Me and Orson Welles Page #8

Synopsis: In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles, who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar, which includes such stalwart Mercury Theatre players as Joseph Cotten and George Coulouris. Despite others with official roles as producer John Houseman, this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants, which includes not having a fixed opening date, although the unofficial opening date is in on
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Production: Freestyle Releasing
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 26 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG-13
Year:
2008
114 min
$1,070,524
Website
259 Views


It is good for your eyes.

Joe, wait!

- Richard.

He does not believe this evening.

- One can not dismiss people like that.

I'll talk your case.

- If now I was with at the party ...

Welles would change their minds

the whole company? You think?

Take home, kid.

This is my home.

I'm sorry, Richard.

I did what I could.

Orson is intractable.

It grieves me. I tried to talk

with him. Joe and John tried.

Are you going to party?

- My cavalier fetch me a moment.

Be sweet to say it was not Welles.

- No, not Orson.

It is David O. Selznick.

Good luck.

It do not I need.

I do not believe in luck.

- I do not anymore.

It is actually a relief,

is not it? Not believing in luck.

Well ... I can certainly not leave

Mr Selznick wait.

How do I look?

As a girl who is about to give me

a dazzling though farvelkys.

Plutarch writes and I quote:

"He dreaded not so well supplied,

wealthy gentlemen, -

but rather the pale, lean men

as Cassius and Brutus. "

Unquote.

Well, may be made from this passage

draw parallels -

to some important lines of

the text we talked about yesterday?

Mr. Samuels?

Do you really think you can find the answer

by looking out the window?

One can draw a parallel to Caesar

speak to Antony. It reads:

"The Cassius looks lean, hungry looking.

He thinks a lot.

The kind of people is dangerous. "

Fine.

"He watched people.

He sees through obvious

what people are doing.

He likes not acting as you,

and does not music.

He rarely smiles, and smiles, then,

which mocked himself -

and mocked his mind because it could

moved into a smile of anything. "

Extremely impressive.

"Those people who he has never peace

in the heart when they see a superior, -

and therefore they are very dangerous. "

Beautiful, Richard.

MERCURY-VICTORY

41st Street Turn

MERCURY bows

MERCURY GeniaL CAESAR

CAESAR FOR ALWAYS

LINE SHIFT OF ALWAYS

NORMAN AND JOE:

Richard.

- The Greek urn stands still here.

Like the poem.

- Yes.

Civil wars, plague. A thousand years have passed

and this vase is still there.

My goodness. I behave myself, as if

nothing has happened, but everything has changed.

Go ahead, read this.

I hoped so you would come.

"We hereby inform you, -

that we'd want to publish

Your short story "Hungry generations'.

It is entertaining,

truthful and touching. "

Congratulations.

It is impossible to comprehend.

The New Yorker.

I'm so happy. This is my first

publishing, and it is because of you.

No.

You found the course to your friend.

Unsolicited had never been read.

Thanks, Richard.

- Perhaps it was guilt vase.

Possibly. Everything I write

From now on, I rub against the vase.

My God, your imagination!

People are not talking about another.

Have you seen the newspapers?

Yes.

- Naturally.

Think that I attended the premiere.

It was great.

Your scene in the end, where you sang ...

It was wonderful.

Thank you.

Look here ...

I will welcome you at lunch or

dinner, or what the heck time it is.

Thank you.

Who would have thought this

a week ago?

Now I am a writer,

and you're an actor.

Now I know not whether the idea

is something in the long term.

Is it true?

- Yes.

I wonder if I ever

can lead an actor lives.

All I know is

that whether there is -

acting, writing,

music or theater, I would ...

I want to be a part of it.

- I know, what you think.

The last time we were here ...

I thought:
"Gretta, you have lived

here in town for half a year -

and you've tried to write

and meeting new people. "

Now I met a guy

I think about. I will not ...

Do not worry, I try not

to scare you.

It works just as if ...

we have much in common.

Yes.

It's an exciting time

because it feels as if ...

As if the whole world is

the feet of us.

Hold the doors!

Yes, the whole world is

the feet of us.

What do you think?

Opportunities.

Yes, options.

Translation:
Henrietta C. Nielsen

Scandinavian Text Services 2010

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Robert Kaplow

Robert Kaplow (born c. 1954) is an American novelist and teacher whose coming-of-age novel was made into a film titled Me and Orson Welles. The story is about "youthful creative ambition" and has received positive reviews from The New York Times which described it as "nimble, likable and smart." Kaplow has written nine books and used to teach English language and film studies at Summit High School in New Jersey. more…

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