Orson Welles | Frozen Peas Animated

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  • čas přidán 10. 03. 2017
  • "YES ALWAYS"
    In the godfather of all outtakes, Orson Welles struggles under the pressures of doing the voice over for Findus frozen foods commercials. Brought to life in this animated short
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Komentáře • 962

  • @economicist2011
    @economicist2011 Před 4 lety +1180

    AAAAAAH the Lincolnshire frozen peas have always been celebrated for their excellence.

    • @matthewgray469
      @matthewgray469 Před 3 lety +43

      "Duz'nt he do anythin'?

    • @micahchambers5096
      @micahchambers5096 Před 3 lety +37

      Therizagaliforniafieldthatstrives... for that samelincolnshire excellence

    • @gspendlove
      @gspendlove Před 3 lety +38

      Wahaaa the peas.

    • @1lobster
      @1lobster Před 2 lety +19

      But there is a farm in Delaware which strives for that same excellence.

    • @aniquinstark4347
      @aniquinstark4347 Před 2 lety +15

      "these were not grown in Lincolnshire but they have a date on them so they are good"

  • @concerned1
    @concerned1 Před 4 lety +796

    Only Orson could make a timeless drama out of a peas commercial.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem +33

      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.

    • @man.inblack
      @man.inblack Před rokem +9

      ​@@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

    • @tommyblack7998
      @tommyblack7998 Před rokem

      @@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.

    • @kenlieck7756
      @kenlieck7756 Před rokem

      @@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" [czcams.com/video/tnsFO-rgOys/video.html] it would likely never have even been completed!

    • @mindriot91_96
      @mindriot91_96 Před rokem +2

      @@man.inblack Mio Dio, you take forever to say nothing. 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Rodshark75
    @Rodshark75 Před rokem +304

    I love the sheer insanity that Animaniacs took this line for line for a Pinky and the Brain throwaway cartoon.

    • @rpelzer
      @rpelzer Před rokem +32

      "Yes, Always" was HARDLY a throwaway Animaniacs cartoon.... Maurice LaMarche executed that perfectly! (Of course he would, since Brain is essentially Orson Welles' voice)

    • @popculturehero
      @popculturehero Před 11 měsíci +10

      I think that was the critic.

    • @rpelzer
      @rpelzer Před 11 měsíci +8

      @@popculturehero nope... the OP just added a snippet of The Critic at the beginning for funsies
      czcams.com/video/7uWW--w4SRs/video.html

    • @GELTONZ
      @GELTONZ Před 9 měsíci +12

      @@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'!

    • @lawrence142002
      @lawrence142002 Před 9 měsíci +12

      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'.

  • @179cpv
    @179cpv Před 5 lety +1189

    “In the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?” My favorite part of the whole thing.

    • @pyroicarus1203
      @pyroicarus1203 Před 5 lety +14

      Time Stamp: 4:35

    • @gabrielboorom9778
      @gabrielboorom9778 Před 5 lety +28

      My relationship with my whole family, summed up by Orson Welles. 😋

    • @user-qj9en1kp1m
      @user-qj9en1kp1m Před 5 lety +29

      "I am recording this for you guys and I played Othello. Good God!"

    • @NancyDrewe
      @NancyDrewe Před 4 lety +16

      It’s all that crumb crisp coating!! lol I watch this and Paul Masson when I need cheering up. :)

    • @matthewgray469
      @matthewgray469 Před 3 lety +13

      @@NancyDrewe MaaHaa The French!

  • @SoleaGalilei
    @SoleaGalilei Před rokem +683

    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.

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před rokem +127

      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.

    • @wdavem
      @wdavem Před rokem +24

      @@drmoonrat yeah he actually wanted it to work!

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Před 11 měsíci +33

      This is a genius.
      Tell me different and I'll go down on you.

    • @Renorick1
      @Renorick1 Před 10 měsíci +8

      ​@@Johnconno
      Um. Do you want to rephrase that?

    • @h.p.lovecraft936
      @h.p.lovecraft936 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@Johnconno what?

  • @rwdplz1
    @rwdplz1 Před 5 lety +718

    What luck, there's a french fry stuck in my beard...

    • @sabatino1977
      @sabatino1977 Před 5 lety +39

      rwdplz1 mmmm, they’re even better when you’re dead!

    • @RealGateGuardian
      @RealGateGuardian Před 4 lety +15

      Filled with hardy goodness and green penis, no wait, that's terrible! I quit!

    • @TiroDvD
      @TiroDvD Před 3 lety +15

      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.

    • @MrPjw5
      @MrPjw5 Před 3 lety +4

      TiroDvD Oh he’s talked about Welles before, many times in fact.

    • @TiroDvD
      @TiroDvD Před 3 lety

      @@MrPjw5 But did he talk about Frozen Peas?

  • @ATM180
    @ATM180 Před 4 lety +162

    I love how "This is a lot of shit, you know that" was said as a statement, not a question.

  • @Sincopare
    @Sincopare Před 5 lety +441

    “I take direction from one person, UNDER PROTEST, but for two I don’t sit still...but who the hell are you anyway?”

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev Před 4 lety +48

      "Well I'm the engineer."

    • @Brainwave101
      @Brainwave101 Před 4 lety +37

      @@peterandreyev "Well why the hell are you asking me for another one?"

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev Před 4 lety +32

      @@Brainwave101 "...Well I felt that there was a slight gunk and I would like-just like it to be safe."

    • @samkessel5411
      @samkessel5411 Před 4 lety +38

      @@peterandreyev "Jesus!... What is a gonk? Do you mind telling me what that is?"

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev Před 4 lety +31

      @@samkessel5411 "Well, a bang from outside."

  • @frasertones8519
    @frasertones8519 Před 2 lety +134

    "We're talking about them growing and she's picked 'em." Too funny!!

  • @igottwopeepees
    @igottwopeepees Před 6 lety +387

    I feel like Orson Welles recording a frozen peas commercial in my day to day life.

    • @SmallSpoonBrigade
      @SmallSpoonBrigade Před 5 lety +11

      Thanks to CZcams, I now know where they got the idea for him doing a pea commercial on The Critic. full of country goodness and green pea-ness.

    • @peterandreyev
      @peterandreyev Před 4 lety +11

      @@SmallSpoonBrigade Wait that's terrible. I quit!

    • @idontknow164
      @idontknow164 Před 2 lety +1

      Same.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem +3

      Life is made much more difficult by all the idiots and incompetents we deal with daily. I mean, how do some of these people dress and feed themselves, let alone drive to work??

    • @iamathousandapples
      @iamathousandapples Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​@@peterandreyevwell maybe just a few for the road

  • @Diggy22
    @Diggy22 Před 4 lety +177

    You know what goes good with frozen peas? Aaaahhh, a French champagne by Paul Masson 🍾🥂😁

    • @ProjectFlashlight612
      @ProjectFlashlight612 Před 4 lety +19

      It's known for its excellence

    • @matthewgray469
      @matthewgray469 Před 3 lety +9

      @@ProjectFlashlight612 Love it when he taps the label on the bottle

    • @ProjectFlashlight612
      @ProjectFlashlight612 Před 3 lety

      @@matthewgray469 Yeah lol

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem +2

      "We will sell no wine, before you pay for it." -- parody seen years ago on TV.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 Před rokem +2

      Funny thing about the Paul Masson wine was that Orson thought it tasted cheap as fuck. 😂

  • @doodelli
    @doodelli Před 5 lety +137

    Love the way he pauses and says ”...your FRIEND.” My god, what shade.

  • @flatscan1978
    @flatscan1978 Před rokem +28

    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.

    • @MegaAstroFan18
      @MegaAstroFan18 Před rokem +5

      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.

    • @timothyfinch7295
      @timothyfinch7295 Před rokem +6

      @@MegaAstroFan18 Stop sucking the Prequels off just because the Sequels were also bad. They're still bad.

  • @leroy_jenkenz1541
    @leroy_jenkenz1541 Před 6 lety +591

    This is how the voice actor auditioned for brain on pinky and the brain. They even wrote this into the show

    • @UntouchableMonkey
      @UntouchableMonkey Před 6 lety +46

      They're even better when you're dead!

    • @jdmaine51084
      @jdmaine51084 Před 6 lety +87

      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!

    • @Kevinschart
      @Kevinschart Před 6 lety +31

      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

    • @luccafortestoledo1300
      @luccafortestoledo1300 Před 6 lety +61

      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.

    • @Kevinschart
      @Kevinschart Před 6 lety +10

      yeah i definitely hear Vincent

  • @ericad8616
    @ericad8616 Před 2 lety +365

    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.

    • @RED01SEA
      @RED01SEA Před 2 lety +4

      True

    • @williambasham796
      @williambasham796 Před 2 lety +6

      I just know him as Unicron.

    • @HassoBenSoba
      @HassoBenSoba Před 2 lety +2

      Except maybe Charles Laughton

    • @victorm152
      @victorm152 Před rokem +6

      even when he's drunk while doing a literal wine commercial?

    • @Mordecrox
      @Mordecrox Před rokem +2

      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

  • @Rubberman202
    @Rubberman202 Před rokem +30

    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.

    • @RichardX1
      @RichardX1 Před měsícem +1

      That's almost certainly what was going on.

  • @huverdoose
    @huverdoose Před 2 lety +39

    I like how he doesn't ask if he knows it's a lot of shit. He _tells_ him.

    • @nate_river_
      @nate_river_ Před 9 měsíci +1

      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". 😂

  • @mcmuggin8075
    @mcmuggin8075 Před 5 lety +82

    3:55 "This is a lot of shit y'know that" his delivery killed me

  • @JewandGreek
    @JewandGreek Před 3 lety +317

    All ego and nonsense aside, the man had an incredible voice.

    • @bluegum6438
      @bluegum6438 Před 2 lety +88

      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.

    • @extenebrislux
      @extenebrislux Před 2 lety +11

      @@bluegum6438 Exactly!

    • @CoolGobyFish
      @CoolGobyFish Před rokem +17

      @@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)))

    • @a-nus
      @a-nus Před rokem +10

      @@CoolGobyFish those hacks deserve no respect.

    • @OuroborosChoked
      @OuroborosChoked Před rokem +19

      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!"

  • @SkullThunder
    @SkullThunder Před 2 měsíci +5

    "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.

  • @andyspiegel4877
    @andyspiegel4877 Před 3 měsíci +6

    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.

  • @danielscissorhands
    @danielscissorhands Před 5 lety +266

    Only Christopher Walken could emphasize "In" and "beef." :D

    • @mushroomhead3619
      @mushroomhead3619 Před 5 lety +14

      Brain: No! Anything but Christopher Walken!

    • @MkeKen67
      @MkeKen67 Před 5 lety +11

      Your comment needs more cow bell.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 Před 5 lety +16

      Christopher Walken: good night Room, good NIGHT moon, good Night COW jumpimg OVER the moon.

    • @brettrockford2564
      @brettrockford2564 Před 4 lety +1

      danielscissorhands And Kirk Douglas.

    • @Rbills02
      @Rbills02 Před 4 lety +4

      Mike Kazz
      Children...please...scooch forward. Don’t make me tell you again...about the scoooching. You in the red...chop, chop.

  • @gabrielboorom6196
    @gabrielboorom6196 Před 3 lety +412

    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.

    • @user-wj8tf3kq4m
      @user-wj8tf3kq4m Před rokem +5

      Why degrading himself to fish sticks level

    • @deadmeatjb
      @deadmeatjb Před rokem +25

      The story of war of the world's mass panic is completely fictional

    • @a-nus
      @a-nus Před rokem +4

      @@deadmeatjb dilate

    • @deadmeatjb
      @deadmeatjb Před rokem +1

      @@a-nus agreed

    • @SakuraAvalon
      @SakuraAvalon Před rokem +4

      @@deadmeatjb Funny to see how the newspapers lied even back then.

  • @briandelaney9710
    @briandelaney9710 Před 3 lety +64

    “We’re talking about them growing and she’s picked them “

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 Před 3 lety +11

      He's not wrong. Talking about it after we've seen renders the monolog meaningless.

  • @eleanoretc6751
    @eleanoretc6751 Před 5 lety +205

    "Get me a jury and show me how you can say 'In' July and I'll go down on you."
    WHAT??

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 Před 5 lety +13

      Exactly what I want people to answer for me. Nevermind all that "In in July" bullshit.

    • @annereilley4892
      @annereilley4892 Před 5 lety +20

      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.

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 Před 5 lety +20

      @@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?

    • @annereilley4892
      @annereilley4892 Před 5 lety +17

      @@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."

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 Před 5 lety +6

      @@annereilley4892 Glad we didn't pull a boner.

  • @tomservo5007
    @tomservo5007 Před 3 lety +55

    "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."

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 3 lety +2

      darling* ;-)

    • @azmiraclegirl441
      @azmiraclegirl441 Před 2 lety +2

      Why is this so goddamn funny? I'm literally ugly-laughing

  • @jamestackettvideo
    @jamestackettvideo Před 6 lety +149

    Here, under protest...is BEFF BURGERS

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 Před 6 lety +22

      Every July, BEEF GROWS THERE!!!

    • @trenn1
      @trenn1 Před 6 lety +15

      This is a lot of S**T, you know that....!

    • @NancyDrewe
      @NancyDrewe Před 4 lety

      LMAO. Thanks, so funny!!

    • @HandOfKwll
      @HandOfKwll Před 4 lety +1

      They’re even better RAW!!!

    • @kevinbouchard7107
      @kevinbouchard7107 Před 3 lety +4

      That's the phrase I use for mic checks and I've yet to see any recognition at all for it. So disappointing.

  • @mattpurvis927
    @mattpurvis927 Před 5 lety +109

    They paid Mr. Wells in crumb crisp coating...but his agent got 15%
    He was NOT happy.

    • @thalivenom4972
      @thalivenom4972 Před 3 lety +12

      can you put more emphasis on the IN please.

    • @movinginsilence1254
      @movinginsilence1254 Před 3 lety +7

      @@thalivenom4972 why? That doesn't make any sense.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem +1

      According to the story of "Frozen Peas", Orson finally walked out rather than deal with the incredibly bad writing and clueless director.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem

      @@thalivenom4972 Kind of like Bill Clinton's infamous "That depends on how you define 'is'".

  • @rockmanx20
    @rockmanx20 Před 5 lety +91

    A talent like him, wasted only because Hollywood was evil with this man.

    • @davidemmet7343
      @davidemmet7343 Před 3 lety +10

      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

    • @michaelmakes1225
      @michaelmakes1225 Před 3 lety +18

      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..

    • @Gaz-Man87
      @Gaz-Man87 Před rokem +4

      Maybe it was just a mixture of both.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem +1

      Oh I think he had quite a part of why he was treated like s***

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi Před rokem +1

      @@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.

  • @cha5
    @cha5 Před 5 lety +151

    The animation here reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animation, which is a good thing.😄

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 5 lety +36

      cha5 I will take that as a compliment for sure. Gilliam is my favorite

    • @lunaracc914
      @lunaracc914 Před 2 lety

      That's what I was thinking too

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem +1

      "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.

  • @lelandfranklin3487
    @lelandfranklin3487 Před rokem +16

    "Your friend..." always gets me.

  • @DocJamesH
    @DocJamesH Před 6 lety +300

    I never watched this Angela Anaconda episode

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 6 lety +48

      What an obscure reference. Too funny

    • @alejandromolina7270
      @alejandromolina7270 Před 5 lety +17

      I never expect that show ever to be reference.

    • @RealGateGuardian
      @RealGateGuardian Před 4 lety +3

      That's show sucks ass SO BAD, i never thought a reference to it would be funny

    • @TiroDvD
      @TiroDvD Před 3 lety +2

      And then Orsen will say:

    • @jamesoffutt2801
      @jamesoffutt2801 Před 3 lety +1

      Haha!! I loved that show!!

  • @SallySallySallySally
    @SallySallySallySally Před 2 lety +51

    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!

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem

      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

  • @jerryhenson3916
    @jerryhenson3916 Před rokem +24

    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.

    • @stevej.1428
      @stevej.1428 Před 3 měsíci

      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.

  • @Douglas-nj5cr
    @Douglas-nj5cr Před měsícem +2

    Thank you
    I never realized that Orson Welles was such a huge😂 comedian

  • @Bobsheaux
    @Bobsheaux Před 5 lety +96

    IT'S!
    Orson Welles' Flying Circusssssssssssssssss!

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 5 lety +11

      Bobsheaux hahaha yes

    • @trollskullkid69
      @trollskullkid69 Před 5 lety +2

      Bobsheaux!!

    • @Bobsheaux
      @Bobsheaux Před 4 lety +2

      @@lordgazimus5662
      And there was much rejoicing.
      "Yaaaaayyyy...."

    • @RealGateGuardian
      @RealGateGuardian Před 4 lety

      @@Bobsheaux then they ate the sound engineer. And there was much rejoicing.
      Yay...

  • @craigkleber9316
    @craigkleber9316 Před 2 lety +69

    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.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem

      The problem here is it's just a f****** commercial read the goddamn copy get your check and go

    • @Cheapiebeepie
      @Cheapiebeepie Před 11 měsíci +2

      Verily

    • @stevej.1428
      @stevej.1428 Před 3 měsíci +4

      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.

  • @stilesbentley1701
    @stilesbentley1701 Před rokem +9

    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.

  • @scowlfarm3061
    @scowlfarm3061 Před 6 lety +87

    Mwaw haa it's the Paul Mason can of peas

  • @latenightcashews
    @latenightcashews Před 6 lety +185

    "WHAT IS A GONK YOU MIND TELLING ME WHAT THAT IS?" LOL

  • @AsitorCorporation
    @AsitorCorporation Před 5 lety +55

    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.

    • @harrodsongs
      @harrodsongs Před 3 lety +2

      Do a search for "William Shatner" "sabotage." You're welcome.

  • @TerrenceNowicki
    @TerrenceNowicki Před 3 lety +11

    We know a remote moon orbiting Cybertron; every July Autobots grow there.

    • @NevrSilent
      @NevrSilent Před 3 lety +1

      How deflating it must have been to shuffle off your mortal coil with the voice of Unicron being your final performance.

  • @RumbleFish69
    @RumbleFish69 Před 3 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @roxybrooks6937
    @roxybrooks6937 Před 4 lety +48

    Since I adore Orson Welles, I find this hilarious 😜

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 4 lety +14

      Me too. He was truly a genius. But man was he ever having g a hard time

    • @feloria1862
      @feloria1862 Před 4 lety +1

      Seems like a prick to me, the recording guys were calm but Orson was losing his shit over nothing.

    • @blightedgrounds
      @blightedgrounds Před 9 měsíci

      Well, I'm sure that in the depths of our ignorance, he'd despise all of us

  • @LinXGUA
    @LinXGUA Před 3 lety +6

    "The right reading is the one that I'm giving you!"
    "At the moment."
    oof

  • @james5460
    @james5460 Před 5 lety +29

    This is beyond brilliant, Orson was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it any longer!

  • @marlabeard5352
    @marlabeard5352 Před 3 lety +37

    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.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem

      Because the idiots who write it have never had to voice it professionally

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi Před rokem +3

      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.

  • @curtisleblanc5897
    @curtisleblanc5897 Před 3 lety +9

    " He isn't thinking. "
    Damn, Orson.

  • @GhostPlanetFilms
    @GhostPlanetFilms Před 6 lety +288

    How much of it is Orson being a diva, and Orson being right?

    • @ThatGuyNamedJoe
      @ThatGuyNamedJoe Před 6 lety +126

      GhostPlanetFilms 100% both

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp Před 6 lety +29

      IT'S A FROZEN FOOD AD!! AN AD!! FOR FROZEN... FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

    • @MarkBelll
      @MarkBelll Před 6 lety +6

      feefty/feefty

    • @ouchiegiverjr
      @ouchiegiverjr Před 6 lety +69

      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.

    • @alainjames9556
      @alainjames9556 Před 5 lety +58

      We are hearing Orson coping with the crap he had to do in order to raise money for his film projects.

  • @TheMATMAN316
    @TheMATMAN316 Před 5 lety +42

    There was a NARF from outside

  • @theeNappy
    @theeNappy Před 5 lety +513

    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.

    • @obscureentertainment8303
      @obscureentertainment8303 Před 4 lety +83

      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.

    • @watson-tv
      @watson-tv Před 3 lety +72

      The engineer should have input, but to the director. He shouldnt be talking to the actor.

    • @benjaminsmarzynski734
      @benjaminsmarzynski734 Před 3 lety +13

      But its orson welles

    • @blazingblight2706
      @blazingblight2706 Před 3 lety +6

      @LiveOkie Fame/recognition doesn't however give someone the right to be a dick.

    • @joeyshoe9095
      @joeyshoe9095 Před 3 lety +63

      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.

  • @andyjay729
    @andyjay729 Před 7 lety +66

    Well, he was right. You usually don't emphasize "in" when you're saying "in July".

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 7 lety +29

      "Get me a jury and prove me me how you can say it. . . "

    • @ThatGuyNamedJoe
      @ThatGuyNamedJoe Před 6 lety

      *IN* july
      Did it

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp Před 6 lety +4

      Can you emphasize "suck" and "me?"

    • @ouchiegiverjr
      @ouchiegiverjr Před 5 lety

      That Guy Named Joe it still does sounds weird

    • @jasonmnosaj
      @jasonmnosaj Před 5 lety +7

      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.

  • @SbsGrinth
    @SbsGrinth Před rokem +8

    He can't get over the 'green peaness' when it shows up.
    If you know that reference you are among the gods.

  • @allys744
    @allys744 Před 4 měsíci +3

    “I’ll go down on you” BRO WHAT 🤣😳

  • @ObsidianDragon7030
    @ObsidianDragon7030 Před 2 lety +3

    Half expecting to hear a "Mr. Wells, this is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?"

  • @ron8675309
    @ron8675309 Před 3 lety +6

    Pinky and the Brain brought me here after 26 years of living in ignorance.

  • @BennyLlama39
    @BennyLlama39 Před 4 lety +10

    Orson: "There's too much directing around here."
    Me: I know the feeling.

  • @Astrithor
    @Astrithor Před 3 lety +85

    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

    • @scrubbingdoubles8585
      @scrubbingdoubles8585 Před 2 lety +4

      Jesus loves you

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem +8

      You want the paycheck you do it the way the boss says

    • @johnstitt2615
      @johnstitt2615 Před rokem +1

      @@hankkingsley9300 yes. The way Orson wanted it.

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem +1

      @@scrubbingdoubles8585 actually Jesus hasn't arrived yet will let you know when he does

    • @hankkingsley9300
      @hankkingsley9300 Před rokem

      Cute read so much misspelled crap Bi-Lo Ranch sales weasels used to beat the s*** out of all of them

  • @suzieqtruth6377
    @suzieqtruth6377 Před 3 lety +153

    This actually makes me love Orson Welles even more. The copy is idiotic and he’s right they are fools.

  • @PS3DJ09
    @PS3DJ09 Před 5 lety +11

    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.

    • @A-Nonnie-Mouse
      @A-Nonnie-Mouse Před rokem +2

      To your boss: "One more word out of you and you go!" 😂

    • @mikidelasislas
      @mikidelasislas Před 11 měsíci +2

      "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.

  • @davidjames579
    @davidjames579 Před 3 lety +5

    Orson should have given Peas a chance.

  • @benprewitt4600
    @benprewitt4600 Před 10 měsíci +2

    "We're talking about them growing and she's already picked 'em."
    I DIED.

  • @1lobster
    @1lobster Před 2 lety +15

    “One more word out of you, and you go!” “Yes sir!” As if Orson is is the one in charge? Lol

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 Před rokem +4

      At that point it was time somebody took charge of this fiasco; Orson did. Leadership is action, not position.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 Před rokem +1

      Well they definitely weren’t in control! Lol

  • @EgbertWilliams
    @EgbertWilliams Před 5 lety +28

    This is like Einstein teaching a toddler to count to 10.

  • @essa6315
    @essa6315 Před 2 lety +4

    He knows far more about creating something engaging than them. If Orson Welles gives you advice, you listen.

  • @elwoodjacobs4353
    @elwoodjacobs4353 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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. 😆

  • @davidhoffman6980
    @davidhoffman6980 Před 9 měsíci +2

    This guy is getting tripped up by the plot holes in a frozen peas commercial.

  • @HC-cb4yp
    @HC-cb4yp Před 6 lety +21

    Boy, did John Candy nail this one on SCTV.

  • @theyearwas1473
    @theyearwas1473 Před 3 lety +5

    It's like listening to a drunk uncle at the holidays

  • @mvader7188
    @mvader7188 Před rokem +2

    This is as glorious as the buddy rich tapes😅

  • @drlegendre
    @drlegendre Před 9 měsíci +1

    Wells' Frozen Peas
    "We will sell no vine, before its time."

  • @petepallett4639
    @petepallett4639 Před 3 lety +14

    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!

  • @davidemmet7343
    @davidemmet7343 Před 3 lety +11

    Some of Orson Welles best work since Citizen Kane

  • @c.m.8158
    @c.m.8158 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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!

  • @braziliantvhd2768
    @braziliantvhd2768 Před 10 měsíci +2

    What a shame this man couldn't portray The Judge in the movie version of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

  • @PhillipRottingham
    @PhillipRottingham Před 5 lety +8

    I've never heard this before but I love the animation you use that brings it to life. Bravo!

  • @stargazer3424
    @stargazer3424 Před 3 lety +4

    I feel like Terry Gilliam animated this

  • @richardenglish2195
    @richardenglish2195 Před 8 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @bogard84
    @bogard84 Před 9 měsíci +1

    This guy was a planet eating transformer.
    Brilliant!!

  • @flindude2681
    @flindude2681 Před 11 měsíci +3

    That critic joke was totaly based of reality.

  • @afterlife697
    @afterlife697 Před 3 lety +4

    If orson Wells tells you the way somethings should be read then you will listen.

  • @mercster
    @mercster Před 9 měsíci +2

    "You don't know what I'm up against."

  • @blason56
    @blason56 Před 9 měsíci +1

    For context, he took the money, but he didn't even want to do the commercial. He is trying to get out of it.

  • @MrPjw5
    @MrPjw5 Před 4 lety +5

    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.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 Před rokem +1

      Well that says a lot about how he handled this lmao you don’t tell the legendary Orson Welles to AUDITION!

  • @LiverAndOnions69
    @LiverAndOnions69 Před 4 lety +4

    I would of shrank up in this mans mighty presence

  • @ChronoTango
    @ChronoTango Před 9 měsíci +1

    “Without Music, there is simply an idea.”

  • @fenrir7878
    @fenrir7878 Před 3 měsíci +1

    "You didn't say it... HE said it. Your FRIEND!!" LOL so much shade.

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy Před 2 lety +11

    3:57 Never fails to make me smile.

  • @lwnf360
    @lwnf360 Před 5 lety +105

    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.

    • @jonathancampbell5231
      @jonathancampbell5231 Před 5 lety +23

      I would literally kill someone to see Jack Nicholson do this.

    • @frauleinmona
      @frauleinmona Před 5 lety +7

      @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?

    • @thisismyname3928
      @thisismyname3928 Před 5 lety +7

      We get it, asshole.

    • @nathaniliescu4597
      @nathaniliescu4597 Před 4 lety +5

      He shouldn't have blown all his money then should he, it was his choice to work with mere mortals and do this.

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 Před 3 lety

      The dir should have acted it out for Orson in Orson's voice.

  • @mikekazz5353
    @mikekazz5353 Před 5 lety +8

    1:24 this is a man that is so sure that he knows he's right, that he put this on the line.

  • @chazchillington7266
    @chazchillington7266 Před 5 lety +5

    This is splendid. Loved every moment.

  • @bazzjedimaster
    @bazzjedimaster Před 6 lety +9

    Full of country goodness and green PEAness

    • @freakfoxvevo7915
      @freakfoxvevo7915 Před 5 lety +3

      Wait, that's terrible. I quit.

    • @jesusisherelookbusy
      @jesusisherelookbusy Před 5 lety +3

      Just a handful for the road.... Oh what luck! There's a french fry stuck in my beard!

  • @romeysiamese6712
    @romeysiamese6712 Před 5 lety +4

    These are so much better than the actual ads.

  • @thoughtfuldevil6069
    @thoughtfuldevil6069 Před 2 měsíci +1

    This man was born to play Baron Harkonnen.

  • @AndorianBlues
    @AndorianBlues Před 3 lety +5

    Presumably the only reason we have this recording is because of the engineer

  • @damiensiemer9780
    @damiensiemer9780 Před 7 lety +10

    wow this has content I've never heard in previous versions! Hilarious, classic, wonderful.

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 7 lety +10

      It's hard to make out the exact order of the clips. Essentially this recording was taken from a longer series of takes that included material that was actually used to produce the commercials, but when the outtakes were originally leaked, it was a compilation of his awkward comments and out bursts edited together. It's a common misconception that this was all one solid take. Some of the versions I got a hold of had different moments from the recording session edited together in different orders. So I had to take these from a mixture of different sources and arrange them in the most sensible order I could think of, particularly where the engineer asks him for another take because of the "Gonk"

    • @ijaapy
      @ijaapy Před 6 lety

      From which sources did you get all the different clips? my googling didn't come up with anything.

    • @timmy841212
      @timmy841212 Před rokem

      @@ijaapy Apparently this was all recorded in January 1970.

  • @dielaughing73
    @dielaughing73 Před 6 lety +19

    "Wearying and unrewarding"
    Ya think, Orson?

    • @notsure4746
      @notsure4746 Před 5 lety +2

      This Crumb Crisp Coated Cod Commercial is unrewarding.

  • @Ironcorgi2
    @Ironcorgi2 Před měsícem

    Orson wells had such a wild career he does stuff like this and his last voice credit is unicron

  • @hyperpowerfulform5132
    @hyperpowerfulform5132 Před 6 lety +469

    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.

    • @feartactics
      @feartactics Před 6 lety +59

      ironically findus was found to use horsemeat instead of beef decades later

    • @lillybeach2391
      @lillybeach2391 Před 6 lety +2

      Philip Wow...

    • @MkeKen67
      @MkeKen67 Před 5 lety +3

      You should check out Norm MacDonald making fun of the Man Grate ad copy.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 Před 5 lety +34

      He's a diva, but he's a correct diva.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 Před 5 lety +17

      Or a snowy field in July, or show already pick peas and describing a field that's not harvested yet.

  • @itsaMoogle
    @itsaMoogle Před 5 lety +5

    Oh what luck, there's a french fry stuck in my beard.

    • @drmoonrat
      @drmoonrat  Před 5 lety +5

      "I'll just take a handful of these for the road. . . hmmm . . . they're even better frozen!"