Orson Welles' most memorable role/accomplishment
Posted: 2002-08-19 05:12pm
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Posted: 2002-08-19 06:01pm
I liked the radio broadcast the best because everyone thought it was real. LOL
Posted: 2002-08-19 06:24pm
The radio broadcast... Who else can brag they had people so paniced over an alien invasio.
Posted: 2002-08-19 06:25pm
The radio broadcast... Who else can brag they had people so paniced over an alien invasio.
Posted: 2002-08-19 06:48pm
Harry Lime: The Thin man
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Posted: 2002-08-19 06:48pm
Harry Lime: The Third man
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Posted: 2002-08-19 06:49pm
Harry Lime: The Third man
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Posted: 2002-08-19 07:26pm
Bonus! Triple Post Score!THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Harry Lime: The Third man
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Posted: 2002-08-19 07:31pm
WTF do you think? People died when they panicked, he's such a good actor. But at the same time, Kane was so fucking boring. William Randolph Hurst, kiss my ass. Rosebud's his good goddamn sled, I'd warn of a spoiler but who gives a shit, and besides, it's not even in color. Uh... Hmmm...
Posted: 2002-08-19 09:12pm
Renewed_Valour1 wrote:Bonus! Triple Post Score!THe Yosemite Bear wrote:Harry Lime: The Third man
Fuck, I was watching for that Kid killing, Girl Friend Betraying rat bastard to get his.
Fucking trapped in Lag HELL
Posted: 2002-08-19 09:57pm
I find it odd that in Wells last role he played a planet. A cruel joke for a man as large as he.
Posted: 2002-08-19 10:18pm
Citizen Kane is by far his most famous and memorable role. Whether you like Citizen Kane or not, it's one of the most famous movies of all time. Even more well known than the Mercury Theatre broadcast of War of the Worlds. And yes, even more well known than his role are Unicron as hard as it is to believe.
Posted: 2002-08-19 11:41pm
Yes, you're probably right. But this poll is for what we like the best. Not what everyone else likes.
Posted: 2002-08-20 12:26am
What about his Mrs. Paul's Fishticks comercials?
Didn't he also do comercials for Paul Mason wine?
Other than that I think his greatest achievement, other than the WOW radio broadcast, was as the inspiration for the voice of The Brain of Pinky & The Brain.
Didn't he also do comercials for Paul Mason wine?
Other than that I think his greatest achievement, other than the WOW radio broadcast, was as the inspiration for the voice of The Brain of Pinky & The Brain.
Posted: 2002-08-20 02:28am
The poll says what was the most memorable, not what we like the best though.IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Yes, you're probably right. But this poll is for what we like the best. Not what everyone else likes.
Posted: 2002-08-20 02:31am
Quinlin and Touch of Evil is still big time well known amoung the movie insiders. Longest opening shot, with no cuts. Not to mention as an abusive, redneck sherriff, he was just the most perfect jerk.
Posted: 2002-08-20 03:59am
Oh...lol.Is there a doubt?
Posted: 2002-08-20 07:14pm
Citizen Kane; the one film which defined moviemaking in the form we now know it in. The movie which showcases in one package the genius of Orson Welles.
Behind that, his production of the 1948 version of Macbeth. If you've ever seen this wonderful movie, it is one of the most atmospheric Shakespeare films ever made, easily rivalling Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet made the same year. No other Shakespearian movie, in my view, has managed to succeed in truly transporting the viewer to another world, with the possible exception of Akira Kurosawa's samurai-Macbeth, 1956's Throne Of Blood.
But it is difficult to find an Orson Welles movie which wasn't brilliant in one way or another. I was lucky enough to see the restored version of Touch Of Evil on the big screen when it was doing its nationwide tour and as my first ever viewing of that movie as well. The whole production was so well executed that I was even able, after a point, to accept Charlton Heston as a Mexican because I got that lost in the story. I'd also highly recommend his production of Kafka's The Trial (with Anthony Perkins), The Stranger, The Magnificent Ambersons (depsite that saccharine ending RKO tacked onto it) and Mr. Arkadin.
All due kudos to his portrayal of Harry Lime in The Third Man, itself a wonderful movie —although every time I watch it, I can't help thinking how that movie would have turned out had Orson also directed.
Behind that, his production of the 1948 version of Macbeth. If you've ever seen this wonderful movie, it is one of the most atmospheric Shakespeare films ever made, easily rivalling Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet made the same year. No other Shakespearian movie, in my view, has managed to succeed in truly transporting the viewer to another world, with the possible exception of Akira Kurosawa's samurai-Macbeth, 1956's Throne Of Blood.
But it is difficult to find an Orson Welles movie which wasn't brilliant in one way or another. I was lucky enough to see the restored version of Touch Of Evil on the big screen when it was doing its nationwide tour and as my first ever viewing of that movie as well. The whole production was so well executed that I was even able, after a point, to accept Charlton Heston as a Mexican because I got that lost in the story. I'd also highly recommend his production of Kafka's The Trial (with Anthony Perkins), The Stranger, The Magnificent Ambersons (depsite that saccharine ending RKO tacked onto it) and Mr. Arkadin.
All due kudos to his portrayal of Harry Lime in The Third Man, itself a wonderful movie —although every time I watch it, I can't help thinking how that movie would have turned out had Orson also directed.