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One of Orson Welles's most famous tricks:
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his silhouette.
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A disguise, an abstraction of his self
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or simply a game.
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Maybe it was too good a trick.
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Welles, the person, disappears
behind his own outline.
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At some point, he becomes
merely a stylized shadow of himself.
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Toward the end of his life,
criticism of Welles was getting louder.
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"Burned-out genius,
half-extinct volcano."
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The Welles legend
took on a life of its own.
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1975, ten years before his death,
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Welles returns to Hollywood.
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The American Film Institute
is honoring its prodigal son.
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For decades, Hollywood
has shown no interest in him.
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But now, to everyone's surprise,
he receives the Life Achievement Award.
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Welles's early career
took off like a rocket.
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First, a wunderkind,
then a successful director on Broadway
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and controversial radio producer.
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At 23, he was an author,
director, actor and journalist
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and excelled in all.
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Hollywood was calling.
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Citizen Kane catapulted
the 26-year-old to worldwide fame.
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But everyone's favorite
was becoming a burden.
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Hollywood thought him too profligate,
rebellious and eccentric.
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Before long, no one in America
wanted to hire him anymore.
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He chose to go into exile in Europe.
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But European producers, too,
were cool to him.
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With each film,
his work became more difficult.
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The few things he completed
were admired by the critics,
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but ignored by the public.
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Many of his projects were never realized.
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For Welles, returning to L.A.
did not mean retirement.
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He was determined to reconquer Hollywood.
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He brought with him clips from a new film
that he wanted to finish in the U.S.
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Welles showed clips from his new film,
The Other Side of the Wind,
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his most ambitious film in a long time.
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For him, it's as important
as Citizen Kane.
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When Welles died in L.A. in 1985,
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The Other Side of the Wind
remained an unreleased fragment.
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Obscure legal problems have prevented
the release of the film to this day.
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That new beginning Welles had planned
never happened.
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In fact, his reputation as a has-been
who couldn't finish films was reinforced.
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For some, his glory had always been
nothing but a brilliant scam.
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Others saw him as a fallen giant.
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Who are we to believe
about his final years?
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Oja Kodar.
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For 20 years, up until Welles's death,
she was his partner in life and work.
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He left his personal archives of
unreleased films and fragments to her.
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The more she hesitated to release them,
the further they fell into oblivion.
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It was always believed that
Welles couldn't finish what he started.
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In total, he completed only 12 movies.
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Almost all of them were edited
and mutilated by producers.
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The Magnificent Ambersons,
Mr. Arkadin,
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A Touch of Evil,
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almost none were released
in the way Welles intended.
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As for all his other projects,
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only rumors, traces and speculation.
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The trailer for F for Fake
was rejected by U.S. film distributors.
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Too long, too extravagant.
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Hero, tragedian, megalomaniac.
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Welles was often confused with
the great roles he loved so much.
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Amused, he made use of these cliches
and played with them.
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Lord Plumfield versus Welles.
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A small puzzle in two parts
on two planes of time.
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Years later, he completed this sketch
with additional shots
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in which he played the part
of the journalist himself.
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He shot these scenes in a corner
of a park near Paris.
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This house would serve him
as a studio for several years
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a small film studio where he could
work on new projects independently.
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No one knows when or why Welles decided
to read solitary chapters of Moby Dick.
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The fragments in Oja Kodar's archive were
seemingly created without a clear plan.
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Welles followed his own system
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continuing his numerous parallel projects
as the opportunity arose.
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Welles's creative life was similar
to that of a vagabond.
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He went where the films
he appeared in took him.
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Not all of these roles were rewarding.
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With the steep acting fees he charged,
he funded his own projects.
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He'd take the money and
return to the sets of his films.
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As a director, he wouldn't
chase after locations for his films,
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but like a nomad, he made sure the films
came along in his carry-on luggage.
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No matter where he found
images and motifs...
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a take here, or a shot for
a different project there...
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they only served as a backdrop
for his own universe.
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Over the years, his work became
a patchwork without any chronology.
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Any method would do if it helped him
wring his own visions out of the world.
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Spain is more than just
a stopover on his travels.
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He spent 30 years trying
to complete his Don Quixote.
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A close friend to many matadors,
he was passionate about bullfighting.
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As a young man,
he had even ventured into the arena.
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It would become a life long passion.
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Traveling, shooting
and then some more traveling.
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A window frame against a landscape,
and a new idea was born:
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a short humorous skit
on Winston Churchill.
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Schwarzwaelder Torte, Guglhupf,
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Burgtheater-Linzer, Topfenschnitten,
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Kaffeecremetorte, Nusstorte,
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Erdbeercreme, Italienischen,
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gemischte Kognakfruechte, Streusel
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Wurfelkugel
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and Sachertorte.
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Welles loved making up stories.
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But simply touch his life story,
and legends invented by others come up.
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They become inextricably mixed up with
his own overgrown story.
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For example, a fire is said
to have destroyed his house in Spain.
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He's said to have lost
his dearest childhood keepsakes,
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photos, letters, documents
and unfinished films.
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But his house is still standing,
undamaged, in Madrid.
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Fact cannot be separated from fiction.
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The Deep.
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There was also a lot of doubt
about that project.
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With this thriller,
paid for out of his own pocket,
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Welles hoped to reach a large audience.
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Welles gathered together
some of his actor friends.
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Oja Kodar, Jeanne Moreau,
Michael Bryant, Laurence Harvey.
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He was working in Dalmatia
and used the Adriatic for the Pacific.
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As many times before, financial problems
forced him to stop production.
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It was decided to postpone
production until the following year.
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The death of Laurence Harvey ultimately
made it impossible to complete the film
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with only a few scenes to go.
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About the same time,
in the Mediterranean,
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Welles started work
on The Merchant of Venice.
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He brought back some images
from the carnival to set the scene.
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The Merchant of Venice was to be a short
TV adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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His financing seemed in order,
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but there were tax problems,
and his backers pulled out.
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Once again, he tried
to complete it on his own
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to prevent yet another project
from being left incomplete.
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So, he left expensive Venice.
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A small town on the Dalmatian coast
had to stand in for the lagoon city.
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The window frame hits the road again,
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and wooden puppets fill in form asked
carnival goers lying in wait for Shylock.
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Welles managed to complete the shooting
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and was ready to begin editing.
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He thought he'd finally done it,
but then the negatives disappeared.
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The circumstances of the theft
were never fully cleared up.
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Years later, somewhere in the world,
Welles would take out his camera again
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and rerecord his Shylock monologue,
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the monologue that would forever
be missing from his Merchant of Venice.
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By then, Welles was used to being asked
about his unfinished projects.
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As usual,
he'd reveal only half the truth.
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This reputation
was a heavy burden for him.
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When his troubles with
The Other Side of Wind became known,
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his long-time doubters felt vindicated.
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As long as it was a matter of honoring
the director of Citizen Kane,
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Welles was welcome anywhere.
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But as soon as he he tried to launch
a new project, he faced rejection.
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Screen tests,
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a commercial for Japanese whiskey.
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Welles sells his voice, his face,
and his legend.
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Part of his strategy of self-financing.
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For the public, though,
it's his final admission of defeat.
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Working to be able to work,
that's the price of freedom,
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or, as he put it,
"my contradiction in myself."
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His remaining years in Hollywood
didn't change anything about that.
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A stone's throw
from Hollywood's dream factory,
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he worked on a new project
with Oja Kodar, The Dreamers,
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based on two novellas
by his favorite author, Tanja Blixen.
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Pellegrina Leoni, played by Oja Kodar,
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is defeated by the unrealizable
dream to live more than one life.
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Welles himself played Marcus,
who tells her story after her death.
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The Dreamers remained but a dream.
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A blurred vision from which
Welles wrung a few scenes
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as if he wanted to substantiate
the last lines of the script.
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"There are only two questions
an intelligent person should consider:
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Why did God create the world,
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and what will I do next?"
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He drew up new plans.
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The Big Brass Ring,
a story set in American politics.
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The backers wanted big stars,
but all negotiations with actors failed.
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The Cradle Will Rock was to follow up
on a previous stage success.
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The financing came to a halt.
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King Lear failed because of false promises
from the French producers.
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One disappointment after another.
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And Welles?
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He lit a cigar as if nothing had happened
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and returned to his beloved magic.
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As a little boy, Welles was told
by a Chinese sage,
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"Be careful when you behold the new moon.
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It is so fragile that your gaze
must be completely pure.
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I fit is not,
your fortune may turn bad."
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He would often recall
that advice later in his life.
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Perhaps he'd failed to heed it one day.
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What about The Other Side of the Wind?
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Oja's archive contains only short clips
from this late, major work.
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It is said that Welles himself
produced a three-hour version of it.
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To this day, the legal problems
surrounding it have not been resolved.
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It is doubtful it will ever be released.
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In one of his letters, Welles wrote,
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"This film has never been released.
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For me, professionally, it was fatal.
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In Los Angeles, everyone only
talks about 'crazy old Welles. '
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Today I must start over from scratch,
not easy at my age.17162
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