Orson Welles Talks Citizen Kane in RARE Interview One Week Before His Death (Flashback) 

You have good taste and a refined intellect

Dietrich once said that after Orson talks with you...you feel like a plant that has been watered...

Very true @ charlesMendias

its beautiful how much delusion the matrix can create in one life

what happened?

@@ike2938 Heart attack on October 10, 85

@@forestgeorge8855 He was a really ambitious man.

He didn't really get old. Your mind doesn't really start slipping until 75+

True, I was an extra in his last film and saw him up close (as press) at the American Film Institute Life Time Achievement Award. (He was chatting with Frank Sinatra...oooh!)

You will... we all will... someday. Someday soon.

He was grossly overweight he was still sharp in his mind. But his body was not in good shape.

@@65g4 Not here. He looks like he had lost a lot. That might have been part of the problem. Dramatically losing weight all at once like that after being obese for decades can certainly cause a heart attack.

He is basically in "brown face" here. Look at the hairline.

​@@Progger11 Welles was still smoking. That's most likely the cause of his fatal heart attack.

​​@@65g4I heard he lost 160 lb shortly before his demise .

In his interview with Tom Snyder that is here from 1977 he says that he has multitudes of regrets about his life

He did a very good interview way back in 1977 with Tom Snyder and that's here on the tube

This guy? meaning you or Welles? and what did you mean "painting the posters?"

@@spactickI am fascinated to find out this story myself…please elaborate…throwing the acid? I am also intrigued. I am almost in tears I was born in the wrong generation…80’s…I want to go back to the 50’s or even earlier… Orson Wells…Oliver Reed…Peter o’Toole. …never again will the theater feel the way it felt…not with phones recording movies now instead of FILM. …I love going fast…I have a sport bike for that…but I hate how fast paced movies seem to be…no time for character development just say what is written. I have acted…it is Easy anyone can do it…but not everyone can be talented at it like Gary Oldman and Daniel Day Lewis…to name a couple of newer actors. Heath Ledger was well on his way to become a new modern actor like the greats like Orson Wells…Jack Nicholson.

Eh, he looks his age. Considering he dropped dead from a heart attack shortly afterwards, it's clear he wasn't healthy.

@@kensuke0 Definitely didn't take care of himself. Otherwise he probably would have lived longer. Interesting to have him speak in 1985 about Citizen Kane decades later though.

@@NovaFeedback1979 Citizen Kane was a masterpiece but Orson Wells was severely criticized for doing it. He had an awesome talent for making fiction seem non-fiction, and satirical roles seem possible. I don't think people of that era could truly appreciate that level of talent. It probably frightened them.

@@kensuke0 how is it not healthy?

@@indomiepanggang4258 hes saying HE wasnt healthy he was grossly overweight didnt you know that?

So does my grandma

my 102-year-old grandpa says the first movie he ever saw was a silent film (a romance, he thinks) with a live piano accompaniment… and I took him to see _Dune, Part 2_ a few weeks ago 😂

​@@Sam_T2000That's wonderful. Times really do change, huh? Wish both of you the best

❤

It is a great film even though the studio butchered the ending. I still feel Kane was his best film however there are some films like Touch Of Evil where it feels like he is more accomlished as a director specfically that opening scene in Touch Of Evil, The Trial is also another great one

MA is a very good film but not a great one. I think Citizen's Kane is superior but I do not believe it's Welles' best movie. In my opinion, it's The Trial.

I feel the same way. If you had to, who in the movie business comes closest to Orson either as a director or actor?

I know. They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

I bet he never saw it again after that.

I think the closest thing I've ever seen relative to its time is 2001. Personally. Literally and figuratively ahead of its time hehe

He was a genius. His IQ was 185!

Yes you are point he is a very brave ,smart and intelligent man.

Ahhh, the french!!!!

He also has the voice.

did you know him?

He is talking about The Magnificent Ambersons

LOL..good one!

Jesus H. Christ.

“I’d rather be remembered as a good guy than as a difficult genius.” Well....I think he got there.

Most big-name directors, especially the visually oriented ones, are like that. Orson Welles got lucky that he was afforded unlimited freedom on Citizen Kane. Almost every director you can think of despises the traditional Hollywood system; and for good reason! It’s too risk-adverse for an industry of its own scale and capital. His career involved difficult movies to finance, but Welles clearly did not think himself “too good” to do schlock like Transformers. He had skin in the game when it came to his movies, he made great films (many of which are better than Citizen Kane imho). If he was an egomaniac, he wasn’t a toxic one from my recollection If nothing else, he was dead correct on Woody Allen.

​​@@mariomouse8265 I already mentioned that creativity has always struggled in Hollywood. As for Welles, he was capable of astonishing rudeness. Richard Fleischer witnessed it in person when he directed Compulsion.

Erika Comstock -- we ALL should be so lucky as to have the ability, and opportunity, to revise the Welles revised.

You left out the most important word from your quote. He said " I was a romantic in the early 19th century WAY".

He is 34 years since

DEFINITELY sure you should change your moniker.