Ok, I'll try to do it all on one go“Gloriously unruly...an incisive look at an artist who never recovered from the success of his youth.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil: legendary filmmaker Orson Welles.Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over Hollywood. By twenty-three, Welles had revolutionized theatre and radio with The War of the Worlds; by twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his debut film, Citizen Kane. Yet four films and less than a decade later, his career suffered a spectacular collapse, and Welles, once the most promising director in America, was written off as a “would-be genius”—a bad bet in an increasingly money-conscious industry. In The Giant, Youssef Daoudi weaves together reality and mythology to create a radical new look at one of Hollywood’s most legendary figures and poses a question as timeless as Orson Welles himself: What happens when a true artist comes up against the rest of the world?
People complain about Citizen Kane being "a heavy film that's hard to sit through" all the time, yet I found it pretty engaging and easy to watch. On the other hand, Monk (a 2020 Oscarbait about Welles' career) was much heavier, slower, and duller to watch over. Weird how a movie from almost a century ago is an easier watch than a modern one.
I was thinking about getting this (not thinking too hard heh), but never saw it in my local comic shop. I will be monitoring this thread OP!
>>152063718Kane is a very entertaining film with an always relevant story, so when people complain about it in the ways you’ve described they’re just outing themselves as having watched so few movies that anything seems inaccessible to them. Or they were “forced” to watch it in an academic setting, and didn’t get the chance to discover it themselves.And yeah, Mank was rank. I’m all for giving Mankiewicz his credit, but positing Welles is a talentless plagiarist only makes sense if you believe he’s never made anything of comparable worth to Kane, which his isn’t true. All of his subsequent Hollywood films are pretty good, and I’m a big fan of his late-era experimentation. His problem was being held to a belief he’s one day be welcomed back into the Hollywood system instead of embracing himself as an indie pioneer. Now everybody does what Welles does in terms of financing passion projects. He was at least able to live long enough to see himself championed by the next generation of filmmakers.I think all the “Welles never got past Citizen Kane” stories are pretty redundant, they understate how funny and happy he was when he became old and FAT, but I’ll give OP’s comic a chance.
damn, this new captcha sure is annoying for doing a story-time, I think I'm donetake it as a preview, I guess OP is a faggot once again
>>152064053damn, I was getting into itshame, but the captcha is infuriating, so I understand
Welles was pretty based. F for Fake is kino.
>>152063801I really like the art here
>>152063962Oooh, that last panel is very memeable
>>152063984Damn, the artist is having a lot of fun with this!
>>152063682you have my interest, OP, kind faggot
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>>152063844>>152063839>>152063814>>152063801>>152063786None of this makes use of the comics format in any way.
>>152064053Literally just>h-h-heres a preview go buy my garbage ass comicKill yourself faggot
>>152064024Mwaaah!>>152064053backup OP here
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>>152067635>>152064024related, Orson Welles Drunk Outtakes for Paul Masson Wine Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM
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Orson fascinates me not just because of his life and work, but because the man himself was one of those uncommon artists who would make for great subjects of stories in their own right.Watching Mank, I couldn't help but wish we got more Orson since the subject of that movie wasn't all that arresting a personality beyond his place in history and his social context.
>>152067934referencing his namesake's novel
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>>152068249>Welles's project attracted some of Hollywood's best technicians, including cinematographer Gregg Toland.[60] Welles and Toland made extensive use of deep focus photography, in which everything in the frame is in focus. Toland explained that he and Welles thought "that if it was possible, the picture should be brought to the screen in such a way that the audience would feel it was looking at reality, rather than merely at a movie." They composed "our angles and compositions so that action which ordinarily would be shown in direct cuts would be shown in a single, longer scene--often one in which important action might take place simultaneously in widely separated points in extreme foreground and background."[62]>Toland explained their use of deep (or pan) focus:>Through its use, it is possible to photograph action from a range of eighteen inches from the camera lens to over two hundred feet away, with extreme foreground and background figures and action both recorded in sharp relief. Hitherto, the camera had to be focused either for a close or a distant shot, all efforts to encompass both at the same time resulting in one or the other being out of focus. This handicap necessitated the breaking up of a scene into long and short angles, with much consequent loss of realism. With pan-focus, the camera, like the human eye, sees an entire panorama at once, with everything clear and lifelike.
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>>152063682>The Giant: Orson WellesI remember when huge orson wells was a meme on /lit/, that was 15 years ago already.
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>>152068721>Red Scum!Huh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst>was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His extravagant methods of yellow journalism in violation of ethics and standards influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human-interest stories.>Hearst sold papers by printing giant headlines over lurid stories featuring crime, corruption, sex, and innuendos.>twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives. He ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in 1904, Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, and Governor of New York in 1906. During his political career, he espoused views generally associated with the left wing of the Progressive Movement, claiming to speak on behalf of the working class.
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>>152063682My first impression: Extremely pretentiousMaybe it's my loss for not reading this but I just can't summon the interest or patience.Granted, it's a unique storytime, I can respect that.
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>>152063698>How they'll love me after I'm deadI mean. Kind of? Probably not the way he ever anticipated.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA
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>>152069092Orson KaneCitizen Welles>started at the top>working my way down ever since
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>>152069155Horned helmets?
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>>152069211>I'm unmanageable. Profligate. Unreliable.
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>>152069260>86% taxUSA really was communist back then.
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>>152067947There isn't a single personality in Hollywood who comes close to him in terms of interviewing skills.Sure you'll get ones with interesting stories or jokester personalities like Robert Pattinson.But Welles? Holy shit, watch any interview the man ever did, he always had a habit of just telling a story and pulling you in with absolute ease.My favorite is still the "one day of being a psychic medium"
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>>152068047neat design for the tripod
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>>152063718>Two completely different kinds of movies feel differentYou don’t say
>>152069112Lots of quotes from F for Fake in this comic
>>152071576You died anon?
>>152071576>>152071884just taking a break
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>>152070479>you are a formidable ma with a very loud voice, strong opinions, and a wicked sense of humor>most people are scared of youliterally me
>>152072380Muhl here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Muhl>head of production for Universal PicturesSee also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Evil
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>>152072705>Welles found his fame ephemeral and turned to a writing project at Todd School that became immensely successful, first entitled Everybody's Shakespeare,[36][37] for the first three volumes,[38] and subsequently, The Mercury Shakespeare.>>152072733>Chimes of midnight then?Apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimes_at_Midnight
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>>152072988Ah, Denethor II.
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Is there anything in here about him eating (IIRC) 16 hot dogs in one sitting? Also at one point he allegedly ate a gallon of pistachio ice cream with every meal and washed it down with a fifth of bourbon.
>>152073444how times change yet stay the same
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>>152068955That forced last second happy ending is such horseshit. Butchers the entire fucking movie.
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>>152076390it's certainly been one of the more interesting storytimes we have had recently
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This was a great read, thanks for picking up OP's torch with the dump. Helps that I actually like The Other Side of the Wind.Minus a point for no Transformers.
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>>152079042>"Oh, how they'll love me after I'm dead." - Orson WellesThat ends the storytime, more interesting than I was expecting.H.G. Wells meets Orson Welles, Their Historic 1940 Interview Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IexiAa-c5bY>Historic 1940 radio interview featuring Orson Welles (25) and H.G. Wells (74) captured on November 30, 1940 San Antonio, over a year before the U.S. entered WWII.
>>152079164Thanks for finishing the storytime for faggot OP, anon. Don't have the time to read it all now unfortunately but it looks interesting. Great artwork.
>>152063682What a nice coincidence that Touch of Evil was playing at the arthouse theater today. I could finally get to see what was with Welles' frustration in Ed Wood on Charlton Heston playing a Mexican (even as it turns out Heston was the one who brought Welles aboard to direct in reality)
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>>152080586>nice coincidence that Touch of Evil was playing at the arthouse theater todaynot to dox you, but Orlandofag?
>>152078935feels like it a bit cheating to say the Other Side of the Wind is both a finished film and unfinished
>>152083257It’s accurate. Welles never properly finished it and the version we have now on Netflix is basically a result of years of work from other people cobbling together whatever was there and doing their best to turn it into something that could be released
Neato! This is the kind of work there should be more of. I like capes as much as the next guy but this felt more interesting to read, as well as educational.
>>152084344/co/ could do with more Eurocomic storytimes
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>>152082882In the sense that I go there from the coast every so often to get some culture. Living over an hour from the nearest actual city has its pitfalls.
>>152071925God damn, this artist really is great
