expat_mike
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Returning briefly to The Trial, there is an interesting interview between Welles and Huw Wheldon at http://www.wellesnet.com/trial%20bbc%20interview.htm
Near the end Welles says " I had planned a completely different film that was based on the absence of sets. The production, as I had sketched it, comprised sets that gradually disappeared. The number of realistic elements were to become fewer and fewer and the public would become aware of it, to the point where the scene would be reduced to free space as if everything had dissolved. The gigantic nature of the sets I used is, in part, due to the fact that we used this vast abandoned railway station. It was an immense set."
It certainly sounds like Welles set out to produce a very stange film, far stranger than the one that we have discussed, and the only reason that there are all those atmospheric (confusing but recognisable) sets, is that he had to change the location for filming at the last minute.
Near the end Welles says " I had planned a completely different film that was based on the absence of sets. The production, as I had sketched it, comprised sets that gradually disappeared. The number of realistic elements were to become fewer and fewer and the public would become aware of it, to the point where the scene would be reduced to free space as if everything had dissolved. The gigantic nature of the sets I used is, in part, due to the fact that we used this vast abandoned railway station. It was an immense set."
It certainly sounds like Welles set out to produce a very stange film, far stranger than the one that we have discussed, and the only reason that there are all those atmospheric (confusing but recognisable) sets, is that he had to change the location for filming at the last minute.
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