Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 · 92 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 993 VOTES · DIR. Chuck Workman
Overview
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,758 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:29 - Rosebud...
00:04:59 - Joanne Hill Styles: He could talk about China
00:08:45 up and down the stairs.
00:12:20 Time Magazine declares, "The brightest moon
00:15:20 several explosions of incandescent gas
00:18:20 than as the holiday offering it was intended to be.
00:21:46 - It's going to be done exactly the way I've told...
00:25:33 I said, "Don't you think you had a tremendous influence?"
00:28:54 that couldn't be helped.
00:32:31 So then I did "Jane Eyre. "
00:36:20 He had no idea what to do.
00:39:48 to the surreal quality of the film.
00:44:45 in America politically
00:48:33 We had no costumes, nothing.
00:52:10 This motion picture is a fictionalized reconstruction
00:56:03 I came in, in order to arrive in time
01:00:00 who works so outside the box
01:04:15 called Primosten where we shot "Dead Reckoning,"
01:07:45 just carry on as usual.
01:11:35 - Orson Welles: Violence always has been part of our story.
01:15:51 - Eric Sherman: I don't know why he didn't finish it
01:20:40 who were aware in a way that artists had not been before.
01:24:28 - Frank Marshall: I sort of felt that we would just
20:00:00 for every dot that stopped
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,758
Dialogue density19.1 lines / min
First line00:00:29
Final line20:00:00
Production Record
DirectorChuck Workman
LanguageEnglish
Budget$813,505
IMDb votes993