![]() ![]() Watch this film and tell someone else about it, so that they can watch it and tell someone else about it, so that they can watch it and tell somebody else about it, so that.This is a list of people claimed to be immortal. Clay's previous victims, full of vitriol and sporting for revenge.Ī cool little film that provides for a lot of intellectual simulation. In addition, Jeanne Moreau is utilised well as the daughter of one of Mr. As usual, Welle's fascination with power and ruthlessness is further explored as in other films. I have focused on the whole existential aspects and the role that our stories have to play after our deaths but there is plenty more to unpack in this film besides that. There must be a lot of soul searching as to what role these stories have played in their lives and if they have any relevance at all now that the reaper is tapping them on the shoulder. Clay have his man-servant cast his actors for the role of wife and sailor and then taking over and directing the action, an obvious avatar for Welles himself.Īs mortality encroaches upon a director there must be many questions about how the integrity of their work will be maintained and how their ouvre will be received after they are gone. Knowing that this is Orson Welle's last film makes this especially poignant as we watch Mr. Clay alive in each recounting of this story of truth? Or can a man as wealthy and powerful as he still have no control over whether or not the story is accurately told, believed by the recipients or even told at all? Clay desires to make this a non-fiction story based in fact.īy inserting himself into this factual story as the husband and staging it to happen as an actual event this changes the fanciful bawdy tale into a record of fact. But fiction is not good enough for his purposes as Mr. Being passed from sailor to sailor, this story morphs each time in the telling, evolving and spreading across the seven seas. Clay latches onto as a measure to ensure that he leaves a footprint on the collective consciousness of the world once he has shuffled off his mortal coil.Īnd so when the cranky old fart's man-servant relays to him a story about a man who invites a sailor to sleep with his wife, Mr. The stories that we learn and share also live and breathe, surviving us and taking on a life of their own. ![]() Clay as for whatever reason he seems to be childless.Īlternatively, there is something else that passes from host to host and constantly mutates and evolves much like genetics. ![]() Much like myself, this option does not seem to be available to Mr. In this sense, it is the biological cascade of genetic material from parent to child that functions as the legacy forming a person's sense of immortality. Of course, one way for some to feel like some part of them survives their death is the transmission of their genes to their children. ![]() Clay that his day of reckoning will be soon upon him and he too is now looking for ways to achieve his immortality. Unscrupulous and tyrannical, he sits alone in his empty mansion as his man-servant entertains him with the recital of the litany of his accounting books. Charles Clay, is the wealthiest man in Macao. In The Immortal Story, Orson Welles' character Mr. Will I be but a few fleeting memories in the minds of friends and family that gently fade away until they likewise pass away themselves? Will I be a mere trace of my former physical presence, captured in dog-eared yellow photos tucked away in dusty old photo albums? Or will I be a digital smattering of ephemeral thoughts posted on social media sites such as Letterboxd, only to one day be archived and ignored? As such, once the abyss of complete annihilation has claimed my soul what immortality may I claim that will extend beyond the end of my corporeal extension through time and space. Sometimes I wonder what my legacy will be once I am dead. Film School Drop Outs Challenge 2017 Week 12 - Auteurs - Orson Welles ![]()
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