A teenager
works with Orson Wells.
That’s a
strange beast of a movie. Certainly interesting but in end vaguely
unsatisfactory.
This is
supposed to be one of those “coming of age” stories. Our “hero” doesn’t know
what to do with his life but then get this incredible occasion, to work with
Orson Wells, and so he becomes a man.
Here is the
main problem. He becomes a man by being a moron and an all round stupid person.
This, in Hollywood jargon, becomes building character but for all the people
who would have killed to get a chance like the one he had its all very
annoying.
He doesn’t
really have a proper character arc. He goes around, he watches all the theater
stuff going on, he likes the girls. The fact that he is played by the one and
only Zac Efron doesn’t help. It’s not like he does a bad job, just that you
need more than a pretty face to elevate the material.
Luckily for
the movie Orson Wells fanatic in his first movie appearance Christian McKay is
perfect as the great director. He does more than good acting, he brings Wells
to life.
The period
setting, the theatre setting in particular, is fascinating. Watching the making
of the play, a very famous and influential one is extremely interesting. It all
shows, in perfect details, how would it be to work alongside a person who can
be at the same time incredibly brilliant but also terribly egocentric as Wells
was.
Conclusion:
A doughnut shaped movie with an hollow core but very rich stuff all over the
place.
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