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In response to "The big revalation to me was Orson Welles in The Third Man. ROWR. nm" by ralph wiggum

i cry when i think of how much he accomplished before he was 30

Posted by chuckles (aka chris) Jul 18 '10, 20:51

and how little he accomplished after it :(

it's the height of irony that he turned out more like Charles Foster Kane in his real life, although I never got the sense that he was bitter or lonely even after Hollywood had completely turned its back on him

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I don't know much about Welles. - kelly Jul 18, 20:57 9
- he was a wunderkind from the New York theater, did War of the Worlds on the radio, and RKO gave him the keys to the film kingdom to make "Citizen Kane - chuckles Jul 18, 21:04 8
  - I have seen Citizen Kane. - kelly Jul 18, 21:07 6
    - "There is a fan. A certain fan. Though she's insane for dissing Kane, TFox thinks she's quite a man. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 18, 21:17 1
      - *endorses* -- nm - TFox Jul 18, 21:20
    - it is like Bladerunner, in the sense that you feel like you have seen it before. The thing is, you have seen it before because everyone copied it. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:15 2
      - and in the sense that both of them were genius visions ahead of their times -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 21:17 1
        
        this. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:20
    - i try so hard to like you, and then you spew nonsense like this. -- nm - TFox Jul 18, 21:09
  - (by the time he was 25) -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 21:06
Well, there's always Touch of Evil. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 18, 20:54 1
- i can never get past Mexican Charlton Heston -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 20:56
don't think too hard about Lennon and McCartney, then. they'll make your head essplode. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 20:52 3
- why? they never reached the heights post-beatles that they did as partners but their solo stuff is perfectly fine -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 20:55 2
  - but think of the heights they reached before 25. Mind boggling. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:00 1
    - remember they were two uneducated working class kids from Liverpool. To this day, I think Macca cannot read music. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:00

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