![]() ![]() ![]() I especially enjoyed reading more about Welles’s early theatre and Mercury Theatre work, but one common theme stood out to me throughout the whole book. Still, McGilligan manages to pull back the curtain and create an incredibly compelling narrative study. I learned an incredible amount about the early life of a filmmaker who is now shrouded in so much mythos that it can be challenging to see through the fog to meet the man. ![]() It becomes clear that Welles is so capable of doing this in both his directing and acting because of the incredibly strong, pervasive sense of humanity he possessed himself. One quote that particularly resonated with me was one McGilligan shared from another great director, François Truffaut, who “wrote that Orson always examined ‘the angel within the beast, the heart in the monster, the secret of the tyrant…the weakness of the strong’” (p. However, it never comes off as anything other than just being very talented McGilligan does not write it in such a way that makes Welles seem superhuman, which was fascinating and admirable. As McGilligan himself explores and concedes, Welles almost seemed destined for greatness from birth, having an incredibly driven artistic mind from a very young age. That was probably my favorite part of this book. ![]() There is an incredible amount of mythos surrounding Welles and Citizen Kane, but McGilligan paints him as incredibly human- an exceptional one, sure, but a flesh and blood person nonetheless. ![]()
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