Me & Orson Welles (2009)

Rating: 75%
So this is the second movie I heard of about Zac Effron where he's said to be much better than he is in the High School Musical trilogy, and quite frankly the one I looked forward to the most.

Plot: Richard Samuels is a high schooler who meets theater director Orson Welles who gives him the role of Lucius in his upcoming adaption of Julius Caesar at the Mercury theater. From there Richard experiences the difficulties of Welles' ways of making a theatrical production via his leader ship and becomes interested in the production assistant, Sonja.

Now I was interested in this movie just by the title alone. I mean it's a movie about Orson Welles before he ever even tried making Citizen Kane. So the whole time that Orson Welles was in the movie I was interested to know what was going to happen. Now I didn't like how things were structured with Richard particularly, because on his part, the movie is sort of structured similar to The Devil Wears Prada and Water for Elephants. But the movie is very interesting anyway because the story is still interesting, the characters are good, and also how it is based on the actual production Orson Welles did back then that did turn out to be a pretty big hit. So you get an idea of how it probably really was back then when Orson Welles did stuff like theater and also radio too before he did Citizen Kane. It's just and interesting world that may not have been structured terribly original, but considering what it's basically about, it's very amusing anyway.

Actors/Characters:
Zac Effron/Richard Samuels: Now Richard is not the most original character considering how he's almost exactly similar to Jacob in Water for Elephants. But Effron still did a nice good with his acting. I think the thing is at the end of the day is that he is a good, decent actor, it's just that High School Musical wasn't the best way for him to start being recognized.
Christian McKay/Orson Welles: One thing I easily liked was how his appearance looked so much similar to how Orson Welles looked back at that time. But what makes his acting really cool yet really curious is how accurate it is with what kind of guy Orson Welles was. Cause most of the time he sounded a little too much like Charles Kane in Citizen Kane. Maybe that's part of how he came up with that movie, maybe not.

Music: I liked how the music was basically the music back at that time to give you that feeling that this was the late 30s.

Editing: Editing was good, but I don't know if I would agree with there being a fade to black in the middle of the scene where they're having their opening night, and I think the last shot of the movie lasted a little too long before it faded to black as well.

And that's my review for Me & Orson Welles, it's not structured very original, but the whole idea is just so fascinating, the acting was good and the whole movie all around is just a very nice and interesting to watch.