Makes me think of Cyndi Lauper's "well well well" wind-up in "We Are the World". Not saying she was inebriated or anything. Just that hearing it in take after take is... a lot. And here's that, for context. She's amazing. th-cam.com/video/HpReqNFVL-0/w-d-xo.html
@johnmburt1960 Control as in forgetting his lines and slurring his delivery. It's certainly memorable but not for the intended reason. Bare in mind these are outtakes, they weren't supposed to be seen. What's in the ad had to be fixed in editing.
I'm convinced he's in "brownout" more than actual blackout. If he was blacking out, he'd already be off the set because he either picked a fight or he lewdly harassed someone. Dude was a very heavy drinker at this point of his life, he could endure a case of wine.
According to the assistant director of the recording, he wasn't even drunk. In order to keep up with his schedule he was using sleeping pills, and apparently the ones he took that day ended up having a delayed effect. During the recording of the commercial he was under the effect of narcotics.
+Nero Marcellino I hadn't even thought of that. You'd think more alcohol commercials would play that up then again I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial for any kind of alcohol.. I thought that was banned maybe?
I am amazed at the discipline the other actors in this commercial have. I would be struggling in vain to not crack up in laughter were I in this position
I tell you what, if they had the balls to say "Paul Masson Wine: If it'll Get This Guy Hammered, Imagine What It'll Do to You!" they would have sold a billion bottles.
So true story. I'm a french guy, and at Uni we had a teacher that was from England and he asked us what were some of the best things in France. When it was my turn to speak I instantly went for that classic "Mwaaahaa The French Champagne" exactly in that tone. At least the teacher got the reference and showed this clip to everyone. We've had quite the laugh
Just remember, this guy directed what is considered the greatest film of all time. Married one of the hottest actresses of all time, directed and starred in a radio play that supposedly scared all of america, and voiced unicron.
Married the hottest actress of all time and cast her in the only movie where she really got to act. Also directed for her the greatest femme fatale shoot out and death scene of all time. (Among the many other fantastic things the guy did...such as playing the greatest supporting actor's role of all time in The Third Man, delivering the greatest sermon of all time in Moby Dick, scaring the crap out of millions of Americans with a silly radio show... producing the greatest film version of Macbeth on an impossibly low budget...the guys miracles go on and on.... )
@@yummyyum36719 I concur with all, except proclaiming that the role Rita played in Lady from Shanghai was her only decent, dramatic one. She's amazing in it, but also put in a really impressive performance in Separate Tables. And there's another noir she did, later on in her career, a supporting role, but I can't recall the title. She was outstanding in that one, too. 'Gilda', was not only gorgeous, but had the acting chops, when given the right project.
@@waynej2608 Rita was an amazing actress and did some other good roles. Elsa was her only truly great role. Gilda was promising but that film has the worst ending of any film noir. Not Rita's fault of course....
I am savoring how the guy holding the bottle is frozen in fear because he was hoping this commercial would be his foot in the door but the lady is enjoying every moment of this cable car falling into a volcano moment.
@Ross Smith The age never catches my eye til later if ever but so weird as I remember this commercial well but not the history,bad meds,finally nailing it cuz Orson was the man.W.R.Hearst was a barbaric jackal next to him.His portrayal in Deadwood was cool by Gerald McCraney.I love Tim Oliphant and Ian McShane. At 59 I'm remembering shit from seeing it on youtube. Only ever did microdot once and...yup it was the purple.Lots of blotter but like shrooms the best. Peace edit The couple on the left...as opposed to...gotcha man
A voice talent I worked with in the 90s said he worked in a studio in NYC when Orson Wells came in to record a 30 second United Airlines commercial. They paid him piles of cash, flew him in from England and stood him before the microphone. He did a take and the Director said it was good and began to ask for another, at which point Wells said, "no that was good," and left.
Imagine being one of those actors and telling your family your about to shoot a project with the legendary Orson Welles, and then this is what it turns out to be.
Got more of a legendary moment than you bargained for lol decades later ppl still watch and quote this random ass commercial! Imagine being in it~ your fear at Orson preserved forever.
I am actually quite impressed that as drunk as Welles was, he pretty much stayed with his lines. Sure his speech was extremely slurred, but most people would have a hard time with those lines even while completely sober.
But with those acting chops and famous sense of humour, how do we know he wasn't sober? (Play last 20 seconds of him on "F is For Fake" at this point)...
Shatner paused at random because they were constantly rewriting the scripts and he had to stop and think for a second what the new line is Welles paused at random because he was having trouble breathing.. but dammit, he remembered the lines! That's a good blimp.
"Honey.. why are you not asleep?" - "I can't.. I'm so excited, nervous. I don't know. It's such a big day tomorrow..." "Oh come on, it's just a commercial!" - "Just a commercial?! Do you know who is in that commercial, too? Just imagine what kind of an opportunity this is for me. Just being in the same scene with that guy.. I don't want to say this is my breakthrough but it could be an important step towards just that!" *A few hours later* 0:17
I feel bad for the Paul Masson company. First this happens, then they change the laws so you can't call any american wine 'champagne' anymore. you put all this work and money into an ad campaign centered around "This is also champagne, really. for real"
The taste of French champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence. There's a California champagne by Paul Masson, inspired by that same French excellence. It's fermented in the bottle, and like the best French champagne, it's vintage dated. Paul Masson's superb taste shouldn't be too surprising: This champagne may not come from France - but it was created by a man who did: Paul Masson. Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time.
Wouldn’t that be something, if every commercial for alcoholic beverages featured pitchmen who were blackout drunk? I don’t know how you’d go about boozing up the Budweiser clydesdales though
Martin Sage mate if you nab Orson fucking Welles for your shitty little commercial, and then he has the good graces to be completely shit-faced for the whole thing, you don’t send it away. That’s a solid hand
@@MartinSage obviously the director didn't do a very good job if Welles was expecting the other guy to do something. The director is supposed to make sure the actors fully understand what they are about to do.
My favorite quote of Orson's: "You're asking me, the reknown spokesman for Paul Masson wine, to re-create my brilliant 1938 radio broadcast merely to deceive and impress the wife of this skinny reptile!? I'll do it for free." What a legend.
"I'm getting reports that cities across the globe are being destroyed by this noble invader, whose good looks are apparently discernible across vast distances and through solid metal"
He is the one that cut the film. It was because he pulled back just a bit in hesitation before pouring, and since EVERYONE is giving full attention to what they already knew was going to take until next Forever 17th to get done, the scrutiny peepers were on full high beam for any little thing to commence a salvage operation for time management. That's why there's only like a half second that can pass by, cause director is ON that shit. He was there during the Forever of '76. He knows.
What is with the cuts? Three perfect takes. All distinct and unexpected, from the master himself. The hot woman in the scene even knew this. Who is this fool 'director'? Must be some rabbit!
I remember these ads as a kid. We'd always joke, "We will sell no wine, before its time." We didn't even know why but we laughed hysterically at this man. At 10 yrs old, I just thought Orson was funny, I didn't know he was pickled.
Orson Welles was a national treasure. To be savoured, the man was as aromatic as a rich dark currants, nectarine skins, gushing blackberry, but lots of fragrant tobacco, rich soil, white flowers, smashed minerals and metal. Full-bodied and saucy but racy acidity stabilises the man nicely with the robust tannins. Deep red currants and ripe cherries, laden with mocha, loamy soil, charred herbs, pencil shavings, roasted hazelnut. Dense, much like his characters that make it perfect for cellaring, however it is drinkable straight away once you expose it to the earth’s atmosphere. I miss Orson. The man was a genius.
Orson misses you,wax poetically superfluously eloquently with fine krakow confidence.He said he will drink no whine until it's served.He went to Betty Ford,to get a Estimate,and bought some chardonnay in the gift shop.He liked your review,and is marinating it,in repose.
*Director* : “Orson, well pay you anything to be in our commercial. Name your price” *Orson* : "Ten" *Director* : "Ten million!?" *Orson* : "Ten bottles"
I knew Orson Wells in the 80’s. He was a very classy man very refined, and a master storyteller. He loved to surround himself with people and tell stories. You never knew what was truth and what was fiction.
"Honey, I'm home!" "How was work?" "I got to work with Orson Welles today." "Oh wow that must have really been something," "Yes. Yes it was... something 😳."
"Honey... Ummmm... If I ever, you know, drink so much that I slur my lines over and over again, for years... just, kill me, okay? Promise you'll kill me and put me out of my misery? Promise?"
I like the ending - "cut!!" says the cheap wine commercial director punk to the legend who created Citizen Kane in the middle of speaking his line. I keep thinking the sound has to be slowed down but it's still hilarious in an SCTV kinda way
My old boss worked with him in theatre. It was an incredible experience for him, he remembered Orson always having a flask of coffee with him, which he suspected, didn't actually contain any coffee! Haha! What a voice, what a great actor.
I was at a film student seminar where Orson Welles spoke and I think he is still the largest man I’ve ever seen in my life. I think it would take quite a few bottles to put him over the top. Maybe they began with the Paul Masson brandy?
Ross Smith I would say pretty dumb, probably. Not noticing the ocean between wanting to laugh and just wanting to have fun in a laughable situation that pretty dumb of me .
Ross Smith Come on Ross! This is just another meaningless discussion between two strangers in the internet , how reasonable would you expect it to be ? Let’s stop this . Have a good weekend :-)
Sorry to ruin the fun but Welles was not drunk during the shooting of this commercial. He was late from an all-night shoot in Las Vegas and foolishly took a sleeping pill to try to rest in the limo on the way to Los Angeles. When he arrived for the Paul Masson shoot, the pill was just kicking in. Welles was upfront with director Peter Shillingford who, after these few takes, realized it was not going to work. The production provided a room for Welles to sleep in for a few hours and then completed the shoot. Shillingford reports that Welles was a consummate professional and all understood his predicament.
I've been knocked out cold by travel sickness meds as a kid. I've taken several different types of sleeping pill as an adult. None of them have ever made me go "MWAAAAAaaaaa". I know your version is the official story, but I kind of wonder if Welles and the director agreed it afterwards to spare his embarrassment.
I read that, but he was also given too much wine during the drive by the ad execs or something as well. So, they put him down for four hours and when he woke up he was good to go.
I love how he committed to doing the "waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh" for every take
There was probably something in the script like, "Ah, the French champagne has always been celebrated..."
That's the sign of a pro
Makes me think of Cyndi Lauper's "well well well" wind-up in "We Are the World".
Not saying she was inebriated or anything. Just that hearing it in take after take is... a lot. And here's that, for context. She's amazing.
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@@tom_something :) Nice.
Not the first take that is
Poor Orson. He sounds like HE was fermented in the bottle himself.
Nah, he was just sampling the product.
Hahaha yell
@@waynej2608 Actually true. Part of his contract stated he had to have a boozy lunch right before filming.
Fermented outside the bottle, I'm afraid
@johnmburt1960 Control as in forgetting his lines and slurring his delivery. It's certainly memorable but not for the intended reason. Bare in mind these are outtakes, they weren't supposed to be seen. What's in the ad had to be fixed in editing.
This footage is so classic it needs to be scanned in 4K and released by Criterion in a definitive boxset.
king complex - I’m dying to see Orson Wells reaction 2 takes later after being cut off. I’m sure he blew a gasket at the director.
..I’d buy it.
Library of Congress. Now.
Orson Welles being drunk selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.
If I could love a comment
To his credit, despite being blackout drunk, he still manages to speak all the lines.
I'm convinced he's in "brownout" more than actual blackout.
If he was blacking out, he'd already be off the set because he either picked a fight or he lewdly harassed someone.
Dude was a very heavy drinker at this point of his life, he could endure a case of wine.
According to the assistant director of the recording, he wasn't even drunk. In order to keep up with his schedule he was using sleeping pills, and apparently the ones he took that day ended up having a delayed effect. During the recording of the commercial he was under the effect of narcotics.
@chrishenley4179 Could be. /shrugs
Doesn't really make it less funny if true though IMO.
A true professional.
This clip defines the hair's breadth that exists between comedy and tragedy.
Tragedy is the essence of comedy. 🎭
@@Dhamma_Nomad This. Someone's pain or suffering has to be the butt of the joke or it's just not funny.
You captured the essence of this clip perfectly.
@@willmercury What. Speak english.
RofH
Those were all English words.
If I saw this ad, I would go and buy Paul Masson immediately.
i was just about to type the same thing. it'd be an instant sell.
+Nero Marcellino I hadn't even thought of that. You'd think more alcohol commercials would play that up
then again I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial for any kind of alcohol.. I thought that was banned maybe?
+Kairu Hakubi not in Ireland or Europe, we have them all the time for beer, wine n spirits...
humancommunication
naturally! but this is an american commercial..
Absolutely!
I am amazed at the discipline the other actors in this commercial have. I would be struggling in vain to not crack up in laughter were I in this position
The actress momentarily loses it at 0:56.
they look terrified
mwaahaaahaaaa..... the frensh... ssshampaigne....
the_muteKi Lol. For real!
Well, they are actors
From now on, if I hear anything about France I'll go "AAAAAHHHHHHHH thhheeee Frenchhhhhhshammpagnee"
Everytime I hear someone say "ah" I go straight to "the French"
And THAT..............is the power of Orson Welles 🎥
He'll shoot no commercial, before it's time.
You killed that one dude! I laughed as hard at your comment as I did the video!
thank god the Grumps brought me here. NYAHAHAHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA THE FREN C H
At least he's genuinely "familiar" with the product he's selling.
Yeah ,,,, good point !!!!!!! Hahahah
I tell you what, if they had the balls to say "Paul Masson Wine: If it'll Get This Guy Hammered, Imagine What It'll Do to You!" they would have sold a billion bottles.
Orson was clearly a big fan, at least on taping day.
He had at least 10 or 12………….cases lol
So true story.
I'm a french guy, and at Uni we had a teacher that was from England and he asked us what were some of the best things in France.
When it was my turn to speak I instantly went for that classic "Mwaaahaa The French Champagne" exactly in that tone.
At least the teacher got the reference and showed this clip to everyone.
We've had quite the laugh
No fucking way, I love it
this didnt happen and you're gay
Perfect!
INNNN July, peas grow there.
I just can't even imagine what school is like with Google and TH-cam and shit and I'm only 35. It took ages to watch a video when I was a kid
"Mahaaaaa the French...........champagnehasalwaysbeencelebratedforitsexcellence"
lol sex
@@indieeasmr7101 Sexcellence.
That's exactly how I talk to people.
I don't know how the other actors kept a straight face the entire time. I would've been stifling my laughter and then losing it.
Anaisa california champagne by polmason.
Just remember, this guy directed what is considered the greatest film of all time. Married one of the hottest actresses of all time, directed and starred in a radio play that supposedly scared all of america, and voiced unicron.
Married the hottest actress of all time and cast her in the only movie where she really got to act. Also directed for her the greatest femme fatale shoot out and death scene of all time. (Among the many other fantastic things the guy did...such as playing the greatest supporting actor's role of all time in The Third Man, delivering the greatest sermon of all time in Moby Dick, scaring the crap out of millions of Americans with a silly radio show... producing the greatest film version of Macbeth on an impossibly low budget...the guys miracles go on and on.... )
@@yummyyum36719 I concur with all, except proclaiming that the role Rita played in Lady from Shanghai was her only decent, dramatic one. She's amazing in it, but also put in a really impressive performance in Separate Tables. And there's another noir she did, later on in her career, a supporting role, but I can't recall the title. She was outstanding in that one, too. 'Gilda', was not only gorgeous, but had the acting chops, when given the right project.
@@waynej2608 Rita was an amazing actress and did some other good roles. Elsa was her only truly great role. Gilda was promising but that film has the worst ending of any film noir. Not Rita's fault of course....
Also gave maybe the best supporting performance of all time in The Third Man.
And here he can't say his name.
0:25 "AAAAAAH THE FRENCH" :D
0:56 "mmuuahaa the french" :(
France in the 19th century vs. France post-WWI
The thing that amazes me is, even when he was piss drunk, he had every word right. The man could memorize a script like nobodys business.
I am savoring how the guy holding the bottle is frozen in fear because he was hoping this commercial would be his foot in the door but the lady is enjoying every moment of this cable car falling into a volcano moment.
Why would a cable car be strung over a volcano?
Because people still have to get places.
@@ftalker11 how else would you get over the volcano, Magellan??
True, too hot to go inside
The way he touches and gently taps the bottle with his finger kills me. I love it!
That bottle tap literally took all of his energy.
@@bradfrancini573 Mahaaaaaa.
Also the moment at 01:10 where he taps the glass to indicate it's time to start pouring
I love that hyper pinky tapping the table!
*Inspired* by that same french excellence~
The couple on the left wins the keeping-a-straight-face award of the century.
@Ross Smith You and your drugs.
Kinda funny commenting on some 6 and 7 year old comments..
I was like ,damn,this guy may be dead by now.
@Ross Smith The age never catches my eye til later if ever but so weird as I remember this commercial well but not the history,bad meds,finally nailing it cuz Orson was the man.W.R.Hearst was a barbaric jackal next to him.His portrayal in Deadwood was cool by Gerald McCraney.I love Tim Oliphant and Ian McShane.
At 59 I'm remembering shit from seeing it on youtube.
Only ever did microdot once and...yup it was the purple.Lots of blotter but like shrooms the best.
Peace
edit The couple on the left...as opposed to...gotcha man
@@feellucky271 Orson Welles has been dead since 1985 I think it's getting towards the end here
0:56
1:17 he knew they were going to do a retake before he even poured into the glass.
*Actual footage of me, drunk, telling my life story to a frightened couple at a restaurant.*
Inspired *pointing* by that same Orson Welles creepiness
@@carlmarston1687 THERE IS ANOTHER DRUNKEN BASTARD...sitting by the bar, inspspspdppired by that very same drunken excellence..
🤣🤣🤣
lol, that's funny 😁
If that couple is "frightened" they should really grow some thicker skin.
The woman leaning her head back with a subtle smile when he utters ‘Huaaaaaaaahh..’ gets me every time
Unironically this makes for a great ad as the product clearly works
😂😂😂😂😂
"he doesnt do anything?"
My favorite delivery of the clip
Hahahahaha
Honestly best line 🤣
@championchap Then the response "No he doesn't, cut..." wouldn't make sense...
"Does this Do anything?"..
I love the way he taps on the bottle, drunk style, like "You're always there when I need you."
I need to get that Mwhaaaahaaay! intro for a phone ring.
😂😂😂
Ohhhhhhhhh, you're killing me! 🤣
indeed
I sampled the AHHHH part and used it for my alarm for a time, but it disturbed my child, so I took it off. lol
@@DanMurray6696 Do I need to call CPS? lol 😂
A voice talent I worked with in the 90s said he worked in a studio in NYC when Orson Wells came in to record a 30 second United Airlines commercial. They paid him piles of cash, flew him in from England and stood him before the microphone.
He did a take and the Director said it was good and began to ask for another, at which point Wells said, "no that was good," and left.
Hialrious.
Imagine being one of those actors and telling your family your about to shoot a project with the legendary Orson Welles, and then this is what it turns out to be.
Still, it would be the best day of my miserable fucking life.
Got more of a legendary moment than you bargained for lol decades later ppl still watch and quote this random ass commercial! Imagine being in it~ your fear at Orson preserved forever.
I am actually quite impressed that as drunk as Welles was, he pretty much stayed with his lines. Sure his speech was extremely slurred, but most people would have a hard time with those lines even while completely sober.
DISCO-INFERNO-70 Yup, the mark of a professional alcoholic.
DISCO-INFERNO-70, he may not have been drunk. It may have been out of control blood sugar level caused by his diabetes. The effects are very similar.
Thass the pref, porf , fesshionaaalll ness of
But with those acting chops and famous sense of humour, how do we know he wasn't sober? (Play last 20 seconds of him on "F is For Fake" at this point)...
Cue cards...
Listen Orson was completely smashed during the filming of this
BUT HE STILL KNEW HIS LINES
what a true professional
@@kakarotz9296 I didn't see his eyes reading a cue card.
@@pyrotechnick420 yes its obvious
Only if you consider it professional showing up to work drunk. At any rate, I would probably want to drunk also if I had to do these commercials.
Shatner paused at random because they were constantly rewriting the scripts and he had to stop and think for a second what the new line is
Welles paused at random because he was having trouble breathing.. but dammit, he remembered the lines! That's a good blimp.
He was reading them from a prompt card by the camera.
I don't think anything has made me laugh more frequently than that "muuwaahhhh". I can watch it multiple times over a week and still belly laugh.
"Let's get this over with, I have a fish sticks commercial to do in an hour"
Lmao I saw the clip from The Critic right after watching this video.
"They're even better RAW!"
Ah people of culture
Director: _"Action please."_
Orson: _"Ma hah!"_
This is the way War of the Worlds was meant to sound.
This video is more of a 'War of the Words' for him, it would appear.
@@gentleken7864 his battle is eternal and his intoxication is fatal
ayyyy
"Honey.. why are you not asleep?"
- "I can't.. I'm so excited, nervous. I don't know. It's such a big day tomorrow..."
"Oh come on, it's just a commercial!"
- "Just a commercial?! Do you know who is in that commercial, too? Just imagine what kind of an opportunity this is for me. Just being in the same scene with that guy.. I don't want to say this is my breakthrough but it could be an important step towards just that!"
*A few hours later*
0:17
Haha you can totally sense the exasperation of the dude in the middle. I definitely felt like he was thinking "wtf is happening" the whole time
🤣
I feel bad for the Paul Masson company. First this happens, then they change the laws so you can't call any american wine 'champagne' anymore. you put all this work and money into an ad campaign centered around "This is also champagne, really. for real"
😂
When ever I flatline, play this in my hospital room: I'm sure it will revive me IMMEDIATELY. Skip the defibrillator.
Wake up and say "Aaaaah give me a bottle of French sssshampine that hazzz been know for it's exsscelennce mummm.mff..."
Defibrilators do not help a flat-lined patient. Might do harm though. They are for, guess what, hearts that are fibrilating.
@@JiveDadson Why do you think he said "skip the defibrillator"?
I still can't believe they turned this into a workable commercial. The boys in the editing room definitely earned their paycheck here.
I mean what do you do.. take the bottle away, wait an hour, come back and try again? Meanwhile you're paying him..
He was TOSSED omg that moment when they say "action" and he's just dead silent with that look on his face you can tell XD poor Orson
Ikr?! I would love a good drunk up with the big guy!!
I can't decide whether I like the first or second "muahhhhh" better. The first one has more punch, but the second has a charm all its own.
I prefer number 2 at 0:55. It's a perfect drunken muuaaahhhh for all occasions.
@@nothosaur Do yourself a favor and listen to that part at .25 speed. I don't know if I've ever laughed harder in my life.
True art comes in many forms
ahHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FRENCH...
"Inventors of mayonnaise." - Capt. Jack Sparrow
The taste of French champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence. There's a California champagne by Paul Masson, inspired by that same French excellence. It's fermented in the bottle, and like the best French champagne, it's vintage dated. Paul Masson's superb taste shouldn't be too surprising: This champagne may not come from France - but it was created by a man who did: Paul Masson. Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time.
"Mwaaaahaaa..."
Paul Mason will sell no wine before it’s time…what time is it? Eight o’clock. Sell the wine.
"The wine isn't French, but 100 years ago a guy was."
0:09 When the director yells "Action please!" Orson just sits there...ahhhaaaaaaaa😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
When you drank to much at the party and are starting to feel it
I quote this commercial at least once a year around the holidays and nobody ever gets it 😂😂😂😂
Never stop quoting it! 😂
You don't need that kind of negativity in your life
Sameeeee. 😂
You too, huh?
you are my hero internet stranger
MahhhHAAAAAA The French Shampain has always bean celebrated four it's excellence
Crying....
(red eyes notice the camera is on record....) Mah-🤤-hHAAAA-🤥-A!
Sexellence.
I played that on repeat. maaHAAAA......hilarious.
😂😂😂
If its a commercial advertising alcohol and the guy ISNT drunk then it isnt a good advertisement.
I pity the director. I would have replaced Wells. He's patheticly sad.
Wouldn’t that be something, if every commercial for alcoholic beverages featured pitchmen who were blackout drunk? I don’t know how you’d go about boozing up the Budweiser clydesdales though
Martin Sage mate if you nab Orson fucking Welles for your shitty little commercial, and then he has the good graces to be completely shit-faced for the whole thing, you don’t send it away. That’s a solid hand
@@mangoburster5156 Damned straight!
@@MartinSage obviously the director didn't do a very good job if Welles was expecting the other guy to do something. The director is supposed to make sure the actors fully understand what they are about to do.
I only drink Paul Mason champagne now. BECAUSE, mwahh, the FRENCH.
😂
*Director:* _"CUT! The script says you pour some champagne in the glass."_
*Actor:* _"I know, sir, but the bottle is empty!"_
Drunk or not, his voice & acting was nothing like the world had ever seen. Truly one of Hollywood's greatest legends.
My favorite quote of Orson's: "You're asking me, the reknown spokesman for Paul Masson wine, to re-create my brilliant 1938 radio broadcast merely to deceive and impress the wife of this skinny reptile!? I'll do it for free."
What a legend.
Lukav *renowned*, not "re-known"...but yeah I like Futurama as well.
I'll drink to that.
"I'm getting reports that cities across the globe are being destroyed by this noble invader, whose good looks are apparently discernible across vast distances and through solid metal"
You know that was just cartoon, right?
The way he says 'CaLifoRnia' is an underrated aspect of this gem!
CITIZEN KANE.
THE THIRD MAN.
TOUCH OF EVIL.
And *this*.
Rest in peace, Mr. Welles.
Touch of evil was a comedy in my view
I consider "a touch of evil", a comedy..
Citizen Caned.
The other side of the wind as well
This should've been the commercial.
"MAAA-HAAAA, the French".....(0:55) Cracks me up every time.
Same!!
Lol the other dude is like "Should I pour it? Because I know you aren't gonna use this take..."
+Logan N The best is the last take. "Do I.........ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............I'm doing iiiiiiiiiit......annnnnnnd, nope. Nevermind."
He is the one that cut the film. It was because he pulled back just a bit in hesitation before pouring, and since EVERYONE is giving full attention to what they already knew was going to take until next Forever 17th to get done, the scrutiny peepers were on full high beam for any little thing to commence a salvage operation for time management. That's why there's only like a half second that can pass by, cause director is ON that shit. He was there during the Forever of '76. He knows.
Poor guy with the bottle had no idea what he signed on for. Hope he got paid.
What is with the cuts? Three perfect takes. All distinct and unexpected, from the master himself. The hot woman in the scene even knew this. Who is this fool 'director'? Must be some rabbit!
AHHHhhh the frenchsshhampagne
has awways been celebrated for it sexillence.
I stop by here about once a year. It never gets old
I remember these ads as a kid. We'd always joke, "We will sell no wine, before its time." We didn't even know why but we laughed hysterically at this man. At 10 yrs old, I just thought Orson was funny, I didn't know he was pickled.
Orson Welles was a national treasure. To be savoured, the man was as aromatic as a rich dark currants, nectarine skins, gushing blackberry, but lots of fragrant tobacco, rich soil, white flowers, smashed minerals and metal. Full-bodied and saucy but racy acidity stabilises the man nicely with the robust tannins. Deep red currants and ripe cherries, laden with mocha, loamy soil, charred herbs, pencil shavings, roasted hazelnut. Dense, much like his characters that make it perfect for cellaring, however it is drinkable straight away once you expose it to the earth’s atmosphere. I miss Orson. The man was a genius.
@Ross Smith Blotter....lots of blotter and augggghhhhh Paul Masson of course
@Ross Smith They stole you're money.
That's a Polish staggered straight flush if I ever saw one.
He was also a big, fat, wet turd.
Exquisitely put, M.P. 🎡
Orson misses you,wax poetically superfluously eloquently with fine krakow confidence.He said he will drink no whine until it's served.He went to Betty Ford,to get a Estimate,and bought some chardonnay in the gift shop.He liked your review,and is marinating it,in repose.
Paul Masson, the most important meal of the day!
*Director* : “Orson, well pay you anything to be in our commercial. Name your price”
*Orson* : "Ten"
*Director* : "Ten million!?"
*Orson* : "Ten bottles"
*Orson* : "And I want half of them up front"
Those two extras are very professional----you knew darn well they wanted to laugh, but they held it in! 😆
I knew Orson Wells in the 80’s. He was a very classy man very refined, and a master storyteller. He loved to surround himself with people and tell stories. You never knew what was truth and what was fiction.
No you didnt
I love how he doesn't stop talking after the director says cut
Orson is the Director, now.
Camera operator was like “Mr. Welles will tell us when to cut...”.
Kinda like he doesn't start talking after the director says "action"
This is the only thing that makes me happy now.
Wine?!
"and sensibly priced at only a dollar a jug. Now for a little magic, I shall make this jug disappear!"
Until this moment, I was never able to fully appreciate the dead on accuracy of Maurice LaMarche’s impersonation
0:10 contemplating life choices
0:25 remembering the lines, kind of
0:56 Mwaahaaaaaaa the french
I watched this a few hours ago sober, and it was hilarious. Now watching it pretty drunk and smoking, I think he's doing a great job.
"Honey, I'm home!"
"How was work?"
"I got to work with Orson Welles today."
"Oh wow that must have really been something,"
"Yes. Yes it was... something 😳."
"Honey... Ummmm... If I ever, you know, drink so much that I slur my lines over and over again, for years... just, kill me, okay? Promise you'll kill me and put me out of my misery? Promise?"
He started a champagne commercial with the word "Ah" and emphasized it.
This is classic!! LOVE the second time he points to the label, kinda lightly fondling the thing with one finger
Oh my God ! I would LOVE to hear those actors accounts of how that day went !
Maahaaaw
MLARRRGGGGHHHH the French Champagnes
I love him even more now
I can't believe these were just outtakes from a commercial, this rivals most sketch comedy I see today
0:55 "MAAAHAAAHHH" LMAO that's one of the greatest things I've ever seen or heard.
I agree😂! I have been trying to replicate all day. It’s literally impossible.
See,what some people don’t understand is that Orson is a Master thespian..This is the realest response to drinking wine ever..ACTING!!
0:55
“Mmwwwaaahhhhaaahhhaaa...”
Hahahahaha
Omg🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats when the lady almost looses it too.
"Spit it out Orson! You don't need to drink it between every take!"
You know at that moment Orson is in his head saying to himself "I'm totally nailing this!"
John Candy did a great impression of Orson: 'We have food...' "Food?!"
This exceeded ALL my expectations.
I like the ending - "cut!!" says the cheap wine commercial director punk to the legend who created Citizen Kane in the middle of speaking his line. I keep thinking the sound has to be slowed down but it's still hilarious in an SCTV kinda way
“Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular? Try a bottle of...this stuff!”
That's mightymeatyMUAAAAAAAAAAAATHEFRENCH!
My old boss worked with him in theatre. It was an incredible experience for him, he remembered Orson always having a flask of coffee with him, which he suspected, didn't actually contain any coffee! Haha! What a voice, what a great actor.
I love how the actor doesn’t even bother pouring the champagne into the glass because he knows the director is gonna call “cut!”
This makes me love Orson even more. Hahahah.
Me too. He was human... All Too Human!
0:30 Orson matching the pitch of the mains hum
I don't know how many times I've watched this but it never fails to make me cry-laugh
I always watch this whenever I have a bad day. It never fails to cheer me up
I was at a film student seminar where Orson Welles spoke and I think he is still the largest man I’ve ever seen in my life. I think it would take quite a few bottles to put him over the top. Maybe they began with the Paul Masson brandy?
Literally the best part is when the director is saying cut and he’s still hammering the lines 😭😭😭
In that first take when he went like “👁👄👁”, I felt that. That was cinema
The girl wants to laugh
Ross Smith Oh ! I didn’t get the nuance. How dumb of me . lol .
Ross Smith I would say pretty dumb, probably. Not noticing the ocean between wanting to laugh and just wanting to have fun in a laughable situation that pretty dumb of me .
Ross Smith Ended. I am thin , thank you. Now I am going to tell you a secret : you are not as smart as you think 😉
Ross Smith Come on Ross! This is just another meaningless discussion between two strangers in the internet , how reasonable would you expect it to be ? Let’s stop this . Have a good weekend :-)
Ross Smith bye Einstein of the ants ! Don’t drown !
For you young people out there, look this guy up. He is a LEGEND. Total Gigachad.
Played in two of my favorite movies.
The "uhhhhhhuuhhhh the French" is how most historians look at France 😂😂
Full of country goodness and green peaness.
+Idoloish Wait, that's terrible. I quit! Just a handfull for the road
+Idoloish "Wrong commercial Orson!"
Oh what luck, there's a french fry caught in my beard
No one realizes this is from The Critic
W H A T L U C K
1:16 Right after the second 'Cut' watch Orson shifts his eyes to the director . ohh man the daggers are about to fly !!!
This may actually be my favourite video on all of TH-cam 😂
Sorry to ruin the fun but Welles was not drunk during the shooting of this commercial. He was late from an all-night shoot in Las Vegas and foolishly took a sleeping pill to try to rest in the limo on the way to Los Angeles. When he arrived for the Paul Masson shoot, the pill was just kicking in. Welles was upfront with director Peter Shillingford who, after these few takes, realized it was not going to work. The production provided a room for Welles to sleep in for a few hours and then completed the shoot. Shillingford reports that Welles was a consummate professional and all understood his predicament.
I've been knocked out cold by travel sickness meds as a kid. I've taken several different types of sleeping pill as an adult. None of them have ever made me go "MWAAAAAaaaaa".
I know your version is the official story, but I kind of wonder if Welles and the director agreed it afterwards to spare his embarrassment.
I read that, but he was also given too much wine during the drive by the ad execs or something as well. So, they put him down for four hours and when he woke up he was good to go.
I can’t help but feel like this totally inspired Moira’s fruit wine commercial in Schitt’s Creek.