This wonderfully charming man was also the Welles who later told people saying hello to him or asking for an autograph to 'go fuck yourself'. A genius, but a contradictory one.
You could search the critic online. Apparently he did die very soon after he criticized the play and people claim that he was cursed but I think he actually died of pneumonia a bit after he criticized the production
One reviewer, Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, was negative about the entire cast, accusing the actors of being inaudible and timid. In response, one of the African drummers created a voodoo doll of Hammond, stuck pins in it, and encouraged Welles to take responsibility for any torments Hammond suffered as a result. Welles says he found this amusing, until Hammond died shortly afterward.[3]:109
I think if Welles cared more about his appearance he wouldn't have been the interesting fellow he was. It's the fact he was a naturally charismatic, debonair, articulate, witty, director, writer, actor, conversationalist that made him who he was. He just preferred smoking, drinking and eating with people, rather then spending time in front of the mirror imagining what he was going to say to people. He was too much of a natural for that.
@@LoyalOpposition He didn't smoke cigars? He absolutely did drink, and I'm not just talking about his booze commercials. You can even see him drinking in F for Fake.
@@electricrussell It's said in his biography that he only smoked cigars during interviews because of nervousness. And yeah, I've seen the drunk commercial, which is very sad that he had been reduced to that. I would drink, too, but food was his problem, and by his own words, laziness and gluttony.
@@electricrussell yes I agree he was not terribly vain and he did not have chiseled features to begin with he looked a bit chubby even when young but he was 6 feet tall and could carry the weight and still wore suits and looked well groomed later in life so certainly presentable looking. With a personality like his it should not be overshadowed by just his appearance imo and then you only attract shallow types anyway not interesting sorts who want philosophical intellectual discussions. He was a bit high brow not just some drunken fool.
It's shocking to hear him refer to ethnic performance of Hamlet the way he does. Simply a product of his time, of course. Interesting to see that by the 1980s, Orson would never have spoken that way.
Yes, I realize that. And not only that, Orson was a great champion for civil rights in 1946; some 20 years before MLK and LBJ! (See Isaac Woodward case, Orson Welles commentaries) Truly a legendary guy.
It was Macbeth, not Hamlet. You were obviously so offended you stopped paying attention. And the way he referred to it was no more shocking than seeing someone in the 1950s wear winkle-picker shoes or drainpipe trousers. Fashions in language change as much as fashions in clothes. It is the substance that matters, not the surface, and there is nothing remotely offensive in the substance of Welles' relationship to the black performers.
