Me and Orson Welles Page #3

Synopsis: In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles, who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar, which includes such stalwart Mercury Theatre players as Joseph Cotten and George Coulouris. Despite others with official roles as producer John Houseman, this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants, which includes not having a fixed opening date, although the unofficial opening date is in on
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Production: Freestyle Releasing
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 26 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG-13
Year:
2008
114 min
$1,070,524
Website
241 Views


Please stop.

Shall we get started?

Jack, you will soon realize

that the main job of Mercury -

is waiting for Orson.

Go.

Norman, you will see on your biographical

the program is correct?

Anything for you, my girl.

- Richard, thanks for dinner today.

Have you eaten dinner

with isdronningen?

Jack, all men in this

performance will in skirts at her.

It has not even Joe Cotten been

and he has otherwise been widely.

Just like that no longer Orson.

We have not even an executive.

You talk like a bureaucrat, Jacko.

A petty "disturb me for God's sake

no lunch break "bureaucrat.

That is why I left The Federal.

To tell the press that release date

still preliminary, is frivolous ...

And exactly!

- We have subscribers! We try to ...

There are released when we're ready.

- On Thursday, or we are finished!

I can not exercise,

when this man is in the theater!

This is ...

an infinitely rewarding partnership

Orson. They are destroying everything.

They treat friends

and supporters as bad -

and then I desperately

their case out.

It is I who must apologize, correct

mistakes and make phone calls!

I'm busy playing with in a

some f***ing radio broadcasts -

just to post my money in this

damn theater that you should look!

As I should look? I slave away day

and night to try to manage it!

Have you seen the ancient creatures

on the cover of Time? Look.

Damn, Mr and Mrs Lunt!

Listen. Before the year is over,

I am ... We are on the cover of Time.

At this stage

signed to theater history.

With you and me, and with

all of us in the leading roles.

Orson!

I'm exhausted

and will not let me mark of -

the arrogance and jealousy,

I can feel. You get your first.

All the meanness. I get choked.

- Thursday!

Speak of me as a man

who loved Mercury -

not wisely, but too high.

Anna Stafford!

It was shown Stanislavsky,

who said to Max Reinhardt ...

Ginny! What a surprise.

How goes it, my angel?

Now I do.

- Thank you.

It's great to see you.

I come back tonight.

I have bony

to get 100 liters of red paint.

I would like to speak with you

about the program. There is an error.

It is addressed.

- It says nothing about my contributions.

It is rough draft. Everything is fixed.

Ask even Sonja. Coulouris!

My pineapple juice! Forum scene.

Let us gather our forces.

Coulouris, so it is now!

Where is the wretched fool?

Say that Coulouris should get

his useless body out here.

Who leads this show?

- I would also like to know.

One comment more, Mr Lloyd,

and your loved Cinna-scene deleted.

But we should not exert

my beloved Cinna-scene?

Practicing? I thought

you were a champion to improvise.

The Federal Charles Chaplin.

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Robert Kaplow

Robert Kaplow (born c. 1954) is an American novelist and teacher whose coming-of-age novel was made into a film titled Me and Orson Welles. The story is about "youthful creative ambition" and has received positive reviews from The New York Times which described it as "nimble, likable and smart." Kaplow has written nine books and used to teach English language and film studies at Summit High School in New Jersey. more…

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