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Kingship in your work is visual, about law-making, suffocating, isolating
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The Eyes of Orson Welles

Kingship in your work is visual,about law-making, suffocating, isolating

Kingship in your work is visual,
about law-making, suffocating, isolating

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Kingship in your work is visual, about law-making, suffocating, isolating.
Duration
7 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
01:19:50
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BofA Productions,BBC,FilmStruck

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Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen before.
And about ambition, totalitarianism, corruption and madness. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
And about ambition, totalitarianism, corruption and madness.
Most aspects of your visual style were extravagant. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
Most aspects of your visual style were extravagant.
As we saw in the pawn section, you had moments of realism in your work, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
As we saw in the pawn section, you had moments of realism in...
You famously walked out of this film, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
You famously walked out of this film,
It's hard to imagine you doing a simple pan like this. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
It's hard to imagine you doing a simple pan like this.
Shoulder height to show a fisherman scene naturally. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
Shoulder height to show a fisherman scene naturally.
This was more your style: Macbeth. A distant castle, a misty middle ground. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
This was more your style: Macbeth. A distant castle, a misty...
It's like Charles Foster Kane's isolated castle. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
It's like Charles Foster Kane's isolated castle.
Castles fired your imagination, especially if they were crumbling. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Castles fired your imagination, especially if they were crum...
This etching of yours looks like there's been a fire. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
This etching of yours looks like there's been a fire.
You had an eye on Piranesi's Imaginary Prison sketches of the 1700s. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
You had an eye on Piranesi's Imaginary Prison sketches ...
PEN SCRATCHES - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:13
PEN SCRATCHES
NARRATOR: You slung it low, of course, to make foreground people look massive. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
NARRATOR: You slung it low, of course, to make foreground pe...
Cribb'd, confined, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Cribb'd, confined,
NARRATOR: To make patterns between near and far. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
NARRATOR: To make patterns between near and far.
Beyond visual things, your king men are lawmakers and lawbreakers. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Beyond visual things, your king men are lawmakers and lawbre...
A seated king, an insolent press baron. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
A seated king, an insolent press baron.
Dear Wheeler, you provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
Dear Wheeler, you provide the prose poems, I'll provide...
- That's fine, Mr Kane. - Yes, I rather like it myself. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
- That's fine, Mr Kane. - Yes, I rather like it myself.
NARRATOR: And here in your late film, The Immortal Story, you're a king of sorts, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
NARRATOR: And here in your late film, The Immortal Story, yo...