Thursday, August 11, 2011
Which filmmaker do you prefer : Alfred Hitch or Orson Welles?
Orson Welles, if only for the cinematography. Every single one of his films are just gorgeous. He's fairly underrated, also, he made a lot of great films besides Citizen Kane. The Magnificent Ambersons, The Trial, Chimes at Midnight, Touch of Evil, Macbeth, Mr. Arkadin, F for Fake etc... The reason his body of work may not seem as prolific as Hitch's is for two reasons. One, after Citizen Kane almost all of his films were re-cut by the studio he made them under, severely hurting the finished product. Touch of Evil was only recently re-cut into the vision Orson had for it, and surprise, surprise it's one of the most visually stunning, and interesting films made in the last 50 years. And two, he only made 13 feature length films films as a director, 2 for television, and one doentary. Compare that to Hitch's 50+ films, and the reason Hitch has more great films becomes evident. Orson was the better filmmaker, though, but both were incredible.
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