Even greats like Howard Hawks, Orson Welles or Steven Spielberg can stop by sometimes. We’ll show you the examples!
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is commissioned by a millionaire old man to find out why his daughter is being blackmailed by a book dealer. The detective visits the bookseller, but finds only his dead body – and his client’s daughter is sitting next to the body, in a state of unconsciousness. From here on, wherever Marlowe sets foot, he stumbles upon corpses – and in such a large number that by the end of the plot, the fate of each of them cannot be resolved satisfactorily. To resolve the confusion, director Howard Hawks even sent a telegram to Raymond Chandler, whose novel this film noir is based on, asking who the hell killed the driver, Owen Taylor.
“Oh, I don’t know”
came Chandler’s slightly smug reply.
THE Jurassic Park wonderful, spectacular cinema – but with all due respect, we have to note that perhaps the visuals played a more important role in it than the consistent story. In the grand finale, when Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Sattler and the two grandsons of the man who founded the park are trapped inside a building because they are surrounded by velociraptors, the appearance of a T-rex saves the situation, as it fortunately smashes into the smaller dinosaurs . The only problem is that in the case of the Tyrannosaurus rex, we are talking about an animal the size of a bus, which cannot just fit through the door – but there is no damage visible on the walls of the building.
So if he didn’t just teleport there, we don’t get an explanation as to why this willing primitive creature suddenly appeared in the bakery as a relief army.
“Katie Scarlett, it’s over, it’s over, the war is over! Lee surrendered!”
– rejoices the character Gerald O’Hara in one of the biggest Hollywood classics, who is of course joined by the aforementioned Scarlett and Melanie, happily stating that Ashley can finally come home. However, the creators of the film seem to have missed a few history lessons, as General Lee actually laid down his arms on April 9, 1865, but this surrender in Virginia had little effect on the troops in Atlanta, where Ahsley was assigned to fight. So the man could not return until another 47 days later, when the last Southern general, Edmund Kirby Smith, laid down his arms on May 26, 1865. The gone With the Wind by the way, it was made in notoriously chaotic conditions: several directors were changed during the production, and the script was rewritten more than once – so maybe that’s why they glossed over this small detail.
It is almost legendary how much money and energy director James Cameron devoted to
to make each object as authentic as possible in the melodrama grafted into a disaster movie about a sunken ship.
That’s why it’s strange that he didn’t pay attention to authenticity in the part when we get a glimpse of Rose’s art collection and see Picasso Ladies of Avignon his painting (or at least a sketch made for it).
It is physically possible for the heroine to own a piece of the painter Ladies of Avignon-series, but if Cameron had asked an art historian, he would have told him that in 1912, a young American girl could not have heard of Picasso (even if he was traveling in Europe), and that the painting itself was only created in 1916, i.e. Four years after the destruction of the Titanic, during its first exhibition, it was taken out of the ghetto it had been put in (it was considered a joke, and Rose could only have heard of it if it was an entrance into the French art world, since it could not be seen in public at that time).
Moreover, the director insisted on the incorrect use of the image despite the fact that the curators of the Picasso legacy did not give him permission – so in the end, a company representing fine arts rights fined the production afterwards for including a part of the painting. By the way, the explanation could be that Cameron wanted to make a joke that the main villain of the film, Cal, played by Billy Zane, claims with a big vest about one of the most valuable paintings in the world that it will never be worth anything.
And his ego was certainly bigger than the Titanic itself.
Orson Welles’ timeless work is often referred to as the greatest of all time (we also praised it to the skies), but unfortunately this does not diminish the roaring illogicality that we immediately get as the basic situation of the film. The Golden citizen it begins with the camera entering a magnificent mansion, where we see the main character, Charles Foster Kane, on his deathbed, and then he breathes his last breath, whispering the word “rosebud” to nothing. After that, the plot of the film is about a journalist trying to find out why those were the man’s last words.
The big mystery, however, is instead that
how did anyone know what Kane’s last words were.
He died alone, and the camera even carefully showed the nurse entering the room only after the millionaire had left. And the buck is all the more annoying, since it could have been easily avoided if the nurse was in the room in the first place, since then she is the eyewitness. However, it was definitely important for Welles to show the visual trick of seeing the nurse entering the room through a piece of the broken snow globe.
(via Listverse)
On May 1, 1941, or roughly 80 years ago, The Golden Citizen, Orson Welles’ immortal masterpiece, was presented. For the pleasure of this, we have selected the best scenes from it to prove that this is one of the best films in film history.
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