... , and The Betterave Papers all written in 1945 (http://library.thinkquest.org/27864/data/wells/hgwworks.html). However, even today, his works are being read and made into movies (http://library.thinkquest.org/27864/data/wells/hgwbio.html). It was War of the Worlds play that when broadcasted by Orson Welles in 1938, convince! d the public that it was real and threw America ... into a mass hysteria (http://library.thinkquest.org/27864/data/wells/hgwworks.html). As recently as 1996, The Island of Doctor Moreau was ... remade into a feature film (http://library.thinkquest.org/27864/data/wel...

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Orson Welles was by far the most intriguing person we looked over this week. Not to say that Keaton, Chaplin, and Hitchcock weren't without their own charm. But, Welles just seemed to me to have more raw emotion in him when working with the camera. Welles started in radio witch I think gave him an incredible insight in the mind and how happiness and fear is drawn upon and toyed with throughout a performance of any kind, may it be in radio or on the big screen. When watching a small documentary on Welles, it had a small clip of his reaction to all the hysteria brought upon by his 1938 broadcast...

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... director, Shakespeare's Macbeth is no exception. In the four versions shown in class, numerous differences in the directors" visions become apparent. The first point of difference are the witches. In Orson Wells" version, the opening witch scene dialogue is interspersed with the dialogue of act IV scene I. The witches are creating a brew and in it go the ingredients mentioned in the said ... shown by Nunn and Polanski's witches. Polanski's witches are a far cry from the traditional broomstick-riding witch. Polanski's witches resemble caravan gypsies. They are shown as representing three...

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... , and has a complicated, unjust plot. To be considered a film noir the main character must be an average man. In the Lady from Shanghai the protagonist, Michael O'Hara, is played by Orson Wells. He, any average man in a film noir, is nave and falls in love with the femme fatale. In the movie, he plays an average working class man whose life is ... ...

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