>Director at the end of his career denounces film as a fruitless art form, says he regrets pursuing it, and clearly has contempt for his fansWhy is this such a common trope?
orson is based
Lynch should've done the same.
A lot of people get bitter as they age and make a big show of it, doubly so for someone who spend roughly 65% of his life as a "failure" like Orson (probably his estimation).
Based the french guy
Orson knew that film was heading towards hyper financialization and would talk quite a lot about how film was going to be dogshit in the future because he saw the writing on the wall of corporate suits who are too fucking retarded to understand there's more to life (and flm) than "b-b-but it didn't make a billion dollars". He was mostly right, though I suspect he thought it was more imminent than it was, as film would limp on for a few more decades past his exit. Unlike the rest of the industry who was desperate for another check he was willing to say the quiet part out loud, that turning everything into a money contest was a recipe for absolute slop.
He doesn't say anything?
>>221139511It's kind of shocking to think of The Trial failing while Lucas' THX1138 would electrify his career, but it's a question of style, dialect and timing. Welles never had an American Graffiti, and even highbrow cinema or radio dramas can't play to empty theaters.
Champagne?
>>221139401He was a drunken failure that huffed his own farts.
>>221139768He was a massive success across multiple domains that is still regarded as a legendary household name to this day.Bitter much, NEET?
Fat people are immoral
>>221139511>Unlike the rest of the industry who was desperate for another checkthe same orson welles who was in multiple shitty wine ads?
>>221139401the fans are retarded
>>221139401>clearly has contempt for his fansDid they not feed him enough?
movie studios literally butchered his greatest film and lost the original version
>>221139401Most directors, screen writers etc have a shelf life. This is because they only have a finite amount of brillient ideas and also these ideas have to match the zietgiest of society to make maximum impact. Its a small window of time for them toget their very best work out there, after that then, if they're lucky enough to have built enough of a following their subsequent work might have a degree of financial sucsess but nothing as epic as that golden period. If the planets align then they may get a pretty good film that makes people think the director might be back, thats the film that wins the oscar if the academy forgot to give them one during their golden period. After that its back to slop though.For example, Spielberg:He did have a long golden period, Jaws, ET, Close Encounters, Raiders, all his early films are pretty much kino. Then he starts misfiring and becomes inconsistent. Jurassic Park was so good some people even shout it the movie's title out as they cum, Jurassic Park 2 is a massive damp squib, not least because it almost completely ignored the (great) book it was meant to be based on because Spielberg thought he could do better.The average at best Spielberg films start to out weigh the great ones, with the only really good ones being Schindler's List and Catch Me If You Can. Slop like The Fablemans, Indy 4, the Time Machine, Disclosure Day, etc, is what he does now. Its OK but gone are the days you might be excited, JUST because a film is a Spielberg film.He is a master of his craft, but at the same time a spent force, like a deflated balloon that once floated high in the sky but is now just a splat of wrinkled rubber.Wells was the same in that respect, but he was self aware, he knew this and was regretful of what he had become. He yearned for the days he was the master of kino and not a voice actor on Transformers. But he knew those days were gone and felt he had wasted them with little to show overall.
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>>221140974>>221139511>Orson knew that film was heading towards hyper financializationWith the great irony of SPIELBERG declining to finance his finale film, being the loathesome coattail rider of George Lucas' special effects development, and peddler of BLOCKBUSTERS which the Big Studios still chase (while mostly reduced to money laundering instruments).
I watched an interview he was in where he said the word FAGGOT like it was nothing and the host+audience laughed Why can't i say the word faggot whenever i want???
>>221140974>>221141084At this point Speilberg should be retiring from directing, but make the film adaptation of the play "The Shark is Broken" as his final film. He actually has a chance of ending his career with something genuinely kino, that not only reminds people of his great period but also could mean he bows out with a final Oscar.
>>221140602which he did to fund his films that he never got to finish, like The Other Side of the Wind
