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The Magnificent Ambersons
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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 U.S. Period Drama, the second feature film produced and directed by Orson Welles. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1918 novel, about the declining fortunes of a proud Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age. The film stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello (Drew Barrymore's grandma!), Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, and Ray Collins, with Welles providing the narration.The film became famous for its behind the scenes controversies, which resulted in the film becoming drastically cut and taken away from Welles. (For more information, see the Trivia page). That said, even in the released version, The Magnificent Ambersons is often regarded as among the best U.S. films ever made, a distinction it shares with Welles's first film, Citizen Kane. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, and it was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1991.Robert Wise did the editing as well as directing the reshoots mandated by RKO. | |
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Canon Foreigner: Fanny was not in the original radio play. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Welles mentions "the magnificence of the Ambersons" a couple of times. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: George Minafer was still a Jerkass in the books but he had more moments of Jerkass Has a Point and he even had a few sympathetic moments. Minafer's criticism of people around him was also a lot more pointed and correct in the books, whereas Welles made George really insufferable and unsympathetic. | |
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Hitler Cam: This effect, used in Citizen Kane, is used here in an even more inventive manner, with a moving camera positioned down below and pointed up at George and Lucy as they take a carriage ride. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Or maybe Identical Stranger. Or maybe Celebrity Paradox. But in any case, the town newspaper includes on its front page a "Stage Scene" column by Jed Leland, complete with a picture of Joseph Cotten. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: George, oh so very much. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: Many people's reactions to the "horseless carriage", though George remains convinced of this long after everyone else starts to come round to the idea. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Both Welles and the revised ending of the studio's change the ending of the books: i.e. the events leading up to Eugene's visit to George at the hospital. A visit to a medium where Eugene actually interacts with the spirit of Isabelle. Welles and even the studio saw it as a clumsy Deus ex Machina that went against the spirit of the story, and saw fit to change it, albeit to different ends. | |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment | |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: It's really hard to gauge where the film fits. The Ambersons typify an old world of spoilt decadence and snobbishness, while Eugene Morgan represents the modern industrious spirit. George Amberson Minafer is a Jerkass while Morgan is a nice guy. However, Eugene Morgan is himself pretty skeptical if the automobiles he's building is going to bring progress, and admits that George may be right about the unhealthy changes brought by the automobile: | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Isabelle is dead, and she and Eugene never married. George has been brought low enough to work for meager wages, and then he's injured in an automobile accident. The Ambersons are broke. But there's an implication that Lucy and George might get together after all, and Eugene takes some comfort in believing that Isabelle's spirit is with them and knows about his reconciliation with George.note This ending is lifted straight from the book. The somewhat happier note with the scene in the hospital hallway was the principal addition that lightened Welles' Downer Ending, which was more bleak, with Fanny alone in a boardinghouse (revealed in the final shot to be the decaying former Amberson mansion) and a final meeting with Eugene reminding her of what she'd lost. Storyboards and the film's cutting continuity show the scene. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Welles, who doesn't otherwise appear in the film. | |
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MommyIssues | |
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Mommy Issues: George has some issues regarding his mother's personal life. | |
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Parent with New Paramour | |
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Parent with New Paramour: George does not deal with it at all well when Eugene and Isabelle start dating. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: George delivers a rude and pissy monologue at dinner about how the automobile shouldn't have been invented and is ruining everything. Eugene is hurt, but admits that George might be right. Later in the film Welles' narration mentions how the new growth inspired by the automobile "befouled" the town. And a newspaper headline reports the rash of injuries and deaths caused by automobile accidents. | |
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Chiaroscuro | |
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Chiaroscuro: Used for several scenes in the dark old Amberson mansion, including a striking shot when Eugene and Lucy are leaving after the ball, and beams of light from outside are cast upon the people in the dark foyer. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: One of the themes of the film. | |
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Impoverished Patrician | |
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Impoverished Patrician: After Major Amberson's death, the family learns that the estate is worthless, with numerous debts, with Aunt Fanny losing everything due to bad investments; the utilities have been turned off, and the Ambersons' home and belongings are sold off. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Besides the in-universe one with Eugene Morgan and Jed Leland mentioned below in Mythology Gag, there's also the shot where George (played by Tim Holt) walks past a movie poster for a film starring Jack Holt (a silent film star who happened to be Tim Holt's father). | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: George is brought low, very low indeed. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: Some expospeak from the townspeople in the beginning about the Ambersons and their fancy house. | |
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Video Credits | |
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Video Credits: Not only video credits, but narrated video credits, with Welles reading off the names of each actor and who they played in the movie. The credits end with Welles reading off his own credit over a shot of a microphone.note The mandatory copyright statement, IATSE union label, RCA sound system logo, Hays Code seal, and This Is a Work of Fiction disclaimer were all stuffed into RKO's stock The End card. | |
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Iris Out | |
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Iris Out: This effect, which in 1942 was already old-fashioned, is used as Eugene drives away in his experimental car, possibly to illustrate how times are changing. | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Spoiled Brat: George is an awful little twerp as a child, and he doesn't get any better when he grows up. | |
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Idle Rich | |
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Idle Rich: George says in no uncertain terms that he desires to be this. It doesn't work out. | |
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Romancing the Widow | |
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Romancing the Widow: Eugene starts putting the moves on Isabelle after her husband dies. | |
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Manchild: George, who as a grown man still wants to hang out with his mommy and be spoiled. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: George is introduces as an awful child, before the film cuts forward to George as college-aged and played by Tim Holt. | |
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Dances and Balls | |
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Dances and Balls: George meets Lucy, and Eugene is reunited with Isabelle, at "the last of the great long-remembered dances" at the Amberson house. | |
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Interactive Narrator: Only briefly. Some town busybody chatters about how Isabelle is going to pop out a bunch of children. Welles the narrator says that in fact she had only one, and the busybody says "Only one?". | |
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Old Maid | |
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Old Maid: Fanny due to her crush on Eugene. She is now left alone with no one, and as Jack points out, the Maiden Aunt doesn't have very much for herself. | |
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