Orson Welles

When talking about how the Western culture has been influenced over the years, it is impossible not to talk about Orson Welles, a man who has shaped the face of American cinema, radio, and theatre. Orson Welles was born to two highly educated parents, Richard and Beatrice, who taught him to play the violin, the piano, and traveled around the world with him. He was born in Wisconsin, and although in his young years he was introduced to much of the world around him, his childhood wasn’t exactly happy

Orson Welles’ career took place in the mid-thirties to late eighties in the twentieth century. He began his career at age fifteen, starting in Ireland, making his acting debut in the Gate Theater in Dublin. By eighteen, Welles started to appear in off-Broadway productions. It was then that he also launched his radio career. By age twenty, he had presented alternate interpretations of certain well-known plays and movies. At age twenty-two he was the most notable Broadway star from Mercury Theater

Orson Welles      The term 'genius' was applied to him from the cradle, first by the man who would vie with Orson's father to nurture the talent all agreed resided in the fragile boy.(Leaming, 3)      George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 6, 1915. He was the second son of Richard Head Welles, an inventor, and his wife Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist. His mother was the child of a wealthy family. She had been brought up to revere

directors and the greatest films, Orson Welles and Citizen Kane both came in first (Carringer 32).” Orson Welles’ produces, co-wrote, directed, and starred in the great American classic film, Citizen Kane, at the age of 26. Throughout this entire film, the audience is morally challenged along with being entertained about the rise and fall of an American hero or villain depending on which way you look at it. It is unquestioned that this film achieved great things in cinema. Welles’ utilizes the techniques

cons. As I wrote, "Orson Welles: A Controversy Orson Welles as the world knows is a talented artist with controversial reputation. His genius of all the remarkable achievements in film, theater and radio is derived from the struggling background. The tragedy of being orphaned at a very young age may inspire him the tendency to tragedy and vaudeville. Lived as an orphaned kid under the guardian of Maurice Bernstein, a contentious

Orson Welles’ 1941 release, Citizen Kane, is often seen as the most influential film in American history due to its complexity, production techniques, stylistic interpretation, as well as exemplified the look of modern cinema. Classical Hollywood style is based on camera-work and sound recording techniques that allow viewers to focus solely on actors and the scenes that surround them. By being invisible, an audience can better understand a film’s form, derive expectations from characters and the

Orson Welles’ second picture, The Magnificent Ambersons, holds a special place in film history for a number of reasons, but also, in large part, for what it wasn’t. The film as conceived and the film as produced wound up being two dramatically different pieces, as RKO Picture, the studio that Welles worked with on the picture, cut up and edited the movie into something radically different from Welles’ vision. Nonetheless, its illustration of the effects of the Industrial revolution on two families

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane Orson Welles produced, directed and starred in Citizen Kane, the classic masterpiece which communicates its original narrative through ground-breaking cinematography, lighting, music, setting, sound and performances. The film has underlying symbols in every single shot, and uses innumerable cinematic devices to convey meaning. One of the many implications Citizen Kane makes is strongly embodied in the sequence of Kane and his wife Susan

Directed by Orson Welles in 1941, Citizen Kane gave this young, brash, first time movie director unheard of control over the film. The finished result, through the use of flash-back and third- person interview shows Charles Foster Kane's life unfold through the eyes of the people who thought they knew him and those who did not know him at all. Welles used long camera angles, depth perspective, and shadow in the noir style, in new and interesting ways throughout this film, as apposed to standard two

However, the making of its fame was rather rough. Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz were the screenwriters for this movie, Welles was the leading director; therefore, he had the final saying in the contributions to the movie. Both writers worked separately when developing the story, only having the main character defined: Charles Foster Kane -it is pertinent to say that I think Foster is supposed to be ironic considering his morose childhood-. Welles had a rough childhood, which is portrayed in the