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Antonio 2022-03-13 08:01:01
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In order to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the film, the director's cut has the opportunity to be retrieved and released. If there is a chance, I would like to see the whole picture. Classical music is different from folk music, the latter responds to reality, but the former is detached, it...
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Dortha 2022-03-13 08:01:01
the director said
Orson Welles is an artistically innovative and talented director, best known for "Citizen Kane". "Citizen Kane" freed the film from the shackles of the traditional pattern for the first time and created a precedent for modern film. However, it was both the beginning and the end of Welles'...
Robert Wise
Character Evaluation
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Antwon 2022-03-27 09:01:21
The content presented in this version is not enough to support the grand narrative that Wells likes, and this is probably not just a matter of editing.
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Raina 2022-03-22 09:02:57
88 minutes is way too fast, especially for a love-hate relationship between two generations and two families. But you can still see Orson Welles' precise control of sound, light and shadow painting in his eyes. If he can control the editing rights, it may be another classic.
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The Magnificent Ambersons quotes
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Narrator: The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873. Their splendor lasted throughout all the years that saw their midland town spread and darken into a city. In that town, in those days, all the women who wore silk or velvet knew all the other women who wore silk or velvet, and everybody knew everybody else's family horse and carriage. The only public conveyance was the streetcar. A lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window, and the car would halt at once and wait for her, while she shut the window, put on her hat and coat, went downstairs, found an umbrella, told the girl what to have for dinner, and came forth from the house. Too slow for us nowadays, because the faster we're carried, the less time we have to spare. During the earlier years of this period, while bangs and bustles were having their way with women, there were seen men of all ages to whom a hat meant only that rigid, tall silk thing known to impudence as a stovepipe. But the long contagion of the derby had arrived. One season the crown of this hat would be a bucket; the next it would be a spoon. Every house still kept its bootjack, but high-top boots gave way to shoes and congress gaiters, and these were played through fashions that shaped them now with toes like box ends, and now with toes like the prows of racing shells. Trousers with a crease were considered plebian; the crease proved that the garment had lain upon a shelf and hence was ready-made. With evening dress, a gentleman wore a tan overcoat, so short that his black coattails hung visible five inches below the overcoat. But after a season or two, he lengthened his overcoat till it touched his heels. And he passed out of his tight trousers into trousers like great bags. In those days, they had time for everything. Time for sleigh rides, and balls, and assemblies, and cotillions, and open house on New Year's, and all-day picnics in the woods, and even that prettiest of all vanished customs: the serenade. Of a summer night, young men would bring an orchestra under a pretty girl's window, and flute, harp, fiddle, cello, cornet, bass viol, would presently release their melodies to the dulcet stars. Against so home-spun a background, the magnificence of the Ambersons was as conspicuous as a brass band at a funeral.
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George: I said, automobiles are a useless nuisance. Never amount to anything but a nuisance. They had no business to be invented.
