How did Orson Welles innovate with sound and visuals?
Innovation, my friends, is born of necessity and a relentless desire to break free from the shackles of convention. We treated sound not as an accompaniment, but as a dramatic force in itself – the overlapping dialogue in *Citizen Kane*, for instance, to mimic the cacophony of memory and thought. And the visuals, ah, the visuals! We plunged the audience into darkness, then revealed truths with a blinding light, using chiaroscuro not just for mood, but to sculpt character. We bent space and time through the lens, making the very architecture of the frame a participant in the unfolding drama.
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