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In Reply to: "Touch of Evil" touched by genius posted by Bambi B on November 24, 2003 at 18:01:37:
I agree with your observations on "Touch.." and assume you are referencing the "resored" version, not the studio botch job that was out there for decades. When you witness the opening tracking shot
you are amazed that anyone in their right mind could bear to cut it up (although there certainly was precedent in the even worse botch job on "The Magnificent Ambersons" 16 years earlier)All of the films you cite are favorites of mine as well and most are in my collection. I have a particular affinity for "Barry Lyndon".
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While I admire the Orsonīs touch, I never did like the film.
Nor did I until I bought and saw the DVD of the "restored" version.
It has been re-edited using a lengthy 65 page memo from Welles hiumself to the studio suggesting corrections to thei hack work.
Yes, I have it...What i donīt like in this film is the atmosphere in it, everything is very well done....perfect photo, the actors* ...The film I do not like....
* Save Marlene...
Overacting across the board and Heston miscast as a Mexican not withstanding. It is a product of it's time and place. The film NEEDS these performances for it to be what it is; seminal hollywood film-noir.
Rosebud was too, and I love this film so much, it has the sensibility.
Touch do not move me, i look at it from a not being moved point of view.
And I am not quite certain why..i must have another view of this film.
. . . keeping in mind that "Kane" is a completely different type of movie requiring a different feeling from the actors.The best Film Noir, like TOE, requires unlikable characters in every role and a sense of underlying angst. I honestly don't think you are supposed to be moved by them in the same way the characters in the much more sentimental "Kane" move you.
It is not only a question to be moved in the sense in the sentimental way ..it is to be move at all...
But my only reaction was more of seeing something that makes me uncomfortable..like seeing " Salo "
I will do it.
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