MACBETH

[ToddBaesen]

I just got the new book of the Welles scripts adapted from Shakespearian plays, which features his Vodoo MACBETH. It's supposed to be extremely bad luck for an actor or director in the theater to actually mention the name of the play, and Welles seems to have done "the Scottish play" in more different mediums then any of Shakespeare's other plays. (on stage at least twice, as part of the Mercury Shakespeare books and records series, and of course as a film). Maybe that brought him bad luck, just like the Vodoo witch doctor who cursed IT'S ALL TRUE.

[Obssessed_with_Orson]

I don't think that Mr. Welles had good or bad luck.

I just think that everyone was against him.
he did the war of the worlds
people got mad
citizen kane
people got mad

so they were already not liking him. I mean how would you feel if you were:
a rich tycoon
who started wars, and got away with it
had a famous castle
everyone on your side
an old fart
ugly as hell
and all of a sudden came along someone to take your place and get
filfthy rich
terribly handsome
24 years old
did a good job on a movie
people were loving
and became the #1 man in america

well, mr.hearst (God Forgive Me) felt that his life was going to be over or taken over by Mr. Welles so he did everything in his power to prevent it from happening from
trying to buy it
wanting to burn it
spies on the set of the movie
and more than anything, since he was a newspaper and magazine tycoon, printed nothing but bad reviews or none at all

I don't think Mr. Welles had luck good or bad, he just had a lot of people that were jealous of him. Even when he grew a beard, jealousy because he looked better than they did, and they knew it

i don't know