Filmikunsti ajalugu
,,war of the
worlds"fake news cast. 1940 deal with RKO pictures: six film contract with complete
control.1941 Citizen Kane released, Welles only 25 years old. 1940's: career as an actor.
Influences on Welles. German Kammerspielfilm, expressionst cinema, chiaroscuro lightning
(Lang), fluid camera (Murnau), baroque mise e scene, french poetic realism, john ford,
theatre, radio
Welles major themes: shakespeare adaptions (Macbeth, Othello), corrupting nature of
ambition, obsession, mportance of a sense of the past, complexity of human characters (and
human interaction), lost innocence, power and impotence.
Welles vs Hollywood
Citizen Kane was too much for 1940's audience. ,,The magnificant Ambersons"-studio edits,
commercial failure. Journey into Fear-commercial failure. It's all True-all material was
dumped into the Santa Monica Bay. The stranger-commercial success/Welles ,,my worst
film". The Lady from Shanghai-commercial failure. Welles films in Europe ,,Othello"
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