Orson Welles - Frozen Peas

@ Gigaspine - listening to those guys telling Welles how to read the script is like listening to Les Dawson trying to tell Ashkenazy how to play piano. Why would you even bother dreaming of telling welles how to interprate a script? idiots

" UNrewarding."

Where is the rest of the clip?

"Is Mrs. Rogers here?"
"I take direction from on person and under protest."

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

i can now truly appreciate how pinky and the brain pay tribute to this great man. it all there!

Wow. I can really get it.
The commercial is total crap. After all, it is a commercial. Orson Welles is reduced (ironic- Orson Welles is Reduced? Ho ho.) to doing television commercials. Welles, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in Citizen Kane, is reduced to narrating stupid television commercials. And these asshole directors are trying to correct Welles' reading of this drivel, telling him to put the emphasis on the WRONG words so they can feel important.

The problem was Orson's ego just as much as it was the incompetence of the crew he was working with.Keep in mind Mr. Welles is comparing a tv commercial to THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. Also, If you want ironic, how about the fact that his last role was in a movie often called a feature length commercial?

I don't doubt that Orson's ego played a part, but I agree with all of his points: the words are stupid and the directors are giving stupid advice.
I think the reference to Shakespeare in context cannot be said to equate the commercial to the Bard's work, but rather that Wells is saying that he would not put a Shakespearean actor through all of the drudgery that the director is here, and this is only a stupid commercial, and the hair splitting is therefore not merited.

"I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in SHAKESPEARE."
That wording all it's own implies very heavily he meant "I wouldn't reside over HAMLET with your peabrained techniques." rather than "I wouldn't put any living Shakespearean actor through this garbage."
Not only that, why the hell would he expect movie calibur writing in a tv commercial in the first place? It's made to get the word of a product out, not become the next Citizen Kane.

What is it you want in your DEPTH of your ignorance?