,274 --> 01:26:21,902
On this earth,
1792
01:26:21,976 --> 01:26:26,174
there's no kingdom
that is good enough
1793
01:26:26,247 --> 01:26:28,112
for Orson Welles.
1794
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:30,048
- Merv Griffin: But you feel
wonderful, don't you?
1795
01:26:30,118 --> 01:26:31,551
- Oh, sure!
1796
01:26:31,619 --> 01:26:33,314
(laughter)
1797
01:26:33,388 --> 01:26:37,017
- As it must to all men,
death came to Orson Welles.
1798
01:26:37,091 --> 01:26:40,618
That, a paraphrase borrowed from
his own film, "Citizen Kane."
1799
01:26:40,895 --> 01:26:43,159
- Newscaster: Orson Welles told me
about a lunch he had recently
1800
01:26:43,231 --> 01:26:45,563
with director-producer
Steven Spielberg,
1801
01:26:45,633 --> 01:26:48,227
who had just purchased
the famous "Rosebud" sled
1802
01:26:48,303 --> 01:26:52,103
from "Citizen Kane"
for $45,000.
1803
01:26:52,173 --> 01:26:54,971
- But I said, "We burnt the sled,
Steven." (laughing)
1804
01:26:56,411 --> 01:27:00,177
That's why we enjoy life,
is that we know it's got to end.
1805
01:27:00,248 --> 01:27:03,217
- Newscaster:
Orson Welles was 70.
1806
01:27:03,284 --> 01:27:07,653
**
1807
01:27:10,058 --> 01:27:11,355
- Chris Welles Feder:
After my father died,
1808
01:27:11,426 --> 01:27:14,657
I got a call from my half-sister
Beatrice.
1809
01:27:14,929 --> 01:27:16,260
She and her mother Paola
1810
01:27:16,331 --> 01:27:19,323
were arranging a funeral
in Los Angeles,
1811
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:23,564
and I was really devastated by
the place where it was held,
1812
01:27:23,638 --> 01:27:26,630
which was like
a horrible motel room.
1813
01:27:26,908 --> 01:27:31,641
Nothing had been done, I felt,
to truly honor my father.
1814
01:27:35,283 --> 01:27:37,274
- Oja Kodar:
He didn't want to be cremated.
1815
01:27:37,352 --> 01:27:39,547
He said, "I took so much
from this earth,
1816
01:27:39,621 --> 01:27:42,556
I should give it back,
at least, something."
1817
01:27:42,624 --> 01:27:45,354
And, um, they didn't do it.
1818
01:27:56,137 --> 01:28:02,201
- I would like to do something
which would leave...
1819
01:28:02,277 --> 01:28:05,474
at least...
1820
01:28:05,546 --> 01:28:09,038
the art form concerned
or the profession
1821
01:28:09,117 --> 01:28:12,109
better for
my having done it...
1822
01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:20,125
...to use this medium for
something except entertaining.
1823
01:28:22,196 --> 01:28:24,221
I'd like to have been more
useful in the world,
1824
01:28:24,299 --> 01:28:25,732
and I hope I can be.
It's, uh...
1825
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,094
You finally get to a point
where, uh...
1826
01:28:29,170 --> 01:28:32,196
art for art's sake
doesn't seem a good enough flag
1827
01:28:32,273 --> 01:28:34,707
to be marching under
sometimes.
1828
01:28:34,976 --> 01:28:37,035
- Interviewer:
What's a better flag?
1829
01:28:37,111 --> 01:28:40,308
- Well, you've got to believe in
something bigger than yourself.
1830
01:28:40,381 --> 01:28:42,008
- Interviewer:
Oh, we've run out of film.
1831
01:28:42,083 --> 01:28:43,175
(laughter)
1832
01:28:43,251 --> 01:28:44,513
- You had me...
- I must tell you...
1833
01:28:44,585 --> 01:28:45,711
- I had me riveted!
1834
01:28:45,987 --> 01:28:47,750
(laughter)
1835
01:28:48,022 --> 01:28:50,456
I loved every...
Don't cut a word out of that!
1836
01:28:59,133 --> 01:29:01,124
**
1837
01:29:04,124 --> 01:29:08,124
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