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In response to "I don't know much about Welles." by kelly

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

Posted by chuckles (aka chris) Jul 18 '10, 21:04

that experience -- the whole politics of having to fight Hearst's empire and the other moguls, who wanted to pay him for the negative so they could destroy it -- and subsequent experiences with RKO taking away his final cut on "Magnificant Ambersons" and hacking it to pieces, left him fairly disillusioned about his ability to ever really make his kinds of films within the Hollywood system. he acted in some more great films, like Third Man and Touch of Evil, but nobody wanted to fight with Orson about his creative vision and he got tired of trying to fight with them

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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

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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

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