• IninewCrow
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    173 days ago

    Complaining as he’s chowing down his third plate of Shrimp Fried Rice

    • @hOrni@lemmy.world
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      223 days ago

      “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

      Orson Welles

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    That guy is someone famous and lost all his money so he did ads, right? I cannot remember his name and it’s driving me insane. I think he like… Directed films? If I recall correctly, he was a bit of an ass.

    I cannot remember his name. 😭

    Edit: I googled old man wine commercial.

    It’s Orson Welles. The author of War of the Worlds and I think Citizen Cane. Itch scratched!

    Side note, citizen cane is awful. I don’t care that it’s said to be top cinema. I hate that boring waste of 3hrs.

    • @Depress_Mode@lemmy.world
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      War of the Worlds was written by H.G. Wells, not Orson Welles. Orson did, however, do that famous radio performance of War of the Worlds in the 30s that ostensibly (but probably not actually according to more modern analysis) caused widespread panic among its listeners.

      I always get these two and George Orwell confused. On top of the somewhat similar names, the fact that Orson Welles/H.G. Wells both have that War of the Worlds connection and H.G. Wells/George Orwell both being famous authors doesn’t help, either.

      • @untorquer@lemmy.world
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        32 days ago

        Wait there’s 3 of them!? I always thought two and when the name was different in media my thought was, “of curse that’s just the other one”…

      • @CCAirWater@lemm.ee
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        33 days ago

        Oh valid, my bad. I saw it in passing when I googled him and put two and two together to make eight lol

    • Underfreyja
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      Old man wine commercial is not the way I thought someone would try to get Orson Welles name ever 😂

    • He didn’t lose all his money; he was blacklisted because of mccarthyism and run out of Hollywood. A great tragedy; he could have made so many more great films.

      • @CCAirWater@lemm.ee
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        63 days ago

        Hmm, I did some quick googles. Wiki didn’t have much on his finances, just his work. But from few sites, it seems he definitely was blacklisted but made a return throughout the 70s and 80s but nothing big took off and he still ended up broke doing commercials because he lived too loud with his money. So it seems it started with being blacklisted but he also was spending too much money? I dunno. I’d have to read more, but sounds about right from what I remember of a film appreciation course I took a decade ago that started with fkn citizen cane.

    • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      The reason why Citizen Kane is celebrated is because it was the first film todo x,y, or z. For example it’s the first film to have the story told througha pastiche of other people’s memories.

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        Oh, and I agree. I understand that. It’s also the first film to piss me off, in my formative years.

        Still fkn hate it! ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

      • @CCAirWater@lemm.ee
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        53 days ago

        Thank you thank you! I panic commented because it was driving me nuts. Then realized I could Google old man wine commercial and got the answer.

        But I appreciate you! Thank you!

        • Walican132
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          43 days ago

          No problem. I had a similar reaction “wait isn’t that Welles” and went googling myself. I just had a head start on you since I recognized him.

      • @CCAirWater@lemm.ee
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        (⁠ノ゚⁠0゚⁠)⁠ノ Oh no! A ghost!

        I said what I said! ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

        I respect it, appreciate it even. But my God, I hate that film.

    • Altima NEO
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      73 days ago

      Naw dawg, he was an actor. He did the voice for Unicron in the 80s transformers movie.