F for Fake behind the scenes gags
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Effie 2022-06-19 20:39:11
A/ is also a kind of "meta-author movie". The distinction between falsehood and reality about "forgery" is actually something that Orson Welles has been refining for a long time. On the contrary, the further transformation of the image is really exciting: how to connect various three-dimensional flat, open and closed spaces through editing? How to create an exciting rhythm with characters as the core that is different from the previous narrative? This is probably the truly dizzying experiment from The Trial to The Other Side of the Wind.
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Jerod 2022-06-19 20:48:41
A bit of a rambling documentary, but very interesting~
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Orson Welles: What we professional liars hope to serve is truth. I'm afraid the pompous word for that is "art".
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Clifford Irving: I've known Elmyr for about eight years. We met when I was broke. When I was writing fiction. I wasn't selling it very well.
Orson Welles: His fiction didn't sell. Elmyr's biographer's a highly gifted writer. Does it say something for this age of ours that he could only make it big by fakery?
Elmyr de Hory: Le grande surprise!
Orson Welles: Cliff Irving's caper may well be the hoax of the century, but, really, this is not, you know, in any way the century of the hoax. We hanky-panky men have always been with you.
Elmyr de Hory: That's a fact.
Orson Welles: What's new?
Clifford Irving: The experts.
Elmyr de Hory: The so-called experts...
Orson Welles: Experts are the new oracles.
Elmyr de Hory: - are greatly pretentious...
Orson Welles: They speak to us with the absolute authority of the computer.
Elmyr de Hory: - pretend to know something what they only know very superficially.
Orson Welles: And we bow down before them. They're God's own gift to the faker.
Clifford Irving: All the world loves to see the experts and the establishment made a fool of.