"Whatever he creates, he has to wreck"

[selenak]

It seems all that material for Orson Welles' final movie which was lingering in various jealously guarded archives will finally be released, which I had heard about, and there is a trailer, which I hadn't seen until now:

"The Other Side of the Wind | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix" (Watch on YouTube)

On the one hand: one of those works which can't possibly match all the expectations stoked through years of non-release. On the other hand: new Welles film! And even his failures were never boring and got into your mind.

Incidentally: this article about Errol Morris working on a documentary about Stephen Bannon contains, among other things, the information that Bannon, as a follow up to his "Thomas Cromwell at the court of the Tudors" comparison of yesteryear (aka the one which made us all go "...doesn't he know how Cromwell ended?) has now declared his fictional movie mirrors to be, wait for it: Bridge over the River Kwai and Chimes at Midnight. Leaving aside the obvious "what did David Lean and Orson Welles do to deserve him as a fan?", I'm a bit baffled as to who he thinks he is in these films. I mean, presumably William Holden rather than Alec Guinness in Bridge, and I can see the Holden character as self flattery (pragmatic American, sees things more clearly than stuffy Brit), but said character ends up dead without having accomplished what he wanted to do, so...? As for Chimes at Midnight, aka "Orson W. distills his life long obsession with the Henriad in general and Falstaff in particular in one movie": um. He can't possibly see the Orange Menace as Hal and himself as Falstaff, can he? Can he?

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[kore]

Oooh REALLY

As for Chimes at Midnight, aka "Orson W. distills his life long obsession with the Henriad in general and Falstaff in particular in one movie": um. He can't possibly see the Orange Menace as Hal and himself as Falstaff, can he? Can he?

..... //cries

[moon_custafer]

That… does seem like the only overlap that fits. I posted on Facebook the other day “Save me from people who think they’re Socrates,” so I may be passing the point of being surprised at this kind of thing.

[selenak]

I like to think I became jaded when hearing how Dubya saw himself as John Sheridan of Babylon 5 fame, but evidently not.

[selenak]

I know....

[redfiona99]

I would put nothing past Bannon's self-delusion.

[selenak]

Me neither. And of course the Orange Menace would only be too flattered to see himself cast as Hal.