"Третий человек"

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Почему англичане выбрали фильм "Третий человек" лучшим в своем списке, может озадачить современного зрителя.
Меня, например.
Конечно, год. 1949. Для этого времени, вероятно, лента порвала. Что порвала?

Магия Уэллса Орсона? Слаженная работа всех актеров? Ведь сюжет, по нашим временам, слабоват.
И эта музыка, звучащая издевательски...
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"По приглашению друга детства Гарри Лайма (Орсон Уэллс) в Вену приезжает автор вестернов, американский писатель Холли Мартинс (Джозеф Коттен). Добравшись по адресу, он узнаёт от дворника (Пауль Хёрбигер), что Гарри совсем недавно погиб в результате несчастного случая, произошедшего прямо под окнами его дома: его сбила машина. Мартинс успевает только на похороны друга, где встречает офицера британской военной разведки майора Кэллоуэя (Тревор Ховард) и загадочную красавицу Анну (Алида Валли)."

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George Orson Welles was born May 6, 1915

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An alternative story of the source of his first and middle names was told by George Ade, who met Welles's parents on a West Indies cruise toward the end of 1914. Ade was traveling with a friend, Orson Wells (no relation), and the two of them sat at the same table as Mr. and Mrs. Richard Welles. Mrs. Welles was pregnant at the time, and when they said good-by, she told them that she had enjoyed their company so much that if the child were a boy, she intended to name it for them: George Orson.[14]

Re: George Orson Welles was born May 6, 1915

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On December 28, 1930, when Welles was 15, his father died of heart and kidney failure at the age of 58, alone in a hotel in Chicago. Shortly before this, Welles had announced to his father that he would stop seeing him, believing it would prompt his father to refrain from drinking. As a result, Orson felt guilty because he believed his father had drunk himself to death because of him.[25]

Panic was reportedly spread

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The Mercury Theatre's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells October 30, 1938, brought Welles instant fame. The combination of the news bulletin form of the performance with the between-breaks dial spinning habits of listeners was later reported to have created widespread confusion among listeners who failed to hear the introduction, although the extent of this confusion has come into question.[3][51][52][53] Panic was reportedly spread among listeners who believed the fictional news reports of a Martian invasion. The myth of the result created by the combination was reported as fact around the world and disparagingly mentioned by Adolf Hitler in a public speech.[54]

were married on

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Orson Welles and Chicago-born actress and socialite Virginia Nicolson (1916–1996) were married on November 14, 1934.[17]:332 The couple separated in December 1939[20]:226 and were divorced on February 1, 1940.[141][142] After bearing with Welles's romances in New York, Virginia had learned that Welles had fallen in love with Mexican actress Dolores del Río.[20]:227

Infatuated with her since adolescence, Welles met del Río at Darryl Zanuck's ranch[22]:206 soon after he moved to Hollywood in 1939.[20]:227[22]:168 Their relationship was kept secret until 1941, when del Río filed for divorce from her second husband. They openly appeared together in New York while Welles was directing the Mercury stage production Native Son.[22]:212 They acted together in the movie Journey into Fear (1943). Their relationship came to an end due, among other things, to Welles's infidelities. Del Río returned to México in 1943, shortly before Welles married Rita Hayworth.[143]

Re: were married on

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In 1955, Welles married actress Paola Mori (née Countess Paola di Girifalco), an Italian aristocrat who starred as Raina Arkadin in his 1955 film, Mr. Arkadin. The couple began a passionate affair, and they were married at her parents' insistence.[26]:168 They were wed in London May 8, 1955,[17]:417, 419 and never divorced.

Croatian-born artist and actress Oja Kodar became Welles's longtime companion both personally and professionally from 1966 onward, and they lived together for some of the last 20 years of his life.[26]:255–258

Joseph Cotten

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Cotten earned spending money playing professional football on Sundays, for $25 a quarter. After graduation, he earned enough money as a lifeguard at Wilcox Lake to pay back his family's loan, with interest.[2]:4–7

He moved to Miami in 1925 and worked as an advertising salesman for The Miami Herald at $35 a week. He started performing at the Miami Civic Theatre, and worked there for five years, also reviewing the shows for the Herald.[3]

Alida Valli

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Алида Валли (итал. Alida Valli, наст. имя баронесса Алида Мария Лаура Альтенбургер фон Маркенштайн-Фрауэнберг, нем. Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein u. Frauenberg; 31 мая 1921 — 22 апреля 2006) — итальянская актриса.

Re: Alida Valli

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Personal life

Her teenage love, Carlo Cugnasca, was a famous Italian aerobatic pilot. He served as a fighter pilot with the Regia Aeronautica and was killed during a mission over British-held Tobruk on 14 April 1941.[7][8]

Valli's movie career suffered in 1953 from a scandal surrounding the death of Wilma Montesi, whose body was found on a public beach near Ostia; prolonged investigations resulted, involving allegations of drug and sex orgies in Roman society. Among the accused – all of whom were acquitted, leaving the case unsolved – was Valli's lover, jazz musician Piero Piccioni (son of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs).[9]

Valli married Oscar de Mejo in 1943 and filed for divorce from him in 1949, but they reconciled.[10] She had two sons with him.[11]

Вильма Монтези

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Вильма Монтези (3 февраля 1932 — 9 апреля 1953) — итальянская фотомодель, жертва жестокого убийства, оставшегося нераскрытым.
Убийство

Безжизненное тело Монтези обнаружили на общественном пляже в районе Остия, что привело к длительному расследованию, в ходе которого появились сенсационные заявления о наркотиках и секс-оргиях римского общества. Выяснилось, что Монтези состояла в любовной связи с представителями власти.

Обвинение Уго Монтанья и Пьеро Пиччони (сына вице-премьера министра) вызвало скандал, но впоследствии с них сняли все обвинения. Преступление так и осталось нераскрытым.

Re: Вильма Монтези

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The body was brought to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Rome, where an autopsy was conducted: the doctors claimed that the probable cause of death would be a "... syncope due to a foot bath," claiming that, most likely, Montesi took the chance of the trip to the beach to eat ice cream (remains were found in her stomach) and made a foot bath in the sea to relieve a nagging irritation at the heels of which she suffered for some time. To do so, Montesi would put off her shoes and socks and, most likely, also skirt and suspenders, and then she dived in the water where she fainted and finally drowned. The coroner reconnected her sudden illness to the fact that the woman was menstruating.

The distance between Ostia (the presumed last sighting of Montesi) and the point of the discovery was justified by saying that the body had been moved by complex combinations of sea currents. An autopsy revealed that the young woman was a virgin and that she had not experienced violence (as evidenced by the fact that the make up was still on her face and nail varnish on her fingernails intact); later, however, another doctor, Professor Pellegrini, said that the presence of sand in her intimate parts could be explained only as a consequence of violence. No traces of drugs or alcohol were found in her body.

Re: Вильма Монтези

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Wilma Montesi was from a modest background (she was the daughter of a carpenter). She was born in 1932 in Rome, where she lived in via Tagliamento. At the time of the disappearance, she was engaged to a policeman located in Potenza she was about to marry. She was considered to be very beautiful, she longed to enter the world of cinema and show-business of the Cinecittà studios (she made an uncredited appearance in Prison, Ergastolo, 1952). Everyone described her as reserved and noble, committed on finish the trousseau for the upcoming wedding, planned for the next Christmas.

The body was found by a laborer, Fortunato Bettini, who was having breakfast at the beach. The body was lying on her back on the shore, immersed in water only on the side of the head. The young woman was partially dressed and the clothes were soaked with water: she was no longer wearing her shoes, skirt, stockings, and garter belt and her bag was missing.

Anton Karas

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Антон Карас (нем. Anton Karas, 7 июля 1906, Вена — 10 января 1985, там же) — австрийский музыкант-импровизатор на цитре, наиболее известный созданием музыки к фильму Кэрола Рида «Третий человек».

Антон Карас родился в многодетной рабочей семье смешанного чешско-венгерского происхождения. Он с детства мечтал стать музыкантом, но семья была неспособна оплатить образование, и Карас работал с 14 лет, параллельно сперва осваивая цитру самоучкой, а затем беря частные уроки музыки. В 1924—1928 году он учился в Венском университете музыки и исполнительского искусства. В 1925 году Карас потерял работу и стал выступать в качестве импровизатора в венских кабачках-хойригерах. Во время Второй мировой войны он был призван в вермахт, служил в противовоздушной обороне и на Восточном фронте.

В 1948 году британский режиссёр Кэрол Рид, снимавший в Вене фильм-нуар «Третий человек» и искавший для фильма музыки, которая могла бы передать местный колорит, услышал в одном из кабачков (по некоторым данным, по наводке игравшего в «Третьем человеке» Тревора Ховарда) игру Караса и пригласил его записать музыку к фильму. Карас выехал в Лондон, где сочинил ряд тем для фильма, а большую часть музыки сымпровизировал непосредственно на озвучании ленты, глядя на экран. После выхода «Третьего человека» на экран в 1949 году к Карасу пришла всемирная известность, уже к концу года было продано более полумиллиона пластинок с главной темой фильма.

Carol Reed

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Carol Reed was born in Putney, south-west London.[3] He was the out-of-wedlock son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed.[4] He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury.

and then comes along this silly American!

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The Third Man was co-produced by David O. Selznick and Korda, with the American actors Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in two of the leading roles. Reed insisted on casting Welles as Harry Lime, although Selznick had wanted Noël Coward for the role. The film required six weeks of location work in Vienna, during which time it was Reed himself who accidentally discovered Anton Karas, the zither player responsible for the film's music, in a courtyard outside a small Viennese restaurant.[11]

Reed once said: "A picture should end as it has to. I don’t think anything in life ends 'right'". While Greene wanted Holly Martins (Cotten) and Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli) to reconcile at the end of the film, after Lime, her lover, is killed by Martins, Reed insisted that Anna should ignore him and walk on. "The whole point of the Valli character in that film is that she’d experienced a fatal love – and then comes along this silly American!"[11]

at the start of the Cold War

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The atmospheric use of black-and-white expressionist cinematography by Robert Krasker, with harsh lighting and distorted "Dutch angle" camera technique, is a major feature of The Third Man. Combined with the iconic theme music, seedy locations and acclaimed performances from the cast, the style evokes the atmosphere of an exhausted, cynical post-war Vienna at the start of the Cold War.

and never intended it to be read

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Before writing the screenplay, Graham Greene worked out the atmosphere, characterisation and mood of the story by writing a novella.[8] He wrote it as a source text for the screenplay and never intended it to be read by the general public, although it was later published under the same name as the film. In 1948 he met Elizabeth Montagu in Vienna. She gave him tours of the city, its sewers and some of its less reputable night-clubs. She also introduced Greene to Peter Smolka, the eastern European correspondent for The Times. Smolka gave Greene the stories about the black market in Vienna.[9]

Elizabeth Varley

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Elizabeth Varley (26 September 1909 – 6 May 2002), born Elizabeth Susan Douglas-Scott-Montagu, was the daughter of John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu. She pursued careers in the entertainment industry, literature, and advertising.

She travelled extensively throughout Europe in 1935–39, and also studied at a piano school in Switzerland. When asked about her racial background while applying for a visa at the German consulate in St. Gallen, she angrily swept items – including a portrait of Hitler – from the desktop onto the floor. Her passport was confiscated.[1]

She was sent to France at the start of the Second World War as an ambulance driver. After her unit retreated to Bordeaux, she refused to leave and hid at a friend's home for several months. On a train to Switzerland she noticed she was under surveillance, so she asked two hat salesmen for help at the next station. She escaped while hidden under the boxes in their car.[1]

While working at the Political Intelligence Department at the British Embassy in Berne, she translated material from within Germany, including information on what was happening at Treblinka extermination camp.[1]

Re: Elizabeth Varley

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Personal life

After the death of her lover, the classical pianist Renata Borgatti, she became the fourth wife on 29 August 1962 of Colonel Arthur Noel Claude Varley CBE (mil) (1902–85), the founder of the advertising agency Colman, Prentis and Varley.[1] There were no children of the marriage.

She wrote her autobiography, "Honourable Rebel: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Montagu (later Elizabeth Varley)". A film of her life, Honourable Rebel, was released in 2015

as an NKVD agent codenamed "ABO"

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Harry Peter Smollett, OBE (1912–1980), born Hans Peter Smolka and sometimes continuing to use that name as a nom de plume even after he changed it by deed poll, was a journalist for the Daily Express and later a Central Europe correspondent for The Times.[1] During the Second World War, Smollett became head of the Russian section at Britain's Ministry of Information and was responsible for organising pro-Soviet propaganda. He was later identified as a Soviet agent.

Born in Vienna, he came to Britain in 1933 as an NKVD agent codenamed "ABO". Although he changed his name to Smollett on becoming a naturalised British subject in 1938, he returned to using the surname Smolka when he returned to Vienna after the war.[2] According to the Mitrokhin Archive, Smollett had been recruited by Kim Philby.[3]

George Orwell included him on the list of those who "in my opinion are crypto-communists, fellow-travellers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists"[1] that he gave to the Information Research Department in 1949 as "almost certainly agent of some kind" and "a very slimy person"[4]

Re: as an NKVD agent codenamed "ABO"

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Graham Greene's biographer, Michael Shelden, refers to the inside joke that appears in the film The Third Man (1949), filmed in Vienna. Greene wrote the screenplay and used the name Smolka for a bar because Smolka/Smollett had given uncredited advice on the filming

he has been proved triumphantly right.

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During the shooting of the film, the final scene was the subject of a dispute between Greene, who wanted the happy ending of the novella, and Reed and David O. Selznick, who stubbornly refused to end the film on what they felt was an artificially happy note. Greene later wrote: "One of the very few major disputes between Carol Reed and myself concerned the ending, and he has been proved triumphantly right."[10]

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Principal photography

Six weeks of principal photography was shot on location in Vienna,[17] ending on 11 December 1948. Some use was made of the Sievering Studios facilities in the city.[18] Production then moved to the Worton Hall Studios in Isleworth[19] and Shepperton Studios near London and was completed in March 1949.[20]

The scenes of Harry Lime in the sewer were shot on location or on sets built at Shepperton; most of the location shots used doubles for Welles.[21] However, Reed claimed that, despite initial reluctance, Welles quickly became enthusiastic, and stayed in Vienna to finish the film.[22] The crew sprayed water on the cobbled streets to make them reflect light at night.[21]

According to the recollection of assistant director Guy Hamilton, interviewed in 2015, Greene and Reed worked very well together, but Orson Welles "generally annoyed everyone on the set". His temporary absence forced Hamilton to step in as body double for him. Apparently, the filming of the sewer scenes was moved to studios in the UK as a result of Welles' complaints about shooting in the actual sewers.[23]

Reed had four different camera units shooting around Vienna for the duration of the production. He worked around the clock, using Benzedrine to stay awake

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Центральные эффекты

Центральное стимулирующее действие амфетамина выражается в улучшении настроения, повышении внимания и способности к концентрации, а также в появлении чувства уверенности и комфорта. Амфетамин повышает двигательную и речевую активность, уменьшает сонливость и аппетит, повышает работоспособность. Негативная сторона центральных эффектов амфетамина может быть выражена в появлении чувства беспокойства, бессоннице и треморе. Также амфетамин может вызывать панику и стимуляторный психоз[9][12].

Наиболее серьёзным проявлением систематического злоупотребления амфетамином является нарушение психики, трудноотличимое от шизофрении. Как правило, этот эффект является следствием длительного употребления амфетамина в высоких дозах, но может проявиться и после единственной дозы. Симптомы обычно проходят через неделю после отмены препарата. Другим следствием хронического злоупотребления амфетамином является так называемое «стереотипное поведение», выражающееся в монотонном повторении одного и того же простого действия в течение нескольких часов

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Anton Karas composed the musical score and played it on the zither. Before the production came to Vienna, Karas was an unknown performer in local Heurigers. According to Time:[30]

The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmaltzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, [and] was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music.

According to Guy Hamilton, Reed met Karas by coincidence at a party in Vienna, where he was playing the zither.[23] Reed brought Karas to London, where the musician worked with Reed on the score for six weeks.[30] Karas stayed at Reed's house during that time

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Still, the Viennese Arbeiter-Zeitung, although critical of a "not-too-logical plot", praised the film's "masterful" depiction of a "time out of joint" and the city's atmosphere of "insecurity, poverty and post-war immorality"

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А зачем 25 комментариев, а не один пост? И что за список?

зачем 25 комментариев

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Автор однажды признался, что не умеет прятать под кат.

Автор однажды признался

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Точно! И даже больше скажу. Вот прямо сейчас такая возможность, наверное, есть. Я сейчас сижу на 7 виндоусе, который сотрудничает с "семаджиком".
Но, система уже сложилась. Да и ссылки эти (комменты) кроме 1-2 человек никого не интересуют.

А зачем 25 комментариев

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И 25 комментов и отсутствие ссыли - чисто техническое. С "катом" у меня несколько лет как не сложилось, а длинные постики раздражают народ.
И длинная ссылка на русскую Вику тоже раздражает. Думаю, что рвет экранчик телефона.
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Вот список:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%87%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85_%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0_100_%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_BFI

Re: А зачем 25 комментариев

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А. Я руками кат набираю, а ссылку прячу в короткое слово. Но кому как удобней, конечно.

Но кому как удобней, конечно.

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Нам не дано предугадать... (с) Какой постик заинтересует пробегающих френдов.

(А "кат руками", это как?)

Re: Но кому как удобней, конечно.

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Просто на клавиатуре набирать.

(lj-cut)

Только скобки не круглые, а угловые. А потом набирать все, что и уйдет под кат.

"" Только без кавычек. Угловая скобка, lj, дефис, cut, углов

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Упс... попробую вновь установить программку.

Re: "" Только без кавычек. Угловая скобка, lj, дефис, cut, угл

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Да чего мучаться, пиши как привык.

пиши как привык

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Пост - это (почти) всегда компромисс.
Как понимаю, длинный пост сейчас не читает почти никто. Ну, или "наискосок" (как рекомендовал Бродский...)

И нужет он только тогда, когда инфа никак не ужимается.

Только скобки не круглые, а угловые.

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Это не снимает моей проблемы со сносками-"комментами". Я не знаю никого, кому интересны биографии, скажем, актеров, которые я вытаскиваю из Вики.