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Marjolaine 2022-06-19 16:19:16
rare orphan
If I had to describe the importance of this film in one sentence, it would be:
The greatest genius of the day movie, almost the only movie made in the second half of his life.
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Sylvia 2022-06-19 16:38:17
fake
Consider a situation like this:
The digital artist draws a picture on the screen with a tactile pen. This picture comes from his delicate conception. He tries his best to express these feelings in weight and color. His thoughts and techniques jointly shape the work. "Representation", he preserves...
Elmyr de Hory
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Orson Welles: What we professional liars hope to serve is truth. I'm afraid the pompous word for that is "art".
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Clifford Irving: I've known Elmyr for about eight years. We met when I was broke. When I was writing fiction. I wasn't selling it very well.
Orson Welles: His fiction didn't sell. Elmyr's biographer's a highly gifted writer. Does it say something for this age of ours that he could only make it big by fakery?
Elmyr de Hory: Le grande surprise!
Orson Welles: Cliff Irving's caper may well be the hoax of the century, but, really, this is not, you know, in any way the century of the hoax. We hanky-panky men have always been with you.
Elmyr de Hory: That's a fact.
Orson Welles: What's new?
Clifford Irving: The experts.
Elmyr de Hory: The so-called experts...
Orson Welles: Experts are the new oracles.
Elmyr de Hory: - are greatly pretentious...
Orson Welles: They speak to us with the absolute authority of the computer.
Elmyr de Hory: - pretend to know something what they only know very superficially.
Orson Welles: And we bow down before them. They're God's own gift to the faker.
Clifford Irving: All the world loves to see the experts and the establishment made a fool of.
