{"id":175,"date":"2020-01-08T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2022-03-02T22:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:58:51","slug":"orson-welles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/08\/orson-welles\/","title":{"rendered":"Orson Welles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just watched <em>The Magnificent Ambersons<\/em>, as another step further in my personal journey to understand and appreciate Orson Welles. I feel that with every movie I&#8217;m closer to the solution to the puzzle that this man  isto me. The thing is, will the outcome have any sense? God, I hope so, because this journey is very irregular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, this movie should be a melodrama story-wise, but doesn&#8217;t <em>taste<\/em> like one. The scenarios are really oppresive, and the lighting is absolutely <em>dark<\/em>, even for Welles&#8217; standards! Overall, I feel like this movie was conceived to produce a radical sensation rather than telling the story in a way it should make sense. It&#8217;s an interesting exercise, for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think there are some things that escaped me, like symbolisms or double meanings in some dialogues and scenes, but I was very sleepy, to the point that I digested a scene right when the next was playing. It&#8217;s sad. I think I will need to rewatch this movie in the future just to confirm my feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if it&#8217;s not the best, my favourite or idyllic in any sense, my relationship with Orson Welles is the most intense, changing and baffling one, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched The Magnificent Ambersons, as another step further in my personal journey to understand and appreciate Orson Welles. I feel that with every movie I&#8217;m closer to the solution to the puzzle that this man isto me. The thing is, will the outcome have any sense? God, I hope so, because this journey&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/08\/orson-welles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orson Welles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[121,53,184,185],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-classic","tag-musings","tag-orson-welles","tag-the-magnificent-ambersons","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}