The Magnificent Ambersons Comments

  • Cathy 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    7.0/10. A bit boring, but not too long. I feel that the cut is not as embarrassing as the legend, the first half is very smooth, and the later family scandals are a bit abrupt. However, Fatty Ao's persistent pursuit of scene scheduling is obvious to all, and several long-shot scheduling can only be described as ''amazing''! There is also a deeper image of the scene where George and Lucy say goodbye at the door of the drugstore. ....

  • Clifford 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Very unwelcome film, didactic and happy ending. There are only a few scenes where the camera movement shows Wells' soul. In addition, is this 88-minute version messed up? The rhythm is very...

  • Angeline 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Technically classic, but not too "good...

  • 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...

  • Alanis 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Cut to pieces, only rely on paragraphs to spy on the...

  • Ruby 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    The plot of the 88-minute version is too condensed to be taken seriously, but it draws all attention to the language of the film. The An family members are often shrouded in shadows so that you can't see your face clearly. A bunch of long shots, all the way from the lobby on the first floor to the one on the third floor, dazzling...

  • Sven 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    A glimpse, unfortunately it is 88...

  • Cyril 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Perhaps one of the greatest films of all time, the 88 minute version sucks, the narrative is completely disjointed and the character relationships don't fully unfold. But we can still see Orson Welles' ambitions. The space design, mise-en-scene, and photography are all excellent. The rise and fall of personal destiny and family is also very interesting against the social changes after the Industrial...

  • Bailey 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    [4.0/5.0] I thought Orson Welles' second film was a serious court film, but it turned out to be a very funny family comedy. Amberson's grandson, George Minafer (not Amberson), spoke very cheaply People, when they grow up and die without work, they laugh when they see him without opening his mouth. Robert Wise directed the additional scenes (uncredited) and Joseph Cotten wrote the additional scenes...

  • Eleanora 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    88 minutes to tell such a story of grievances and hatreds that spanned two generations and the decline of a wealthy family still feels too rushed. Although Welles tried his best to complete the background and context of the story with his narration, he still lacked the details to promote the plot. The rhythm is also a little bit worse. Could it be that Welles was under pressure from the producers to make a big cut? But like other Welles films, the film is full of gorgeous scheduling and...

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  • Antonio 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    ghost

    8.0

    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...

  • 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'...

The Magnificent Ambersons quotes

  • Eugene: I know what your son is to you and it frightens me. Let me explain a little. I don't think he'll change. At twenty-one or twenty-two, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible. Which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this. Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

  • Lucy: Don't you remember? We'd had a quarrel and we didn't speak to each other all the way home from a long, long drive. And since we couldn't play together like good children, of course, it was plain we oughtn't of play at all.

    George: Play?

    Lucy: What I mean is, we've come to the point where it was time to quite playing. Well, what we were playing.

    George: That being love, as you mean, don't you?

    Lucy: Something like that. It was absurd.