Orson Welles gives a talk at a Paris film school (1982) - Part 2

The great Orson Welles shares his views on cinema and movie-making with French film school students.
Sorry for the missing bits.

[@dalenixon6981]

"The most detestable habit in modern cinema is the homage. I don’t want to see another goddamn homage in anybody’s movie." He would have hated Quentin Tarantino.

[@Olnudrastar]

I recently had an awful argument about The Shape of Water for the same reason. Sounds like considering it "overrated" is some sort of a capital sin. So in those words i rejoice. :)

[@dalenixon6981]

@@johnmulligan455 I wrote that comment 3 years ago. My position has softened. What he detested was unoriginality, because there was so much potential to be original, to be yourself. Hence, he might've seen it as an excuse to be faux-clever. But I would not go so far as to say that Tarantino's film have no worth, or that they're detestable simply because they have homage. Tarantino achieves something because of his homage, and he creates something new and very personal in his vision. Looking back at my comment now, I feel puzzled over how I could've been so dogmatic about it. I still love Orson Welles; that fact has not changed.

[@dalenixon6981]

@@johnmulligan455 Amen, brother. Few, if ever, will.

[@AnnaLVajda]

He would have treated him as tripe comedy which may be the accurate depiction depending who you compare him too.

[@JRitter1993]

He probably would of loved Chris Nolan

[@richardburt9812]

the French translator is really great. He's making up his own brilliant version of what Welles. When the translator says "perdu" Welles corrects him and says "confused." And the translator repeats "perdu," meaning lost. "We have the academie française working," Welles quips." lol

[@transleytan]

Orson Welles keeps track of the French consecutive interpretation all the time. Outstanding from every point-of-view.

[@jgc2j1]

Fascinating, brilliant, and so articulate, Perhaps one the best extemporaneous speakers I've heard (not to mention one of the best directors, actors, writers). Thank you for posting this.

[@xi7837]

Orson Welles watched stagecoach (1939) forty times before making citizen kane he never really watched films before making citizen kane. He made and listened to radio shows, watched plays and made plays. It’s best to be exposed to many different art forms what makes citizen kane great is Orson’s vast knowledge on many subjects.

[@DavidMatias79]

If we ever figure out time travel send someone back to preserve this video tape.

[@Interfect727]

He's a tad drunk here...just fyi. But a drunk Orson is better than most people sober.

[@Olnudrastar]

Standing ovation!

[@mimo0791]

Thanks for posting this. Fascinating words from a master.

[@AnnaLVajda]

The more virgin our eyes are the more have to say.

[@EMJAYWLZ]

Thanks so much for this excellent post!

[@calcecini]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@hypoyd]

I think it is "Orson Welles a la Cinematheque", anyway this take place inside the mythical Cinematheque movie theater of the Trocadero, sadly closed in 2005.

[@Frisenette]

Anyone know where the original of this broadcast is to be found? There are shadows and other artifacts that give this off as a television. I wish there wasn’t so many dropouts. We missed a lot of good stuff. Especially the bit about using black and white. Also this was digitized from a Danish machine (OSD language is Danish). Is that a hint to it’s provenance?

[@bcook7591]

these are important questions

[@penguinegg01]

I've never understood Welles' preference for black and white and like you, I would love to have heard his answer.

[@Zach-yg1ht]

@@penguinegg01Black and White suspends reality and enters a realm that’s uncanny to humans but certainly picturesque.

[@Deepurplerain]

Be yourself instead of doing homage tribute, someone said Welles himself wasn't virgin eye and used a Sacha Guitry for CK storytelling and watched many Ford films before directing, but he's talking to the youngsters of early 80, there were so much more movies and became a larger cult with many many world movie fans,larger than 30's, so keep on being yourself when you'll direct instead of identy yourself in other's works is i think the paraphrase,not a reason to badmouth De Palma&Tarantino by the way. Many thanks for those videos Raphael Mutt.

[@adikravets3632]

0:30 great point!

[@bcook7591]

so honored to have footage of God

[@one8576]

Dionysius

[@penguinegg01]

I wish we had the whole thing. It's so frustrating that we don't.

[@edgarlebig2994]

A ses débuts, Orson n'avait pas l'oeil si vierge que ça, car dans les années 30, il a vu un nombre incalculable de films et il a dit que la structure narrative de Citizen Cane lui a été inspiré par le film de Guitry "Le Roman d'un tricheur" (avec l'emploi notamment de la voie off). Ce n'est qu'une fois qu'il est devenu réalisateur qu'il a cessé de visionner les autres films.

[@jesseredwards]

So if someone had done an homage to Orson Welles he would hate them for it? Interesting.

[@stephenkane2464]

+Jesse Edwards lol most likely YES

[@monsieurgolem3392]

Yes.

[@hypoyd]

Ce film est mentionné sur IMDB .

[@adikravets3632]

4:46 he did a lot for his films

[@crazyRyoga]

1:04 *Tarantino exits the room*

[@MultiFribourg]

0:55 you've heard that tarantino !

[@stephenkane2464]

I wanna make an edit of this video, where the very beginning the interviewer is going "ba ba- ba ba- berann" like the beach boys song lol.

[@ireneschmidt9207]

❤️❤️❤️❤️Beautiful forever irene ❤️❤️❤️

[@BumdogTorres]

Martin Scorsese is a contradiction to that idea that you shouldn't marinate yourself in other people's films.

[@dalenixon6981]

"Now, the argument against what I’m saying is that the world is full, all the best young directors, are soaked in films. And they manage to rise above that and emerge as remarkable cineastes. So you are in the presence of a speaker, who is not only paradoxical but also confused."

[@gnalkhere]

Between Scorsese and Welles, the latter IS other people's films. Scorsese was born after Kane, worked after Kane and The Third Man came to be, so he's more inclined to follow suit of the movies before him. Welles had less than that

[@llamasarus1]

​@@dalenixon6981so maybe that means that "marinating yourself in film" is a part of the growth process

[@adikravets3632]

1:08

[@adikravets3632]

8:29

[@Shifty1940]

He seems worried talking about soaking.

[@Matt_19-89]

I shit you not, even the Subtitles make fun of the french language

[@trickydick6152]

Conductors "...that quasi useless profession".