Orson Welles

In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender's Game gives his characters complex and in depth personalities to convey a variety of themes. Facts on File defines theme as a, “topic, as of a speech, discussion, book, etc.; subject.”. Card expresses many themes throughout his book such as games, isolation yields individual strength, the line between good and evil, individual needs versus the common good, individual initiative versus central planning, children versus adults. The Merriam-Webster dictionary…

Ender’s Game is a science fiction action major motion picture based on the best selling novel of the same name. This futurist film follows the protagonist, an eleven year old named Ender Wiggin, through his battle training. Ender believes he is training to fight the alien race called the buggers. Colonel Graff is the head of the battle school and manipulates Ender’s training. There are also many of Ender’s friends sprinkled throughout the story that help him on his journey. Ender’s Game is set…

"Rosebud" and looks back on his life through an interview with Kane's surrounding people. However, the movie was not suitable for the proper national release because, in major theaters, they were blocked-booked by big studios. Despite the opposition, Welles has become a great hero of a French film critic’s main film festival supported by independent filmmakers. All witnesses have opinions, but sometimes opinions do not agree. Although the movie stands in front of them, it cannot ignore the…

The melodrama was radio broadcasted in 1938 by George Orson Welles, and was developed into two films, which premiered in 1953 and 2005. Although each depiction of the story is wonderfully executed, each one has unique aspects of realism, audience involvement, and storyline. George Orson Welles, along with the Mercury Theater, preformed a radio dramatization of The War of the Worlds with an unprecedented nationwide reaction. Due to the Welles’ ineffable attention to detail, and the actors’…

Erica Andreyev 04/25/15 Professor Reed ENGWR300 Writing Assignment #3 War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is a broadcast scripted by Orson Welles in 1938, in which Mercury Theatre on the Air enacted a Martian invasion of Earth/New Jersey. During this broadcast, it was said to have frightened many civilians and “Upwards of a million people, [were] convinced, if only briefly, that the United States was being laid waste by alien invaders,” narrator Oliver Platt informs us in the new PBS…

Why were millions of people scared on Halloween night in 1938.The radio drama war of the worlds produced by Orson Welles showed us how the people were scared.The radio drama war of the world produced by Orson Welles produced on Halloween night in 1938 which took place in New Jersey scaring the nation to the point cities were evacuating. Orson Welles created a radio drama that frightened listeners on Halloween night. Although the show created chaos,it wouldn’t have happened if the listeners…

appear aged, something that was ahead of its time. Under the direction of Orson Welles, the film optimized the use of lighting. Scenes of the film used hard, direct lighting in order to give the film a dramatic element to it. Along with high-contrast lighting, the film was also shot from unique angles. The filmmakers took risks in the creation of the film, even going so far as to remove the floorboards of the set…

In the first place it is worth noting the situation of this scene of the witches within the plot of Macbeth because, in the text of William Shakespeare appears as Scene III, while in the adaptation of Orson Welles develops in the first scene, nothing else begin the film, following the presentation of the witches that Shakespeare performed in Scene I. In the film version of Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, the first scene of the witches is omitted from the text and this third scene that concerns us,…

The film F is for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) is a masterpiece that creates its own genre as a documentary essay. The films subject of fakery lies in the precincts of art forgery, charlatanism “magicianship”, the idea of authorships, and experts. The opening of the film, which displayed Welles doing a magic trick suitably set the theme of imitation, and if the audience didn’t catch on Welles even introduced the film as one of trickery. F is for Fake was birthed collectively out the many different…

Citizen Kane, written, directed and starring Orson Welles is a biographical/detective film on the life of Charles Foster Kane. The film sets out with a journalist called Thompson speaking to his boss about how they want to announce Kane’s death to the world on News of the March. They need more information about Kane, his personality and a deeper insight into his life rather than the facts that everyone already knows. This is where Rosebud comes into play. Rosebud was the final word that Kane…