Orson Welles VS The World
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- A pseudo documentary retrospective about the most simultaneously under and overrated director of all time, my unique take on "death of the author" and perhaps an attempt at discussing the nature of storytelling. PEAK pretention in this one, folks.
Somehow I manage to have an existential crisis in this one, too (for mental health reasons, the next few videos are gonna be much less introspective than these last few, still interesting, I hope, but I really don't think splitting my head open and spilling my guts for mass scrutiny is a sustainable business model)
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0:00 Introduction
6:00 Orson Welles Boy Genius
13:03 Theatre
20:40 Radio
32:35 Welles Goes to Hollywood (what could possibly go wrong)
45:30 The Stranger
59:00 Exile
1:28:39 Midcredits
1:29:28 The Myth of Genius
1:44:15 Guilty
2:04:02 When Times Are Gone
2:27:38 But is it Art?
I realised I stole a joke about Around the World With Orson Welles from a letterboxd review I saw but WAY later: boxd.it/36oKvl
Sources (leave me alone Hbomberguy pls pls):
tinyurl.com/5f926nr4 - Krátké a kreslené filmy
This is a great essay. Don't be discouraged by the view count. CZcams needs more of this.
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
It sounds pretty, but I do disagree with it. One can love others and be treated badly, how you love is a reflection of you, and of others.
I like how Wells decided to dress up as his famous role The Shadow (musical stinger) for the world's first video essay
Me and homies being Orson wells pilled
Bro cooked himself to an uber-dose
You’ve quickly become my favorite CZcamsr on the platform. I really think that you “get it” which is something I’ve desperately needed since graduating
Get what?
@@kp9952 You just blow in?
@@totallyinteresting68 No. Get what?
@@kp9952 oof. Looks like you did just blow in
I love Welles and how he persevered in spite of studios butchering many of his films is really a testament to his will power and unflinching vision. His Touch Of Evil is one of my 13 all time favorite films. And IMO he is one of the3 most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, along with Griffith and Godard.
For what it's worth, I find you to be incredibly inspiring, Tensai. You have the heart and soul of an artist, and your videos challenge me to take a long, honest look at myself.
I may see myself as an artist, but I barely have a fraction of your passion for it.
Yes, yes. Good God what a relief. A creative work made its way to my CZcams feed.
In my humble opinion, Orson Wells just wanted to have fun. I respect that.
This is so true. My art has changed quite a lot since I started thinking about these things
This was a fascinating essay to watch. I’ve been struggling with the artistic urge to tell a story and be recognized for my art with the want for a life and existence outside of the art. And to listen to your thoughts on the philosophical side of artistic genius along with a bio history lesson was fantastic parallel. Kudos man, great work
I'd never noticed how hot Orson Welles was, that's my takeaway until I finish watching the video
Edit: this video is really fucking good, that's my takeaway until I rewatch it
I seldom leave comments on videos, even for ones I like or CZcamsrs I'm subscribed to (social anxiety and OCPD are exhausting when trying to communicate with strangers). However, I've been following your channel for several months and have come to genuinely appreciate your videos for many reasons; the biggest reasons are that they give me a comforting sense of nostalgia and you care so much about the topics you cover that it reminds me of myself when I was in my teens and early 20's (before adulthood and illness really pulled me out my passions and aspirations). This video in particular hit me in a specific way; I was raised by my gramma who had to hide her love for sci-fi/fantasy and most things creative from her very religious parents. She told me how when she was listening to the radio broadcast she rushed outside (my family has roots in NJ/NY) hoping to see or even catch a glimpse of a UFO and her imagination ran wild. She passed on her love of faith, compassion, music, the arts, and all things creative by sharing her experiences, memories, passions for those subjects to me.
Anyway, your videos are always enjoyable and entertaining. I hope you take care of yourself and prioritize your well being! Thank you for the dedication you put into this (and every) video!
Thank you for sharing! I hope you're doing well :)
Whenever I see the technology we have today, such as 4k cameras that even non-filmmakers walk around with in their pockets, and free editing software of professional quality you can download off the internet, I often think of Welles and the art he could create with access to the equipment wanna'be filmmakers have and readily dismiss as not being "industry standard" when half of this stuff would have been considered science fiction back in Welles' time.
Dagnabbit the copyright ppl made me replace the cool intro song >:(
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Hi! Awesome video!
Speaking of the audio component: could you share the name of background track at 4:45-4:59, 50:59-51:12, 51:50-52:24 ?
Fantastic video! Really opened my eyes. I'd always dismissed Orson Wells based on the person I saw as a parody and joke of who he was but you've made me more interested in the complexities and that even dismissing him as a joke or lawding him as a genuis, makes him less of a person. The good and the bad are both interesting and more difficult to parse than I once thought.
this is easily the best video essay i've ever seen on youtube. like i'm sincerely grateful that this showed up in my recommendations feed, i'm legitimately stunned at the technical quality of this video essay. highlight of the medium.
You addressing not wanting to be seen despite wanting to create stuff made ME feel seen... that aside, incredible work
Easily one of my favorite video essays on this website, your passion and artistic skill shine throughout this video Tensai, my only gripe is that there isn't a playlist for the amazing music used in this video.
you’ve definitely become one of my favorite creators on this platform. not only for the top tier editing style and your genuinely agreeable (and somewhat relieving) takes, but also (and mainly) the passion you put into your work and the vulnerability you’re able to share. truly inspiring stuff
As an Essayist junkie, this is another banger for a great year of essays
When i was a child, for the longest time, i thought Horsen (with an h) Wells was H. G. Wells for the longest time. I had only ever heard him spoken about until i got old enough to read H. G. Wells books and see Orsen's movies.
I thought that Orson Wells was H.G Wells’s son for a really long time
Incredible Video Essay, maybe im just emotional atm but the last 10 mins made me sob
I'm only twenty minutes in, but I must say--your delivery and presentation of this is incredible.
In 2006, I got the 20th anniversary edition of the Transformers movie for christmas. I remember to this day when the opening credits were rolling, with all the VAs, and the last one mentioned was the name Orson Welles. I instinctly thought that he was a big name actor of all sorts. (I was almost 5, and had little film history knowledge). I loved the movie, Orson, (beside the fact he was portraying a planet), always stole the show despite only just being a voice. I was just a young kid, and he had an impact on me just by his shear voice. However, I was really young, and I just moved on to other stuff that a child would go on to do, like playing hotwheels in the dirt since thats all children really need to worry about.
Now being 22, a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to watch the best Transformers movie out there, have some nostalgia cause I grew up watching that film. Being more than 5 years since I really watched it, Orson once again gave me the goosebumps when he would speak. Nowadays, with all the internet access, I finally got around to learning about and somewhat researching Orson Welles all because of his speaking voice. That rabbit hole I stumbled accross is extraordinary. Finding out how much of an important and historical figure he really is for all sorts of medium. Ive spent a greater majority of the last 2 weeks of watching and listening to as much as I can about this man. Many interviews, video essays about Kane, War of the Worlds, so many profound moments in history and he is the center of all of them. This video is THE crown jewel about the enigma that is Orson Welles. It was also pretty heartbreaking to see what talent he had and what could've been if he hadn't been ousted by McCarthyism. It is here where I would like to personally pay my upmost respects to Mr. Orson Welles. Thank you, Orson.
Beautiful work, Tensai.
Subscribed now.
Advertising companies visit colleges to hire new talent. They know creative people have two, maybe three good ideas and then they sit on the payroll for 10 years doing nothing. Most film directors, writers have only two or three great films, novels then they start make variations of the original success. Almost all film directors, Griffith, Ozu, Hitchcock, Ford, Wells spend their final days as alcoholics waiting for the MUSE to come back and she never does.
Your work really manages to hit well as both art and documentary at the same time - love your channel
This was truly lovely + loving.
And you FINISHED it.
really hope this video takes off, knew nothing about orson wells before and your essay style was captivating and moving. might check out his stuff now! keep it up!!
Your editing is very clever and your drawings are such a cool inclusion. I usually just listen to video essays, but this is more than an essay and demands to be watched!!
This is an amazing video! Thank you for making it
discovered this channel today cant wait for you to become like pyrocinical and make 7 hour long videos about anything
your way of conveying yourself is so appealing to me. thanks for making this video
This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen on a screen. Well done.
Excellent insightful video. Respect sir
Describing Citizen Kane as "the Citizen Kane of movies" is one the funniest things I've had the pleasure of hearing.
O, and the rest of the vid is outstanding, too.
This was recommended... By yourself! On your equally thought-provoking Attacking Your Audience joint ❤👊
The Victorious example was hilarious. A young witch 😂
The segments were you show your own art are really awesome your art style is so unique I want to see more of your drawings ✨️
Holy shit, thank you so much for making this amazing video! It was not what I thought this Orson video was about
Orson Welles made the world safe for pretentious film reviewers and pretentious filmmakers. He is their godfather! 😏
I always found the way he speaks and the word he uses so posh and Pretentious
@@theultimateartist4153 He had a way of speaking in pronouncements and declarations - as if his goal was to be a catalog of quotes and impressive stories. He was talented as hell, but his amazing laziness and need to be the center of attention got in the way of him being as great as he made himself out to be.
He was a brilliant windbag. Brilliant for short periods of time, but the windbag part of his character was a full-time job!
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
Yea sure…..and I certainly don’t see you taking risks and putting any kind of creativity into the world…..just take take take and bad ignorant jokes 🙄🤮😮💨
@@TheStockwell Thank you for your response, have a blessed day
It said Dick Head Welles 😂⛲️🍀💘🌹🎧
Amazing video, you're gonna blow up soon
NEW VIDEO WOOOOO 🙏🙏🙏
Okay now THIS is content.
keep rocking my man
Excellent work, this is so good.
A new video, i bet it will be amazing
this video is hard bro 10/10
I saw your video on endings a few weeks ago, and I finally got around to watching this one - this video was truly something else. I didn't know much about Orson Welles, other than him being the man behind Citizen Kane (though I have not seen it), but he was clearly a very fascinating man. There's something so ultimately tragic about his story.
This video tells me that I really should watch his films some time
Wow, just finished, what a journey
Orson didnt sell out to the Film Sharks. Bravo
I SHALL DRINK NO WINE BEFORE ITS TIME.
"Aah, the French '
Excellent work.
big bag instrumental by tyler in the background 🔥 the music in these vids is fire every time
Fantastic video.
Masterfully done.
He just wants artists to appreciate bull fighting-
That sounded smarter in my head
He subsequently regretted his prior love in an interview.
Excellent work
Kubrick abused all his actors by not telling them what he wanted from them, driving them mad from infinite amount of takes, but Shelley was probably the worst we’ve heard of
This is such a well made video and like why u kinda so funny
Pinky & the Brain gave Orson a fond homage.
Also F For Fake is my favourite Orson film too & on my Top 20 of all time.
I love you cutting between Orson & James Baldwin near the end. & cutting in Shelley Duvall. Thank you for that.
(Tampopo is #1; the order of the rest drifts around).
Orson welles is going to have to fight earth's 7 other planets
What program you use for editing?
( great vid btw)
Loved the video!
IMHO a genius should be a title for a person, who strives to create beauty and innovation, but at the same time has robust enough mental capabilities to set aside all the unnecessary distractions and emotions and work. If you're too dependent on the other's opinions, or too concerned with validation, you're not a genius, you're a tormented soul. And tormented souls can create beautiful things, don't get me wrong.
Welles was never concerned with validation. He'd been ostracized for too many years by the studios to care about that.
Yes! Always ❤
Hey Tensai, just came from your “endings” video and the way talked about Orson Wells ( a name I’ve heard countless times but couldn’t properly associate beyond Citizen Cain) made me really want to hear what you had to say. Just found your channel through FD Signifier, for the record, and subscribed halfway through that video. Love your analysis and style from that video as well as the first 15 minutes of this one so far! Please keep up the work brother! That being said; for the love of god can you leave ur text on the screen just a little longer… I only stopped watching for a moment to write this comment cause I swear that I’ve spent the same amount of time slowly trying to pause the video on the perfect frame to read all your notes as I have actually watching the video. Had a slight issue with this in the “Endings” video as well, I apologize for the criticism but my boomer 27 year old ass cannot keep up. Can’t watch +2 hour video if the first 15 minutes takes me 30 minutes to watch. Probably just a skill issue though, keep trucking!
this is the best video on youtube, and perhaps the internet at large.
i agree. works of art in and of themselves can be genius. and men are conduits (which is an honorable role)
I can't believe you would slander Unicron like this
wild and impressive and cool ... nice work, about, yes ... a true genius
Really enjoyed this video. Orson is quite the character
2:16:17 i guess he's not a swiftie :(
I'm so glad you uploaded again. You quickly became my favourite CZcamsr.
This will start an hour bevor midnight in my area, but i will wait for your work :P
I cannot believe how deeply cynical about Orson Welles life and career you are! Perhaps you admire him and would want to be like him, but do not know how or where to start.
Art was not Orson's grift, art was not him goofing or boying around or living life like a free big kid, although he often gave that impression in interviews not to appear to be taking himself too seriously because he was afriad of being seen pretentious.
To him, Orson, art was nothing more nor less than a form of civic religion, much like it was with the ancient Athenians. Art was a form of politics, a form of intersection between our civic duty to do better for ourselves and our world and nation, and to attain excellence.
''By common consent, the Parthenon is a great work of
art. Yet it has esthetic standing only as the work becomes an
experience for a human being. And, if one is to go beyond per sonal enjoyment into the formation of a theory about that large
republic of art of which the building is one member, one has to
be willing at some point in his reflections to turn from it to the
bustling, arguing, acutely sensitive Athenian citizens, with civic
sense identified with a civic religion, of whose experience the
temple was an expression, and who built it not as a work of art
but as a civic commemoration''
Orson Welles was an artis, most and boave all, because he was one of the most engaged, philsophically speaking, citizens the United States has ever had the privilege and honour to have.
In the above quoted part from John Dewey's seminal essay on Art, published in 1934 around the time Welles made his career start in the Great Depression era social welfare reforms that made public theatre accessible for the first time to a general audience (this is one thing I might think you should perhaps reconsider in your think piece, that the theatre has become obsolete now yes, but it also was actually a novelty in Orson's day as much as it might be if resurrected tomorrow since before Orson yes theatre was reserved only for very privileged few people but Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and his Federal Theatre Project.
''The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935-1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, created not as a cultural activity but as a relief measure to employ artists, writers, directors, and theater workers. National director Hallie Flanagan shaped the FTP into a federation of regional theaters that created relevant art, encouraged experimentation in new forms and techniques, and made it possible for millions of Americans to see live theatre for the first time.'' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Theatre_Project
So in fact millions of Americans had not seen live theatre before. I don't like when people detach art as a ''cultural'' privilege separate from the ordinary working joe and jane's bread and butter. Even Joe and Jane, if they never even visit the theatre, according to John Dewey's theory of art, still experience aesthetic and artistic visions in the most ordinary and everyday of experiences, like being by the fire side;
Dewey writes in his philosophical essay on art;
'' The sources of
art in human experience will be learned by him who sees how
the tense grace of the ball-player infects the onlooking crowd;
who notes the delight of the housewife in tending her plants, and
the intent interest of her goodman in tending the patch of green
in front of the house; the zest of the spectator in poking the wood
burning on the hearth and in watching the darting flames and
crumbling coals. These people, if questioned as to the reason for
their actions, would doubtless return reasonable answers. The
man who poked the sticks of burning wood would say he did it
to make the fire burn better; but he is none the less fascinated by
the colorful drama of change enacted before his eyes and imagina tively partakes in it. He does not remain a cold spectator. What � Coleridge said of the reader of poetry is true in its way of all who
are happily absorbed in their activities of mind and body: "The
reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the
mechanical impulse of curiosity, not by a restless desire to arrive
at the final solution but by the pleasurable activity of the journey itself.''
This is why we create a duality between the ideal world of the sublime artist and the crude material realm of pop culture which is false as it erases the original civic duty that motivated Orson's art, namely his philosophical reflections on the direction and meaning of American materialism that is out of touch with its own soul.
''For the popular
notion comes from a separation of art from the objects and scenes
of ordinary experience that many theorists and critics pride
themselves upon holding and even elaborating. The times when
select and distinguished objects are closely connected with the
products of usual vocations are the times when appreciation of
the former is most rife and most keen. When, because of their
remoteness, the objects acknowledged by the cultivated to be
works of fine art seem anemic to the mass of people, esthetic
hunger is likely to seek the cheap and the vulgar.
The factors that have glorified fine art by setting it upon
a far-off pedestal did not arise within the realm of art !lOr is
their influence confined to the arts. For many persons an aura
of mingled awe and unreality encompasses the "spiritual" and
the "ideal" while "matter" has become by contrast a term of
depreciation, something to be explained away or apologized for.
The forces at work are those that have removed religion as well
as fine art from the scope of the common or community life.''
Orson's art is very much part of his keen interest in the community. It is sad he ended up being put aside, the scenes in Citizen Kane - when Charles feels the darkness deep in his heart, this is not some separate pretentious airy fairy world of abstracted genius separate from who we are - this is us, this is us in our personal demons of our family lives and how they affect us being reflected to us as though Orson were right there in our own families himself.
Those drawings you did are fantastic by the way. I would love a coffee table book with drawings such as those.
He's been a hero of mine for a long time. Warts & all.
"A rich, full-bodied wine, sensibly priced at a dollar a jug."
- Fictional Orson Wells
Well, Merry Christmas ig
I'm inclined to believe the "genius" is a lie invented to give a higher cultural importance to a select few. A lot of the crediting of techniques in many arts go to the person who emphasises said technique. Welles was not the first to show ceilings "stage couch" did it prior. Just welles did it to a further extent. Godard is attributed as a pioneer of the deliberate "jump cut" (though melville gave him the idea), I had seen the jump cut used prior in kaneto shindo's "children of hiroshima" just to a lesser extent. Maybe most famously the lie of pollock & the drip paint technique. Genius doesn't lie in the truth of ones artistic quality & inventiveness. It lies in the mythose of the genuis' quality & inventiveness.
Can anyone give TL:DR summary of this video?
What’s the song playing at 1:57:26
Pretentious yet engaging
What king krule song is that???
12:22 what is this from
Another banger by the man worthy of his moniker. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t inspired to consume every media vomited my the O man himself. Keep on improving ur craft and I’ll do the same 愛❤️🔥
Can I log this on Letterboxd?
I wish you did a music playlist with your videos the tracks are based
I had to get some
Having NGE in the intro followed by Angels Egg makes me feel incredibly targeted 😃
I think it is true that we shouldn't ideally hold up "great men" as ideals that eclipse their humanity, but it's hard to think how well we would collectively remember their work without the weight of their mythologized lives. Would we remember Mcbeth without Shakespeare? Idk
Thankyou for this nuanced exploration of genius
I was obsessed with Scott Westerfeld as a kid, but Leviathan was my favorite because it felt like the technology being implemented during Westerfeld's fictional World War 1 was actually tech that could be possible in our lifetimes. Or at least I thought so. And I felt the same way when reading the I Robot short stories, but as time goes on I'm starting to think that technological advancements are sort of slowing down? Not that CHAT-GPT isn't impressive, but we've gotten so used to fictional Terminators and shows like Humans/ games like Detroit Become Human ETC that the reality of our actual current technology just feels like a pale imitation? And also like a soulless cog in the corporate algorithm machine that'll never ascribe to do anything more than maximize capitalism until late stage capitalism runs itself into the ground
20:00 in and I'm sold that Wells is the greatest media producer of all time.
orson welles is a legend
Yo ! He's starting with
Ratso Rizo ?
My father is a fan of Orson, I could never get into his films. After this, maybe I'll give it a chance. Great work dude
1:40:23
this was really good! greatly paced, funny, interesting. some political "pointers" felt unnecessary and excessive at times though...
1:19:25 And he spittin too!!!
1:41:14 I wish I could speak to more people if have this outlook because I’m chronically frustrated. IQ tests are still used, at least in the USA, often for school aged children to determine if they should be placed in the PACE program or if they have deficits. At that age I had a high IQ and did not have deficits so I was put into the PACE program, however I was still taken to a child psychologist for mood/behavioral problems and since I had no deficits I was diagnosed with ODD. In high school I went to a clinical psychologist with my sister to be thoroughly evaluated, she came out with a lower IQ than me and diagnosed with ADD and dyscalculia, I came out with no deficits. On the other hand I was soon diagnosed with clinical depression later, one of the suggested outcomes of children diagnosed with ODD, and stimulant ADHD medication has been the only thing proven to benefit me. all that is to say, “high IQ” is pretty much disqualifies any intellectual disorder or deficit. What you’re probably imagining is a personality disorder, which is the explanation for all the “greats” who were doing cocaine MDMA heroin or being alcoholics; it’s a form of self medicating, born from an inaccessibility to prescription drugs
27:15 This woman sounds EXACTLY like Wendie Malick
I honestly think this is the greatest video on youtub
Yeah, the ultimate goal of Tori Vega to jump on every table possible!
The editing in this video is so jank, man. It's so damn distracting, that it's pissing me off. I'm sure you were building up to something important to all this, of the 14 minutes I've watched of it, but I honestly couldn't handle it.