Orson Welles Montage

Made as a personal tribute to the artist and the man. The greatest filmmaker who ever lived. For non-profit / study purposes - Published under fair use. Music by Hans Zimmer - Footage copyright by their respective owners. -------------- If you're a student in film school, a keen self-taught, or just a movie fanatic the name of Orson Welles comes up at some point. As a child in the mid-80's - in the late Orson days - I used to see him on TV specials and automatically my parents will tell me that he was a great director and that he had made many movies, but they always mentioned only one: "Citizen Kane." The greatest blessing and the worst curse were these two words in the life of the great Orson. He started out as Hollywood's wonder boy and ended up as the great dissident and the greatest example of an independent filmmaker of the 20th century. It is equally exciting to study his films as his particular life. I have dedicated myself to seeing his filmography, reviewing interviews, biographies, anecdotes and you can never have enough. I decided to make this small compilation of images to the rhythm of the brilliant music of Hans Zimmer trying to show that, the parallelism of the life of this great man with his passionate film career. The sufferings, regrets, the ego and humility. Orson was a very complex mix of opposing attributes and characteristics that make it very difficult to fully understand the man. Could Orson control Orson Welles? Was he too big a figure even for himself? It is difficult to explain the number of unfinished projects, some for real reasons of real bad luck and lack of resources. Others inexplicably left to his own luck despite being nearly complete. In his twilight, that duality of adoration and rejection that he received always intrigued me. The reason why the greatest exponent of his generation had to end up doing advertisements of dubious quality, stellar appearances in almost class B movies and appearances in TV specials (the same ones that I saw admiring that almighty wise god figure) is, at least, curious. I would say tremendously dramatic. But it all explains Wells. His independence of the system, his vision, and living out of his time had a price. No director in Hollywood got the benefits he got from RKO on a silver platter early in his film career, and no director was placed in oblivion, bad fame, and hypocrisy on the part of his peers as the great Orson suffered. "They will love me when I'm dead."