ComradeHuxley
Donor
Remember that scene in the movies where the hero chases the villain into a hall of mirrors and you don't know who's an image and who's a danger?
That's The Lady from Shanghai.The story goes that in 1946 Welles needed some quick cash to put on a musical of Around the World in 80 Days as his costumes and equipment had been seized. He was at the airport, talking to a Studio Head, looking at a paperback book rack and chooses one at random, telling the Head to buy the rights to the book and that he would direct, act and write the movie.
That was how The Lady from Shanghai was made.Now, imagine that instead of looking at a bookrack he looks towards the magazine rack, where there's Batman costing 10 cents an issue, same as Time and Newsweek, with Two-Face on the cover.He shrugs and tells the Studio Head to buy the rights to Batman, and he'd write, direct and star.
He's 31 at the time, a good age to be an action actor.He's never done a real action picture, he'll put his intensity towards that like he does to anything else.There's Two-Face on the cover, so, Welles can explore the duality of Batman/Bruce Wayne, Two-Face/Harvey Dent and the scene with mirrors still occurs. With the popularity of this movie, others are done and the whole Seduction of the Innocent does not occur.The world is a better place and the San Diego Comic Con starts earlier and is even bigger than it is now.
Normally I am not a fan of these, but this time I'd say it is appropriate: