Welles, The Kenosha Kid?

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Despite the coincidence of his birth in the same city, there seems to me
to be little internal evidence of Orson Welles being The Kenosha Kid.
Bernard Duyfhuizen has had some interesting things to say on this subject.

Andrew Dinn also notes:
" Pynchon uses almost point-by-point `camera tricks' in his narrative 
  that are taken from Welles' movies---especially in a scene (about a
  hundred pages in) in which Katje starts out at a window, wanders
  around being followed by a camera whose image is being fed into
  octopus Grigori's tank.
 
He never got back to me with the essay, claiming that his copy of GR
with all the scribbled marginalia was on loan to a bi-sexual librarian
at the University library, such incidental detail being the hallmark
of veracity I include it without further commentary (and if Steve
Berry is on the list he had better own up right now)."


Here, the parallels are more suggestive, as Andrew's friend points out.
I'd also notice the wonderful scene between Pointsman and Spectro(?) as
the former begs for "one little fox."  But there are also suggestive 
parallels in GR with many films and filmmakers ranging from Mack Sennett
to Alain Resnais.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)