The perpetrator of the radio hoax of the century, the voice of Unicron—nemesis of Primus in the battle for 4-wheeled multiverse domination—or the director of the ex-best movie of all-time. Who is Orson Welles?Both his laudable first attempt at movie making (Citizen Kane) and his last essayistic masterpiece (F for Fake) are plagued by similar concerns. As a director, whether in the act of mythmaking and mythbusting, or forging and faking, Welles’ career stands as a living testament to the obsession with putting truth under a lens and exploring the lies told through film. As an actor, Welles embraced the lie, shape shifting back and forth between numerous roles, from the Shakespearean Othello, MacBeth or Falstaff, to the slippery Harry Lime from The Third Man. Alas, the bulk of the roles he played were modified versions of himself or his public persona, hiding in plain sight, often...
- 5/6/2018
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