Beeman,
A taste of the larger essay for class. I felt I was presenting too much in one essay, so I'm going to start scaling it back and only talking about the grander themes that I want to understand.
Jorge Soto La Marina
Formalist Film Theory
Professor Eric Huber
Orson Welles- The Stranger
1946
Orson Welles was a tycoon
of cinema within his own time. He rose to fame with his infamous dramatic
reading of War of the Worlds. Welles was a Filmmakers Filmmaker. Welles relied
heavily on the audience to think critically about the narratives he presents.
Welles is a personal favorite because he did have such an actualized conceptual
vision. Old cinema was predicated on title cards. Audiences’ who were watching
Welles had lived with this for a few decades now. Welles was revolutionary
because he developed a visual short hand for characters as well as a short hand for
cinematic metaphors. Welles achieves a mastery of visual narratives because of
his visual metaphors. These ideals and choices will eventually come to be
coagulated and rewritten decades later as some of the foundations for Formalist
Film theory.
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