At its best, Welles’ career represented one of the most profoundly democratic efforts to bring complex and challenging drama and comedy to a mass audience. Only a figure like Charlie Chaplin (who used Welles’ draft of a script as the basis of his Monsieur Verdoux in 1947) perhaps attempted something as ambitious. On the one hand, the studio executive and political authorities were inevitably made unhappy, perhaps without even understanding the implications of Welles’ work, by such an effort. On the other, portions of the Stalinist-dominated left reacted with nervousness and disquiet to his “elitist” and “aristocratic” undertakings.
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 02:00:01 +0000
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