Orson Welles Auteur Features
Orson Welles has a great deal of identifiable features of his auteur style that appear over the vast majority of his works. His environments tend to be very exotic as can be seen in a lot of his films. In 'The Lady from Shanghai' there is not a big focus on the exotic visuals in certain areas as a lot of the film takes place inside a coastal town instead of on an island however there are certain scenes such as the boat scene where the visuals are relatively exotic and wondrous. The film is also littered with establishing shots with boats across the sea which help to create a semi-exotic atmosphere however 'The Lady from Shanghai' does also have a lot of scenes which would argue against that such as the courtroom which is the last thing you would think of when you think 'exotic'. The main production locations were Acapulco, Pie de la Cuesta, Sausalito and San Francisco, all of which are not straying extremely far from Hollywood and not straying at all from Americ