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Here's A Trailer For Richard Linklater's ME & ORSON WELLES!! Could Be Cool...
Merrick here...
Yahoo's posted the trailer for the uncommercially titled ME & ORSON WELLES. This one's from Richard Linklater (THE SCHOOL OF ROCK, A SCANNER DARKLY, FAST FOOD NATION).
Christian McKay's looking pretty fun as Orson, Claire Danes is Claire Danes, and I'm still not convinced Zac Efron has the chops to play "dramatic" leading men...but we'll see.
All in all, this might be interesting & I'm looking forward to seeing more when it hits in late November. I've heard some pretty bizarre stories from folks who had personal associations with Orson - you could probably turn the man's existence into a ten film franchise and only begin to touch on his uniqueness.
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
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I've been following this project for a long time.
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.. the awesome DAZED AND CONFUSED. Definitely a desert island flick for me. That being said, I wanna see this. I like Linklater.
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indeed.
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Cries himself to sleep over this
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And doesn't look like a Linklater film. Typical Hollywood shit rallying for an Oscar. This is generic shit...or that's what it looks like from the trailer.
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He could be the weak link. Otherwise, a fun look back for fans of OW's work.
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or he doing voice over work for transformers?
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Full of Country Goodness and Green Peaness. Wait thats terrible, I quit.
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... 'Orson Welles and I'?It's the death of proper fucking english like what I talk...
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If this movie succeeds in informing transitioning post-High School Musical fans about Orson Welles, then it's worth it. His whole corpus is like a crash course in cinema. Zac Efron doesn't seem bad in it and like any Linklater movie is at least interesting. I'm such a huge Welles fan and am hoping for enough interest generated to warrant the fight to get the Magnificent Ambersons on DVD/Blu Ray.
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No shit. I wish they could find Welles' long lost version but sadly I think that footage is long gone. That whole 'comeuppance' scene and voice over towards the end is a great film moment. Love CITIZEN KANE and AMBERSONS but TOUCH OF EVIL is my favorite Welles film.
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...sitting in the theater, lip synching Welles' dialogue. Okay, on second thought, I'd rather watch the film with Claire Danes, unless she's the type that makes a lot of noise when she reaches into the popcorn tub to grab some buttery popcorn. People, here's a tip: grab the popcorn with the tips of your fingers instead of pushing your fist alongside the popcorn container. That way, you won't make that squeaking noise that sounds like styrofoam rubbing together. I'll...I'll be quiet now.
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Efron could pull this off hopefully. It just pisses me off it's him up there on screen and not me. http://sickpicks.blogspot.com/
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that deals with him at RKO, and that goes into the curse he was convinced was upon him from the filming of It's All True
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Looks really good, in my opinion. Zak Efron manages to not be Zak Efron, which is a testament to Linklater's directorial prowess, though I'm hoping Clare Danes fades into her character a bit more as the movie progresses.
But I liked the look and feel of the film from that trailer. Like most of Linklater's stuff, I'd like to check it out when it's released. -
The love triangle that they're pushing manages to feel tacked on even in the trailer. If that's the focus of the film I'm out.
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true movie since I read about in thompsons book. thompson has really fallen into the gutter. I will never read anything by him again.
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Linklater's been hit and miss for me, but I'm interested to see this. And "WriteFromLeft" I probably will go see it with Mo' Lamarche. If Claire comes with us, I'll let you know. Oh, and here's some Pinky & The Brain for all you good people out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbN7m29RlBU
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That was the most amazing Welles I've ever seen. It wasn't the kind of cartoonish caricature most people tend to play him as (amusing as Maurice LaMarche's Welles is, it actually sounds nothing like him.).
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It's decent. The guy who plays Orson Welles is amazing. The rest, not so much. Didn't buy the love story for a second. Zac Efron is pretty good. Claire Danes seems like she's in a different movie than everyone else.
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In fact, it's more about Zac Efron's character than Orson Welles. And it covers a very limited time period. Just the weeks leading up to his stage production of Julius Caesar.
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My brother and I got that for Christmas, and it was a great game. I didn't know at the time who the guy in the commerical was, I just thought hey, he's got a cool voice.
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"Me & Orson Welles" is how Peter Bogdanovich begins every conversation, ever.
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Good one. ;-)
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Sorry, not interested. Looks awful. "Orson's" voice was pretty good but as for everything else... ugh
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The Brother was, like, 22 when all of this was going on.
This guy looks old as shit. Plus, Welles was a very hansom man.
This guy looks like John Lithgow if he gained a bunch of weight and then lost it suddenly, right before dripping candle wax all over his face.
who cares about the kids, when Welles looks like ass...literally.
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The Brother was, like, 22 when all of this was going on.
This guy looks old as shit. Plus, Welles was a very hansom man.
This guy looks like John Lithgow if he gained a bunch of weight and then lost it suddenly, right before dripping candle wax all over his face.
who cares about the kids, when Welles looks like ass...literally.
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to late, i stopped caring.
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Oct 08, 2009 11:23:19 AM CDT
Unfortunately movies about Hollywood types never work -
by professor_monster
"In the depths of your ignorance what is it you want?"
Orson was my obsession when I was younger - read every book and studied his way of doing things down to the "no wine before it's time" years. And McCay has his voice and manner nailed from the look of this - BUT everything that sends the normal movie going public running for the hills is all here - talk of putting on plays, Shakespeare, Biopic, period pieces and rich folk problem or artistic vision (only Hollywood types care about struggling for art). Ed Wood is the greatest of all cinema bios (and Vincent gave us a great Welles cameo there) but movie crashed and burned as well. I wish they'd have fudged the book a bit and showed Welles putting on the all black Hamlet production in Harlem or skipped from War of the Worlds to hollywood fucking him over the final cut of Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil and Lady from Shanghi. Welles's truest tragedy was being born at the end of the time for the great stage directors. Hollywood is what killed Welles - not only the town, but the very existence or film and those who fund them. I'd have loved to have seen the stuff of Welles wearing a Star of David into pitch meetings in hope that he would get funding - and the funny thing is, the charm worked most of the time. -
All his movies just sizzle with a sense of something momentous about to occur. I believe he may be the 2nd comming of Jane Austin.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcYCccE9ziU
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I'm guessing Ben Chaplin is John Houseman. However, wasn't a lot of this covered, minus the teen heartthrob, in Cradle Will Rock by Tim Robbins?
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Oct 08, 2009 11:37:34 AM CDT
I've heard fucking incredible things about this one
by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead
And as far as Zac Efon's acting chops? Give the kid a break. Leo started on Growing Pains, Ryan Gosling was on Mickey Mouse with Justin and Brittney. Fuck, Jodie Foster started out in some pretty kiddie shit and so did Kurt Russell. I'm not sayin Efron is going to match the ability of any of these people, but I'm also not going to say it won't happen because of where his career started when he was a child.
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oooh....I hope Peter Bogdanovich is chewing some asbestos because he just got BURNED.
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Can you imagine if she, along with anyone else who has chunks of Welles films, released a set of all the fragments that represent Welles' unfinished films? The documentary attached the "F for Fake" is pretty interesting and the chop job that was Don Quixote proves that even his fragments were captivating. I understand that Welles stood firmly for an artist's right to leave their work unfinished but I don't think it's bad to want to see some sketches...
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Same time period, different play.
Crappier Welles.
i mixed up John Housemen with Howard Hesseman. Cause you know, they're like the same guy almost.
They should just make an Old Welles movie, where he's living behind the Bogs and Polly Platt house. And there's junk food wrappers everywhere. -
Oct 08, 2009 12:18:10 PM CDT
Christian McKay looks to be a revelation as Welles.
by the_genteel_gentile
Wow, Based on the trailer, it's really uncanny. I've never heard of Christian McKay before but prior to seeing this trailer I thought they should have gotten Danny Huston. I stand corrected.
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http://www.garboforever.com/Bilder/Unrealized_Projects/Orson_Welles.jpg
But that's like, Touch of Evil area.
he's suppose to be early 20's here. That's part of his legend.
Baby faced people, baby faced. Not "melting, post kemo makeup lithgow.
It's just giving the impression that all you have to do to play welles is be tall and speak with bravado.
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Granted, this doesn't look as interesting as some of Linklater's other work but even a bad Linklater film is better than 95% of the stuff that's out there.
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Claire Danes is absolutely gorgeous
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and i don't know if i completely buy zac efron but he doesnt look bad by any means, i almost hope this doesnt do good because i can see the "movie behind a movie: citizen welles!" comin down the pipeline...
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Just because I love Michael Gladis as Kinsey in Mad Men.
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that guy is a fucking hilarious actor.
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... deserves a massive raise.
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Starting with his William Hearst problems, and ending with the first Casino Royale.
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Oct 08, 2009 2:27:29 PM CDT
emeraldboy, that made no fucking sense at all, man!
by talkbacker with no name
Have another go. I tried. Really I did. Something about a guy called thompson. A book and a movie...or something!?
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though they were both dying and thier was on the slide, the foundders of the legendary gate theatre McLiamoor and edwards were putting together a play. one of the central characters was a judge. They searched high and low and couldnt find anyone. so they put out an international casting call. Welles answered. but they way welles told the story was that he turned up in a boat after he had rowed across the atlantic. and hitchhiked his way to dublin. Welles was very well known when he arrived. McLiammoor and Edwards had no idea how difficult welles could be but they were about to find out. they handed welles his lines for the role of the judge. welles told them in no certain terms that unless he re-wrote the role. he wouldnt do it. and blazing row erupted. welles threatend to leave the production. So they gave in. and welles wrote his own dialoug. the result was that the show was a sell out for its limited run. welles loved the regaie people with how he came to ireland on a boat and rode on a donkey to dublin. wasnt true. but what was true was that one of the greatest giants in both film and theatres. who end his days doing magic tricks on tv. played to a sell out crowd in dublin many decades.
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but sounds a hell of a lot like him
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BWHA HA HA
just kidding
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festival crowds.
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On a good voice interpretation.
like i said earlier (no one reads other posts, we're all too self absorbed): Just be tall and speak with bravado. -
It's a sad state of affairs when all a shitty cardboard corporate commodity like Efron has to do is not drool all over himself and speak the lines in something resembling English in order to surprise people. Be careful with the placating of this shit or we are gonna end up with an entire generation of bad actors in leading roles.
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In Mr Irish guys above post about Dublin welles:
Dude was 18-19. He was a fucking child.
No offense to the young folks on here...but it's god damn young.
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someone who may just be SLIGHTLY cooler and edgier than his Disney-marketed career would lead you to believe. Everyone is trying to jump on that sliver of non-Disney. Just because he's not the person Disney has marketed him as does not mean he's Brad Pitt/Johnny Depp/Christian Bale.
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Oct 08, 2009 3:55:52 PM CDT
"BUT everything that sends the normal movie going public running
by the bicycle sharer
"[T]alk of putting on plays, Shakespeare, Biopic, period pieces and rich folk problem or artistic vision (only Hollywood types care about struggling for art)."I *know*, dude. Remember what an utter bomb Shakespeare In Love was. Fucking rubbish. That thing must've cost, what, $25 million and made like $300 million.And talk about a loser pic. Only seven Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, and three Golden Globes.Yes, "only Hollywood types care about... putting on plays, Shakespeare, Biopic, period pieces and rich folk problem or artistic vision."Maroon.I definitely get a Shakespeare In Love meets My Favorite Year vibe here.
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1) Looks remarkably similar to Welles at that time. (Check out the pic on wiki.)2) Is a whopping 14 years older than Welles was at the time of Caesar, but, please, refer me to the 22- year old who looks this close to Welles *AND* with the gravitas to even come fucking close to Welles' sock suspenders and I'll gladly cede the point.
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Cries himself to sleep over whether or not his Barbie dolls really like him for *him*Someone shoot D'Onofrio and put him outta his (and my) misery.D'Onofrio - what a fucking waste of what coulda fucking been and now just a waste of good oxygen!
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Yea, I can' wait to see it at the crib
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Our Own HeadGeek Harry Knowles is heading down the same path as Orson Wells..I mean he's already a whore For Amazon..how long before we see Drunk outtakes Of Harry on a Japanese Liquor commercial drunkenly missing his lines...
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Can I speak with Mrs. Rodgers please?
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Really interesting DVD set which I strongly recommend to anyone even remotely interested in OW or Hollywood in general. Although it was fascinating seeing footage of Clifford Irving (of the fake Howard Hughes biography fame and still a publishing author) OW comes across as something of a fake himself here, maybe intentionally. The unfinished clip of Welles' take on "The Deep" was ridiculous and the clip from "The Other Side of the Wind" didn't look much better ... more like home movies and not because they were unfinished, but the overall tone was that of a man just fooling around with a camera and some famous friends. The constant apologies for Welles about his perennial problems with Hollywood get old after a while when you simply realize that lots of other similarly great filmmakers didn't seem to have these problems (at least not to the point their films didn't get finished) so why only Welles? Hitchcock, Ford, Hawks, et al managed to get their work on the screen with only a modicum of compromise. The closest modern-day parallel I can find to Welles is probably Herzog, who also has a huge ego and big vision (and also does opera) but he gets his stuff done on the cheap and without compromise and gets it finished.
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"ME & McG"? I dind't know they were alredy working on the sequel! How did you know?!
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Does Orson Welles really deserve this shit??
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I don't agree at all that F for Fake is anything else but a near perfect movie. And the editing in that one scene from The Other Side of the Wind blows away pretty much any complete movie that i can remember.
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HIS UNICRON VOICE WAS FUCKING BEAST. That's all I never knew of the dude.
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I'm kinda diggin' it. I didn't see that coming.
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for every Shakespeare in Love there are dozens of Cradle will Rock, RKO 281, Noises Off, The Words of the Hour, - none of these made profit and nor did people care. You have ONE in 20 years.
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You think it's about Welles, but probably some tedious romantic comedy horseshit.
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...Up it's shallow ass with one of the diseased Oscars those Academy fuckwits showered on it. They should all be forced to wade through the surf of the beach at Normandy while the cast and crew of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (the actual Best Movie that year) strafe them with A10 Warthogs armed with flaming diarrhea napalm.
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Plus her participation will ensure that this movie tanks - she's a proven show-killer. All I got from this is: Efron manscapes his eyebrows something fierce. Danes continues to be a moose. And the guy who plays Welles' nose is too small. Pass.
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Orson, come in, Orson... Nanoo, nanoo! Link's other movies were somewhat interesting, this looks kind of snoozy... not excited at all.
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nice Critic reference. Been laughing at that send up for years. This looks interesting. I think A Scanner Darkly was underrated. RDJ was awesome in that. "Oh what luck. There's a french fry stuck in my beard."
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I Just watched the trailer once, but half way through, I felt Wells, or, perhaps I heard Wells. There are a couple of moments where the inflection is scary right on.
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Its the worst fucking site for watching fucking videos on the web! Youtube is more reliable than this piece of shit. It won't play! There's no video there! ARRRRRGGGHHHHHHH! I'm gonna go kill a hooker to make myself feel better. And its your fault, Yahoo. All your fault. Where the fuck is my cleaver at!?!?!?!
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ok now you are fucking kidding me! Bicycle Sharer what's your beef with Vincent, man?
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that there are huge similarities between Welles life and Kane. read thompsons book. its a great read as is the one simon callow.
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I've seen this film. Efron does a good job, but Christian McKay is awesome. Oscar worthy performance.
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I like the tone of the film. And the actors. Very upbeat-full-steam-ahead.
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I'm trying to get tickets, might have review tomorrow for you.
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Efron makes me want to hold my breath until I pass out. That moment when his voice breaks is utterly artificial. McKay doesn't look right. Welles was much more attractive as a young man. But he feels right; the voice, while not spot on, makes one think of Welles.
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where the fuck has she been these last couple of years?
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I think it looks really wonderful! A) I can't believe this is the first preview I've seen when it's been in festivals for over a year and B) I can't believe it took so long for the nimrods in charge of marketing and distribution to pick it up! THWACK to all of them and a nice brick of chocolate to whoever finally did.
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Yet another movie where an interesting person or actor (in this case, Walter Matthau as Einstein) is enlisted to back up a bullshit, by-the-numbers romance.
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...promising?
I don't know, I love Orson Welles, and would like to see this film work out. It does kind of look like romantic-comedy bullshit, but it IS Linklater.. And he's kind of ok, sometimes. Right? Maybe they just threw together that trailer in hopes to draw in the ladies as well -
Aww when's Dazed and Confused, the college years going to be made?
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