Twenty years before 9/11, in a sensational documentary called The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Orson Welles interpreted a Nostradamus quatrain to mean that a Middle Eastern "King of Terror" would attack New York in 1999. The incredibly hokey, but still spooky enactment shows, among other things, a model of the World Trade Center falling as a turbaned warlord watches from his bunker. Welles' near-planetary girth at the time is nearly as scary as the apocalyptic destruction in this clip (via YouTube).
Monday, November 5, 2007
Orson Welles, Terror Clairvoyant
Twenty years before 9/11, in a sensational documentary called The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Orson Welles interpreted a Nostradamus quatrain to mean that a Middle Eastern "King of Terror" would attack New York in 1999. The incredibly hokey, but still spooky enactment shows, among other things, a model of the World Trade Center falling as a turbaned warlord watches from his bunker. Welles' near-planetary girth at the time is nearly as scary as the apocalyptic destruction in this clip (via YouTube).
