No, not really. They were just two fat bearded guys who happened to be friends

>>7564667
This.
They're nothing alike, other than the fact they both despised woody Allen types.
Why is /lit/ such a shithole?

Norman Mailer maybe.

>>7564660
No
Ernest Hemingway is known for his sparse, minimalistic prose
Orson Welles is known for his dense, formally complex films: his style is basically considered cinematic rococo
You couldn't have picked two more artistically different people

welles took expressionist and avant garde techniques to mainstream drama

hemingway was minimalist and avant garde in his own time

both were interested in entirely different themes

>>7564719
I don't know. I'm rwally new here but please believe me when I say I'm not a part of that reddit migration or whatever >in b4 go back to reddit hurr durr
I just marvel at the thought process that leads to people starting threads like this

>>7565541
>his style is basically considered cinematic rococo
I nearly threw up

I'm a huge ernest hemmmingway

>>7565577
At rococo? Rococo in its native form is disgusting, but in terms of density the comparison is accurate. Maybe Rococo is too far; Baroque, certainly, though