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Rosebud...
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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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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 comer
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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 ambler,
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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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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When his mother died,
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he was forced to make him
his legal guardian.
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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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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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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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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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Was just the Theatre.
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I played Mary,
the mother of Jesus,
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at the age of 13.
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Yes.
Very good in drag.
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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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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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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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"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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I feel his hand
on my shoulder.
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"Rosebud!"
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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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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 19
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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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And I've been working my way
down slowly ever since.
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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 than he came back
to Chicago
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and felt
very much at a loose end.
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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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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
Bu�uel 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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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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The Negro Theatre unit
of the Federal Theatre Project
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produced a highly successful
version
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of Shakespeares
immortal tragedy, "Macbeth. "
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Tyrant,
show thy face!
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What is thy name?
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My name is Macbeth.
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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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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 gain,
"Bom, bom, bom, bom,
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Percy Hammond,
ham, ham...
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Percy Hammond died
three days later.
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No, sorry, that was rude,
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I bee your pardon.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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00:14:27,075 --> 00:14:29,123
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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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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Shadow. Why are you here?
293
00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,138
I anticipated your
performance, Mr. Kent.
294
00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:49,894
How did
"The Shadow" originate?
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- Was it a...
- I don't know.
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a show before you
took over the part?
297
00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:55,149
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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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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00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:16,545
At 20 minutes before
8:00 Central time,
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00:15:16,624 --> 00:15:18,672
Professor Ferrell of
the Mount Jennings Observatory
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00:15:18,751 --> 00:15:20,628
Chicago, Illinois,
reports observing
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00:15:20,711 --> 00:15:23,134
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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00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:35,982
It was the turning point
in Welles' career.
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Something
smacked the ground,
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00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:39,064
knocked me clear out of
my chair.
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00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:41,400
Well, were you
frightened, Mr. Wilmuth?
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I reckon I was
kind of filed.
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Were you aware of
the tenor that was going on
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00:15:44,735 --> 00:15:45,987
- throughout the nation?
- Oh, no, oh, no,
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00:15:46,070 --> 00:15:47,697
of course not,
we did "Dracula,"
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00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,999
and it seemed to me,
during "Dracula,"
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00:15:50,074 --> 00:15:52,247
I had high hopes
that people would react
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as they do in a movie
of that kind,
325
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,793
and I don't
know that they did.
326
00:15:56,873 --> 00:15:58,671
What scared them is
very interesting.
327
00:15:58,749 --> 00:16:01,673
It was all done
as news reports.
328
00:16:01,752 --> 00:16:03,345
Until that Moment
329
00:16:03,421 --> 00:16:05,970
When the guy is describing
this horrible monster-
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00:16:06,048 --> 00:16:08,016
"It's coming out,
oh, my God! Aah!"
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00:16:08,092 --> 00:16:10,766
Wait a minute,
something's happening.
332
00:16:10,845 --> 00:16:13,223
Some shape is rising
out of the pit.
333
00:16:13,306 --> 00:16:14,603
Aah!
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00:16:14,682 --> 00:16:15,934
And it went dead.
335
00:16:22,773 --> 00:16:25,367
The people in the booth
were going...
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00:16:25,443 --> 00:16:27,821
And he just mute it.
337
00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:29,781
Ladies and gentlemen,
due to circumstances
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00:16:29,864 --> 00:16:32,117
beyond our control,
we are unable to continue
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00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,952
the broadcast from
Grover's Mill.
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00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:35,878
Citizens of the nation,
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00:16:35,953 --> 00:16:37,921
I shall not try
to conceal
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00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:39,624
the gravity
of the situation
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00:16:39,707 --> 00:16:41,709
that confronts
the country,
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00:16:41,792 --> 00:16:44,295
nor the concern
of your government
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00:16:44,378 --> 00:16:47,803
in protecting the lives
and property of its people.
346
00:16:47,882 --> 00:16:51,352
We will have to sit down
and think very carefully
347
00:16:51,427 --> 00:16:53,680
about future broadcasts.
348
00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:55,731
Have you made any specific
changes of any programs
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00:16:55,806 --> 00:16:57,058
that were already scheduled,
such as next week's,
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00:16:57,141 --> 00:16:58,438
- for instance?
- No.
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00:16:58,518 --> 00:17:00,395
Police were already in
the control room
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00:17:00,478 --> 00:17:03,357
during the broadcast,
not knowing who to arrest.
353
00:17:06,067 --> 00:17:08,035
Flash, country overrun
by men from Mars!
354
00:17:08,110 --> 00:17:09,783
Millions of Martians are
landing in our fields!
355
00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:12,035
Strange creatures are dropping
from the stratosphere!
356
00:17:12,114 --> 00:17:16,210
M- m-m-m-m-men from Mars!
357
00:17:16,285 --> 00:17:19,789
Army bombing
plane, V-8-43, off Bayonne, New Jersey,
358
00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:21,419
Don't you think that
somebody here would have
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00:17:21,499 --> 00:17:23,172
been able to gauge
the reaction
360
00:17:23,251 --> 00:17:25,970
which in fact has occurred
throughout the United States?
361
00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:29,265
Well, every radio program tries
to be more dramatic than life.
362
00:17:29,340 --> 00:17:32,765
Oh, my gosh!
363
00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:34,470
There's another
group of spaceships-
364
00:17:34,554 --> 00:17:36,648
of the alien ships, they're
coming out of the sky!
365
00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:38,975
Despite his bravado all evening,
366
00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,527
Mr. Manulis panicked
and bolted out of the car.
367
00:17:41,602 --> 00:17:43,354
He was so frightened
by the reports
368
00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:45,110
of interplanetary invasion
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00:17:45,189 --> 00:17:47,112
that he ran off,
leaving Aunt Bea
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00:17:47,191 --> 00:17:49,535
to contend with
the slimy green monsters
371
00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:52,113
he expected to drop from
the sky at any moment.
372
00:17:52,196 --> 00:17:54,915
When Mr. Manulis called her
for a date the next week,
373
00:17:54,991 --> 00:17:56,243
she told my mother
to tell him
374
00:17:56,325 --> 00:17:57,747
she couldn't
see him anymore.
375
00:17:57,827 --> 00:17:59,500
She had married
a Martian.
376
00:17:59,579 --> 00:18:01,752
I'm speaking from the roof
377
00:18:01,831 --> 00:18:04,300
of the broadcasting building,
New York City-
378
00:18:04,375 --> 00:18:06,503
the bells you hear
379
00:18:06,586 --> 00:18:08,133
are ringing to warn
the people
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00:18:08,212 --> 00:18:11,136
to evacuate the city
as the Martians approach...
381
00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:14,014
This is Orson Welles,
ladies and gentlemen.
382
00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:16,687
Out of character
to assure you
383
00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:20,016
that "The War of the Worlds
has no further significance
384
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:23,023
than as the holiday
offering it was intended to be.
385
00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:25,855
...crowds
like New Year's Eve in the city.
386
00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:29,818
In fact, we weren't
as innocent as we meant to be
387
00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:31,698
when we did
the Martian broadcast.
388
00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:34,030
We were fed up
with the way
389
00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:37,492
in which everything that
came over this new magic box,
390
00:18:37,575 --> 00:18:39,577
the radio,
was being swallowed.
391
00:18:40,786 --> 00:18:42,208
People, you know,
do suspect
392
00:18:42,288 --> 00:18:43,756
what they read
in the newspapers
393
00:18:43,831 --> 00:18:45,333
and what people tell them,
but when the radio came,
394
00:18:45,416 --> 00:18:47,714
and I suppose now,
television,
395
00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:51,639
anything that came through
that new machine was believed.
396
00:18:52,965 --> 00:18:55,059
I didn't go to jail...
397
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:56,852
I went
to Hollywood.
398
00:19:00,181 --> 00:19:01,854
He had established a celebrity
399
00:19:01,932 --> 00:19:04,401
that made Hollywood have
an appetite for him.
400
00:19:04,477 --> 00:19:07,356
He was an extremely
successful and ambitious
401
00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:09,941
designer of conceptual
theater in New York.
402
00:19:10,024 --> 00:19:11,742
He had been on
the cover of Time magazine.
403
00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:14,036
He was an important
radio performer,
404
00:19:14,111 --> 00:19:17,035
which had made him
a worldwide celebrity
405
00:19:17,114 --> 00:19:18,787
and the studios saw
406
00:19:18,866 --> 00:19:20,334
that they could make
a buck from this.
407
00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:27,880
RKO wanted him,
408
00:19:28,042 --> 00:19:29,635
and he kept
turning it down,
409
00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:32,179
and so every time
he turned it down,
410
00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:33,847
the contract would
get better,
411
00:19:33,923 --> 00:19:35,470
'cause he'd ask
for something
412
00:19:35,549 --> 00:19:36,926
that they just
wouldn't give him,
413
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:39,307
and then they would
give it to him.
414
00:19:39,387 --> 00:19:41,560
When you honestly
didn't want to go,
415
00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:44,233
then- then the deals got
better and better.
416
00:19:44,308 --> 00:19:45,560
In my case,
I didn't want money.
417
00:19:45,643 --> 00:19:46,940
I wanted authority.
418
00:19:58,906 --> 00:20:00,499
There was this guy
with a beard
419
00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:02,827
who was going to do it
all by himself, you know?
420
00:20:02,910 --> 00:20:05,663
I represented
the terrible future
421
00:20:05,746 --> 00:20:08,920
of what was going to happen
to that town.
422
00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:10,546
His initial project was
423
00:20:10,626 --> 00:20:12,094
an adaptation
of "Heart of Darkness,"
424
00:20:12,169 --> 00:20:14,012
which he had done
on the radio.
425
00:20:14,088 --> 00:20:17,308
...a black
and incomprehensible frenzy.
426
00:20:17,383 --> 00:20:19,932
We were a bunch of 22-,
23-year-old kids, really,
427
00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:21,728
and we had-
428
00:20:21,804 --> 00:20:23,556
moved in and taken over
this studio,
429
00:20:23,639 --> 00:20:25,391
and all these people were
looking around, wondering
430
00:20:25,474 --> 00:20:27,021
who the hell we were
and what did we think
431
00:20:27,101 --> 00:20:29,354
we were gonna be doing?
432
00:20:29,437 --> 00:20:31,155
We were not
in a very strong
433
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:33,528
financial situation
at the time.
434
00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:36,952
And we thought
this acquisition of Mr. Welles
435
00:20:37,027 --> 00:20:39,405
would have done it,
but it didn't.
436
00:20:39,488 --> 00:20:41,286
He wanted to shoot
the whole movie,
437
00:20:41,365 --> 00:20:44,039
more or less,
from the perspective
438
00:20:44,118 --> 00:20:45,791
of Marlowe,
the central character.
439
00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:47,793
So we didn't get
a close-up of Welles
440
00:20:47,872 --> 00:20:49,590
until pretty late
in the movie.
441
00:20:49,665 --> 00:20:51,884
There were no big
movie stars until then,
442
00:20:51,959 --> 00:20:53,677
and people wanted
to see Welles.
443
00:20:53,753 --> 00:20:56,427
And it was a film
about blackness,
444
00:20:56,505 --> 00:20:58,382
and RKO tried
to convince him
445
00:20:58,466 --> 00:21:01,640
Just to hire ordinary extras
in blackface in the background.
446
00:21:01,719 --> 00:21:04,222
But he wouldn't go with that.
447
00:21:04,305 --> 00:21:07,354
Not knowing
anything about it,
448
00:21:07,433 --> 00:21:10,027
there was
no basis for fear.
449
00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:12,605
In other words, if you're walking
along the edge of a cliff,
450
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:15,066
and you don't know
it's the edge of a cliff,
451
00:21:15,149 --> 00:21:17,493
you have perfect
confidence.
452
00:21:25,367 --> 00:21:27,540
The first day
that I directed a film
453
00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:30,999
was the first day I had
ever been on a movie set.
454
00:21:31,081 --> 00:21:32,674
The Union forever!
455
00:21:32,750 --> 00:21:34,718
Be careful, Charles!
456
00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,341
Pull your muffler around
your neck, Charles.
457
00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,889
Mrs. Kane, I think we shall have
to tell him now.
458
00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:40,682
Yes.
459
00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:43,307
I'll sign those papers now,
Mr. Thatcher.
460
00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:46,013
You people seem to forget
that I'm the boy's father.
461
00:21:46,096 --> 00:21:47,689
It's going to be done exactly
the way I've told...
462
00:21:47,765 --> 00:21:49,608
It's about courage and audacity
463
00:21:49,683 --> 00:21:51,685
and "I'm making this my way. "
464
00:21:52,853 --> 00:21:55,652
We're gonna see from one inch
to infinity in every shot.
465
00:21:55,731 --> 00:21:57,324
We're gonna
see ceilings, and...
466
00:21:57,399 --> 00:22:00,243
we're gonna tell
a very convoluted
467
00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:04,745
mystery story
about a man's life.
468
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:10,746
It is just...
469
00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:13,800
one of the great movies
ever made.
470
00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:15,672
I didn't know
what you couldn't do.
471
00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:19,722
I didn't deliberately set out
to invent anything.
472
00:22:19,797 --> 00:22:22,050
It just seemed
to me, "Why not?"
473
00:22:24,677 --> 00:22:26,975
He grasped the medium
474
00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:29,523
with such brilliance,
enthusiasm,
475
00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:31,817
he completely mastered it.
476
00:22:31,892 --> 00:22:33,235
It's the first film
of somebody
477
00:22:33,310 --> 00:22:35,404
who had never
even acted in a movie.
478
00:22:35,479 --> 00:22:39,484
I make no
campaign promises!
479
00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:42,366
Because,
until a few weeks ago,
480
00:22:42,444 --> 00:22:44,617
I had no hope of
being elected.
481
00:22:46,323 --> 00:22:48,246
It was intended...
482
00:22:48,325 --> 00:22:50,623
consciously as a sort of
social document,
483
00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:52,751
as an attack on
the acquisitive society,
484
00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:53,956
but I didn't think that up
485
00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:57,543
and then try to find a story
to match the idea.
486
00:23:00,921 --> 00:23:03,891
The picture was
about William Randolph Hearst
487
00:23:03,966 --> 00:23:06,515
and two or three other
newspaper barons,
488
00:23:06,594 --> 00:23:08,813
but the picture was
also about Orson.
489
00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:11,437
You're a 24-year-old
novice director.
490
00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:12,858
This is
difficult material,
491
00:23:12,975 --> 00:23:14,272
maybe impossible.
492
00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:16,479
And old man Hearst is
gonna come down on us
493
00:23:16,562 --> 00:23:17,779
with all he's got.
494
00:23:17,855 --> 00:23:19,732
Think of
the free publicity.
495
00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:22,989
"I'll provide the people
of this city
496
00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:27,414
"with a daily paper that will
tell all the news honestly.
497
00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:28,866
I will also provide-"
498
00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:31,077
That's the second sentence
you've started with "I."
499
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,753
People are gonna know
who's responsible.
500
00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:36,127
Basic script was
501
00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:38,254
a Herman Mankiewicz
script.
502
00:23:38,334 --> 00:23:41,634
A great deal
of that picture is,
503
00:23:41,712 --> 00:23:44,682
in every respect,
is Green's picture.
504
00:23:44,757 --> 00:23:46,259
One day
in the office they said,
505
00:23:46,342 --> 00:23:49,471
"There's a man called Toland
waiting to see you. "
506
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,899
He was, of course,
the leading cameraman.
507
00:23:53,974 --> 00:23:56,568
He said, "I want
to make your picture. "
508
00:23:56,644 --> 00:23:58,863
And I said, "Well,
that's wonderful.
509
00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:01,566
Why? I don't know
anything about movies. "
510
00:24:01,649 --> 00:24:03,697
He says, "That's why
I want to do it. "
511
00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:07,780
Well, it was pretty much
like my...
512
00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:09,706
My beginnings
in the theater.
513
00:24:09,782 --> 00:24:11,534
I had the confidence
of ignorance.
514
00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:24,304
It contains the very best
515
00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:28,556
of cinematography,
editing, lighting,
516
00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:31,308
performance,
screenwriting.
517
00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:37,352
It's a quarry for filmmakers.
518
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,689
It was obvious when you saw it,
it was a great picture,
519
00:24:41,772 --> 00:24:43,194
but that doesn't
always mean
520
00:24:43,273 --> 00:24:45,651
that it's gonna do
big money at the box office-.
521
00:24:45,734 --> 00:24:48,487
A lot of the
theater chains were afraid to book it
522
00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:50,618
because they were afraid
523
00:24:50,698 --> 00:24:52,746
their ads wouldn't run
in the Hearst papers.
524
00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:56,671
I sometimes forget
that you're all Jews.
525
00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:59,464
Apparently, quite a number
of people forget,
526
00:24:59,540 --> 00:25:02,043
if they ever knew.
527
00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:09,308
See what you can do about
this "Citizen Kane" picture,
528
00:25:09,383 --> 00:25:10,680
will you, Louie?
529
00:25:14,096 --> 00:25:16,019
Orson said
he wanted to open it in tents
530
00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:17,145
all across the country.
531
00:25:17,224 --> 00:25:18,942
He'd say, "This is
the picture you... not-
532
00:25:19,018 --> 00:25:20,520
they won't let you see. "
533
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:22,149
But RKO wouldn't
hear about it.
534
00:25:22,229 --> 00:25:23,776
In the next
70- something years,
535
00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:26,530
it became one of the most
admired films ever made.
536
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:33,119
You can see a change
in films after "Kane. "
537
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:35,371
I said, "Don't you think you
had a tremendous influence?"
538
00:25:35,451 --> 00:25:37,044
He said not really.
He said they didn't-
539
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,746
They really weren't influenced
by anything important.
540
00:25:38,829 --> 00:25:41,753
There were just a lot
of ceilings and shadows.
541
00:25:41,832 --> 00:25:44,051
Many people can agree,
it's just one of the great
542
00:25:44,126 --> 00:25:46,345
American experiences
in the cinema.
543
00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:48,343
Rosebud.
544
00:25:48,422 --> 00:25:49,969
I'm ashamed of Rosebud.
545
00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:51,221
I think it's the...
546
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:53,098
A rather tawdry device.
547
00:25:53,177 --> 00:25:55,100
It doesn't
stand up very well.
548
00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:05,156
Well, I've regretted
early successes in many fields,
549
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:07,483
but I don't regret that
in "Kane"
550
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:11,787
because it was the only chance
I ever had of that kind.
551
00:26:11,862 --> 00:26:14,661
I'm glad I had it
at any time in my life.
552
00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:20,587
I was spoiled
in a very strange way.
553
00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:22,585
I didn't know
what was ahead of me.
554
00:26:33,050 --> 00:26:35,678
The magnificence of the Ambersons
555
00:26:35,761 --> 00:26:38,480
began in 1873.
556
00:26:38,555 --> 00:26:41,104
Their splendor lasted
throughout all the years
557
00:26:41,183 --> 00:26:42,901
that saw
their midland town
558
00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:46,196
spread and darken into a city.
559
00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:48,490
In that town, in those days,
560
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:50,442
all the women
who wore silk or velvet
561
00:26:50,526 --> 00:26:53,120
knew all the other women
who wore silk or velvet,
562
00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:55,197
and everybody knew
everybody else's
563
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,499
family horse
and carriage.
564
00:26:57,574 --> 00:26:59,793
One of the reasons he liked
"Amberson" so much
565
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:01,541
was 'cause
he wasn't in it.
566
00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:02,917
Too slow for us nowadays.
567
00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:04,669
Often, he was the-
you know, a name
568
00:27:04,748 --> 00:27:06,500
that he used
for himself in a movie,
569
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,836
'cause he was
a name actor.
570
00:27:08,919 --> 00:27:11,422
As he said to me once,
he said,
571
00:27:11,505 --> 00:27:14,429
"I don't enjoy acting
as much as I should. "
572
00:27:17,052 --> 00:27:19,805
The real point
of "Ambersons,"
573
00:27:19,888 --> 00:27:23,062
everything that is
any good in it
574
00:27:23,142 --> 00:27:24,394
is that part of it
575
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:27,275
which was really just
a preparation
576
00:27:27,354 --> 00:27:30,233
for the decay
of the Ambersons.
577
00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:31,783
Pride of the town.
578
00:27:31,859 --> 00:27:33,702
Hot and cold
running water?
579
00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:35,996
Upstairs and down.
580
00:27:36,071 --> 00:27:37,163
I want to look at that
581
00:27:37,239 --> 00:27:39,241
automobile carriage
of yours, Gene.
582
00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:40,541
Franny, you'll catch cold!
583
00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:41,618
We're gonna ride
in that thing tomorrow.
584
00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:42,919
I want to see
if it's safe.
585
00:27:42,995 --> 00:27:44,087
- Good night, Isabella-
- Good night, Eugene.
586
00:27:44,163 --> 00:27:45,665
You be ready at
ten minutes after 2:00.
587
00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:47,044
No, I won't.
588
00:27:47,124 --> 00:27:48,467
Yes, you will.
589
00:27:48,542 --> 00:27:49,964
Ten minutes after 2:00.
590
00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:53,551
Yes, I will.
591
00:27:55,883 --> 00:27:58,227
Get a horse, get a horse!
592
00:27:58,302 --> 00:28:00,304
Get a horse.
593
00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:01,434
Look out, Lucy!
594
00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:02,514
Oh!
595
00:28:02,598 --> 00:28:03,941
What's happened to them?
596
00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:05,233
Oh, George...
597
00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:09,484
A good film, I think,
should not be an illustrated,
598
00:28:09,563 --> 00:28:14,535
all-talking, all-movin
version of a printed work
599
00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:18,035
but should be itself,
a thin of itself.
600
00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:19,456
George, you tried
to swing underneath me
601
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:22,080
and break the fall for me
when you went over.
602
00:28:22,159 --> 00:28:24,378
I knew you were doing that.
It was nice of you.
603
00:28:24,453 --> 00:28:26,376
It wasn't much of
a fall to speak of.
604
00:28:26,455 --> 00:28:27,798
How about that kiss?
605
00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:30,425
# Can hear them sigh
and wish to die #
606
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,923
# And see 'em wink the other eye #
607
00:28:33,003 --> 00:28:36,507
# At the man who broke
the bank at Monte Carlo #
608
00:28:40,510 --> 00:28:44,060
About the time
Major Amberson dies,
609
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:46,187
the picture starts to
become another picture,
610
00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:47,859
becomes their picture.
611
00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:49,562
An actual plot was changed.
612
00:28:49,645 --> 00:28:51,693
Well, I'm sorry
about that,
613
00:28:51,772 --> 00:28:52,898
'cause I was involved
in all the cuts,
614
00:28:52,981 --> 00:28:54,324
but it was one
of those circumstances
615
00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:55,446
that couldn't
be helped.
616
00:28:55,525 --> 00:28:56,868
He was in
South America
617
00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:58,366
making a film
for the government
618
00:28:58,445 --> 00:28:59,697
to help our war effort
619
00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:01,498
in that good neighbor
policy we had.
620
00:29:03,909 --> 00:29:06,082
The studio was very-
naturally, very upset.
621
00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:07,458
They had a lot of money
in this film,
622
00:29:07,537 --> 00:29:08,959
and they ranted
to get it out.
623
00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:10,336
Consequently,
we did cut
624
00:29:10,499 --> 00:29:12,672
about 25 or 30 minutes
of the original film,
625
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:15,300
and we had to make
two or three or four
626
00:29:15,379 --> 00:29:17,677
new bridge scenes
to tie it together,
627
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:19,178
and there was
a new ending shot.
628
00:29:19,258 --> 00:29:20,510
How is Georgie?
629
00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:22,560
He's going to be all right.
630
00:29:22,636 --> 00:29:23,728
Annie.
631
00:29:23,804 --> 00:29:26,023
I wish you could have
seen Georgie's face...
632
00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:27,350
There's no scene in a hospital,
633
00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:30,561
nothing like that
ever happened.
634
00:29:30,644 --> 00:29:32,066
I can only say that
all of us up here
635
00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:34,773
did the very best job
we could with the problem.
636
00:29:37,109 --> 00:29:38,827
As one
important critic has said,
637
00:29:38,902 --> 00:29:40,779
RKO had hired Wells
638
00:29:40,862 --> 00:29:42,910
To make them
masterpieces,
639
00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:45,584
and he delivered
a masterpiece,
640
00:29:45,659 --> 00:29:47,206
and they didn't like it.
641
00:29:47,286 --> 00:29:48,833
The key long scene
at the end,
642
00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:50,164
Which was
Aggie Moorehead
643
00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:53,421
in a third-rate
lodging house,
644
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,128
that was the best scene
in the picture.
645
00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:58,714
That was what
the picture was about.
646
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:02,677
It's gone.
647
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:04,306
I was sent
to South America
648
00:30:04,386 --> 00:30:08,436
by Nelson Rockefeller
and Jock Whitney.
649
00:30:08,515 --> 00:30:11,735
I was told that
it was my patriotic duty
650
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:13,653
to go and spend
a million dollars
651
00:30:13,729 --> 00:30:17,609
shooting the Carnival
in Rio.
652
00:30:17,691 --> 00:30:19,944
They put it to me
that it would be
653
00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:22,906
a real contribution
to inter-American affairs,
654
00:30:22,988 --> 00:30:24,740
and so...
655
00:30:31,038 --> 00:30:33,336
Anything that I've done
in any medium,
656
00:30:33,415 --> 00:30:35,713
if it's ever been
any good,
657
00:30:35,792 --> 00:30:40,969
has been my way,
to quote the song.
658
00:30:46,636 --> 00:30:48,638
I was in terrible
trouble then.
659
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:54,520
In the meantime,
RKO has now a new government,
660
00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:56,776
and they asked
to see the rushes
661
00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,778
of what I'm doing
in South America,
662
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:02,361
and they see a lot of people,
black people,
663
00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:05,288
and they...
664
00:31:05,364 --> 00:31:07,662
made a great
publicity point
665
00:31:07,741 --> 00:31:09,539
of the fact that I had gone
to South America
666
00:31:09,618 --> 00:31:12,462
and thrown
all this money away.
667
00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:16,417
RKO said, "Well, maybe
we'd better stop this. "
668
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,594
So I was fired from RKO.
669
00:31:25,801 --> 00:31:27,269
And its slogan for
that year
670
00:31:27,344 --> 00:31:29,392
printed on
every piece of paper
671
00:31:29,471 --> 00:31:31,599
that went out
from RKO was
672
00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:34,605
"Showmanship
Instead of Genius. "
673
00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:36,857
I really wouldn't want to try
674
00:31:36,937 --> 00:31:39,907
to edge my way into
an elevator
675
00:31:39,981 --> 00:31:42,951
that's for
geniuses only.
676
00:31:44,611 --> 00:31:46,613
Sometimes you get
frustrated that
677
00:31:46,696 --> 00:31:49,540
people want to do things
to your projects,
678
00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:51,710
in theater or film,
'cause I've had both,
679
00:31:51,785 --> 00:31:53,628
and then
you have to fight,
680
00:31:53,703 --> 00:31:56,331
and I'm sure Orson Welles
had a lot of struggles,
681
00:31:56,415 --> 00:31:59,715
as we know,
and lost battles
682
00:31:59,793 --> 00:32:01,386
and hopefully
won a few.
683
00:32:01,461 --> 00:32:04,214
He was a brilliant man,
he had a lot to offer,
684
00:32:04,297 --> 00:32:07,050
he made
two wonderful pictures,
685
00:32:07,134 --> 00:32:10,308
but he also...
686
00:32:10,387 --> 00:32:13,482
went bad after
the second picture.
687
00:32:13,557 --> 00:32:16,811
Horrendous. I mean, there are some
who've committed suicide.
688
00:32:16,893 --> 00:32:20,238
An Italian waiter came
and said to me in Italian,
689
00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:24,284
"Did you ever make a picture
after Citizen Kane?"
690
00:32:26,987 --> 00:32:28,409
I didn't get a job
as a director
691
00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:30,206
for years afterwards.
692
00:32:31,658 --> 00:32:33,331
So then I did
"Jane Eyre. "
693
00:32:37,831 --> 00:32:39,083
EH!
694
00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:49,434
- Can I do anything?
- Stand out of the way.
695
00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:51,227
I'm sorry I frightened
your horse.
696
00:32:51,303 --> 00:32:53,021
Apologies won't
mend my ankle.
697
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:54,313
Down, Pilot!
698
00:32:56,016 --> 00:32:57,484
I was obsessed
699
00:32:57,559 --> 00:32:59,482
in my hot youth
700
00:32:59,561 --> 00:33:04,158
with the idea that
I would not be a star.
701
00:33:04,232 --> 00:33:06,781
I was in a position
to promote myself as a star...
702
00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:08,908
- Who's that?
- ... And I should've.
703
00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:10,705
I should've gone back
to New York
704
00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:14,125
and played Hamlet
and as long as it was going,
705
00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:15,953
I didn't-
I had this idea that
706
00:33:16,036 --> 00:33:18,710
I wanted to be known
as a director and that was it.
707
00:33:24,044 --> 00:33:26,388
The next picture I did do
was "The Stranger,"
708
00:33:26,463 --> 00:33:28,761
and I did that
to show people
709
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,638
that I didn't glow
in the dark,
710
00:33:30,717 --> 00:33:33,140
that I could say
"action" and "cut"
711
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:34,767
just like
all the other fellas.
712
00:33:42,312 --> 00:33:44,280
What is it, dear?
713
00:33:44,356 --> 00:33:45,824
When you grew up in
that era, you thou ht-
714
00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:47,492
you saw movies for
the junk that they were,
715
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:48,614
nobody took them
seriously.
716
00:33:48,693 --> 00:33:50,991
You'll become
part of the crime.
717
00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:53,574
But I'm already
a part of it.
718
00:33:53,657 --> 00:33:57,082
'Cause I'm a part of you.
719
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,504
And I now that
people dislike it,
720
00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:02,753
but I just love his love
of using the medium
721
00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:05,961
for all of its tricks
and playing with them.
722
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,422
This is what
a studio movie could be.
723
00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:13,890
It was supposed to be
a hammy performance.
724
00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:17,064
It wasn't
unconsciously so.
725
00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:19,140
That's all I can say
about that.
726
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:21,776
They cut that one up, too.
727
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:25,196
Welles was an ideological
challenge to Hollywood.
728
00:34:25,272 --> 00:34:27,400
He was simply not
a Hollywood filmmaker.
729
00:34:30,402 --> 00:34:32,279
None of his pictures
730
00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:33,488
really received wide distribution
731
00:34:33,572 --> 00:34:35,324
except for
"The Stranger,"
732
00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:37,501
which was the only picture
of his that made any money.
733
00:34:37,576 --> 00:34:39,829
It's not an accident
that it comes in a can.
734
00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:42,380
They welcomed the adventurer
735
00:34:42,455 --> 00:34:44,924
in the 19th century much more
than they do today.
736
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,298
My kind of fella is
the real outsider.
737
00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,473
Good evening, everybody,
this is Orson Welles,
738
00:34:59,556 --> 00:35:01,149
the Mercury Wonder Show
broadcasting tonight from
739
00:35:01,224 --> 00:35:02,646
the Air Service
Command Training Center
740
00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:04,319
at Fresno, California.
741
00:35:06,271 --> 00:35:07,739
Last week,
an American president
742
00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:09,691
fell in the midst
of battle.
743
00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:11,117
Guess who's taking Jack's place
744
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:12,660
- on the program tonight?
- Who?
745
00:35:12,736 --> 00:35:14,329
Orson Welles,
that's who!
746
00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:16,031
Orson Welles!
747
00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:21,707
I did
"Around the World in 80 Days,"
748
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:23,788
and it was, I think,
749
00:35:23,872 --> 00:35:25,419
the best thing I ever did
in the theater,
750
00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:27,045
but it was
a financial disaster.
751
00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:28,627
Before the opening
in Boston,
752
00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:31,680
the costumes were sitting
in the railway station,
753
00:35:31,755 --> 00:35:34,884
and there was
$55,000 to pay for them.
754
00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:38,061
And I was trying to think
who in Hollywood could send me
755
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:39,729
$55,000...
756
00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:42,728
In the next three hours.
757
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,356
I thought, "Harry Cohn. "
758
00:35:45,435 --> 00:35:47,608
Only one with
the courage to do it.
759
00:35:47,687 --> 00:35:50,156
I called him up, I said,
"I've got the greatest story
760
00:35:50,231 --> 00:35:51,448
you've ever read,"
and I turned
761
00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,117
the paperback around
762
00:35:53,193 --> 00:35:56,367
that the girl in the box office
was reading.
763
00:35:56,446 --> 00:35:58,198
It was called
"The Man I Killed. "
764
00:35:58,281 --> 00:36:00,955
And I says, "It's called
'The Man I Killed,'
765
00:36:01,034 --> 00:36:04,163
written by such and such,
a paperback, buy it!"
766
00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:08,341
I said, "You get me
$55,000 to Boston-"
767
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:10,635
"And I will make it for you
if you'll send me
768
00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:12,508
$47,000 in two hours. "
769
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:15,136
55,000 came.
770
00:36:15,215 --> 00:36:16,637
Welles always liked
to pretend that he had
771
00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:18,810
absolutely no idea
that Harry Cohn
772
00:36:18,885 --> 00:36:20,808
had asked him to make
a movie with Rita Hayworth.
773
00:36:20,887 --> 00:36:22,389
He had no idea
what to do.
774
00:36:22,472 --> 00:36:24,600
The stage door keeper
of the theater that he was
775
00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:26,981
working in when he was doing
"Around the World"
776
00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:30,109
happened to be reading a book
called "The Lady from Shanghai. "
777
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:31,531
It's called
something or other,
778
00:36:31,606 --> 00:36:32,903
it wasn't
"Lady from Shanghai" then.
779
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:34,529
Sometimes he told
the story one way,
780
00:36:34,609 --> 00:36:35,906
and sometimes
he'd tell it another way.
781
00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:37,202
It's all nonsense.
782
00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:38,530
Maybe that comes from
one of those
783
00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:39,990
foreign language interviews
784
00:36:40,073 --> 00:36:42,121
where I pretend
I understand the question
785
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,952
and say yes, you know?
786
00:36:58,675 --> 00:37:02,430
We are bringing together,
for the first time on the air,
787
00:37:02,512 --> 00:37:05,231
one of Hollywood's best-known
married couples,
788
00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:07,650
Rita Hayworth and
Orson Welles.
789
00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:11,776
I had divorced from Rita.
790
00:37:15,108 --> 00:37:18,032
She came to me and said,
"I want to make your picture. "
791
00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:20,910
Welles would say anything
at any time
792
00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:23,663
if it sounded
good at the moment,
793
00:37:23,742 --> 00:37:26,245
and he often admitted
to that himself.
794
00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:27,874
Harry sent for me and said,
795
00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:30,924
"I want you to do that
with Rita, for her sake. "
796
00:37:30,999 --> 00:37:32,171
# Then don't... #
797
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,593
I was lucky enough
to be with her
798
00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:37,673
longer than any of
the other men in her life.
799
00:37:37,756 --> 00:37:39,133
She is a dear person,
800
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:40,967
and she was
a wonderful wife
801
00:37:41,050 --> 00:37:44,475
and an extraordinary girl
in every way.
802
00:37:44,554 --> 00:37:47,433
There've been many
women, haven't there...
803
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:49,517
Yes.
804
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:52,070
I think
the first sex biologically
805
00:37:52,145 --> 00:37:53,488
is the female sex,
806
00:37:53,563 --> 00:37:55,657
and there are
many creatures
807
00:37:55,732 --> 00:37:58,611
in our world who
are women
808
00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:02,038
and only become male
as long as is necessary
809
00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:03,786
and then revert
to their original
810
00:38:03,865 --> 00:38:05,208
and superior condition.
811
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:09,413
You know, I think we're
a kind of decoration.
812
00:38:09,496 --> 00:38:12,500
I think the basic
and essential human
813
00:38:12,582 --> 00:38:15,085
is the woman,
814
00:38:15,168 --> 00:38:16,761
and all that we're doing
815
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:19,009
is trying to brighten up
the place
816
00:38:19,088 --> 00:38:21,967
because we've got to try
and justify our existence-.
817
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:23,222
Look how little we do
818
00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:25,053
to keep
the race going.
819
00:38:25,136 --> 00:38:27,389
I've had a marvelous
sex life.
820
00:38:27,472 --> 00:38:29,816
Is it too personal
to ask what age it started at?
821
00:38:29,891 --> 00:38:31,268
Well, if I tell you,
you won't believe it,
822
00:38:31,351 --> 00:38:32,398
so I'd better not answer.
823
00:38:32,477 --> 00:38:37,608
He was notoriously
flirtatious with both sexes.
824
00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:40,910
He used to love to
lie in a bath
825
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,113
and do interviews
with his associates,
826
00:38:43,196 --> 00:38:44,789
which embarrassed
some of them
827
00:38:44,864 --> 00:38:46,537
and perhaps delighted others,
I don't know.
828
00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:51,250
I myself have
absolutely no evidence
829
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:52,797
that Wells ever had
830
00:38:52,872 --> 00:38:54,840
any kind of sexual
relationship with a man,
831
00:38:54,916 --> 00:38:56,133
but he was
very, very conscious
832
00:38:56,209 --> 00:38:57,961
that it was something
that he could use.
833
00:38:58,044 --> 00:39:00,297
It's the business
of the director,
834
00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:02,929
is to carry on
a continual courtship
835
00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:05,260
with the people he sticks
in front of the lens.
836
00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:08,017
And when
you deal with stars,
837
00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:11,771
you know, real stars,
you have to...
838
00:39:11,850 --> 00:39:13,898
You have
to really make love.
839
00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:25,864
Personally, I don't like
840
00:39:25,947 --> 00:39:27,745
a girlfriend to have
a husband.
841
00:39:27,824 --> 00:39:30,668
If she'll fool a husband,
I figure she'll fool me.
842
00:39:30,743 --> 00:39:32,461
George.
843
00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:34,380
Even though
this is a more conventional thriller
844
00:39:34,455 --> 00:39:36,924
with a movie star
at the heart of it,
845
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,673
the film is much more
surrealistic,
846
00:39:38,751 --> 00:39:41,846
much more strange,
and all the more strange
847
00:39:41,921 --> 00:39:43,923
because, when the studio
doctored it,
848
00:39:44,007 --> 00:39:47,227
they put into it
these big close-ups
849
00:39:47,302 --> 00:39:48,474
of Rita Hayworth,
and they add
850
00:39:48,553 --> 00:39:50,396
to the surreal quality
of the film.
851
00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:02,783
I thought
it was me that was crazy.
852
00:40:02,859 --> 00:40:04,702
After what
I'd been through,
853
00:40:04,777 --> 00:40:09,999
anything crazy at all
seemed natural, but now...
854
00:40:10,074 --> 00:40:12,998
I was sane
on one subject, her.
855
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:15,330
I knew about her.
856
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,381
And I was the fail guy.
857
00:40:19,918 --> 00:40:21,545
He was not afraid
of being self-conscious
858
00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:23,972
with the camera.
859
00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:26,220
He did it with such conviction
and with such brilliance
860
00:40:26,299 --> 00:40:28,051
that you began to realize,
"Ah, I see, the camera moves. "
861
00:40:33,473 --> 00:40:36,818
Bewildering,
astonishing things
862
00:40:36,893 --> 00:40:38,816
are happening
all the time,
863
00:40:38,895 --> 00:40:41,819
building up to the great
mirror maze at the end.
864
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,573
I knew I'd find
you two together.
865
00:40:49,656 --> 00:40:52,330
But you'd be foolish
to fire that gun.
866
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,921
With these mirrors,
it's difficult to tell.
867
00:40:56,996 --> 00:41:00,045
You are aiming at me,
aren't you?
868
00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:02,593
I'm aiming
at you, lover.
869
00:41:02,669 --> 00:41:05,218
Of course, killing you
is killing myself.
870
00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:31,122
Michael...
871
00:41:31,197 --> 00:41:33,416
Come back here.
872
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:35,585
Michael.
873
00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:37,458
Please!
874
00:41:38,663 --> 00:41:41,007
This is one of
the great mysteries,
875
00:41:41,082 --> 00:41:44,632
why this extraordinarily
smart guy was outwitted
876
00:41:44,711 --> 00:41:47,055
by so much
less remarkable
877
00:41:47,130 --> 00:41:49,553
and intelligent people
so often.
878
00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:50,975
MONEY-
879
00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:57,181
Macbeth!
880
00:41:57,265 --> 00:41:58,858
Beware MacDuff!
881
00:41:58,933 --> 00:42:02,358
Macduff!
Beware MacDuff!
882
00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:06,031
I don't know what I haven't
done about this play
883
00:42:06,107 --> 00:42:08,235
except do it
as well as I'd like to.
884
00:42:08,317 --> 00:42:10,866
It's a great feeling
to be dealing with
885
00:42:10,945 --> 00:42:13,198
material which is
better than yourself.
886
00:42:13,281 --> 00:42:15,454
Answer me!
887
00:42:21,289 --> 00:42:24,668
Double, double,
toil and trouble,
888
00:42:24,751 --> 00:42:28,472
fire burn
and cauldron bubble.
889
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:30,514
He had nothing.
The sets are bad.
890
00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:33,890
But the way that
he then had to light them
891
00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:37,598
and choreograph the camera
and the actors in those sets...
892
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,980
It had
tremendous power.
893
00:42:44,187 --> 00:42:47,487
Which of you
have done this?
894
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:50,910
Sometimes,
when you can do it all, you-
895
00:42:51,027 --> 00:42:52,495
you know, it's like
too much ice cream,
896
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:54,664
too many flavors,
you can't even make a decision,
897
00:42:54,739 --> 00:42:58,369
but how you fill
the limitation
898
00:42:58,451 --> 00:43:00,579
shows the real artist
or not.
899
00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:03,707
None of his Shakespeare films
900
00:43:03,790 --> 00:43:06,213
were ever really supported
by the critics.
901
00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:09,045
They complained about
the Scottish accents.
902
00:43:10,797 --> 00:43:14,893
Knock, knock.
Never at quiet.
903
00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:16,264
The plague of these...
904
00:43:16,344 --> 00:43:17,812
He had to do
all these changes
905
00:43:17,887 --> 00:43:21,107
in the soundtrack
and cut "Macbeth,"
906
00:43:21,182 --> 00:43:23,025
but he was the one
who did the cutting.
907
00:43:30,733 --> 00:43:35,955
It was a big critical failure.
908
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:37,953
It was the biggest critical
failure I ever had.
909
00:43:44,622 --> 00:43:46,716
What is that noise?
910
00:43:54,924 --> 00:43:56,642
I'm very happy in America,
911
00:43:56,717 --> 00:43:59,846
but it happens that America
is not as happy with me
912
00:43:59,929 --> 00:44:01,431
- as I am with it.
- Muchas gracias, sexier.
913
00:44:01,514 --> 00:44:03,061
He was different.
914
00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:05,360
He was really
doing something
915
00:44:05,434 --> 00:44:09,189
so unique to his own
imagination,
916
00:44:09,272 --> 00:44:11,946
and whether that means
his films were successful
917
00:44:12,066 --> 00:44:13,443
is a whole
different matter.
918
00:44:13,526 --> 00:44:14,994
They are successful.
919
00:44:19,198 --> 00:44:21,826
Like the fruit pickers,
I go where the work is.
920
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:31,135
I don't think of myself
as in exile at all.
921
00:44:31,210 --> 00:44:33,713
In fact,
I've spent most of my life
922
00:44:33,796 --> 00:44:35,469
not quite unpacked.
923
00:44:38,426 --> 00:44:40,019
One of the things
that had driven him away
924
00:44:40,094 --> 00:44:42,643
was the McCarthy-in period.
925
00:44:42,722 --> 00:44:44,975
He was very messed up
by what was going on
926
00:44:45,057 --> 00:44:46,183
in America politically,
927
00:44:46,267 --> 00:44:47,894
had been a real
progressive, you know,
928
00:44:47,977 --> 00:44:50,275
and he was horrified.
929
00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:55,864
He was never a communist,
but the FBI was following him,
930
00:44:55,943 --> 00:44:57,536
since "Citizen Kane,"
931
00:44:57,612 --> 00:44:59,831
when Hearst was
a friend of Hoover.
932
00:44:59,906 --> 00:45:02,500
I've been investigated
over and over again.
933
00:45:02,575 --> 00:45:05,670
It's one of our favorite
indoor and outdoor sports.
934
00:45:29,477 --> 00:45:30,729
Harry!
935
00:45:32,188 --> 00:45:34,236
The most successful
thing he was ever part of,
936
00:45:34,315 --> 00:45:37,865
commercially, was offered
a percentage as part of the deal,
937
00:45:37,944 --> 00:45:40,072
but he couldn't afford it
because he needed the money,
938
00:45:40,154 --> 00:45:42,282
so he would have been
a wealthy man.
939
00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:45,918
Look down there.
940
00:45:45,993 --> 00:45:48,462
Would you really feel
any pity if one of those dots
941
00:45:48,537 --> 00:45:50,505
stopped moving forever?
942
00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:53,801
If I offered you �20,000
for every dot that stopped,
943
00:45:53,876 --> 00:45:55,878
would you really, old man,
tell me to keep my money,
944
00:45:55,962 --> 00:45:57,930
or would you calculate
945
00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:00,007
how many dots you could
afford to spare?
946
00:46:00,091 --> 00:46:01,889
Free of income tax,
old man.
947
00:46:01,968 --> 00:46:04,346
What's also kind of
interesting and ironic
948
00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:05,896
is that Harry Lime, for him,
949
00:46:05,972 --> 00:46:08,316
was the most detestable
character he ever played,
950
00:46:08,391 --> 00:46:09,938
but everybody else
loves Harry Lime.
951
00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:12,687
I have never in my life
952
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,022
seen anything
in the same
953
00:46:14,105 --> 00:46:17,826
category of hideousness,
but I adore him!
954
00:46:22,571 --> 00:46:24,164
Don't be so gloomy.
955
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:26,413
After all,
it's not that awful.
956
00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:28,494
You know what
the fella says.
957
00:46:28,577 --> 00:46:30,545
In Italy, for 30 years
under the Borgias,
958
00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:33,374
they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed,
959
00:46:33,457 --> 00:46:35,050
but they produced
Michelangelo,
960
00:46:35,126 --> 00:46:37,128
Leonardo da Vinci,
and the Renaissance.
961
00:46:37,211 --> 00:46:39,555
In Switzerland,
they had brotherly love.
962
00:46:39,630 --> 00:46:42,304
They had 500 years
of democracy and peace,
963
00:46:42,383 --> 00:46:44,385
and what did
that produce?
964
00:46:44,468 --> 00:46:47,472
The cuckoo clock.
Solon, Holly.
965
00:46:47,555 --> 00:46:49,523
A great many of us have been
966
00:46:49,598 --> 00:46:51,066
in Europe during
these last years.
967
00:46:51,142 --> 00:46:53,520
It's been a kind of frontier
for us in films,
968
00:46:53,602 --> 00:46:57,823
and it's a more anarchistic
and freer atmosphere.
969
00:46:57,898 --> 00:46:59,616
You know, a lot of
people, I think, conceptually,
970
00:46:59,692 --> 00:47:01,615
like the idea of change,
971
00:47:01,694 --> 00:47:03,446
but they don't want
things to change.
972
00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:05,782
But Welles' impatience
was about that change,
973
00:47:05,865 --> 00:47:07,993
and his interest in
the Scottsboro Boys case
974
00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:09,748
and in early civil fights.
975
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:11,124
Speaking out,
which you could only do
976
00:47:11,203 --> 00:47:12,671
if you were
an independent.
977
00:47:12,747 --> 00:47:14,294
My own loyalty is greater
978
00:47:14,373 --> 00:47:17,343
to the idea of myself
as a member of the human family
979
00:47:17,418 --> 00:47:21,468
than it is to a- as a member
of any profession.
980
00:47:21,547 --> 00:47:24,676
I don't take art
as seriously as politics.
981
00:47:27,345 --> 00:47:30,849
One of the great things
about Welles as a filmmaker
982
00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:32,899
is him capturing
the periods...
983
00:47:32,975 --> 00:47:35,728
of whenever
he was making the film,
984
00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:38,189
the paranoia of what
was going on in America.
985
00:47:38,272 --> 00:47:40,616
It's really reflected
in "Othello. "
986
00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:42,113
Black Othello, the outsider,
987
00:47:42,193 --> 00:47:43,194
the mercenary, the foreigner,
988
00:47:43,277 --> 00:47:45,405
must feel
a certain insecurity
989
00:47:45,488 --> 00:47:49,118
when he contemplates
this curious conquest of his:
990
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,453
The senator's daughter
who fled from her palace
991
00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:53,913
in the dead of night
to marry a black man-.
992
00:47:53,996 --> 00:47:56,966
It's partly a kind of an
atmosphere and a mood,
993
00:47:57,041 --> 00:47:59,260
but it's like a horror film.
994
00:48:07,927 --> 00:48:10,601
- Has he said anything?
- I know not what he-
995
00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:12,181
What, what?
996
00:48:12,264 --> 00:48:14,232
Lying.
997
00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:17,569
Lie with her?
998
00:48:17,645 --> 00:48:21,491
With her.
On her.
999
00:48:21,565 --> 00:48:22,862
What you will.
1000
00:48:24,985 --> 00:48:28,865
Came to Mogador on
the west coast of Africa to shoot.
1001
00:48:28,948 --> 00:48:31,121
We got a telegram-
Scalera, with whom I had
1002
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:32,747
a contract to make
the picture,
1003
00:48:32,827 --> 00:48:33,874
had gone bankrupt.
1004
00:48:33,953 --> 00:48:36,251
We had no costumes,
nothing.
1005
00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:39,709
That was the big scene
of the murder of Rodrigo.
1006
00:48:39,792 --> 00:48:43,046
And what can you shoot
without costumes?
1007
00:48:43,129 --> 00:48:45,177
That's a Turkish bath.
1008
00:48:45,256 --> 00:48:49,602
Nothing was designed,
everything had to be found-.
1009
00:48:49,677 --> 00:48:51,054
We had to do it
1010
00:48:51,137 --> 00:48:52,354
with whatever money
I could raise
1011
00:48:52,430 --> 00:48:55,149
and stop until
I raised some more.
1012
00:48:55,224 --> 00:48:58,148
Now, that took almost
four years.
1013
00:48:58,227 --> 00:49:00,070
Now, there are still people
today who say,
1014
00:49:00,146 --> 00:49:01,523
"I don't want
to hire Welles as a director,"
1015
00:49:01,605 --> 00:49:04,279
it took him four years
to make Othello".
1016
00:49:05,651 --> 00:49:07,995
"Othello"
was his own production.
1017
00:49:08,404 --> 00:49:11,658
However, there are
various versions of it.
1018
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:13,208
There's his version,
and then there's a version
1019
00:49:13,284 --> 00:49:14,877
that Beatrice redid.
1020
00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:17,296
Called some friends
who were in the business,
1021
00:49:17,371 --> 00:49:19,294
the movie business,
and so I said,
1022
00:49:19,373 --> 00:49:21,876
"Where do you think
one could find, you know,
1023
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:25,680
a negative or whatever is
left of Othello?"
1024
00:49:25,754 --> 00:49:27,677
And they ended up
finding it
1025
00:49:27,756 --> 00:49:30,384
in some lab
in New Jersey.
1026
00:49:30,468 --> 00:49:32,687
It really was in
perfect condition.
1027
00:49:32,761 --> 00:49:34,513
They made, I think,
a few mistakes.
1028
00:49:46,275 --> 00:49:47,777
In June of 1955,
1029
00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:50,739
He finally got round
to nailing "Moby Dick. "
1030
00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:54,416
Of course, he'd appeared
in John Huston's movie of it.
1031
00:49:54,492 --> 00:49:57,587
He staged what he called
"Moby Dick Rehearsed" here.
1032
00:49:57,661 --> 00:50:01,211
It only ran for
three-and-a-half weeks,
1033
00:50:01,290 --> 00:50:03,463
but I think
it's one of the landmarks
1034
00:50:03,542 --> 00:50:05,465
in British theater
of the 1950s,
1035
00:50:05,544 --> 00:50:07,137
and it's certainly
a great landmark
1036
00:50:07,213 --> 00:50:09,011
in Wells' own life.
1037
00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:10,716
They'd filmed
a little bit of it.
1038
00:50:10,799 --> 00:50:12,847
The possibility is that
it was impounded
1039
00:50:12,927 --> 00:50:15,680
by the tax people here,
1040
00:50:15,763 --> 00:50:18,516
that it was lost,
that somebody stole it.
1041
00:50:18,599 --> 00:50:21,648
A very Wellesian episode
altogether.
1042
00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:23,946
Hands off,
you two are of mankind!
1043
00:50:24,021 --> 00:50:26,615
Old Ahab stands alone
1044
00:50:26,690 --> 00:50:28,943
among the millions
of the peopled Earth,
1045
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:31,575
nor gods nor men
his neighbors.
1046
00:50:31,654 --> 00:50:32,906
Cut, no good.
1047
00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:38,627
Television was the medium
1048
00:50:38,744 --> 00:50:41,668
for great freedom
and experiment.
1049
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:43,545
We started working.
1050
00:50:43,624 --> 00:50:48,551
Both of us believed
that you don't hang on to any idea,
1051
00:50:48,629 --> 00:50:50,176
but the moment
that you'd had an idea,
1052
00:50:50,256 --> 00:50:51,849
and you begin to try it,
1053
00:50:51,924 --> 00:50:53,892
that leads to you think
of something else.
1054
00:50:53,968 --> 00:50:56,972
And then, as I was doing that,
turn around,
1055
00:50:57,179 --> 00:50:59,602
"Yes, Peter, but what if,
instead of that,
1056
00:50:59,682 --> 00:51:01,025
"we started
with him here,
1057
00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:03,194
and he leapt over
to that point?"
1058
00:51:03,269 --> 00:51:04,737
Blow winds-...
1059
00:51:04,812 --> 00:51:09,113
Orson suddenly took off
with tremendous passion.
1060
00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:10,443
Rage... blow...
1061
00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:14,704
You cataracts
and hurricanoes!
1062
00:51:14,780 --> 00:51:16,782
One thing one can
be sure is that
1063
00:51:16,865 --> 00:51:19,664
there wasn't before him
an Orson,
1064
00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:21,120
and there'll never
be a second.
1065
00:51:21,203 --> 00:51:26,505
I think I made, essentially,
a mistake in staying in movies,
1066
00:51:26,584 --> 00:51:27,927
because I... but it...
1067
00:51:28,002 --> 00:51:29,675
It's a mistake
I can't regret,
1068
00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:31,881
because it's like saying,
1069
00:51:31,964 --> 00:51:34,092
"I shouldn't have stayed
married to that woman,
1070
00:51:34,174 --> 00:51:35,551
but I did
because I love her. "
1071
00:51:37,011 --> 00:51:38,934
In theater, you're in space,
1072
00:51:39,013 --> 00:51:41,141
and the lighting
can focus
1073
00:51:41,223 --> 00:51:42,941
where you want
the audience to look,
1074
00:51:43,017 --> 00:51:46,317
but, in general, the audience
can look anywhere they want.
1075
00:51:46,395 --> 00:51:48,443
The actual
complete manipulation
1076
00:51:48,522 --> 00:51:50,695
of the image is something
you can do in film.
1077
00:51:55,195 --> 00:51:58,995
I can't change
this condition of love,
1078
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:01,497
but I think I would be
better off without it.
1079
00:52:03,704 --> 00:52:05,502
On December 25th,
1080
00:52:05,581 --> 00:52:08,460
an aeroplane was sighted
off the coast of Barcelona.
1081
00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:10,715
It was flying empty.
1082
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:13,172
This motion picture is
a fictionalized reconstruction
1083
00:52:13,255 --> 00:52:15,053
of the events leading up
1084
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:16,884
to the appearance
of the empty plane.
1085
00:52:23,265 --> 00:52:25,393
...was talking to you,
what was it?
1086
00:52:25,476 --> 00:52:27,649
...it was just a name.
He was dying.
1087
00:52:27,728 --> 00:52:28,980
What name was it?
1088
00:52:29,063 --> 00:52:30,280
Arkadin.
1089
00:52:30,356 --> 00:52:34,111
It's a story about a-
a high financier,
1090
00:52:34,193 --> 00:52:36,992
a man of
many countries
1091
00:52:37,071 --> 00:52:38,288
and three passports.
1092
00:52:38,364 --> 00:52:40,537
In the morning,
I think it's splendid,
1093
00:52:40,616 --> 00:52:42,960
in the evening,
I wonder.
1094
00:52:43,035 --> 00:52:46,039
How much obligation
do you feel to a mass audience?
1095
00:52:46,121 --> 00:52:49,546
I would love to have
a mass audience.
1096
00:52:49,625 --> 00:52:52,253
I knew what I wanted.
1097
00:52:52,336 --> 00:52:54,338
That's the difference
between us.
1098
00:52:54,421 --> 00:52:58,221
Did my poverty help
my creativity?
1099
00:52:58,300 --> 00:52:59,973
Uh, no.
1100
00:53:21,740 --> 00:53:24,710
Ladies and gentlemen,
please.
1101
00:53:24,785 --> 00:53:26,958
I must beg you
1102
00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:29,881
not to make
the slightest sound,
1103
00:53:29,957 --> 00:53:33,837
as the princess is in
a state of trance.
1104
00:53:35,337 --> 00:53:36,964
Orson really,
it seems to me,
1105
00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:38,720
just wants to work.
1106
00:53:38,799 --> 00:53:42,019
But at the same time,
there is something in him
1107
00:53:42,094 --> 00:53:45,894
that drives him to alienate
the people with the money.
1108
00:53:45,973 --> 00:53:48,647
Excuse me, sir?
1109
00:53:48,726 --> 00:53:51,149
Yes?
1110
00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,697
Well, I'm a young filmmaker
and a real bi fan.
1111
00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:57,197
I- I just wanted
to meet you.
1112
00:53:57,276 --> 00:53:59,449
My pleasure,
I'm Orson Welles.
1113
00:53:59,528 --> 00:54:02,247
I'm... Edward D. Wood, Jr.
1114
00:54:05,033 --> 00:54:06,956
What you working on?
1115
00:54:07,035 --> 00:54:08,878
Well, the financing
just fell through
1116
00:54:08,954 --> 00:54:10,752
for the third time
on "Don Quixote. "
1117
00:54:10,831 --> 00:54:13,459
I hate when that happens.
1118
00:54:13,542 --> 00:54:17,843
He had just done a picture
for Universal as an actor.
1119
00:54:20,758 --> 00:54:24,934
They asked him to play
the heavy in this thing.
1120
00:54:25,012 --> 00:54:28,107
He needed the money,
so he said okay.
1121
00:54:28,182 --> 00:54:30,310
I said, "Who's gonna direct it?"
1122
00:54:30,392 --> 00:54:31,985
And he says, "Well, we haven't
picked a director yet.
1123
00:54:32,060 --> 00:54:34,529
We have Orson Welles
to do the heavy, though. "
1124
00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:36,448
This was on
the long-distance phone,
1125
00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:39,618
and after
a static-filled pause,
1126
00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:42,947
I said, "Why don't you
have him direct it?
1127
00:54:43,030 --> 00:54:45,499
He's a pretty good
director, you know. "
1128
00:54:45,574 --> 00:54:47,702
And the reaction at first
1129
00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:49,662
was a prolonged silence
as though
1130
00:54:49,745 --> 00:54:52,749
I had suggested that
my mother direct the film.
1131
00:54:52,831 --> 00:54:54,299
Ed...
1132
00:54:55,459 --> 00:54:56,506
Yes?
1133
00:54:56,585 --> 00:54:59,008
Visions are worth
fighting for.
1134
00:54:59,087 --> 00:55:03,718
Why spend your life making
someone else's dreams?
1135
00:55:03,801 --> 00:55:05,428
I said, "I'll direct it,
1136
00:55:05,511 --> 00:55:07,559
"but if I also
get to write it.
1137
00:55:07,638 --> 00:55:09,732
Every word of it,
an entirely new script. "
1138
00:55:09,807 --> 00:55:10,854
They said yes.
1139
00:55:10,933 --> 00:55:12,560
You won't have
any trouble with me.
1140
00:55:12,643 --> 00:55:15,396
You bet your sweet life
I won't.
1141
00:55:15,479 --> 00:55:17,902
"Touch of Evil"
is, of course, really
1142
00:55:17,981 --> 00:55:20,359
the story of the decline
and fall of Captain Quinlan,
1143
00:55:20,442 --> 00:55:21,785
Orson's part.
1144
00:55:21,860 --> 00:55:26,240
He's everything
we- we hate.
1145
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:29,623
But he isn't what we hate,
it's his method,
1146
00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:32,454
and it's that ambiguity
1147
00:55:32,538 --> 00:55:34,540
which gives tension
to a story.
1148
00:55:37,835 --> 00:55:40,463
They loved the rushes.
1149
00:55:42,464 --> 00:55:45,138
Then they saw
a rough cut of it,
1150
00:55:45,217 --> 00:55:47,140
they were so horrified
that they...
1151
00:55:47,219 --> 00:55:50,644
wouldn't let me
in the studio.
1152
00:55:50,722 --> 00:55:52,269
I gave a dinner party
1153
00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:53,896
not long after
I started the picture
1154
00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:57,571
for all my old producer friends
and big star friends,
1155
00:55:57,646 --> 00:55:59,944
the old
Hollywood brigade.
1156
00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,491
I was a little late,
1157
00:56:01,567 --> 00:56:03,285
so they were all there
having their drinks on.
1158
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,704
I came in,
in order to arrive in time
1159
00:56:05,779 --> 00:56:08,623
in my makeup
and costume.
1160
00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:10,292
And they all said,
"How are you, Orson?
1161
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:12,244
You're looking great. "
1162
00:56:13,662 --> 00:56:15,915
It was too dark for them,
too strange.
1163
00:56:22,254 --> 00:56:25,303
Welles had been
fired off the film,
1164
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:27,259
kicked off the Lot.
1165
00:56:27,342 --> 00:56:29,595
He wrote
this 58-page memo
1166
00:56:29,678 --> 00:56:32,522
about what should
happen to the movie,
1167
00:56:32,598 --> 00:56:34,600
um, and pretty much,
1168
00:56:34,683 --> 00:56:38,859
Universal at the time
took the memo and tossed it.
1169
00:56:42,274 --> 00:56:44,368
It's not like with
"Magnificent Ambersons,"
1170
00:56:44,443 --> 00:56:46,286
as if we found
the missing last reel,
1171
00:56:46,361 --> 00:56:49,615
but the film became
more itself.
1172
00:56:49,698 --> 00:56:52,201
Orson,
above everything else,
1173
00:56:52,284 --> 00:56:55,163
was a master filmmaker
and knew exactly
1174
00:56:55,245 --> 00:56:57,213
how to make a film,
1175
00:56:57,289 --> 00:56:59,587
as it turned out,
from beyond the grave.
1176
00:57:04,046 --> 00:57:06,014
In Welles' memo,
1177
00:57:06,089 --> 00:57:08,763
he said two thins
about the opening shot.
1178
00:57:08,842 --> 00:57:12,062
He didn't want
titles over it,
1179
00:57:12,137 --> 00:57:14,686
and he wanted
a montage
1180
00:57:14,765 --> 00:57:16,642
of different
music tracks.
1181
00:57:21,396 --> 00:57:24,900
At that time, this was
seen as a B-movie.
1182
00:57:24,983 --> 00:57:27,327
It was very rare
that somebody
1183
00:57:27,402 --> 00:57:29,075
would not have titles
1184
00:57:29,154 --> 00:57:31,282
At the beginning
of a film in a B-movie.
1185
00:57:32,741 --> 00:57:34,789
So there they are,
walking through the town,
1186
00:57:34,868 --> 00:57:36,711
and oop,
there's that music,
1187
00:57:36,787 --> 00:57:39,757
and there's a car,
and, right now-
1188
00:57:39,831 --> 00:57:42,960
boonk! That car
could've blown up.
1189
00:57:43,043 --> 00:57:44,966
Whereas- but if there are
titles over that,
1190
00:57:45,045 --> 00:57:46,922
you just know
it's not gonna blow up.
1191
00:57:47,005 --> 00:57:48,973
So by removing
the titles
1192
00:57:49,049 --> 00:57:51,973
and having this
sort of freeform music,
1193
00:57:52,052 --> 00:57:54,271
it puts a suspense
under this scene
1194
00:57:54,346 --> 00:57:57,691
that didn't
really exist before.
1195
00:57:57,766 --> 00:58:00,189
He'd spent those years
in radio doing
1196
00:58:00,268 --> 00:58:01,736
exactly this kind of stuff.
1197
00:58:01,812 --> 00:58:03,109
We did this in "American Graffiti,"
1198
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:04,986
which was
the same kind of thing.
1199
00:58:05,065 --> 00:58:07,409
What we called
"worldization" of the sound,
1200
00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:08,861
which is to make it
sound like it was
1201
00:58:08,944 --> 00:58:11,072
in the environment
in "American Graffiti,"
1202
00:58:11,154 --> 00:58:13,327
and having it pass by in cars
and that sort of thing,
1203
00:58:13,407 --> 00:58:16,752
which Welles had already
thought of in "Touch of Evil. "
1204
00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:18,204
I think both
Walter and I were
1205
00:58:18,286 --> 00:58:21,415
very charmed by that-
that whole concept.
1206
00:58:21,498 --> 00:58:25,878
He's definitely way ahead
of all the rest of us.
1207
00:58:31,383 --> 00:58:34,262
Fell, Hank was a great
detective all right.
1208
00:58:34,344 --> 00:58:36,938
And a lousy cop.
1209
00:58:37,014 --> 00:58:38,857
Is that all you have
to say for him?
1210
00:58:40,183 --> 00:58:42,436
He was some kind of a man.
1211
00:58:45,689 --> 00:58:48,317
What does it matter
what you say about people?
1212
00:58:56,116 --> 00:58:59,120
Goodbye, Tana.
1213
00:58:59,202 --> 00:59:00,499
Adios.
1214
00:59:00,579 --> 00:59:02,377
Adios.
1215
00:59:03,498 --> 00:59:04,715
Wow, huh?
1216
00:59:04,791 --> 00:59:07,670
You know, Welles didn't even
want to do this movie,
1217
00:59:07,753 --> 00:59:09,676
but you know, sometimes
you do your best work
1218
00:59:09,755 --> 00:59:12,133
when you got a gun
to your head.
1219
00:59:14,134 --> 00:59:17,479
I do think working
for posterity is vulgar.
1220
00:59:21,516 --> 00:59:24,986
Because posterity is
just as big a whore
1221
00:59:25,062 --> 00:59:27,110
as the present.
1222
00:59:27,189 --> 00:59:31,410
Filmmakers of today can do what
they do because Orson did it.
1223
00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:32,953
Every art form that I know
1224
00:59:33,028 --> 00:59:34,996
has somebody who
blazed new trails,
1225
00:59:35,072 --> 00:59:36,824
and their influence
starts being felt
1226
00:59:36,907 --> 00:59:38,375
about a generation later.
1227
00:59:38,450 --> 00:59:41,374
Plato told us that
we should know ourselves,
1228
00:59:41,453 --> 00:59:44,957
and the object
of every artist,
1229
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,213
good, bad or indifferent,
1230
00:59:47,292 --> 00:59:51,388
is a lifelong inquiry
into that subject,
1231
00:59:51,463 --> 00:59:55,388
and his work is
testimony to that effort,
1232
00:59:55,467 --> 00:59:58,437
but I'm in no position
to sum myself up.
1233
00:59:58,512 --> 01:00:00,230
It's a peculiar thing.
When you have an artist
1234
01:00:00,305 --> 01:00:02,649
who works
so outside the box,
1235
01:00:02,724 --> 01:00:04,772
not everybody gets it
at the time.
1236
01:00:04,851 --> 01:00:08,822
Do you know that I always
liked Hollywood very much?
1237
01:00:08,897 --> 01:00:10,524
It just wasn't reciprocated.
1238
01:00:31,586 --> 01:00:34,886
He freed the directors
1239
01:00:34,965 --> 01:00:37,764
from the kind of static ways
1240
01:00:37,843 --> 01:00:40,141
they used to have
about the way you light,
1241
01:00:40,220 --> 01:00:42,143
about the way
you put your camera,
1242
01:00:42,222 --> 01:00:45,066
the way you have
the setting and so forth,
1243
01:00:45,142 --> 01:00:48,692
and it's very clear
in "The Trial," the Kafka.
1244
01:00:48,770 --> 01:00:50,363
He didn't do really Kafka.
1245
01:00:50,438 --> 01:00:52,566
He did
Orson Welles' Kafka.
1246
01:01:03,743 --> 01:01:05,711
I was living in a hotel
on Tuileries,
1247
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:08,666
pacing up and down in my bedroom,
1248
01:01:08,748 --> 01:01:10,842
looking out the window.
1249
01:01:10,917 --> 01:01:12,794
And I'm not such a fool
1250
01:01:12,878 --> 01:01:15,722
as not to take
the moon very seriously,
1251
01:01:15,797 --> 01:01:18,141
and I saw the moon,
very large,
1252
01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:22,354
what we in America call
a harvest moon, enormous.
1253
01:01:22,429 --> 01:01:25,478
And then, miraculously,
two of them.
1254
01:01:25,557 --> 01:01:27,651
And on each moon,
there were numbers,
1255
01:01:27,726 --> 01:01:29,820
and I realized they were
the clock faces
1256
01:01:29,895 --> 01:01:32,239
of the Gare d'Orsay.
1257
01:01:32,314 --> 01:01:35,284
And I remembered that
the Gare d'Orsay was empty.
1258
01:01:35,358 --> 01:01:37,702
And at 5:30 in the morning,
I went downstairs,
1259
01:01:37,777 --> 01:01:39,905
got in a cab,
crossed the Seine,
1260
01:01:39,988 --> 01:01:43,788
and entered this empty
railway station
1261
01:01:43,867 --> 01:01:46,495
where I discovered
the world of Kafka.
1262
01:01:51,583 --> 01:01:55,633
It has been
said that the logic of this story
1263
01:01:55,712 --> 01:01:58,340
is the logic of a dream.
1264
01:01:58,423 --> 01:01:59,720
Come with me, Mr. K.
1265
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,198
Orson's view of Josef K.
1266
01:02:19,277 --> 01:02:22,451
Was that, far from being
the innocent victim
1267
01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:26,080
of bureaucracy that
Kafka had written that-
1268
01:02:26,159 --> 01:02:28,787
but, in Orson's version,
1269
01:02:28,870 --> 01:02:30,087
and I can hear him saying,
1270
01:02:30,163 --> 01:02:31,335
I can hear
his thundering voice,
1271
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,041
"He's guilty as hell. "
1272
01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:36,674
He would like
to tell a story
1273
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:40,508
to make a metaphor about
his vision of the world,
1274
01:02:40,590 --> 01:02:43,343
speaking about
how we can feel guilty
1275
01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:45,053
without being guilty.
1276
01:02:45,136 --> 01:02:47,685
You came to see me
about this case, that's good.
1277
01:02:50,308 --> 01:02:53,482
I saw it as a European story,
1278
01:02:53,561 --> 01:02:56,360
full of old European
bric-a-brac,
1279
01:02:56,439 --> 01:03:01,161
With IBM machines
lurking in the background.
1280
01:03:01,236 --> 01:03:03,079
You think
it's a major movie,
1281
01:03:03,154 --> 01:03:05,498
whatever the critics
said about it.
1282
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:09,036
There really wasn't
indie filmmaking
1283
01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:10,996
in the '40s, '50s,
1284
01:03:11,079 --> 01:03:13,047
you know, when Welles
was doing it.
1285
01:03:14,207 --> 01:03:15,208
He wasn't happy doing it.
1286
01:03:15,292 --> 01:03:16,384
He had no choice.
1287
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:20,054
There's
a new moment in filmmaking.
1288
01:03:20,130 --> 01:03:22,383
It's not that we're better,
the filmmakers,
1289
01:03:22,465 --> 01:03:24,684
but that
the distribution system
1290
01:03:24,759 --> 01:03:26,102
has broken down a little,
1291
01:03:26,177 --> 01:03:29,977
and the public is
more open, more ready
1292
01:03:30,056 --> 01:03:31,103
for difficult subjects.
1293
01:03:31,182 --> 01:03:32,775
Imagine what
it means for me
1294
01:03:32,851 --> 01:03:34,478
to have had the chance
to make it.
1295
01:03:34,561 --> 01:03:36,780
Indeed, to have had
the chance to work.
1296
01:03:42,027 --> 01:03:44,325
He was an unbeatable man.
1297
01:03:44,404 --> 01:03:45,747
You couldn't, you know, if-
1298
01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:47,369
Something didn't work,
1299
01:03:47,449 --> 01:03:49,827
he said, "Okay,
let's move forward,"
1300
01:03:49,909 --> 01:03:51,456
and he would do
another thing
1301
01:03:51,536 --> 01:03:53,038
and one other thing.
1302
01:03:53,121 --> 01:03:54,998
There was no way
of stopping him.
1303
01:03:57,834 --> 01:04:00,383
I said once to him,
"My God, you looked
1304
01:04:00,462 --> 01:04:01,679
wonderful in Jane Eyre!"
1305
01:04:01,755 --> 01:04:03,348
That's the first time
I saw him.
1306
01:04:03,423 --> 01:04:05,391
And he said, "Yeah,
1307
01:04:05,467 --> 01:04:08,846
but you should have seen
the corset I had. "
1308
01:04:08,928 --> 01:04:10,896
We are on
the Dalmatian Coast,
1309
01:04:10,972 --> 01:04:13,066
on the Adriatic.
1310
01:04:13,141 --> 01:04:15,644
Down there is
a small place
1311
01:04:15,727 --> 01:04:18,276
called Primosten where
we shot "Dead Reckoning,"
1312
01:04:18,355 --> 01:04:20,528
later entitled "The Deep,"
1313
01:04:20,607 --> 01:04:22,280
with Lawrence Harvey,
Jeanne Moreau,
1314
01:04:22,359 --> 01:04:23,906
Orson Welles, myself.
1315
01:04:23,985 --> 01:04:25,032
Jeanne Moreau
1316
01:04:25,111 --> 01:04:27,113
I was pretty girl
when I was young.
1317
01:04:27,197 --> 01:04:29,916
No woman ever looked
at me like this.
1318
01:04:29,991 --> 01:04:32,790
He said, "Jeanne,
I don't want to-
1319
01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:35,292
"I don't want to be rude,
but you're not the age
1320
01:04:35,372 --> 01:04:37,340
of playing
a young bride. "
1321
01:04:37,415 --> 01:04:39,463
Look, I don't care
what these people are
1322
01:04:39,542 --> 01:04:41,089
going to think of me.
1323
01:04:41,169 --> 01:04:42,512
I'm not in
the movie business,
1324
01:04:42,587 --> 01:04:45,136
I'm 72 years old,
I want to have a farm,
1325
01:04:45,215 --> 01:04:46,842
I dream of chickens,
literally,
1326
01:04:46,925 --> 01:04:49,098
and have a donkey
and a dog and so on,
1327
01:04:49,177 --> 01:04:52,021
so I'm going to tell anything
that comes into my mind.
1328
01:04:52,097 --> 01:04:56,193
I was in the elevator,
and Polanski stepped in,
1329
01:04:56,267 --> 01:04:58,144
and he said to me,
"You know,
1330
01:04:58,228 --> 01:05:00,822
"I was thinking
of using Orson,
1331
01:05:00,897 --> 01:05:03,446
"but I hear that
1332
01:05:03,525 --> 01:05:08,201
"he's late on the set,
that he's difficult.
1333
01:05:08,279 --> 01:05:10,247
I'm not very sure. "
1334
01:05:10,323 --> 01:05:11,870
I said,
"If you are not sure,
1335
01:05:11,950 --> 01:05:13,327
don't engage him. "
1336
01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:16,789
He would have been
the happiest man in the world
1337
01:05:16,871 --> 01:05:19,875
if Geraldine,
whatever her name is,
1338
01:05:19,958 --> 01:05:21,505
came and said, "Orson,
1339
01:05:21,584 --> 01:05:23,586
this is your son,"
you know?
1340
01:05:23,670 --> 01:05:26,139
I hear that the guy is
very good-looking
1341
01:05:26,214 --> 01:05:28,342
on top of everything,
it would be wonderful.
1342
01:05:30,969 --> 01:05:32,312
They were showing
Magnificent Ambersons“
1343
01:05:32,387 --> 01:05:33,934
in the middle
of the night.
1344
01:05:34,013 --> 01:05:36,061
I see the light,
1345
01:05:36,141 --> 01:05:38,360
I go to the living room,
1346
01:05:38,435 --> 01:05:40,233
and, just before
I open the door,
1347
01:05:40,311 --> 01:05:43,155
I see his reflection
in the mirror,
1348
01:05:43,231 --> 01:05:45,950
and I see him crying.
1349
01:05:46,025 --> 01:05:48,278
And I don't
open the door.
1350
01:05:49,571 --> 01:05:51,994
What's the use to cry?
I do cry enough for Orson.
1351
01:05:52,073 --> 01:05:54,667
I cry...
Too often.
1352
01:06:00,081 --> 01:06:02,755
But I also smile,
1353
01:06:02,834 --> 01:06:07,260
because I'm so happy
that I have known him.
1354
01:06:08,882 --> 01:06:11,305
I think man
is a crazy animal.
1355
01:06:13,761 --> 01:06:15,263
I think we are also-
1356
01:06:15,346 --> 01:06:17,474
I think we're also
marvelous people,
1357
01:06:17,557 --> 01:06:20,811
divine in our potentialities.
1358
01:06:22,061 --> 01:06:23,438
You see, there you are.
1359
01:06:23,521 --> 01:06:25,319
You can say anything
with passion and get a hand.
1360
01:06:32,071 --> 01:06:35,245
If you're going to try
to finance movies and live,
1361
01:06:35,325 --> 01:06:37,498
you have to earn
your money somehow.
1362
01:06:39,579 --> 01:06:41,957
Is there any man with
a decent regard for human life
1363
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:43,417
and the slightest bit of heart
1364
01:06:43,500 --> 01:06:48,051
who doesn't understand it?
1365
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:50,928
I would have sold my soul
to play the Godfather,
1366
01:06:51,007 --> 01:06:54,307
but I never get
those parts offered to me-.
1367
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:58,773
20 million years ago,
1368
01:06:58,848 --> 01:07:02,523
an ape-like creature
inhabited the Earth.
1369
01:07:04,729 --> 01:07:07,027
I'm a kin actor,
maybe a bad one.
1370
01:07:07,106 --> 01:07:09,029
They weren't
necessarily the best actor,
1371
01:07:09,108 --> 01:07:11,202
they were the actor
who played the king.
1372
01:07:11,277 --> 01:07:13,325
- Aah!
- Aah!
1373
01:07:13,404 --> 01:07:16,499
Mike Nichols knows
how to deal with actors.
1374
01:07:16,574 --> 01:07:18,451
Orson would
turn to Mike,
1375
01:07:18,535 --> 01:07:20,287
as, I guess, he did
to every director
1376
01:07:20,370 --> 01:07:22,247
and say things like,
1377
01:07:22,330 --> 01:07:24,003
"You're really gonna
do that shot
1378
01:07:24,082 --> 01:07:25,959
when you know
you're not gonna need it?"
1379
01:07:26,042 --> 01:07:29,262
Knucklehead fool!
1380
01:07:29,337 --> 01:07:30,884
You empty-headed yokel!
1381
01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:33,887
You say,
"My God, I'm in a scene
1382
01:07:33,967 --> 01:07:35,640
"with Orson Welles,
there's an actual
1383
01:07:35,718 --> 01:07:37,265
"piece of film in my life
1384
01:07:37,345 --> 01:07:39,347
that has
Orson Welles in it. "
1385
01:07:39,556 --> 01:07:41,604
I don't want the men
to pay any attention to me,
1386
01:07:41,683 --> 01:07:43,481
just carry on
as usual.
1387
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:45,107
Don't pay
any attention to Dad,
1388
01:07:45,186 --> 01:07:46,233
just carry on as usual.
1389
01:07:46,312 --> 01:07:47,404
Will you clam up?
1390
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,574
Money, money, money.
1391
01:07:49,649 --> 01:07:51,617
I never concern myself
with this madness.
1392
01:07:53,403 --> 01:07:55,622
There's this complete
sort of self-knowledge
1393
01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:58,075
and almost the arrogance
of an athlete, like,
1394
01:07:58,157 --> 01:08:01,001
the ownership of
his body on camera
1395
01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:03,626
before he got to be, you know,
the size of a Buick.
1396
01:08:03,705 --> 01:08:06,959
My salads are...
a bit complicated.
1397
01:08:07,041 --> 01:08:09,169
But he would just
slice through.
1398
01:08:09,252 --> 01:08:10,504
Dinner, ho, dinner!
1399
01:08:12,547 --> 01:08:14,015
Would you take
this away, please,
1400
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:15,683
and... and bring me
1401
01:08:15,758 --> 01:08:17,601
The steak au poivre,
thanks a lot.
1402
01:08:17,677 --> 01:08:20,556
When I watched
Orson Welles eat,
1403
01:08:20,638 --> 01:08:22,390
it was like...
1404
01:08:22,473 --> 01:08:24,726
somebody making love
to the food.
1405
01:08:24,809 --> 01:08:26,482
He really
loved to eat,
1406
01:08:27,312 --> 01:08:29,189
and you could see,
his eyes lit up.
1407
01:08:29,272 --> 01:08:31,149
When he put
that forkful in,
1408
01:08:31,232 --> 01:08:34,031
and his whole face was
like a sunshine.
1409
01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:35,453
You think he'd
remember the lunch.
1410
01:08:35,528 --> 01:08:38,782
There was
a marvelous mousse.
1411
01:08:38,865 --> 01:08:41,869
Got any donuts
or sweet rolls?
1412
01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:44,329
And he could
describe every dish,
1413
01:08:44,412 --> 01:08:45,664
the way it tasted.
1414
01:08:45,747 --> 01:08:47,590
Schwartzw�lder Torte...
1415
01:08:47,665 --> 01:08:49,008
Kugel...
1416
01:08:52,045 --> 01:08:53,342
Caf� cr�me Torte.
1417
01:08:53,421 --> 01:08:55,549
Obviously, when you looked at him
and said, you know,
1418
01:08:55,632 --> 01:08:57,760
this is not a guy
who is on a diet.
1419
01:09:00,678 --> 01:09:01,930
...und Sachertorte.
1420
01:09:02,013 --> 01:09:04,482
How sweet it was-
1421
01:09:04,557 --> 01:09:08,528
Even when he lost some idea
of himself physically...
1422
01:09:08,603 --> 01:09:10,947
Overweight, me?
1423
01:09:11,022 --> 01:09:13,491
The words still had
the same kind of precision
1424
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:14,658
that his body once had.
1425
01:09:14,734 --> 01:09:17,487
More...
1426
01:09:17,570 --> 01:09:19,538
Are you going to help me?
1427
01:09:22,700 --> 01:09:25,704
Have I your support,
or have I not?
1428
01:09:25,787 --> 01:09:28,085
No, Your Grace.
1429
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,087
I'm not going to help you.
1430
01:09:32,877 --> 01:09:36,507
Then good night,
Master More.
1431
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:44,267
You have to wait
quite a long time
1432
01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:46,315
before Welles makes
his masterpiece,
1433
01:09:46,391 --> 01:09:48,940
which in my view and the view
of many other people
1434
01:09:49,018 --> 01:09:51,988
is Falstaff,
the "Chimes at Midnight,"
1435
01:09:52,063 --> 01:09:54,316
which is, to me,
one of the great,
1436
01:09:54,399 --> 01:09:57,243
great achievements of filmmaking
in the 20th century.
1437
01:09:57,318 --> 01:10:00,788
Falstaff!
Good night.
1438
01:10:00,863 --> 01:10:04,709
Now comes in the sweetest
morsel of the night.
1439
01:10:04,784 --> 01:10:06,081
And we must dance.
1440
01:10:07,078 --> 01:10:09,422
I saw it three times
in a row in one night
1441
01:10:09,497 --> 01:10:11,795
because I thought
I might never see it again,
1442
01:10:11,874 --> 01:10:14,548
so you had intellectuals
from the University of Chicago
1443
01:10:14,627 --> 01:10:15,879
and you had winos
off the street,
1444
01:10:15,962 --> 01:10:18,010
and they all loved the film.
1445
01:10:18,089 --> 01:10:19,932
This chair shall be the state
1446
01:10:20,007 --> 01:10:22,226
and this cushion... my crown.
1447
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,149
Welles had, by now,
mastered the art
1448
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:34,151
of making independent films,
1449
01:10:34,230 --> 01:10:36,779
and making them in the way
that he wanted to make them
1450
01:10:36,858 --> 01:10:38,610
in this kind of
improvised way.
1451
01:10:40,278 --> 01:10:41,871
Although he had a script,
of course, for it,
1452
01:10:41,946 --> 01:10:44,324
but he didn't stick
very closely to the script.
1453
01:10:44,407 --> 01:10:46,660
Unless, of course,
it was Shakespeare's words.
1454
01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:50,213
What is honor? Air.
1455
01:10:50,288 --> 01:10:52,507
A trim reckoning!
Who hath it?
1456
01:10:52,582 --> 01:10:55,756
He that died 0' Wednesday.
Doth he feel it? No.
1457
01:10:55,835 --> 01:10:57,587
'Tis insensible then?
Yea, to the dead.
1458
01:10:57,670 --> 01:10:59,923
But will it not live
with the living?
1459
01:11:00,006 --> 01:11:01,679
No. Why?
1460
01:11:01,758 --> 01:11:03,180
The traction will not suffering.
1461
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:04,852
Therefore, I'll none of it.
1462
01:11:35,416 --> 01:11:38,090
Violence always
has been part of our story.
1463
01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:40,012
It is, you know,
I've seen it
1464
01:11:40,087 --> 01:11:42,681
in my own lifetime
long before this period,
1465
01:11:42,757 --> 01:11:45,636
and we certainly
read about it in history.
1466
01:11:45,718 --> 01:11:48,642
That's the way we won the
country and stole it away
1467
01:11:48,721 --> 01:11:50,689
from the Indians
and all the rest of it.
1468
01:11:58,231 --> 01:12:00,780
If I wanted to, uh,
to get into heaven
1469
01:12:00,858 --> 01:12:03,361
on the basis of one movie,
1470
01:12:03,444 --> 01:12:05,572
that's the one
I would offer up,
1471
01:12:05,655 --> 01:12:09,250
because it is, to me,
the least flawed.
1472
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:10,497
Let me put it that way.
1473
01:12:10,576 --> 01:12:13,796
I banish thee,
on pain of death,
1474
01:12:13,871 --> 01:12:17,216
as I have done the rest
for my misleaders,
1475
01:12:17,291 --> 01:12:22,889
not to come near our person
by 10 mile.
1476
01:12:22,964 --> 01:12:24,386
"Chimes at Midnight" is true,
1477
01:12:24,465 --> 01:12:26,263
through and through and through,
1478
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:28,470
and is profound
and is movin
1479
01:12:28,553 --> 01:12:31,056
and contains an absolute essence
of Shakespeare
1480
01:12:31,138 --> 01:12:35,018
and an absolute essence
of Orson Welles.
1481
01:12:36,435 --> 01:12:38,062
Falstaff?
1482
01:12:38,145 --> 01:12:41,570
Falstaff is dead.
1483
01:12:55,621 --> 01:12:59,421
It's human to the core.
1484
01:12:59,500 --> 01:13:03,801
Jesus, the days
that we have seen.
1485
01:13:10,386 --> 01:13:11,763
The Munich Film Museum
1486
01:13:11,846 --> 01:13:15,601
is part of the municipal museum.
1487
01:13:15,683 --> 01:13:18,527
We are very much caring
1488
01:13:18,603 --> 01:13:21,607
to keep the legacy
of Orson Welles.
1489
01:13:22,940 --> 01:13:25,659
All the material Orson had
1490
01:13:25,735 --> 01:13:27,453
was shipped to Munich.
1491
01:13:30,948 --> 01:13:32,950
Sometimes I try to imagine
1492
01:13:33,034 --> 01:13:37,255
Orson having different bedrooms
in different motels and hotels,
1493
01:13:37,330 --> 01:13:40,800
and the doors to this room,
bedroom is locked,
1494
01:13:40,875 --> 01:13:43,924
and under the bed
are hidden,
1495
01:13:44,003 --> 01:13:46,756
you know,
boxes and boxes of film.
1496
01:13:50,009 --> 01:13:53,559
Some believe
these films look more amateurish
1497
01:13:53,638 --> 01:13:56,141
because they are not really
Hollywood productions.
1498
01:13:56,223 --> 01:13:58,476
Many others
see him as a hero
1499
01:13:58,559 --> 01:14:01,062
of the independent filmmaker.
1500
01:14:01,145 --> 01:14:03,864
The problem is only that, uh,
1501
01:14:03,940 --> 01:14:06,193
few of these films were
really finished,
1502
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:10,451
that he still was working
and working and working on them.
1503
01:14:10,529 --> 01:14:11,997
Pellegrina's dead.
1504
01:14:15,451 --> 01:14:18,250
I had no chance
to say good-bye.
1505
01:14:18,329 --> 01:14:20,673
Will you do that for me?
1506
01:14:20,748 --> 01:14:24,378
Everybody who is
an intellectual artist
1507
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:26,804
starts on many things
1508
01:14:26,879 --> 01:14:29,257
and sometimes
doesn't complete them.
1509
01:14:29,340 --> 01:14:32,514
Since it's my own little picture
and I put my own money on it,
1510
01:14:32,593 --> 01:14:35,096
I don't know why
they don't bug authors
1511
01:14:35,179 --> 01:14:37,398
and say, "When are
you gonna finish Nelly,
1512
01:14:37,473 --> 01:14:39,771
that novel you started
10 years ago?"
1513
01:14:39,850 --> 01:14:42,444
If the wolf is
not really at the door,
1514
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:45,490
it's a big temptation to say,
"Well, this isn't-
1515
01:14:45,564 --> 01:14:48,363
this isn't my best,
I'm gonna put it away. "
1516
01:14:48,442 --> 01:14:49,944
A newly-wedded couple
1517
01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:51,825
are here on their small yacht
1518
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:54,453
cruising up
the west coast of Africa
1519
01:14:54,532 --> 01:14:56,626
on their way
to the Mediterranean.
1520
01:14:56,701 --> 01:14:58,203
Out in these waters,
1521
01:14:58,285 --> 01:15:01,129
they might expect
to be very much alone,
1522
01:15:01,205 --> 01:15:03,674
but there's someone else
out there.
1523
01:15:06,168 --> 01:15:10,514
He said once, I'm not going to
call Don Quixote "Don Quixote".
1524
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:13,559
I'm going to call it When Are You
Going to Finish Don Quixote?"
1525
01:15:17,388 --> 01:15:19,766
Stanley Kubrick had projects
that he never completed.
1526
01:15:19,849 --> 01:15:22,978
The difference is, Welles
actually got footage in the can,
1527
01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:24,858
as opposed to a number
of projects by people
1528
01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:28,532
in much better financial position
or industry position,
1529
01:15:28,607 --> 01:15:30,735
never even getting them
off the round.
1530
01:15:30,818 --> 01:15:33,537
Are you happy
when it's all done and cut
1531
01:15:33,612 --> 01:15:36,240
and goes out to be printed
and into the movie houses?
1532
01:15:36,323 --> 01:15:38,166
No.
1533
01:15:38,242 --> 01:15:40,836
No, because you always hope
you can make it better.
1534
01:15:40,911 --> 01:15:42,959
I don't think it's a...
1535
01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:45,087
at all any failure
to want to finish
1536
01:15:45,166 --> 01:15:46,964
or be a fear of finishing
or whatever.
1537
01:15:47,043 --> 01:15:48,886
That sounds like some kind of
bizarre sexual malady.
1538
01:15:51,380 --> 01:15:53,348
I don't know
why he didn't finish it,
1539
01:15:53,424 --> 01:15:55,597
and I never asked him.
1540
01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:58,099
But we have an unbelievable
body of work,
1541
01:15:58,179 --> 01:16:00,602
including the greatest
film on Shakespeare:
1542
01:16:00,681 --> 01:16:02,934
"Falstaff," "Chimes at Midnight,"
1543
01:16:03,017 --> 01:16:05,736
the short color film
"Immortal Story,"
1544
01:16:05,811 --> 01:16:07,688
one of the most
brilliantly shot films ever.
1545
01:16:09,815 --> 01:16:13,240
Film after film
was phenomenal.
1546
01:16:34,173 --> 01:16:36,596
The studios had
lost interest in him,
1547
01:16:36,675 --> 01:16:39,929
and he could put together his
projects in a more European way,
1548
01:16:40,012 --> 01:16:43,391
financially, getting bits
of money from here and there.
1549
01:16:43,474 --> 01:16:46,648
So it was comfortable for him to
be in Europe during that time.
1550
01:16:48,854 --> 01:16:51,858
The way I figure is
that you've only got so much luck,
1551
01:16:51,941 --> 01:16:54,535
and it doesn't matter
when it happens,
1552
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:56,738
and I was incredibly lucky.
1553
01:17:04,328 --> 01:17:05,329
Salud.
1554
01:17:08,082 --> 01:17:09,459
So the central figure
in this story
1555
01:17:09,542 --> 01:17:10,759
is the fellow with,
you know,
1556
01:17:10,835 --> 01:17:12,087
who can hardly
see through
1557
01:17:12,169 --> 01:17:13,842
the bush of the hair
on his chest.
1558
01:17:15,131 --> 01:17:17,099
Mr. Welles! Mr. Welles, please!
1559
01:17:18,968 --> 01:17:20,470
Thank you!
1560
01:17:20,553 --> 01:17:23,352
Oh, I'm gain to go on
being faithful to my girl-.
1561
01:17:23,430 --> 01:17:24,522
I love her.
1562
01:17:29,812 --> 01:17:32,361
In school,
you should be making movies.
1563
01:17:34,066 --> 01:17:36,660
Not letting the professor
tell you about
1564
01:17:36,735 --> 01:17:38,863
Eisenstein
and D.W. Griffith.
1565
01:17:50,958 --> 01:17:52,801
'Cause up to that time,
it was the seamless film,
1566
01:17:52,877 --> 01:17:55,005
in a way, um,
the hidden camera.
1567
01:17:55,087 --> 01:17:57,715
The obtr- the camera that you
couldn't tell was there.
1568
01:17:57,798 --> 01:18:00,301
So Welles was the one
to really break open,
1569
01:18:00,384 --> 01:18:02,227
open up the Pandora's box.
1570
01:18:02,303 --> 01:18:06,524
In a funny way, I guess, picking
up where silent films left off.
1571
01:18:10,644 --> 01:18:13,397
Every single...
1572
01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:15,528
not just every scene,
1573
01:18:15,608 --> 01:18:18,327
but every shot has an idea.
1574
01:18:18,402 --> 01:18:20,325
There's a concept
1575
01:18:20,404 --> 01:18:24,284
and an idea being
executed at every second.
1576
01:18:29,079 --> 01:18:31,548
Welles stands kind of
above everybody's work.
1577
01:18:31,624 --> 01:18:34,423
I think every filmmaker
has some relation with Welles,
1578
01:18:34,501 --> 01:18:38,256
if nothing else, you know,
he created the air we breathe
1579
01:18:38,339 --> 01:18:40,387
in that regard, you know?
1580
01:18:40,466 --> 01:18:42,685
He's sort of the patron saint
of indie filmmakers.
1581
01:18:49,016 --> 01:18:50,268
So much of what he did
1582
01:18:50,351 --> 01:18:51,352
came with quotation marks around it.
1583
01:18:51,435 --> 01:18:52,937
Postmodern.
1584
01:18:53,020 --> 01:18:55,614
And I think about just
the beginning of "F for Fake. "
1585
01:18:55,689 --> 01:18:58,693
It's just all about saying,
"This is what you're seeing
1586
01:18:58,776 --> 01:19:01,700
"and this is what I'm doing,
and this is what you're seeing,
1587
01:19:01,779 --> 01:19:03,076
but this is what I'm doing. "
1588
01:19:03,155 --> 01:19:06,785
That sort of
mirror-on-a-mirror effect.
1589
01:19:09,078 --> 01:19:11,456
It was a pretty great
experience to start making
1590
01:19:11,538 --> 01:19:14,257
yet another movie
with a storyline
1591
01:19:14,333 --> 01:19:16,335
rotten with coincidence.
1592
01:19:16,418 --> 01:19:20,548
For instance, that the author
of "Fake," a book about a faker,
1593
01:19:20,631 --> 01:19:23,180
was himself a faker
and the author of a fake
1594
01:19:23,259 --> 01:19:26,012
to end all fakes.
1595
01:19:26,095 --> 01:19:28,689
During the next hour,
everything you'll hear from us
1596
01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:31,688
is really true
and based on solid facts.
1597
01:19:31,767 --> 01:19:35,567
Not only are we
aware of the edits as they go by,
1598
01:19:35,646 --> 01:19:39,241
but he's showing the editing
process at the same time.
1599
01:19:39,316 --> 01:19:43,913
It's like watching
a talented juggler do his job.
1600
01:19:43,988 --> 01:19:46,616
This is a film
about trickery.
1601
01:19:46,699 --> 01:19:48,872
Fraud.!
1602
01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:51,329
About lies.
1603
01:19:51,412 --> 01:19:53,380
Tell it by the fireside
1604
01:19:53,455 --> 01:19:55,583
or in a marketplace
or in a movie.
1605
01:19:59,128 --> 01:20:03,429
Editing is cinema
in a certain sense.
1606
01:20:03,507 --> 01:20:06,135
Because everything
is broken into bits,
1607
01:20:06,218 --> 01:20:08,687
you can have a great deal
of invention.
1608
01:20:13,017 --> 01:20:16,362
I did promise that for one hour,
1609
01:20:16,437 --> 01:20:18,360
I'd tell you only the truth.
1610
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:21,318
That hour,
ladies and gentlemen, is over.
1611
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:25,121
For the past 17 minutes,
I've been lying my head off.
1612
01:20:30,451 --> 01:20:34,831
That kind of
self-awareness is great for art.
1613
01:20:35,914 --> 01:20:38,758
He's part of that movement
that includes Picasso
1614
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:40,677
and Duke Ellington,
all those artists
1615
01:20:40,753 --> 01:20:44,383
who were aware in a way that
artists had not been before.
1616
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:47,684
Our works are spared,
1617
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:49,888
some of them
for a few decades,
1618
01:20:49,970 --> 01:20:52,098
or a millennium or two.
1619
01:20:52,181 --> 01:20:54,730
The treasures.
And the fakes.
1620
01:20:56,518 --> 01:20:58,816
Our songs.
1621
01:20:58,896 --> 01:21:04,403
Our songs
will all be silenced.
1622
01:21:04,485 --> 01:21:06,738
But what of it?
1623
01:21:06,820 --> 01:21:09,369
Go on singing.
1624
01:21:17,831 --> 01:21:20,960
Wow, how are you?
1625
01:21:21,043 --> 01:21:22,920
Orson Welles,
ladies and gentlemen.
1626
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:26,507
Thank you.
1627
01:21:26,590 --> 01:21:28,809
Thank you very much.
1628
01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:30,306
- I...
- Thank you.
1629
01:21:30,386 --> 01:21:31,729
Thank you all very much.
1630
01:21:31,804 --> 01:21:33,647
I don't believe this,
this is...
1631
01:21:33,722 --> 01:21:34,939
- Who is that?
- That's the, uh,
1632
01:21:35,015 --> 01:21:36,016
That's our director,
Mr. Welles.
1633
01:21:36,100 --> 01:21:37,522
- That... is a director?
- Yeah.
1634
01:21:40,104 --> 01:21:42,027
Heh heh.
What?
1635
01:21:42,106 --> 01:21:43,653
I'm on my mark.
1636
01:21:45,109 --> 01:21:47,828
Yes, always.
1637
01:21:47,903 --> 01:21:49,246
Move your camera.
1638
01:22:00,791 --> 01:22:03,715
He came back in the late '60s.
1639
01:22:03,794 --> 01:22:06,343
Films were beginning to be made
in a different kind of a way.
1640
01:22:06,422 --> 01:22:08,299
The money guys didn't trust him,
1641
01:22:08,382 --> 01:22:11,306
and they had good reason
not to trust him.
1642
01:22:11,385 --> 01:22:14,935
It doesn't matter
how great the material is.
1643
01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:17,482
Ultimately, it has to...
1644
01:22:17,558 --> 01:22:20,903
It has to pay off
for somebody.
1645
01:22:20,978 --> 01:22:24,323
We will sell no wine
before its time.
1646
01:22:26,024 --> 01:22:29,153
We know a little place
in the American far west
1647
01:22:29,236 --> 01:22:34,037
where Charlie Briggs chops up
the finest prairie-fed beef and takes-...
1648
01:22:34,116 --> 01:22:36,289
This is a lot of shit,
you know this?
1649
01:22:36,368 --> 01:22:39,042
Come on, fellas,
you're losing your heads.
1650
01:22:40,581 --> 01:22:42,083
They all wanted to meet him,
1651
01:22:42,166 --> 01:22:43,713
they all wanted
to have lunch with him,
1652
01:22:43,792 --> 01:22:45,385
they all celebrated him.
1653
01:22:45,461 --> 01:22:46,804
And then somehow, you know,
1654
01:22:46,879 --> 01:22:48,847
this man is not gonna
be predictable.
1655
01:22:48,922 --> 01:22:51,550
Here's a scene
from one film
1656
01:22:51,633 --> 01:22:53,010
that Orson is just finishing,
1657
01:22:53,093 --> 01:22:55,642
called "The Other Side of the Wind. "
1658
01:22:55,721 --> 01:22:57,314
I must say,
it's a fascinating scene.
1659
01:22:57,389 --> 01:22:58,732
It's about a celebration
1660
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:04,359
in honor of a famous movie
director who is not Orson.
1661
01:23:04,438 --> 01:23:06,111
I get a phone call.
1662
01:23:06,190 --> 01:23:08,818
"Orson wants you
to do his picture. "
1663
01:23:08,901 --> 01:23:10,574
I said, "Orson Welles?
I don't know Orson Welles.
1664
01:23:10,652 --> 01:23:11,995
"He doesn't know me.
1665
01:23:12,112 --> 01:23:14,240
"L mean, I know
'Citizen Kane' is the-
1666
01:23:14,323 --> 01:23:17,247
"probably the best picture
ever made, but why is-
1667
01:23:17,326 --> 01:23:18,953
Are you fucking around with me?"
1668
01:23:23,624 --> 01:23:24,876
I knocked at the door,
1669
01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:28,963
and I figure some lackey
is gonna open the door.
1670
01:23:29,046 --> 01:23:31,469
The door opens and it's...
1671
01:23:31,548 --> 01:23:33,721
"Oh ho ho!
Oh ho ho ho ho!"
1672
01:23:34,885 --> 01:23:37,729
"Oh ho ho!
Ah ha ha ha ha.
1673
01:23:37,804 --> 01:23:40,648
"Paul Mazursky, come on in!
1674
01:23:40,724 --> 01:23:44,399
I'm making a film called
The Other Side of the Wind".
1675
01:23:44,478 --> 01:23:46,276
We're going to shoot it
without a script.
1676
01:23:46,355 --> 01:23:47,982
Without a script?
1677
01:23:48,065 --> 01:23:50,944
We're gonna make the picture
as though it were a documentary.
1678
01:23:51,026 --> 01:23:53,120
The actors are
going to be improvising.
1679
01:23:53,195 --> 01:23:57,416
He started in 1970 and he worked
on it through his passing in '85.
1680
01:23:57,491 --> 01:24:01,166
I never saw Orson sleep.
1681
01:24:01,245 --> 01:24:03,498
It was a stop-and-start
situation.
1682
01:24:03,580 --> 01:24:06,754
It seemed to me that every time
Orson got a little bit of money,
1683
01:24:06,833 --> 01:24:09,757
he would bring the cast back
and start shooting again.
1684
01:24:09,836 --> 01:24:12,180
I'm still confused about
1685
01:24:12,256 --> 01:24:15,351
the area of the magician,
as director.
1686
01:24:15,425 --> 01:24:17,803
This is crap!
This is intellectual bullshit!
1687
01:24:17,886 --> 01:24:19,934
When I tell you that my partner
1688
01:24:20,013 --> 01:24:23,392
is the brother-in-law
of the late Shah of Iran,
1689
01:24:23,475 --> 01:24:25,193
you will understand
why we're having
1690
01:24:25,269 --> 01:24:26,862
a little legal difficulty.
1691
01:24:26,937 --> 01:24:28,860
He owes me $25.
1692
01:24:28,939 --> 01:24:31,783
I sort of felt that we would just
1693
01:24:31,858 --> 01:24:33,860
keep making the movie
until he died.
1694
01:24:38,532 --> 01:24:42,082
Let us raise
our cups, then,
1695
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:47,508
standing as some of us do
on opposite ends of the river,
1696
01:24:47,583 --> 01:24:52,430
and drink together, to what
really matters to us all...
1697
01:24:52,504 --> 01:24:56,429
to our crazy
and beloved profession.
1698
01:24:56,508 --> 01:25:02,332
To the movies, to good movies,
to every possible kind.
1699
01:25:02,806 --> 01:25:05,355
There is
this terrible consolation of being
1700
01:25:05,434 --> 01:25:07,152
40 years ahead of your time.
1701
01:25:07,227 --> 01:25:09,571
I wish I'd be
on time sometimes.
1702
01:25:09,646 --> 01:25:13,492
The night he won the Oscar,
the special Oscar,
1703
01:25:13,567 --> 01:25:16,366
and he had asked John Huston
to pick it up for him.
1704
01:25:16,445 --> 01:25:21,167
"Genius" is a word that
must be used very sparingly,
1705
01:25:21,241 --> 01:25:23,585
especially in this world
of films.
1706
01:25:23,660 --> 01:25:25,754
He said,
"I'm- I'm not gonna go. "
1707
01:25:25,829 --> 01:25:27,126
I said, "Why not?"
and he said,
1708
01:25:27,205 --> 01:25:28,752
"They're not gonna
get that out of me. "
1709
01:25:28,832 --> 01:25:30,129
On my way back to Ireland,
1710
01:25:30,208 --> 01:25:33,257
I'll stop in Spain
and give him this.
1711
01:25:33,337 --> 01:25:36,261
We were sitting
at the Beverly Hills Hotel,
1712
01:25:36,340 --> 01:25:38,388
watching the Oscars,
and Orson says,
1713
01:25:38,467 --> 01:25:40,344
"Yeah, come on
right over, John!"
1714
01:25:41,887 --> 01:25:43,480
You celebrated
a big birthday, didn't you?
1715
01:25:43,555 --> 01:25:45,353
I didn't celebrate it,
I just had it.
1716
01:25:46,767 --> 01:25:48,861
I used to pretend
it was my birthday
1717
01:25:48,935 --> 01:25:51,108
when I took a girl
out to dinner,
1718
01:25:51,188 --> 01:25:53,941
and then I'd have the waiter
bring a cake in
1719
01:25:54,024 --> 01:25:55,651
and sing "Happy Birthday,"
1720
01:25:55,734 --> 01:25:58,533
and I'd use that as an excuse
to extend the evening.
1721
01:25:58,612 --> 01:26:00,034
Aha...
1722
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:07,876
I have a sentimental
inclination toward hope.
1723
01:26:07,954 --> 01:26:10,833
I believe in bravery.
1724
01:26:10,916 --> 01:26:12,293
Worship it.
1725
01:26:12,376 --> 01:26:14,344
To me, Orson
1726
01:26:14,419 --> 01:26:19,220
is so much like a destitute king.
1727
01:26:19,299 --> 01:26:21,848
On this earth,
1728
01:26:21,927 --> 01:26:26,182
there's no kingdom
that is good enough
1729
01:26:26,264 --> 01:26:28,107
for Orson Welles.
1730
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:30,026
But you feel
wonderful, don't you?
1731
01:26:30,102 --> 01:26:31,649
Oh, sure!
1732
01:26:33,438 --> 01:26:36,988
As it must to all men,
death came to Orson Welles.
1733
01:26:37,067 --> 01:26:40,742
That, a paraphrase borrowed from
his own film, "Citizen Kane. "
1734
01:26:40,821 --> 01:26:43,165
Orson Welles told me
about a lunch he had recently
1735
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:45,663
with director-producer
Steven Spielberg,
1736
01:26:45,742 --> 01:26:48,245
who had just purchased
the famous "Rosebud" sled
1737
01:26:48,328 --> 01:26:52,083
from "Citizen Kane"
for $45,000.
1738
01:26:52,165 --> 01:26:54,918
But I said, "We burnt the sled,
Steven. "
1739
01:26:56,461 --> 01:27:00,182
That's why we enjoy life,
is that we know it's got to end.
1740
01:27:00,257 --> 01:27:03,227
Orson Welles was 70.
1741
01:27:10,016 --> 01:27:11,393
After my father died,
1742
01:27:11,476 --> 01:27:14,776
I got a call from my half-sister
Beatrice.
1743
01:27:14,855 --> 01:27:16,277
She and her mother Paola
1744
01:27:16,356 --> 01:27:19,360
were arranging a funeral
in Los Angeles,
1745
01:27:19,443 --> 01:27:23,664
and I was really devastated by
the place where it was held,
1746
01:27:23,739 --> 01:27:26,743
which was like
a horrible motel room.
1747
01:27:26,825 --> 01:27:31,752
Nothing had been done, I felt,
to truly honor my father.
1748
01:27:35,292 --> 01:27:37,294
He didn't want to be cremated.
1749
01:27:37,377 --> 01:27:39,630
He said, "I took so much
from this earth,
1750
01:27:39,713 --> 01:27:42,637
I should give it back,
at least, something-"
1751
01:27:42,716 --> 01:27:45,390
And, um, they didn't do it.
1752
01:27:56,604 --> 01:28:01,702
I would like to do something
which would leave...
1753
01:28:02,277 --> 01:28:05,531
at least...
1754
01:28:05,614 --> 01:28:08,993
the art form concerned
or the profession
1755
01:28:09,075 --> 01:28:12,079
better for
my having done it...
1756
01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:20,092
...to use this medium for
something except entertaining.
1757
01:28:22,172 --> 01:28:24,220
I'd like to have been more
useful in the world,
1758
01:28:24,299 --> 01:28:25,846
and I hope I can be.
It's, uh...
1759
01:28:25,926 --> 01:28:29,055
You finally get to a point
where, uh...
1760
01:28:29,137 --> 01:28:32,186
art for art's sake
doesn't seem a good enough flag
1761
01:28:32,265 --> 01:28:34,814
to be marching under
sometimes.
1762
01:28:34,893 --> 01:28:36,987
What's a better flag?
1763
01:28:37,062 --> 01:28:40,316
Well, you've got to believe in
something bigger than yourself.
1764
01:28:40,398 --> 01:28:41,945
Oh, we've run out of film.
1765
01:28:43,235 --> 01:28:44,578
- You had me-
- I must tell you-
1766
01:28:44,653 --> 01:28:45,825
I had me riveted!
1767
01:28:47,948 --> 01:28:50,497
I loved every-
Don't cut a word out of that!
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