On the evening of October 9 1985, the bearded giant slouched on the floor from the backdrop of the “Merv Griffin Show”, kissed the host’s cheek and grinned in the applause. The blue shirt hung the obese a tent just above the pants, black jacket arched over the legs of the 1.92-meter man like a hood.
It all started with 23 years and “War of the Worlds”
For 15 years, Orson Welles had fed his legend to the US talk shows. He had become accustomed to demonstrate as elephantine circus attraction. Too big for this world, too much talent, belly, genius to be mortal. Hours after the show he died in Los Angeles, heart failure, his chauffeur found him. It was the man for countless deaths of gods favorite, who had been too young to good and long lived to be even better the first death.
a gifted George Orson Welles, who with 23 years with the radio play “War of the Worlds” the US -Ostküste lured in the panic of an invasion from Mars, who was born two years later with “Citizen Kane” the American auteur films and the cinema had forever changed, which led to the studio system war, millions dollars squandered and most battles lost, of only a dozen films under his own name completed (next 70 films as actor hired) at the end: Orson Welles had when he died, spent a good part of his life in the subjunctive. And less and leave more accomplished than a dozen world-class directors. How well he knew it. One more death no longer startled him
Orson Welles’ interview on the eve of his death at the desk was stale like the others. Oh, yes, he knows well happy moments; Oh no, he would not spread lies and denunciations of his women; Oh yes, he had suffered enough pain, remorse, especially about his wrongdoing; Marlene Dietrich was the “most loyal friend” and Rita Hayworth, a divorced his wives, “the dearest and sweetest woman”. Patiently played the big Welles the great Welles. He had always been lucky in his life, he growled. Now he was seventy and fairly faint: “But no one, the effort to be successful, has pity on me.” The eternal blowhard who does not even exaggerating, even when his preservationists.
With Charlie Chaplin Orson Welles shared a lifelong right attitude. With Chaplin and Akira Kurosawa, the peculiar prophet experience to be scorned at home and worshiped in Europe before he was home with the world at your feet. With Marlon Brando, whose earlier men beauty Welles nothing held (his neck was “like a big sausage, a shoe made of meat”) he informed Alterskorpulenz, arrogance and thoughtlessness to join for horrendous pain and suffering in mediocre to lousy films. The “Battle for Rome” (1968) would also without Welles made well. The boyish sensibility of the young Welles faded early, from 1960 on, he was so fat that he himself had for his “Falstaff” (1965) down to starve to match weight.
Orson Welles had a preference for malicious gossip
In other Hollywood stars, he shared the spiteful gossip. Greta Garbo he called a “großknochige cow”, so the games exactly “as it would make any drag queen which mimics the Garbo”. Richard Burton was a “joke with a prominent woman” (Elizabeth Taylor) for him. Hitchcock’s color films he considered trash, “Rear Window” (1954) was one of the “worst films I have ever seen”. As a “Vertigo” his “Citizen Kane”, named for decades by the critics for “best film ever”, the first rank expired, he must be desperate in the world.
Humphrey Bogart, he was a coward and poor pugilists: The Labels only perch land warehouses in which he guaranteed would be stopped by the superiors. Whole guys like Hemingway, Picasso and Spanish bullfighter named Welles his friends, but also the delicate crumpled Joseph Cotten, with whom he appeared in “The Third Man”. At enemies lacked Orson Welles not, they remained faithful to him revealed his friends.
The admirers were victorious in number and influence, since the 16-year-old Theaternarr from the province of Wisconsin hitchhiked to the sketchpad by Ireland, was himself out of Dublin’s most famous stage than Broadway star and committed promptly. Nothing resisted the charm and the ego strength. Countless radio plays he borrowed in New York Studios his noble baritone, also quite low radio soap operas. He directed, produced (often anonymous), earned the fantastic sum of 2,000 dollars a week and financed with the money his projects with the Mercury Theatre. After the sensational success of “War of the Worlds” is Hollywood crack at the young genius. They wanted to see money on her account with art made.
“Why are so many of me here?”
After “Citizen Kane” (1941), which confused the audience, often angry and with a screenplay Oscar had to> be content as a moderate box office success, he was America’s most sought-after director. On probation. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst did his best to harm the film, which portrayed him unflattering extortion by the cinema operators. It only made him bigger. Welles, 15 years old orphan, had the billionaire angedichtet his lonely childhood. Moreover he refused the parole. Everything he was too small and too low. At least Shakespeare, at least world literature class it should be, the most divine fabrics for the biggest ego. The studio bosses should the value at the Budget, the people kindly at the tills. Both did not play long with
Bald was the megalomaniacal filmmakers in Cannes more popular than in Hollywood. According to a credible legend Orson Welles should have announced during an appearance before a sparse audience: “Good evening, I’m Orson Welles – director, producer, actor, impresario, author, painter, magician, star of stage, screen and radio; and I’m a pretty tolerable singer. Why are so many of me here and so few of them? ” Man overwhelmed with Welles honors for lifetime achievement, when he still was not fifty, yet already a Bygone. Everyone wanted to talk with the Master, Pasolini, Truffaut, Bogdanovich. Wanted to work under him hardly anyone.
“The Trial” (according to Kafka, 1962) he cited as his best film. The next thirteen years saw the Americans more of him in commercials for beer and mineral water as in the cinema. Talk shows were his exile. Movies meant to him just a little while he was working on them, he once said. On fine arts him lay more.
So he decided his days as an artwork. What “Citizen Kane” the young audience still says, growing up with “Harry Potter”, “The Hobbit” and “Hunger Games” is rarely explored. One might fear the result. Orson Welles, the Vermeer of cinema, they will all survive, that’s clear. Sometimes we resurrect him in retrospectives and amazed. In Ronda, the cult city of the Spanish bullfighting, is Welles’ ashes on the property of his friend bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez buried. His last dust in Ronda like a freak or a “Rosebud” – have been legacy. The Welles-exegetes differ. As always, in the spirit of their hero.
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