Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century | dG1fVVJtNjlHblJ4WVU
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00:00I really discovered what a director does, and that is, I saw Citizen Kane.
00:10Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer.
00:12He opened up cinema to a whole new idea of what you could do.
00:16New ways of telling story, innovations in storytelling and cinematography.
00:19My father was one of the first to work outside of the studio system.
00:24The willingness not to play by all the conventional rules.
00:27Martian cylinders are falling all over the country.
00:30He said, oh my God, it's coming closer, it's closer, closer.
00:34Silence.
00:36And Orson's just in the middle of the studio going...
00:40Wore the world, rocked the nation, and made him famous around the world.
00:45You're deeply shocked about the results of last night's broadcast.
00:49And I got a contract. Hollywood, it really is the truth.
00:57Everything my father touched turned to art.
01:00Things that the American public couldn't understand.
01:03Remember.
01:05For us, Wells was a beacon of the individual.
01:09Individuality, a commitment to yourself and to your art.
01:13I'm sorry.
01:15I'm a director.
01:17How do you do, ladies and gentlemen?
01:19This is Orson Wells.
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