Did Orson Welles actually do anything besides make Citizen Kane? Sure it was groundbreaking and all but it seems like he just got fat as shit and coasted off of its legacy for 40 years.

>>212255851 (OP)
Pretty much

>>212255851 (OP)
He played a good Othello

>>212255851 (OP)
His best movie is actually F for Fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6v7GHYDbM

His Falstaff was great

Finally someone said it. All his other movies are without substance and Citizen Kane wasn't even that great to begin with.

Touch of evil is so fucking good. That opening shot is kino. Orson was a king, the type of man who'd never bore you with the truth.

The wine ad

The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, The Trial, Touch of Evil, F For Fake are all pure kinography

Citizen kane was mid

I miss culture.

>>212255851 (OP)
Unicron in the Transformers movie. It was his las role too. He was also peak obese and he played a planet. The writers made fun of him for this fact too, then he died a week later.

He fucked starlets and aristocrats and whored around on every wife he had. Lived the dream.

>>212256147
Nobody knows those writer's names, Orson is more alive and present in the world than they are, and they're still sucking air.

>>212255851 (OP)
He did plenty, you pleb.

>>212255851 (OP)
god I hate nu/tv/ and zoomers totally ignorant of film and television. weak bait is even worse.

>>212256263
Just zip it with the zoomer talk, you dumb peasant. As a zoomer, I've watched way more shit than you, and am smarter than you. Kys.

>>212255851 (OP)
Why do people like Citizen Kane so much? There's nothing special about it, got bored of it 30 minutes in.

>Of course, killing you is killing myself. It's the same thing. But you know, I'm pretty tired of both of us
He wrote, directed and starred in this at 32 btw

>>212255851 (OP)
Godfather was his best role

>>212256263
zoomers are the ones pretending that citizen kane is good bcs they want to impress basedlennials who still obsess over star wars

>>212256263
post recommendations instead of shrieking about DA ZOOOOOOOOOMERS and your receding hairline
welcome to 4chan, faggot

the transformers movie

>>212255851 (OP)
he does a good job in the Third Man which is a great movie.

>>212256263
I think it's time to leave, anon. You've clearly outgrown this place.

he was also a loud fat faggot

>>212256325
It’s a meme. It has just become tradition for people who have never even seen the movie to just claim it’s the best movie ever.

>>212256306
U mad faggot?

>>212256191
He died unfulfilled in life and wished that he could have done more. It wasnt even him being being humble, he was legit saddened by the fact that Citizen Kane was his legacy among other amazing films, yet they didn't bring him any greater purpose. Imagine being one of those people on their death bed saying "I could have done so much more" and being in one of the greatest films of all time. Hell, it makes me sad even typing it out.
Plus, theyre plenty of nobody retards(me) out there who know those writer's names since they decided to kill of Optimus Prime for shits and giggles.

>>212256840
Yes, I am, should I fucking ruin your life for it? You tell me.

>>212255851 (OP)
>claims to have met both hitler and churchill

orson welles was unironically steven seagal of the golden age of hollywood

>>212257018
Orson was actually a genuinely talented artist and met plenty of famous people and politicians due to his endeavours which included political engagement.

>>212257014
Go a head bitch, I'm much tougher than I look

>>212255851 (OP)
He invented the podcast with War of the Worlds

>>212258728
yeah and i've met both trump and putin

Someone give me a fucking (you). I have posts in 15 threads and nothing, and I need to go to fucking bed, but I’m in fucking withdraw. I got the no (you) shakes

Well...uhrrrmmm

https://youtu.be/Nvxwf1jxdaM

>>212258872

>>212258852
Hey me too, I knew I knew you from somewhere.

>>212255851 (OP)
whole bunch of radio pays.

>>212255895
F for Fake is merely a rehearsal before The Other Side of the Wind. But you were of course filtered, just like you were filtered by Kane.

>>212256368
That's Sterling Hayden and his best 70s role is The Long Goodbye

>>212257018
Alec Guiness was pretty bad too, the Star Wars kid thing was completely made up, and he constantly told people he predicted James' Dean's death and warned him a week beforehand. I think a lot of older thespians were the types of guys that told stories so many times it became hard to separate fact from fantasy, or to ever stop performing.

>>212259253
that's what big fish is about, people liked to tell stories. now with constant surveillance and "proofs?" it's harder to maintain. I'm like this, I always embellish whatever happened to me and people who know me know what I'm making up but to new people it's a different thing.

>>212259380
You're exaggerating!

>>212255851 (OP)
Don't forget, he also got drunk as shit in that Paul Masson ad. Now THAT'S kino.

He made some beautiful movies, but Citizen Kane was the only one with an original script worth a damn. Style over substance: the director.

>>212255851 (OP)
>Did Orson Welles actually do anything

He doesn't do anything?

>>212259482
I told anon a million times to stop exaggerating!

>>212260154
You probably know about the controversy behind Kane's script, but I see it not as controversy, but the ultimate irony played on Welles. Mankiewicz, either by intellect or accident, doesn't matter, guessed the riddle of Welles, implanted it in the script, deep enough that it got past Welles' revisions, and condemned him to be eternally in Kane's shadow.

>>212255851 (OP)
War of the Worlds was what kickstarted his career.