As funny as these outtakes are, what really strikes me is that the only reason he's annoyed is that he's actually paying attention to the copy and the visuals. I'm sure many actors doing a commercial would be completely tuned out and would just read the copy no matter how stupid it was and not care a bit.
He was the greatest film director of all time, and naturally he couldn't help himself. He was just operating on a whole other level. All the mistakes with the copy and visuals just leaped out at him. But still, it's hilarious to see just how much it got under his skin and pushed him over the edge.
When you hire someone, you hire the whole person. Orson was so very right about the god-awful writing of the ad copy; I'd have argued it out as well, being somewhat of a stickler for the English language and the never-ending battle against poor writing. The scripts were offensive to his very being as well, and being the voice talent he obviously was, he had every right....nay, a duty! to protest the shoddy abomination that the world would know he had a hand in. That would be like having Sir Winston Churchill read bad ad copy or scripts; he'd have none of it, and either re-written it himself on the sport, or demand it be put right instanter.
@@markh.6687 This was the early era of the corporate state, so its the first generation of executive management and their desperate need to play a part in what is going on. They cannot have the talent think they are beyond criticism, because it allows the 'employee' to think he's more valuable than they are willing to pay for. I've watched them ruin efficency and performances thru micromanagement
@@markh.6687 Churchill was a megalomaniac responsible for the deaths of tens of millions in WW 1 and WW 2. He was too drunk to do those famous radio speeches. They were done by an actor who did Winnie The Pooh. Churchill should have been strung up after WW 2. Anyway, he went to hell in 1965, so now he knows.
@@man.inblack OTOH, if this obsessively nit picky egomaniac had been chosen to direct the great cinematic masterwork that was Monty Python's "Great Frozen Pea Relaunch of 1971" [th-cam.com/video/tnsFO-rgOys/w-d-xo.html] it would likely never have even been completed!
"Yes, Always" was HARDLY a throwaway Animaniacs cartoon.... Maurice LaMarche executed that perfectly! (Of course he would, since Brain is essentially Orson Welles' voice)
@@rpelzer Because that was his warm up! I forget where I heard it, but before voicing Brain he would recite Frozen Peas so eventually they just said "Heck with it" and animated it. So uhh...yes. Yes he practiced it. The best part was that I had seen that episode like a decade and a half before finding out about Frozen Peas. Weirdest feeling of Deja Vu, lemme tell ya'!
I really wish and hope that at a Con somewhere, someone just approaches Mr. Lemarche and asks him to tell the audience his thoughts about frozen peas. Then everyone applauses. Then he goes on for about 10 minutes with whatever he wants.
I have seen Orson Welles acting in Citizen Kane, I have watched him relay stories of his childhood to1970s era daytime talk show hosts, I have heard him arguing about peas in July and the gathering of cod in Norway, but no matter what the setting or the subject matter, If Orson Welles is speaking about it, he makes it sound infinitely more important and interesting than anyone else possibly could.
The way you phrase that makes you sound like the 10 Thousand Year Man from an old Brazilian pop song by Raul Seixas, where the eponymous character relates how he bore witness to great and not so great events in mankind's history
I can't help but feel like this is a situation where Orson Welles thinks he's above this kind of thing but desperately needs the money, and yet still can't help but be incredibly critical of the material and direction he's given.
IIRC, he had basically taken the contract for the voiceover work and cashed the check, then spent several months trying to dodge them, working on other projects and ignoring their calls, before his agent basically strong-armed him into showing up for the gig to keep them from suing. So he was very much not happy to be there and made no secret of it. At least, that's the story I recall hearing...
For the longest time, I always thought the Rosebud Frozen Peas scene from "The Critic" was the funniest thing ever. Then I learned that this whole thing had ACTUALLY happened, and the guy from The Critic sounded JUST LIKE WELLES!
i grew up on animaniacs and only recently found out that brain was supposed to sound like orson welles. I don't think brain really sounds like him though
Kevin Schart Maurice says that Brain's voice is 70% Orson Welles, 20% Vincent Prince and 10% someone else he himself can't figure out. I only hear Vincent Prince in Brain's voice.
It's a very matter-of-fact declaration. I love the way he puts the emphasis on the word "shit", too. Just exactly like you can't emphasise the "in" when saying "in July". 😂
Orson Wells, who helped make & broadcast the radio version of War of the Worlds, which almost caused a nationwide panic due to how it convinced radio listeners that the invasion was real, decades later is being told how to read a script for a commercial about fish sticks. Life laughs at us all sometimes.
I think it's meant like bow to you, like how the conquered chieftans would kneel to the victor. Just a guess, since he thinks on a grand, mythical level.
@@annereilley4892 Lol...yes, I'm quite sure Orson Welles wasn't propositioning his sound engineer for oral sex...but that's what makes it so hysterical now isn't it?
@@thisismyname3928 Yes, expressions from the past can sound funny in the context of today's language, like the british word for cigarette. It's also sad to see how far he sunk, debasing himself by doing these commercials for money just to live. it'd be like Einstein doing preparation H commercials, "It is ironic I used preparation H in los alamos while developing the H bomb."
It's quite an interesting situation: a man who is by all rights one of the most gifted film makers ever in a diminished state, taking direction from hacks. He's not exactly throwing a tantrum, but he's frustrated at the absurdity of having some idiot jobsworth trying to tell Orson fucking Welles how to read a line. Even if the director was correct, the balls to actually assume that because Welles is collecting a paycheck he can tell his grandmother how to suck eggs is ridiculous. His ego is earned, this is like a university lecturer questioning Einstein on whether he used the appropriate math to arrive at his answers.
@@bluegum6438 Orson's ego was bigger than his 400 pound body. He was hired to do a frozen peas commercial. Just read the damn lines and have some respect for the production crew)))
I think it only seems like he has an ego since we're not getting the full story. These are just snippets of a much longer recording session. We're not seeing how (or if, to be fair) the recording team are trying to micromanage his performance. He's spot on with his criticism of the copy and the direction. For example, there was in "IN July." It was always "every July, ..." and it's awkward as hell to try to emphasize "every" at the start. It makes it seem like you're upset about the event. Just say it to your self and you'll see what I mean: _Every_ July sounds like it should be followed by "that damned Mrs. Buckley and her peas!"
I am a retired ad executive and I remember, not fondly, the absolutely pretentious and puffed up ‘creative’ people who believe they are writers in the truest sense and see their work as small film… no it’s just selling that uses creativity (just). It’s fabulous the way Welles cuts them up and excoriates them. Bravo.
My father used to be an ad writer, both freelance and for firms. If Findus frozen foods knew any better, they'd have skipped the ad firm altogether and just hired Welles to write the copy, direct the accompanying video and do the voice. Would have gotten a better product and spent a lot less money than the story boarding alone probably cost them.
4:34 "You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In the depths of your ignorance... what is it you want?" LMAO! I want to start talking to my coworkers this way 😂
"Dear Sir or Madam! I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about all these Monty Python's Flying Circus references in the comments. Your fictionally, Biggles, Algy (deceased) and Ginger.
"How was your day, Honey? How was working with Mr. Wells? I know he's your hero since childhood, you make me watch that movie with you at least twice a year."
3:38 actually makes a lot of sense. Dialogue in movies and TV often sound like it isn't written as a conversation, and I never figured out how to deserve how describe it until Orson Welles said it however many decades ago.
100% agree. If they had a clue they'd have taken his advice and applied it and been thankful for the critique like they were 1st year know-nothing students and he was their professor.
I remember what Harrison Ford told George Lucas on the set of Star Wars: "You can type this sh*t, but you can't say it. Move your mouth while you write."
The man was so devoted to his craft and so driven to finance it that he ... did this! That's someone I respect. Welles is The Master. And such great pipes too!
Nope it's not fine drama it's just a f****** commercial read the copy get your check and go if you were such a great actor you wouldn't be doing a commercial
This segment from 3:02 to 3:18 is so true. When I recorded narration for instructional videos, I found out very quickly that what works on the page doesn't work well when reading it out loud.
When I went to radio college, I was astounded to find that even things from the _associated press_ had major mistakes, spelling problems, things that would throw you off I then had a job for years where I'd assembly-line read and record hundreds of little short clips a day, alternating with writing and assembling them, and the other writers would just.. frequently put zero thought into how they did it, make it so difficult to read without jumbling it up, leaving my numbers lower from all the retakes. diversity hires, natch. but not exclusively.
I don’t know what I like better… When he offers to go down on the guy, when he asks what is a gonk or crumb crisp coating. From the depths of my ignorance I can’t decide which I like better.
In my ad agency career -- I was a copywriter -- I first heard this in the 60s on a bootleg tap. It's classic. Still makes me laugh. I once bumped into Welles, one of my lifelong heroes, at an LA recording studio and was too flummoxed to say anything. I still regret that.
I once acted in a radio production and for two whole recording sessions, the director and the sound engineer constantly argued and tried to take control away from the other. It was troublesome.
He didn't "give notes." The engineer asked him to repeat the line as he felt he had flaws in the sound recording - That's a perfectly reasonable request however he should have explained it to the director first before talking. Also Welles is being difficult instead of reading the line - Its a frozen peas commercial not a movie script.
Watch the documentary about Orson Welle's last unreleased film The making of the other side of the Wind, and you might come to think that Orson Welles himself played a part in it as well
He was often his own worst enemy, couldn't budget,and wouldn't see projects through..having to rely on "other people's money", the bane of his existence..
@@hankkingsley9300 it takes two to tango. I don't think anyone but him could truly untangle it all, and even then probably not. That's why the true mark is being kind and understanding even when it's totally undeserved.
On the set of "Star Wars", Harrison Ford once said to George Lucas (less eloquently than Orson, I might add): 'George! You can type this shit, but you sure can't say it! Move your mouth when you're typing!' The prequels (and Hayden Christensen's performance) proved him right. This situation seems a little bit similar to me.
It didn't really. Hayden Christiansen was performing that way on purpose, because he was playing a socially awkward and very confused young man. And the prequels are great. People have conflicts on set, it's normal, what you ultimately end up hearing may not be what was originally written. I didn't know "guh huh huh, George Lucas bad" types like you still existed though. Glad to be disappointed.
George Lucas is a visionary and so good and bringing together the best of the best to make something creative and wild.........he's also a shitty writer whose best work was always when he had someone who could tell him "no" / he had editors redirect his entire story
"Too much directing around here" says Orson Welles. Now that's really funny. If the most prolific director of all time is telling you that you're doing too much directing, you're probably doing a bad job.
I guess the point was that even if you did it would sound weird. As if you are emphasizing the idea of being the month itself rather then inside of it. It's a passage of time rather then a place to be. You can emphasize being IN the hospital and it makes sense, but you try emphasizing that you are IN 12:45pm and you sound like a lunatic.
As funny as this is. He has a point, why _would_ you emphasize "in" instead of "July" or "beef" instead of "prairie-fed"? You emphasize "July" to show what month you are talking about. You emphasize "prairie-fed" instead of "beef" to show that the cows are fed from a prairie! I could see why this hurt his brain, it hurts mine! IN july, prairie-fed BEEF. Urg. That's not how well-constructed sentences work.
You know what, as someone trying to break into voice acting, I can totally understand Orson's frustration here. Man was an acting legend by this point, and he's got the most inane directing notes being thrown at him by some peon on a food commercial
GhostPlanetFilms both, the man wasn't some stuck up prick who didn't know anything, he was a legend. It's true he was very obnoxious but when your that good. You kinda have that right.
Interestingly, unlike the Paul Masson ads Orson did, the final versions of most of these are lost media. We know for a fact that he actually did finish them, and that due to him the phrase "crumb crisp coating" was changed in the final, but most of his Findus ads are now missing.
I love the animation in this. Very Terry Gilliam. What got me laughing was him rolling his eyes & saying _"Crumb-crisp coating"_ in such a loathing way. 😆
This man was a perfectionist to the end! Many people confuse perfection with being difficult. People also forget that his name was attached to all of these commercials, so he wanted to protect his reputation, as well.
"This is a lot of shit, you know that" is honestly something I may or may not want to say when I'm handed a pile of paperwork, while "In the DEPTHS of your ignorance what is it that you want?" is when I'm about to snap.
Of all the acting work I have done, the hardest work had to be voiceovers. There is no interpretation involved. You are there for the sound of your voice and the extent of your patience. The right reading was the way the client wanted it--however insane it seemed at the time. My rate in the old days was about $200.00 an hour and--at the end of two hours--I was often ready to go back to selling refrigerators and gas ranges.
Understand that by this point in his career, Orson Wells was a living legend. Imagine taking say, Jack Nicholson into the booth to do VO for frozen food and then giving him BAD tedious notes and commentary about every minute detail. It would be super rude. Orson Wells wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the greatest film ever made. They should have been thankful that he agreed to do it at all, and left him to it. His version would have been just fine.
@Jonathan Campbell I don't believe you for one minute! You would really shoot somebody to death? Stab them to death? Strangle them to death? Poison them to death? Take an innocent life just to see Jack Nicholson do a commercial?
What’s even funnier than the transcript is the story leading up to it. Long story short, Welles tricked the directors into paying him in advance, then had them chase him all over Europe because he was pissed they asked him to audition for the commercial.
AAAAAAH the Lincolnshire frozen peas have always been celebrated for their excellence.
"Duz'nt he do anythin'?
Therizagaliforniafieldthatstrives... for that samelincolnshire excellence
Wahaaa the peas.
But there is a farm in Delaware which strives for that same excellence.
"these were not grown in Lincolnshire but they have a date on them so they are good"
As funny as these outtakes are, what really strikes me is that the only reason he's annoyed is that he's actually paying attention to the copy and the visuals. I'm sure many actors doing a commercial would be completely tuned out and would just read the copy no matter how stupid it was and not care a bit.
He was the greatest film director of all time, and naturally he couldn't help himself. He was just operating on a whole other level. All the mistakes with the copy and visuals just leaped out at him. But still, it's hilarious to see just how much it got under his skin and pushed him over the edge.
@@drmoonrat yeah he actually wanted it to work!
This is a genius.
Tell me different and I'll go down on you.
@@Johnconno
Um. Do you want to rephrase that?
@@Johnconno what?
Only Orson could make a timeless drama out of a peas commercial.
When you hire someone, you hire the whole person. Orson was so very right about the god-awful writing of the ad copy; I'd have argued it out as well, being somewhat of a stickler for the English language and the never-ending battle against poor writing. The scripts were offensive to his very being as well, and being the voice talent he obviously was, he had every right....nay, a duty! to protest the shoddy abomination that the world would know he had a hand in. That would be like having Sir Winston Churchill read bad ad copy or scripts; he'd have none of it, and either re-written it himself on the sport, or demand it be put right instanter.
@@markh.6687 This was the early era of the corporate state, so its the first generation of executive management and their desperate need to play a part in what is going on.
They cannot have the talent think they are beyond criticism, because it allows the 'employee' to think he's more valuable than they are willing to pay for. I've watched them ruin efficency and performances thru micromanagement
@@markh.6687 Churchill was a megalomaniac responsible for the deaths of tens of millions in WW 1 and WW 2. He was too drunk to do those famous radio speeches. They were done by an actor who did Winnie The Pooh. Churchill should have been strung up after WW 2. Anyway, he went to hell in 1965, so now he knows.
@@man.inblack OTOH, if this obsessively nit picky egomaniac had been chosen to direct the great cinematic masterwork that was Monty Python's "Great Frozen Pea Relaunch of 1971" [th-cam.com/video/tnsFO-rgOys/w-d-xo.html] it would likely never have even been completed!
@@man.inblack Mio Dio, you take forever to say nothing. 😂😂😂😂😂
I love the sheer insanity that Animaniacs took this line for line for a Pinky and the Brain throwaway cartoon.
"Yes, Always" was HARDLY a throwaway Animaniacs cartoon.... Maurice LaMarche executed that perfectly! (Of course he would, since Brain is essentially Orson Welles' voice)
I think that was the critic.
@@popculturehero nope... the OP just added a snippet of The Critic at the beginning for funsies
th-cam.com/video/7uWW--w4SRs/w-d-xo.html
@@rpelzer Because that was his warm up! I forget where I heard it, but before voicing Brain he would recite Frozen Peas so eventually they just said "Heck with it" and animated it. So uhh...yes. Yes he practiced it.
The best part was that I had seen that episode like a decade and a half before finding out about Frozen Peas. Weirdest feeling of Deja Vu, lemme tell ya'!
Maurice LaMarche would re-enact the commercial word perfect as a warm up exercise during Anamaniacs, because the Brain's voice is based on Welles'.
“In the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?” My favorite part of the whole thing.
Time Stamp: 4:35
My relationship with my whole family, summed up by Orson Welles. 😋
"I am recording this for you guys and I played Othello. Good God!"
It’s all that crumb crisp coating!! lol I watch this and Paul Masson when I need cheering up. :)
@@NancyDrewe MaaHaa The French!
I love how "This is a lot of shit, you know that" was said as a statement, not a question.
“I take direction from one person, UNDER PROTEST, but for two I don’t sit still...but who the hell are you anyway?”
"Well I'm the engineer."
@@peterandreyev "Well why the hell are you asking me for another one?"
@@Brainwave101 "...Well I felt that there was a slight gunk and I would like-just like it to be safe."
@@peterandreyev "Jesus!... What is a gonk? Do you mind telling me what that is?"
@@samkessel5411 "Well, a bang from outside."
"We're talking about them growing and she's picked 'em." Too funny!!
😂😂
What luck, there's a french fry stuck in my beard...
rwdplz1 mmmm, they’re even better when you’re dead!
Filled with hardy goodness and green penis, no wait, that's terrible! I quit!
I really wish and hope that at a Con somewhere, someone just approaches Mr. Lemarche and asks him to tell the audience his thoughts about frozen peas. Then everyone applauses. Then he goes on for about 10 minutes with whatever he wants.
TiroDvD Oh he’s talked about Welles before, many times in fact.
@@MrPjw5 But did he talk about Frozen Peas?
I have seen Orson Welles acting in Citizen Kane, I have watched him relay stories of his childhood to1970s era daytime talk show hosts, I have heard him arguing about peas in July and the gathering of cod in Norway, but no matter what the setting or the subject matter, If Orson Welles is speaking about it, he makes it sound infinitely more important and interesting than anyone else possibly could.
True
I just know him as Unicron.
Except maybe Charles Laughton
even when he's drunk while doing a literal wine commercial?
The way you phrase that makes you sound like the 10 Thousand Year Man from an old Brazilian pop song by Raul Seixas, where the eponymous character relates how he bore witness to great and not so great events in mankind's history
Love the way he pauses and says ”...your FRIEND.” My god, what shade.
You know what goes good with frozen peas? Aaaahhh, a French champagne by Paul Masson 🍾🥂😁
It's known for its excellence
@@ProjectFlashlight612 Love it when he taps the label on the bottle
@@matthewgray469 Yeah lol
"We will sell no wine, before you pay for it." -- parody seen years ago on TV.
Funny thing about the Paul Masson wine was that Orson thought it tasted cheap as fuck. 😂
I can't help but feel like this is a situation where Orson Welles thinks he's above this kind of thing but desperately needs the money, and yet still can't help but be incredibly critical of the material and direction he's given.
That's almost certainly what was going on.
IIRC, he had basically taken the contract for the voiceover work and cashed the check, then spent several months trying to dodge them, working on other projects and ignoring their calls, before his agent basically strong-armed him into showing up for the gig to keep them from suing. So he was very much not happy to be there and made no secret of it. At least, that's the story I recall hearing...
This is how the voice actor auditioned for brain on pinky and the brain. They even wrote this into the show
They're even better when you're dead!
For the longest time, I always thought the Rosebud Frozen Peas scene from "The Critic" was the funniest thing ever. Then I learned that this whole thing had ACTUALLY happened, and the guy from The Critic sounded JUST LIKE WELLES!
i grew up on animaniacs and only recently found out that brain was supposed to sound like orson welles. I don't think brain really sounds like him though
Kevin Schart
Maurice says that Brain's voice is 70% Orson Welles, 20% Vincent Prince and 10% someone else he himself can't figure out.
I only hear Vincent Prince in Brain's voice.
yeah i definitely hear Vincent
“We’re talking about them growing and she’s picked them “
He's not wrong. Talking about it after we've seen renders the monolog meaningless.
I like how he doesn't ask if he knows it's a lot of shit. He _tells_ him.
It's a very matter-of-fact declaration. I love the way he puts the emphasis on the word "shit", too. Just exactly like you can't emphasise the "in" when saying "in July". 😂
Orson Wells, who helped make & broadcast the radio version of War of the Worlds, which almost caused a nationwide panic due to how it convinced radio listeners that the invasion was real, decades later is being told how to read a script for a commercial about fish sticks. Life laughs at us all sometimes.
Why degrading himself to fish sticks level
The story of war of the world's mass panic is completely fictional
@@deadmeatjb dilate
@@a-nus agreed
@@deadmeatjb Funny to see how the newspapers lied even back then.
3:55 "This is a lot of shit y'know that" his delivery killed me
Only Christopher Walken could emphasize "In" and "beef." :D
Brain: No! Anything but Christopher Walken!
Your comment needs more cow bell.
Christopher Walken: good night Room, good NIGHT moon, good Night COW jumpimg OVER the moon.
danielscissorhands And Kirk Douglas.
Mike Kazz
Children...please...scooch forward. Don’t make me tell you again...about the scoooching. You in the red...chop, chop.
"Get me a jury and show me how you can say 'In' July and I'll go down on you."
WHAT??
Exactly what I want people to answer for me. Nevermind all that "In in July" bullshit.
I think it's meant like bow to you, like how the conquered chieftans would kneel to the victor. Just a guess, since he thinks on a grand, mythical level.
@@annereilley4892 Lol...yes, I'm quite sure Orson Welles wasn't propositioning his sound engineer for oral sex...but that's what makes it so hysterical now isn't it?
@@thisismyname3928 Yes, expressions from the past can sound funny in the context of today's language, like the british word for cigarette. It's also sad to see how far he sunk, debasing himself by doing these commercials for money just to live. it'd be like Einstein doing preparation H commercials, "It is ironic I used preparation H in los alamos while developing the H bomb."
@@annereilley4892 Glad we didn't pull a boner.
All ego and nonsense aside, the man had an incredible voice.
It's quite an interesting situation: a man who is by all rights one of the most gifted film makers ever in a diminished state, taking direction from hacks. He's not exactly throwing a tantrum, but he's frustrated at the absurdity of having some idiot jobsworth trying to tell Orson fucking Welles how to read a line. Even if the director was correct, the balls to actually assume that because Welles is collecting a paycheck he can tell his grandmother how to suck eggs is ridiculous.
His ego is earned, this is like a university lecturer questioning Einstein on whether he used the appropriate math to arrive at his answers.
@@bluegum6438 Exactly!
@@bluegum6438 Orson's ego was bigger than his 400 pound body. He was hired to do a frozen peas commercial. Just read the damn lines and have some respect for the production crew)))
@@CoolGobyFish those hacks deserve no respect.
I think it only seems like he has an ego since we're not getting the full story. These are just snippets of a much longer recording session. We're not seeing how (or if, to be fair) the recording team are trying to micromanage his performance. He's spot on with his criticism of the copy and the direction. For example, there was in "IN July." It was always "every July, ..." and it's awkward as hell to try to emphasize "every" at the start. It makes it seem like you're upset about the event. Just say it to your self and you'll see what I mean: _Every_ July sounds like it should be followed by "that damned Mrs. Buckley and her peas!"
I never watched this Angela Anaconda episode
What an obscure reference. Too funny
I never expect that show ever to be reference.
That's show sucks ass SO BAD, i never thought a reference to it would be funny
And then Orsen will say:
Haha!! I loved that show!!
They paid Mr. Wells in crumb crisp coating...but his agent got 15%
He was NOT happy.
can you put more emphasis on the IN please.
@@thalivenom4972 why? That doesn't make any sense.
According to the story of "Frozen Peas", Orson finally walked out rather than deal with the incredibly bad writing and clueless director.
@@thalivenom4972 Kind of like Bill Clinton's infamous "That depends on how you define 'is'".
I am a retired ad executive and I remember, not fondly, the absolutely pretentious and puffed up ‘creative’ people who believe they are writers in the truest sense and see their work as small film… no it’s just selling that uses creativity (just). It’s fabulous the way Welles cuts them up and excoriates them. Bravo.
The problem here is it's just a f****** commercial read the goddamn copy get your check and go
Verily
My father used to be an ad writer, both freelance and for firms. If Findus frozen foods knew any better, they'd have skipped the ad firm altogether and just hired Welles to write the copy, direct the accompanying video and do the voice. Would have gotten a better product and spent a lot less money than the story boarding alone probably cost them.
4:34 "You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In the depths of your ignorance... what is it you want?"
LMAO! I want to start talking to my coworkers this way 😂
The animation here reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animation, which is a good thing.😄
cha5 I will take that as a compliment for sure. Gilliam is my favorite
That's what I was thinking too
"Dear Sir or Madam! I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about all these Monty Python's Flying Circus references in the comments. Your fictionally, Biggles, Algy (deceased) and Ginger.
"How was your day, Honey? How was working with Mr. Wells? I know he's your hero since childhood, you make me watch that movie with you at least twice a year."
darling* ;-)
Why is this so goddamn funny? I'm literally ugly-laughing
"We will no longer be watching that movie."
3:38 actually makes a lot of sense.
Dialogue in movies and TV often sound like it isn't written as a conversation, and I never figured out how to deserve how describe it until Orson Welles said it however many decades ago.
100% agree. If they had a clue they'd have taken his advice and applied it and been thankful for the critique like they were 1st year know-nothing students and he was their professor.
I remember what Harrison Ford told George Lucas on the set of Star Wars: "You can type this sh*t, but you can't say it. Move your mouth while you write."
The man was so devoted to his craft and so driven to finance it that he ... did this! That's someone I respect. Welles is The Master. And such great pipes too!
Nope it's not fine drama it's just a f****** commercial read the copy get your check and go if you were such a great actor you wouldn't be doing a commercial
This segment from 3:02 to 3:18 is so true. When I recorded narration for instructional videos, I found out very quickly that what works on the page doesn't work well when reading it out loud.
Because the idiots who write it have never had to voice it professionally
When I went to radio college, I was astounded to find that even things from the _associated press_ had major mistakes, spelling problems, things that would throw you off
I then had a job for years where I'd assembly-line read and record hundreds of little short clips a day, alternating with writing and assembling them, and the other writers would just.. frequently put zero thought into how they did it, make it so difficult to read without jumbling it up, leaving my numbers lower from all the retakes. diversity hires, natch. but not exclusively.
I don’t know what I like better… When he offers to go down on the guy, when he asks what is a gonk or crumb crisp coating. From the depths of my ignorance I can’t decide which I like better.
Here, under protest...is BEFF BURGERS
Every July, BEEF GROWS THERE!!!
This is a lot of S**T, you know that....!
LMAO. Thanks, so funny!!
They’re even better RAW!!!
That's the phrase I use for mic checks and I've yet to see any recognition at all for it. So disappointing.
I thought the clip of him getting drunk on Champagne was all I'd get to see. I want more of these behind the scenes clips now.
Do a search for "William Shatner" "sabotage." You're welcome.
We know a remote moon orbiting Cybertron; every July Autobots grow there.
How deflating it must have been to shuffle off your mortal coil with the voice of Unicron being your final performance.
In my ad agency career -- I was a copywriter -- I first heard this in the 60s on a bootleg tap. It's classic. Still makes me laugh.
I once bumped into Welles, one of my lifelong heroes, at an LA recording studio and was too flummoxed to say anything. I still regret that.
"Your friend..." always gets me.
To be fair, the Engineer should NOT EVER give acting notes, that's the director's job.
To also be fair, the actor should take the director's notes.
I once acted in a radio production and for two whole recording sessions, the director and the sound engineer constantly argued and tried to take control away from the other. It was troublesome.
The engineer should have input, but to the director. He shouldnt be talking to the actor.
But its orson welles
@LiveOkie Fame/recognition doesn't however give someone the right to be a dick.
He didn't "give notes." The engineer asked him to repeat the line as he felt he had flaws in the sound recording - That's a perfectly reasonable request however he should have explained it to the director first before talking. Also Welles is being difficult instead of reading the line - Its a frozen peas commercial not a movie script.
A talent like him, wasted only because Hollywood was evil with this man.
Watch the documentary about Orson Welle's last unreleased film
The making of the other side of the Wind, and you might come to think that Orson Welles himself played a part in it as well
He was often his own worst enemy, couldn't budget,and wouldn't see projects through..having to rely on "other people's money", the bane of his existence..
Maybe it was just a mixture of both.
Oh I think he had quite a part of why he was treated like s***
@@hankkingsley9300 it takes two to tango. I don't think anyone but him could truly untangle it all, and even then probably not. That's why the true mark is being kind and understanding even when it's totally undeserved.
What is a GONK? A question that has boggled the mind for centuries!
The pinky and the brain version explains that very well
This is beyond brilliant, Orson was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it any longer!
Mwaw haa it's the Paul Mason can of peas
Matthew Kaprutus the most sexualence peas
MwAAAaa the Frrrnnnch
....... Champagne
isz fermended in duh boddle
..hasalwaysbeenknownitsexcellence...
On the set of "Star Wars", Harrison Ford once said to George Lucas (less eloquently than Orson, I might add):
'George! You can type this shit, but you sure can't say it! Move your mouth when you're typing!'
The prequels (and Hayden Christensen's performance) proved him right.
This situation seems a little bit similar to me.
It didn't really. Hayden Christiansen was performing that way on purpose, because he was playing a socially awkward and very confused young man. And the prequels are great. People have conflicts on set, it's normal, what you ultimately end up hearing may not be what was originally written.
I didn't know "guh huh huh, George Lucas bad" types like you still existed though. Glad to be disappointed.
@@MegaAstroFan18 Stop sucking the Prequels off just because the Sequels were also bad. They're still bad.
George Lucas is a visionary and so good and bringing together the best of the best to make something creative and wild.........he's also a shitty writer whose best work was always when he had someone who could tell him "no" / he had editors redirect his entire story
"Too much directing around here" says Orson Welles. Now that's really funny. If the most prolific director of all time is telling you that you're doing too much directing, you're probably doing a bad job.
IT'S!
Orson Welles' Flying Circusssssssssssssssss!
Bobsheaux hahaha yes
Bobsheaux!!
@@lordgazimus5662
And there was much rejoicing.
"Yaaaaayyyy...."
@@Bobsheaux then they ate the sound engineer. And there was much rejoicing.
Yay...
Well, he was right. You usually don't emphasize "in" when you're saying "in July".
"Get me a jury and prove me me how you can say it. . . "
*IN* july
Did it
Can you emphasize "suck" and "me?"
That Guy Named Joe it still does sounds weird
I guess the point was that even if you did it would sound weird. As if you are emphasizing the idea of being the month itself rather then inside of it. It's a passage of time rather then a place to be. You can emphasize being IN the hospital and it makes sense, but you try emphasizing that you are IN 12:45pm and you sound like a lunatic.
As funny as this is. He has a point, why _would_ you emphasize "in" instead of "July" or "beef" instead of "prairie-fed"? You emphasize "July" to show what month you are talking about. You emphasize "prairie-fed" instead of "beef" to show that the cows are fed from a prairie!
I could see why this hurt his brain, it hurts mine! IN july, prairie-fed BEEF. Urg. That's not how well-constructed sentences work.
ironically findus was found to use horsemeat instead of beef decades later
Philip Wow...
You should check out Norm MacDonald making fun of the Man Grate ad copy.
He's a diva, but he's a correct diva.
Or a snowy field in July, or show already pick peas and describing a field that's not harvested yet.
There was a NARF from outside
POIT
YES!
This actually makes me love Orson Welles even more. The copy is idiotic and he’s right they are fools.
"You didn't say it... HE said it. Your FRIEND!!" LOL so much shade.
You are friend? well thank thank you
You know what, as someone trying to break into voice acting, I can totally understand Orson's frustration here. Man was an acting legend by this point, and he's got the most inane directing notes being thrown at him by some peon on a food commercial
Jesus loves you
You want the paycheck you do it the way the boss says
@@hankkingsley9300 yes. The way Orson wanted it.
@@scrubbingdoubles8585 actually Jesus hasn't arrived yet will let you know when he does
Cute read so much misspelled crap Bi-Lo Ranch sales weasels used to beat the s*** out of all of them
Since I adore Orson Welles, I find this hilarious 😜
Me too. He was truly a genius. But man was he ever having g a hard time
Seems like a prick to me, the recording guys were calm but Orson was losing his shit over nothing.
Well, I'm sure that in the depths of our ignorance, he'd despise all of us
How much of it is Orson being a diva, and Orson being right?
GhostPlanetFilms 100% both
IT'S A FROZEN FOOD AD!! AN AD!! FOR FROZEN... FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
feefty/feefty
GhostPlanetFilms both, the man wasn't some stuck up prick who didn't know anything, he was a legend. It's true he was very obnoxious but when your that good. You kinda have that right.
We are hearing Orson coping with the crap he had to do in order to raise money for his film projects.
“I’ll go down on you” BRO WHAT 🤣😳
What a shame this man couldn't portray The Judge in the movie version of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Thank-you, Dr. Moon Rat. We've known and loved the audio outtake for decades, but you truly have given new life to a timeless classic. Thanks again!
Interestingly, unlike the Paul Masson ads Orson did, the final versions of most of these are lost media. We know for a fact that he actually did finish them, and that due to him the phrase "crumb crisp coating" was changed in the final, but most of his Findus ads are now missing.
He can't get over the 'green peaness' when it shows up.
If you know that reference you are among the gods.
What luck....there's a french fry stuck in my beard.
"The right reading is the one that I'm giving you!"
"At the moment."
oof
Boy, did John Candy nail this one on SCTV.
I love the animation in this. Very Terry Gilliam.
What got me laughing was him rolling his eyes & saying _"Crumb-crisp coating"_ in such a loathing way. 😆
This guy is getting tripped up by the plot holes in a frozen peas commercial.
" He isn't thinking. "
Damn, Orson.
Orson: "There's too much directing around here."
Me: I know the feeling.
This man was a perfectionist to the end! Many people confuse perfection with being difficult. People also forget that his name was attached to all of these commercials, so he wanted to protect his reputation, as well.
For your last day on the job how fun it would be to take on the Orson Welles mentality everytime a coworker or supervisor crosses you.
To your boss: "One more word out of you and you go!" 😂
"This is a lot of shit, you know that" is honestly something I may or may not want to say when I'm handed a pile of paperwork, while "In the DEPTHS of your ignorance what is it that you want?" is when I'm about to snap.
And Green Peaness. Wait that's terrible, i quit. Just a handful for the road
He knows far more about creating something engaging than them. If Orson Welles gives you advice, you listen.
Of all the acting work I have done, the hardest work had to be voiceovers. There is no interpretation involved. You are there for the sound of your voice and the extent of your patience. The right reading was the way the client wanted it--however insane it seemed at the time. My rate in the old days was about $200.00 an hour and--at the end of two hours--I was often ready to go back to selling refrigerators and gas ranges.
I’m starting to get into the VO game now. Being a parent hasn’t tried my patience as much as doing voiceovers 🙄
But if he voiced a badly made commercial it would damage his portfolio
Half expecting to hear a "Mr. Wells, this is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?"
I've used "you don't know what I'm up against" as many times as this video has been viewed
“One more word out of you, and you go!” “Yes sir!” As if Orson is is the one in charge? Lol
At that point it was time somebody took charge of this fiasco; Orson did. Leadership is action, not position.
Well they definitely weren’t in control! Lol
Even angry Orson was classy...rest well Citizen Welles.😊😊😢😢
you must be disapointed you couldn't find that jury
Understand that by this point in his career, Orson Wells was a living legend. Imagine taking say, Jack Nicholson into the booth to do VO for frozen food and then giving him BAD tedious notes and commentary about every minute detail. It would be super rude.
Orson Wells wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the greatest film ever made. They should have been thankful that he agreed to do it at all, and left him to it. His version would have been just fine.
I would literally kill someone to see Jack Nicholson do this.
@Jonathan Campbell I don't believe you for one minute! You would really shoot somebody to death? Stab them to death? Strangle them to death? Poison them to death? Take an innocent life just to see Jack Nicholson do a commercial?
We get it, asshole.
He shouldn't have blown all his money then should he, it was his choice to work with mere mortals and do this.
The dir should have acted it out for Orson in Orson's voice.
Some of Orson Welles best work since Citizen Kane
Citizen Can
Citizen 'Pagne.
Ahhh, theFrenchhhchampagneee
This is like Einstein teaching a toddler to count to 10.
I grew up in Lincolnshire and I'm a big fan of Orson Welles, so hearing him refer to my natal patch gives me a real buzz every time.
Pinky and the Brain brought me here after 26 years of living in ignorance.
I've never heard this before but I love the animation you use that brings it to life. Bravo!
Presumably the only reason we have this recording is because of the engineer
Thank you
I never realized that Orson Welles was such a huge😂 comedian
These are so much better than the actual ads.
"Lincolnshire Frozen Peas: They're full of country goodness and green peaness."
What’s even funnier than the transcript is the story leading up to it. Long story short, Welles tricked the directors into paying him in advance, then had them chase him all over Europe because he was pissed they asked him to audition for the commercial.
Well that says a lot about how he handled this lmao you don’t tell the legendary Orson Welles to AUDITION!
To pea or not to pea, that is the question.
1:24 this is a man that is so sure that he knows he's right, that he put this on the line.
It's like listening to a drunk uncle at the holidays
i have seen this over and again, over and again. wonderful. thanks
Mwa-HAaa! The Norwegan......peas..
That critic joke was totaly based of reality.
3:57 Never fails to make me smile.
I think this could be the greatest comeback/insult ever, "In the DEPTHS of your ignorance, what is it exactly that you want!" Bloody brillliant!
"Wearying and unrewarding"
Ya think, Orson?
This Crumb Crisp Coated Cod Commercial is unrewarding.
"We're talking about them growing and she's already picked 'em."
I DIED.
This is splendid. Loved every moment.
Crumb-crisp coating. Poor guy had no chance.
There's a Rankin Bass-esque element to this animation. :)
The mouth for certain
This just makes me love him even more 🖤
Right?!
No matter what’s going on, this can cheer me up. Orson, we love you, even with peas in July! :)
*_IN_* July...
You can't plant frozen peas in July; they'll defrost! Wait...what??
Orson should have given Peas a chance.
brilliant, best version