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You don't know whether to call it surreal or what, but it is playing with conventions that Hollywood wasn't making a great use of at this time. Right, and of course, part of the Gothic tradition is combined with a kind of German expressionist. Yes, yeah, right, right. Welles was fascinated with Snow. Snow shows up a lot in his films, and...
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always with this kind of nostalgic memory, a sense of death mingled with youth. He does it in Ambersons. He does it in Chimes at Midnight. Snow has a kind of compelling fascination for him. Maybe it's the Wisconsin boyhood. Yeah, in fact, Truffaut once said that you can divide Welles's films into those with snow and those with gunshots. Actually, Mr. Arkadin's the only one that's got both, I think. Yes, that's right. That's right, yeah.
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parody, and yet you're also supposed to enjoy it. You're also supposed to sort of like be impressed by the show of power. Of course, hey, yeah, you do. And so it's not going to spoil even Donald Trump's fun with this movie. I like the way the camera pans across and sees the snow sled running in the opposite direction, destroying the neat handwriting.
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