It`s the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he`s fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
It`s sad - it`s sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it`s hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It`s funny, it`s charming, the idea is original, it`s unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.
It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.