I mean c'mon who wouldn't want him back in the film world, the guy was a genius. Made Citizen Kane, F for Fake, Touch of Evil, The Stranger and The Trial.
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No I didn't forget The Magnificent Ambersons as I have uploaded a picture of Joesph Cotten innit!!!
He knew how to grip the audience in a film with brilliant and well written dialogue (not to mention when he did the voice over in his films) and was well ahead of his time, but unfortunately his films rarely made any money, not to mention being messed around by Hollywood where he would rarely get final cut.
I think he had problems due to his film Citizen Kane as it was clearly based on the media mogul William Randolph Hearst, who wasn't very happy at Orson Welles.
Welles even said in an interview that William Randolph Hearst tried to frame him. I possibly remember this wrong (It may have been the interview with BBC's Arena program) but I think he was going back to his hotel room, when someone tipped him not to go back, as there was an underage child there to frame him. It was basically something that would look incriminating to him and finish his career. So even though Citizen Kane is the film that made him, it also weakened his career from what I could see.
He was also a great actor in his own right and stole the show with his iconic and brief appearance as Harry Lime in The Third Man and Othello, but he tended to sign on to any acting job to pay for the films he was making.
I love Harry Lime, what a character.
But if Orson was alive today with final cut in his films and digital technology, he wouldn't have had the restrictions he had when he was alive....Which just makes me think and wonder "What film would he be making now?"
Maybe...Just maybe we would finally get his Don Quixote if that was the case.
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