Word: arkadin
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...Sullivan is just one of the menacing clowns in this nutty noir's sideshow of gargoyle grotesques. This time, instead of borrowing from Orson Welles, Dassin seems to be prefiguring him. Night and the City, made in 1950, is five years ahead of Welles' even more outrageously mannered Mr. Arkadin...
...ARKADIN: A.K.A. CONFIDENTIAL REPORT, Orson Welles...
...more great films than he did. They're always combing through his threadbare later output for one more masterpiece. With the beautiful reconstruction a few years ago of Touch of Evil they found one. This DVD set may not convince you that there's another one lurking in Mr. Arkadin. But drop into this fun house of a box and it'll be days before you come...
Instead of agreeing to Van Stratten’s terms, Arkadin decides to pay Van Stratten to find out the details of his past, ostensibly due to amnesia. As Van Stratten wanders the world, Welles gives center stage to a series of glorious character actors representing the changes in the international scene—the Dutch man is an avaricious eccentric, the titled Frenchwoman is forced to work in a clothing store, the Englishman is ignored until the end, and the Mexican representative is corrupt, but just wants to be left alone...
...aspect of the characters, however, is summed up in the story of the scorpion and the frog, which Arkadin tells. A scorpion convinces a frog to take him across a river, because if the scorpion stings the frog, they will both die. In the midst of their journey, the frog feels the sting and says, “Why? This is illogical. We will both die.” The scorpion responds, “I can’t help it. It is my character.” This anecdote foreshadows the plot of the movie while making...