In the last years of his life, Orson Wells was basically up to do whatever as long as he got paid, it's why we got amazing stuff like this and the infamous champagne ad
@@Viewer-ld5rc Well yes, it was mostly for that, movies cost a lot of money, and he liked filming movies, he very much dedicated his whole life to the craft, in fact he stayed true to himself till the end, I'll agree to that, but really I never said that the money was for himself alone, I just said "as long as he got paid", which I feel was right.
I think the way he did his performance as Unicron works for the character as this ancient being who’s past was lost to time (Until Call of The Primitives) and being indifferent about everything else other than his want to consume. Only caring when his minions tries to doublecross him by threatening him with the only item that could stop him which in turn angered him to a point where he’ll destroy Cybertron than to eat it like he would with other planets.
I hope this audio puts to rest all those false claims that Welles’s voice was weak and had to be salvaged with synthesizers. Sure, it was made to sound even deeper and more resonant, but his voice was far from weak. He died just five days after recording this, but his unmistakable voice was as effective as ever.
According to the movie's director, much of Orson Welles performance was unusable, and admitted to getting Leonard Nimoy to overdub some lines. However, this clip is awesome and he sounds great.
@@mishmashmedleyThat's pretty much impossible though. Welles' voice and Nimoy's have very little commonality, and Nimoy has almost no vocal range at all in replicating another voice (his raspy voice doesn't easily give in). Are you sure that information is correct?
@@barsabe not sure about that assessment of Nimoy, for sure. Yes, I am, as on the 2000 DVD release, with a special commemorative 3d tin, had a number of bonus features one of which was an interview with Nelson Shin, the director.
@@barsabe I heard this as well, but the evidence seems not to bare it out... except for the last couple of lines. DESTINEEEEE could have Nimoys voice used to add to his. (Not replaced)
No one can say the word "I" like Orson Welles. Just listen to when he says "I am unicron". Just the "I" tells a tale of how mysteriously ancient he is....
I’m trying to separate fact from fiction. I was told that Orson Wells’ voice work was unusable because his voice sounded weak. Orson sounded very good here, sonorous, euphonious, resonant, bright and everything you would expect from the legendary actor/director/producer/writer. The Transformers producers should have just admitted that they played with the audio in post production and they liked the extra gravitas Orson’s voice had when they applied sound effects like reverb and slowing the pitch and speed of the original audio. As is was perfect if you ask me. I’m glad Orson took the role of Unicron, even though he wasn’t a fan of Transformers. He was a fan of hefty paychecks, and sometimes that’s good enough.
"We know a certain planet in the galactic far west, where Dinobot chops up the finest... this is a lot of slag, you know that, right? You want one more?"
@@OptimusShr Okay. I had to say so because The TF The Movie 1986 was released after Orson Welles passed away nearly a year ago and that always concerns me w/ everything. Thank you
Oh man this is giving me so much nostalgia. That movie had so many perfect voice castings. And the soundtrack. Gosh the whole thing. I wish they would remake it with better animation and artwork consistency, but keep the (remastered) audio and soundtrack.
this is the pinnacle of art that transformers rose to imo. as much as i like welles reading, i wonder what marlon brando would have done with unicron material
@@drmoonrat They said his voice was so weak that it was unusable, which is why they altered it in the final cut of the film. The guy was dying due to health issues at the time. I’m just surprised how good it sounds!
@@Wildstrike277 I think that speaks to the character of Welles. He put everything he had into that role, regardless of how he felt about it. Just a consummate professional, to the very end.
The audio crew for the Transformers movie seems to have oversold their work on Welles' voice. They said in interviews that they had to apply a lot of filters to it because his voice was so weak, but really, it seems like he was just doing a dramatic whispery tone, and all they did to it was pitch it down. Still, it's effective.
'We know a remote outpost on Cybertron, where Alpha Trion lives. Every July, energon grows there...do you really mean that? That's like expecting me to emphasise the 'tron' in 'Megatron'! Come on fellas, you're losing your heads here! Here under protest is Unicron. Yes, always! There's too much directing going on here. We know an Autobot city on Earth where Ultra Magnus lives...this is a lot of shit, you know that?'
There has never, nor will there ever be, a better voice for Unicron.
In the last years of his life, Orson Wells was basically up to do whatever as long as he got paid, it's why we got amazing stuff like this and the infamous champagne ad
AAAaah ThE FrENcH
He was eternalised as a giant planet eating ball, that’s what if like to remembered as
I believe you’re wording it wrongly. He took these jobs because he wanted to fund his projects. He didn’t just want the money for himself.
@@Viewer-ld5rc Well yes, it was mostly for that, movies cost a lot of money, and he liked filming movies, he very much dedicated his whole life to the craft, in fact he stayed true to himself till the end, I'll agree to that, but really I never said that the money was for himself alone, I just said "as long as he got paid", which I feel was right.
Even if Orson Welles half-assed this, it's still quadruple the ass of most other actors.
I think the way he did his performance as Unicron works for the character as this ancient being who’s past was lost to time (Until Call of The Primitives) and being indifferent about everything else other than his want to consume. Only caring when his minions tries to doublecross him by threatening him with the only item that could stop him which in turn angered him to a point where he’ll destroy Cybertron than to eat it like he would with other planets.
He did have a very big ass
I wish I could sound like that in the McDonald's drive thru.
"A Chicken McNugget meal with Coke... this is my command."
Orson Wells was actually considered to voice Darth Vader but I thought he’d be too recognizable so they went with James Earl Jones instead!
It would have been nice to have heard how Darth Vader would have sounded like if Orson Welles did the voice.
They went with James earl Jones because you thought orson welles would be too recognizable? You're a real kingmaker
Interesting
@@Derek-iy9vu George Lucas said that in a interview. I’ll find it and post it on this thread.
Just imagine…. A darker, more sinister Vader.
I hope this audio puts to rest all those false claims that Welles’s voice was weak and had to be salvaged with synthesizers. Sure, it was made to sound even deeper and more resonant, but his voice was far from weak. He died just five days after recording this, but his unmistakable voice was as effective as ever.
matter of early opinions i suppose
According to the movie's director, much of Orson Welles performance was unusable, and admitted to getting Leonard Nimoy to overdub some lines.
However, this clip is awesome and he sounds great.
@@mishmashmedleyThat's pretty much impossible though. Welles' voice and Nimoy's have very little commonality, and Nimoy has almost no vocal range at all in replicating another voice (his raspy voice doesn't easily give in). Are you sure that information is correct?
@@barsabe not sure about that assessment of Nimoy, for sure.
Yes, I am, as on the 2000 DVD release, with a special commemorative 3d tin, had a number of bonus features one of which was an interview with Nelson Shin, the director.
@@barsabe I heard this as well, but the evidence seems not to bare it out... except for the last couple of lines. DESTINEEEEE could have Nimoys voice used to add to his. (Not replaced)
No one can say the word "I" like Orson Welles. Just listen to when he says "I am unicron". Just the "I" tells a tale of how mysteriously ancient he is....
This is some amazing historical audio
This movie has some of thee great and most notable voices.
It sounds better than I thought based on what the directors impression was
Even though he wasn't fond of Unicron, he still gave us a timeless performance.
I’m trying to separate fact from fiction. I was told that Orson Wells’ voice work was unusable because his voice sounded weak. Orson sounded very good here, sonorous, euphonious, resonant, bright and everything you would expect from the legendary actor/director/producer/writer. The Transformers producers should have just admitted that they played with the audio in post production and they liked the extra gravitas Orson’s voice had when they applied sound effects like reverb and slowing the pitch and speed of the original audio. As is was perfect if you ask me. I’m glad Orson took the role of Unicron, even though he wasn’t a fan of Transformers. He was a fan of hefty paychecks, and sometimes that’s good enough.
"We know a certain planet in the galactic far west, where Dinobot chops up the finest... this is a lot of slag, you know that, right? You want one more?"
I hope Orson Welles had enough time to voice the lines he needed to before his passing
He did. He finished recording all his lines five days before he died.
@@OptimusShr Okay. I had to say so because The TF The Movie 1986 was released after Orson Welles passed away nearly a year ago and that always concerns me w/ everything. Thank you
If he was still alive, he would be 107 years old
Ive heard He did all his lines in a day.
@@timothelambert5147 Interesting
He sounds amazing even still...a lot of people say he called it in. But he sounds incredible!
Orson could phone it in anytime and it'd still be an incredible performance
Oh man... This is what he sounds like NOT caring?? What would he have given us if he actually GAVE a damn?? 😳
i guess that was their technical opinion beyond specific voice standards
_Orson Welles stare intensifies_
That sounds pretty good 😌. Even without the synthesizer effect. If you’ll notice, you can tell that Orson Welles even at that time had asthma.
RIP Orson Welles
Oh man this is giving me so much nostalgia. That movie had so many perfect voice castings. And the soundtrack. Gosh the whole thing. I wish they would remake it with better animation and artwork consistency, but keep the (remastered) audio and soundtrack.
They upgraded it to 4K almost two years back, but apparently, the audio isn’t much better, but at least we’ve got that.
@@ILoveJahangeer where can one access this 4K version? I’ve seen the 1080p bluray.
@@scott-richardson Amazon.
@@ILoveJahangeer wow how did I miss this? Have they actually improved the resolution or is it simply a 1080 upscale?
The only voice that can match Peter Cullen's
this is the pinnacle of art that transformers rose to imo. as much as i like welles reading, i wonder what marlon brando would have done with unicron material
WOW! Absolutely incredible!
"Rosebud, Megatron."
I like Orson Welles voice as UNICRON.
That "I" is bone-rattling
Who else by Welles could command such power with the utterance of a single letter
Awesome dude!
His unicron voice is up there with Vader’s voice as too bad guy voice. Honorable mention is Tim Curry’s voice in Legend.
Is… is this his actual audio?! Like, *the* Orson Welles voice audio?! Without the audio effects change?!?!
Indeed!
@@drmoonrat When he was sick?!
@@Wildstrike277 I don't believe he was sick but it was not too long after that he died
@@drmoonrat They said his voice was so weak that it was unusable, which is why they altered it in the final cut of the film. The guy was dying due to health issues at the time. I’m just surprised how good it sounds!
@@Wildstrike277 I think that speaks to the character of Welles. He put everything he had into that role, regardless of how he felt about it. Just a consummate professional, to the very end.
Excellent!
The audio crew for the Transformers movie seems to have oversold their work on Welles' voice. They said in interviews that they had to apply a lot of filters to it because his voice was so weak, but really, it seems like he was just doing a dramatic whispery tone, and all they did to it was pitch it down. Still, it's effective.
Holy cow! This may be the holy Grail of transformers audio.
"The matrix has been passed to a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives..."
IN July, the autobot matrix will be destroyed . . . IN July? Do you really mean that?
😂😂😂😂 lol
Aaaah the french champaign
imagine if he was the voice of Vader
As I recall, George Lucas considered him as a possibility at first but decided he would be a little too obvious.
is this the real Orson Welles voice?
It seems like it.
Megatron, sell no wine before it’s time!
Hell yeah
'We know a remote outpost on Cybertron, where Alpha Trion lives. Every July, energon grows there...do you really mean that? That's like expecting me to emphasise the 'tron' in 'Megatron'! Come on fellas, you're losing your heads here! Here under protest is Unicron. Yes, always! There's too much directing going on here. We know an Autobot city on Earth where Ultra Magnus lives...this is a lot of shit, you know that?'
0:00 0:01 0:02 we need the music!
like to use A.I to have Orson Welles Unicron voice to dub the whole Bible .
🔥 🔥 🔥
Is there more, with the rest of his lines?
Somewhere I think, but this is just what I found
is this an edit of his voice in the movie or did you find the og audio?
Where did you get this?
Are these the original recordings?