The_Film_That_Changed_My_Life

Citizen Kane
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both of them, and I like to use overlapping dialogue. Hawks used it before
Orson, but Orson did it on the radio, too. It’s a great device. I look for it
whenever I can do it; you have to have good actors.
What does it add to the film?
Bogdanovich: Sense of reality, the unrehearsed.
Welles famously told you, “God, how they’ll love me when I’m dead.”
And so is the esteem this film is held in any vindication?
Bogdanovich: Well, it’s not just Citizen Kane. Since he’s died, Touch of Evil
has become a classic. Othello has been acclaimed; it was originally dismissed
in the United States. Touch of Evil was thrown away in the United States. The
Trial is being constantly revived. The Lady from Shanghai is out on DVD
and is highly thought of. I think he’s become a legend rather quickly.
What kept him from that before, do you think?
Bogdanovich: People were threatened by him; he was too much when he
was alive. Too much for people to handle, too intimidating, and too much
of a rebuke to mediocrity.