Orson Welles

However, one creative thinker went a step further and produced a video, "It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending," that depicts White House aides and the president being arrested by federal agents. The spoof video is being compared to Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/ As IMDb describes, the 1941 film centers on members of the press trying to make sense of a wealthy newspaper owner's final words uttered before he died. The production is…

On H.G. Wells’s Use of Realism in The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds was released in 1898, during H.G. Wells’s pioneering of the science fiction genre. At this time, there had been numerous novels written with documentary-style exposition. Readers were responding to this type of non-fiction, and with Wells opening a style that bears such thick roots to fiction, it only made sense that he used a journalistic approach, the story being told from the point of view of a completely anonymous…

the viewer experience the film as though they are also investigating the strange murder. When Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) first shows up in The Third Man, the camera pans the street that he is walking on to get to his destination Harry Lime’s (Orson Welles) house. This camera panning mimics how a person would turn their head as though they are watching Holly walk down the street and see him as he is passing by. This gives the viewer a personal feel because it matches their natural movement.…

Hierarchy of Knowledge “Mr. Kane was a man that lost almost everything he had… So, maybe Rosebud was something that he lost…” Citizen Kane is considered to be the greatest film ever made. Orson Welles had the ultimate freedom of directing this film in an innovative way that is not in chronological order. The film begins with the camera focused on an old man’s mouth, which whispers one word: "Rosebud." The old man then drops the globe, which rolls onto the floor and shatters. After a moment of…

“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.” -Orson Welles When people justify breaking the law, it leads to dangerous territories. While some may believe parents should protect and save their child at all costs, breaking the law is too far a length to go because the law is what keeps order, and it is too big of a medical risk. Some may believe parents should protect their child at all costs because that is what they have been influenced to believe for…

“If there had not been women, we would still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization to impress our girlfriends.” –Orson Welles. Being in a relationship with opposite gender has been common among humans. As a result, relationships have been the reason of stability in human existence. Yet, being in a relationship allows partners to have reliable companies, increases the quality of their shared life, and meets one’s sexual needs. Firstly, people's life possesses…

interviewing different people, there is never truly the sense that anybody is “guilty” because Thompson is merely a reporter looking for the meaning of “Rosebud”. A common understanding of everybody being guilty is a common theme in the genre that Orson Welles chose to ignore in his…

studios for audiences and actors, marking the beginning of the end for the Hollywood studio system.” (2009) Independent movie producers during that time, including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, Mary Pickford and Orson Welles, were all now able to get the finance and distribution of their films. Another direct result of this is the studios had to be more selective about the film’s they did put out, and making production budgets higher and a lot less films than…

Andy lasted for more than 30 years. The Shadow, which is a crime drama, also had a loyal following. Prestige anthology shows brought together writers such as Archibald MacLeish and Norman Corwin with actors from the stage such as Helen Hayes and Orson Welles, and film-based anthology shows such as The Lux Radio…

those pesky little prepositions and definite articles running around, trying to pull the lines into too regular a rhythm of anapests or dactyls.” (xxv) Beyond the structure and sound, Beowulf tells a story in the fashion that reminds me of when Orson Welles accidently convinced a nation we were under attack from aliens. To hear the story of Beowulf in all its glory as an adolescent would surely put Grendel in the local forest, waiting for the evening to fall before he tromps through for his…