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I should do a Welles watchthrough to prep for this. I've probably only seen ~half his filmography. Easily my most anticipated film of the year.
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Sep 5, 2018 23:33
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Between unfinished projects, TV work, multiple edits of a significant portion of his filmography, and all his various acting and narration work, I can't think of another canonical director who's filmography is as much a cluttered mess as his and yet at the same time the man was a complete genius who, in the words of a former forums member, "could shoot Lawrence of Arabia in the trunk of a car" and we'd believe it.
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Sep 6, 2018 13:52
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Radio Spiricom posted:- The film within the film is completely egregious, and I'm completely unaware of whether it's meant to be parody / satire, pastiche, or homage because it so closely resembles the real McCoy (Zabriskie Point) but some of the sequences are to die for and it's a shame Welles didn't work in color more. It's very specifically spoofing European art films of the time, in particular Antonioni, with its aimlessness and overt sexuality. Also they shot all the party sequences at the actual house next door to the house that gets blown up in Zabriskie Point.
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Nov 5, 2018 02:30
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Oh, I getcha. Yeah, that's a fair point and with Welles I think he himself frequently blurred that line between what was meant tongue-in-cheek and what was meant totally in earnest. I think he absolutely intended the film-within-the-film as a pastiche but he nevertheless had fun filming it and wanted to include some stark and shocking images. So it's a little column A a little column B in that regard.
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Nov 5, 2018 13:40
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The film within the film is basically Let the Corpses Tan.
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Nov 5, 2018 20:58
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