Orson Welles

that differed in that time. Or the scene where they showed time passing with Charles and his first wife, as they sat at the table and grew less and less interested in each other. The costumes did seemed to be brilliantly chosen, not to mention Orson Welles aging makeup. For it's time, the make up was skillfully…

1.In Orson wells production of the book the war of the worlds he performed over radio broad cast October 30th 1938, he convinced thousands of viewers the events portrayed were true. This I believe played on a lot of cultural traditions and assumptions at that time. For start it was broad casted the night before Halloween so all hallows eve. So you already have many viewers in the mind set of “creepy or scary” things to happen. Second you can see that the broadcast was altered to allow it to be…

in the movie. The Third Man is also not complete without having a cast that gives the movie its feel. Reed hires Orson Welles to play Harry Lime the villain in The Third Man, Orson Welles was a widely know actor at that time who played in various movies one being Citizen Kane that we watched in class. Reed also hires Joseph Cotton who has started in different movies with Orson Welles before to play Holly Martins who is the friend of Harry Lime and wants to deeply believe in him but, as the movie…

The Essence of Falsehood and Fakery: How to Pull off a Hoax The ubiquitous presence of fakes is an undeniable truth. I mean technically. It sounds so pretentious to say that we are surrounded by fakes, as if they are lurking around every street, ready to snatch the wool and pull it over our eyes, but it’s inescapable to live without encountering at least one element of fraud somewhere. Films, novels, television, paintings magazine ads, magicians, technically are all forms of trickery, because…

Orson Welles’s film “Citizen Kane” tells the story of Charles Foster Kane. A character who at the very young age inherited a great deal of money, whilst simultaneously having been taken away from his mother. This causes a tremendous amount of issues in his social and romantic life. The main problem with Kane is his inability to show any sort of affection towards anyone who dare try to care for him, the root of the issue: his mother. The only person Kane ever loved sent him away, causing an…

Summary A biopic of the life and work of the legendary worst director of all time, Edward D. Wood Jr., concentrating on the best-known period of his life in the 1950s, when he made Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of the Monster (1955) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), and focusing on both his transvestitism and his touching friendship with the once great but now ageing and unemployed horror star Bela Lugosi. (Brooke,1994) Ed Wood the undisputed master of very bad movies and campy showmanship is…

Obesity has become an epidemic in America, which creates an ample amount of health issues although society and corporations continue to encourage behavior that leads to an unfortunate result. Becoming obese is not fate. It primarily is a result of American society, the food products that we consume, and people’s susceptibility to misleading advertisements. “Although family genetics do influence an individual's susceptibility toward overweight and obesity, the rapid change in its prevalence is…

how it has foreshadowed what will become of the news in the future. Through the similarities and problems that both encompass, it is easy to see how social media has become what the radio once was. Chen opens up his article with a story of how Orson Welles, a radio broadcaster, performed “The War of the Worlds” over the radio with only some warning of it being a radio adaptation and that aliens were not actually invading. However, since the radio was one of the largest news platforms back then,…

In the radio drama “War of the Worlds” produced by Orson Welles had the genre of drama. The main idea of the radio drama was just a theater that was broadcasted in live. This radio drama was a theater held by H.G. Wells. The theater was performed by the Mercury theater. It was made to be realistic and made to make people believe it and that is exactly what happened. Although most people believed it was all real, if they would've listened until the end they would've known that it was a theater…

The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilder”. The Film Noir Foundation states this about film noir: “Highly stylized, overly theatrical, with imagery often drawn from an earlier era of German ‘expressionist’ cinema … crime thrillers and murder dramas with a…