Orson Welles Essays

Orson Welles was one of the most internationally acclaimed directors of all time. One of his least known movies is his adaptation of Othello. Orson Welles adaptation of the controversial film about race demonstrates his innovative ways. Orson Welles was born into an artistic, seemingly content family. However, his early life consisted mainly of divorce, death, separation, and the arts. A few years after the divorce, Welles’s mother died leaving his father with the decision whether to resume Orson’s

the Live Stage. Orson Welles dominated all three mediums. Time Magazine called him a ray of sunshine in the dark theater, when he made his debut in the late 1920’s. Time was on to something with their review also. By the time Orson Welles was 26 years old, he had already traveled the world twice, lied his way into a professional Broadway career, caused Americans to fall into a mass hysteria, and finally, had made the Greatest American film ever to grace the screens. Orson Welles never called himself

On October 30,1938, the night before Halloween, Orson Welles brought shock to people all over the country through a broadcast. He talked about fake aliens in New Mills, New Jersey. He did this because he wanted more people to listen to his broadcasts. His broadcast was meant to seem realistic, and many people did not know it was fake. Orson Welles recklessly endangered people through his broadcast by causing chaos across the country. The original broadcast seemed realistic. First, the introduction

together that Orson Welles was the man behind War of the World that caused people to go into this mass hysteria. It is incredible that if you make it sound like it is believable, people will actually buy in. I have truely never see a man's voice pursuade a large portion of people to strongly. Welles uses many of the same stadegies that he used in Citize Kane to make sure the viewers or listeners never even thought about turn the screen or radio off. I also agree with you that Orson Welles probably

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-author, director and star. The film opens with the most famous one word in movie history, Rosebud, which is the last thing Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), uttered before he died. Immediately, reporters compile a newsreel to recap the major events in Kane’s life. But, something is missing, Rosebud; who is it? What is it? And why did it mean so much to Kane that he would say it on his death bed? To crack this mystery we

Orson Welles is known for his wide variety of techniques and forms. His use of Backlighting, superimpose, dissolve, and his visually smooth transitions tie in with his use of extreme long shots, close ups, high angles, low angles, pans, tilts, and tracking to make his movie, “Citizen Kane”, flow smoothly. His use and changing of different techniques highlight the lonely, power-hungry and incomplete Charles Kane. The movie “Citizen Kane” starts off with a close up of a “No Trespassing” sign then

My favorite movie of all times would have to be Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane. This film is such a great movie that event though it is over 70 years old it is still being played not only in theaters but is also used in cinema classes. This movie had changed how movie makers made movies and has inspired so many big movies even to this day. It has been nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories and had won an Academy Award for Best Writing. Even if you might not have seen the movies itself

Orson Welles is a genius that created a massive panic attack in America through a radio drama broadcast. During the 1939 radio broadcast was a popular way to get news around. Orson uses many different ideas into created this particular radio drama broadcast on October 29, 1939. Welles setting of the radio drama broadcast script was the in same setting and time period of where America experienced in 1939. There were Martians from Mars invading America. But, the people who missed the introduction of

Kane (1941) with all the spotlights to his last work of classic film noir the Touch of Evil (1958). The contributions of Orson Welles (Orson Welles) on transiting the traditional Hollywood film style and developing the film noir in the 1940s is irreplaceable. The genre Film noir was well known for showing a degenerate and dark underground world. The masterpieces of Orson Welles for example the Citizen Kane(1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1948) and The Strangers (1946) all made significant contributions

Orson Welles’ films portray the dark side of human nature. The motif of darkness is conveyed through still images, mood music, short, foreboding phrases, the conjuring of sinister ideas, and objects that represent darkness. A common theme that engulfs his movies is murder by gunshot. Many of the characters in his movies appear borderline psychopathic because of their inconsiderate tendencies. In the rare instances his characters did care for someone, it was only a lover and even then, they were only

regards to Orson Welles part in producing, starring and directing “one of the greatest film of all time,” in respect to the its time. The film is Welles’ attempt and is used as a superb example for the use of various filming techniques such as deep focus; chiaroscuro lighting on subjects and characters, jump cuts, long takes to which he has been praised for using all these forms of film making and combining them into one for the first time in cinematic history. It has been noted for Welles to take

Citizen Kane was written, directed, and starred in by Orson Welles, a young unproven twenty-five year old on the brink of history. Welles was handed a golden opportunity that was unheard of for that time, the ability to express his creativity freely and have total control of a film. Citizen Kane challenged the concept of traditional movie making. He innovated the less accepted methods of its era effectively, using concepts such as elaborate sound techniques, out of the norm narrative structure, the

drama made by Orson Welles, who is the producer, co-author, director, and star of this movie. Citizen Kane was produced in the year of 1941. This film was made by trying to represent what the American dream is. What Orson Welles means by trying to represent the American dream by producing Citizen Kane is life should be better, richer, and full of life for everybody and Orson Welles uses film techniques to represent what the American dream is to him. As the movie goes along Orson Welles shows through

Orson Welles’ 1941 film noir Citizen Kane is an exploration of human condition and the effects on those who are closest to him through his pursuit of the Great American Dream. This is achieved by depicting widely upon the quest for happiness. He extends the life story of William Randolph Hearst, a non-fictional media tycoon and characterises Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) to imitate his life. The corrupting nature of power and wealth, unreliability of memory and isolation versus interventionalism

Marilyn Fabe argues Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, “marks a grand synthesis of realism and expressionism in film form.”(99) Welles brilliantly creates a foundation of realist characteristics and techniques, while at the same time, introduces elements and themes of expressionism through his innovative and experimental editing and cinematic style. Although traditional realist aspects were implemented in the film, it is Welles’s departure from the classical continuity editing and cinematography

To help create his debut film Citizen Kane, Orson Welles assembled a talented group of artists and technicians who together produced a film that redefined cinema forever. During the film’s production process, Welles himself stated that making a film “is the biggest electric train set any boy ever had.” By this he meant that the production studio was his playground and he intended to use every tool at his disposal. Starting from the film’s very first shot; he proves this to be true. As the film

defined them as such help to define the outcome of Orson Welles’ radio broadcast “War of the Worlds.” Welles’ broadcast was aimed to entertain the listeners and allow them to see the plot of the story from his perspective and create a sense of realism behind the broadcast. While, Welles’ intention was never to manipulate his listeners and produce a widespread panic, that is exactly the effect that it had for his listeners. Welles’ was able to

Citizen Kane, (Orson Welles, 1941), was a breakthrough film of its time of release in 1941. The director, Orson Welles, had been in radio and had already made somewhat of a name for himself onstage, as well as a director and manager of his own company. After failing to persuade his Hollywood contractor RKO with his first script and movie project, he decided to focus on creating a screenplay about a “millionaire media magnate William Randolph Hearst.” (Lewis, p158). Hence, Citizen Kane debuted

Citizen Kane From watching Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, a movie about a wealthy newspaper publisher can arguably be the greatest of all time, or at least a great movie for its time period to others. There’s several aspects to this movie that makes it a remarkable film, also a great example of a film that takes great risk for its time period with how they used the camera. What makes this a remarkable film would be; how they used lighting to shed focus of certain characters

Citizen Kane has been considered as one of the best films ever created. Since its release in 1941, the magnificent film is still influencing the movie world today and its infamous “Rosebud” quote is still one of the top film quotes of all time. Orson Welles was the director, producer, star, and co-writer of the film. He based a big portion of his protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, on the big time Newspaper Publisher William Randolph Hearst. When realizing what the film was based on, Hearst threaten