F for Fake behind the scenes gags

2022-06-19 15:53
An excerpt of Welles' 1930s War of the Worlds broadcast was recreated for this film, however none of the dialogue heard in the film actually matches what was originally broadcast.
Actress Oja Kodar, who appears in a muse-like fashion in this film, was Welles' real-life girlfriend at the time.
Hidden within a montage of footage of Howard Hughes is one brief shot of a man disembarking from a ship who looks similar to Hughes, but is actually actor2 Don Ameche.
Wells filmed a trailer that lasted for almost five minutes and featured several shots of a topless Oja Kodar. The trailer was rejected in the US as it was deemed to long and over-indulgent.
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Extended Reading

F for Fake quotes

  • Orson Welles: What we professional liars hope to serve is truth. I'm afraid the pompous word for that is "art".

  • 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.

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