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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:F_For_Fake_FAK020DVD.jpg\|thumb\|278px]] {{quote\|''Ladies and gentleman, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery, fraud, about lies. Tell it by the fireside or in a marketplace or in a movie, almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. This is a promise. For the next hour, everything you hear from us is really true and based on solid fact.''\|'''[[Orson Welles]]''' <ref> By the way, [[Brick Joke\|you may want to take note of how long the film is...]]</ref>}} Line 8 ⟶ 11: The fast-paced editing techniques used by Welles in the film have been credited with influencing, among other things, the "MTV" style that premiered in the 1980s. {{tropelist}} ~~----~~ * [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: At one point, Welles reflects on how, in his first professional role, he walked into a ~~theatre~~theater in Dublin (where he'd simply happened to end up having run out of money while touring Europe), claimed to be a famous American stage star, and demanded a role in their latest production. And got it.▼ ~~=== ''[[F for Fake]]'' provides examples of: ===~~ ▲* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: At one point, Welles reflects on how, in his first professional role, he walked into a theatre in Dublin (where he'd simply happened to end up having run out of money while touring Europe), claimed to be a famous American stage star, and demanded a role in their latest production. And got it. * [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler\|The page quote. Towards the end of the movie, Welles points out that the hour's long been over and his contract with the audience as well; "for the last seventeen minutes I've been lying my head off."}} * [[Creator Thumbprint]]: As well as tying into the movie's themes about truth-as-illusion, the magic tricks performed by Welles for the boys at the beginning of the movie reflect the director's own love of magic tricks. * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Welles somehow manages to combine this with [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. And it is ''glorious''. * [[Death of the Author]]: Welles reflects on this, suggesting that maybe authenticity isn't important to art: {{quote\| Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.}} * [[Dirty Old Man]]: Picasso, according to Welles. [[The Reveal\|However...]] * [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]] * [[Documentary]]: ... Sort of. * [[Exact Words]]: Read Orson's line above again. Line 25 ⟶ 27: * [[The Reveal]]: See [[Brick Joke]]. * [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[Exit Through the Gift Shop]]'' another documentary assembled largely from stock/found footage examining the nature of art and authenticity, with a [[Deadpan Snarker]] director. * [[Take That, Critics!]]: [[Invoked]]; a central theme of the movie is questioning what, exactly, the point of art criticism even ''is'' if the art critics can't even tell a genuine article from a forgery. Needless to say, de Hory, Irving and Welles have some pretty snarky things to say about critics and 'experts'. {{reflist}} Line 31 ⟶ 33: [[Category:Films of the 1970s]] [[Category:F for Fake]] [[Category:Film]]