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openings: Since when...... When ....... Who ..... How many ..... How often ..... Where ...... Why ..... What sort of ..... English Through Reading for EFL Learners INSTRUCTOR: DR. H. GHAEMI 11 Unit 4: Citizen Welles During the 2016 US presidential election campaign, Donald Trump was more than once compared to one of the great fictional characters of American cinema, Citizen Kane. Kane was the creation of Orson Welles, one of Hollywood's greatest - but in the end least successful - movie directors. Orson Welles was a man who stood head and shoulders above most of his contemporaries, yet he was, in a sense, Hollywood's greatest failed genius.. Orson Wells as Citizen Kane 1. For both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Orson Welles was one of the greatest figures in the history of Hollywood. So it is surprising when we learn that Welles was never really accepted by Hollywood. Probably he was too much of a genius, too much of an intellectual for a Hollywood which was interested in money more than in anything else. 2. Hollywood has often been reluctant to accept a genius. Charlie Chaplin had to fight to do what he wanted: Welles too, though Welles did not always succeed. 3. Orson Welles was certainly a genius. Born in Kenosha, an industrial town in the American state of Wisconsin on the banks of Lake Michigan, he was the son of a failed inventor and an artistic mother. According to legend, Orson could talk like an intellectual by the time he was only 18 months old. It is said that at this age, he sat up in his bed one day and said to the doctor : "The desire to make medicine is one of the greatest features that distinguishes man from animals". 4. The legend is perhaps best taken with a pinch of salt, but it illustrates perfectly Orson Wells's reputation. Certainly, by the age of 5, the young Welles was reading Shakespeare, a writer who was to remain one of his principal passions until the end of his life; yet Shakespeare was not to make him famous. |
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