“I’ve worked for advertising agencies all my life,” Welles is quoted in Biskind’s book. “In the old days in radio, you worked for them, because they were the boss, not the network. And I have never seen more seedier, about-to-be-fired sad sacks than were responsible for those Paul Masson ads. The agency hated me, because I kept trying to improve the copy.”
MUUUAAAAHAA THEFRENSH
Paul Masson’s slogan at the time was “Paul Masson, we sell no wine before its time.” Each add compared the wine to a higher art form that also took several years to create, such as a Beethoven symphony.
In one such instance, a commercial was comparing Masson to a Stradivarius violin, which took three years to carve.
“Come on gentleman,” Welles is quoted in “Orson Welles: A Biography,” by Barbara Learning. “You have a nice, pleasant cheap little wine here. You haven’t got the presumption to compare it to a Stradivarius violin.”
Welles didn’t just try to change the text, but he also sent instructions on how he would like to be photographed. He arrived for a Masson commercial shoot with his makeup already applied on his own.
He also sent instructions to the cameramen: he liked the brooding look he had when the camera was positioned slightly above his eyes so he had to look up a bit at it, and he liked the hard light three-quarters on the left side, according to Learning’s book.
Guess there's nowhere to go but down when you make the greatest film of all time at 25. I wish he was still around.
I wouldn't argue with him, is pour myson even still around?
>>68647215
mah
MAH
MAHAAAAAAAAAAH
>>68647802
the uhhFrench... *breath* Champagne...
>>68647893
MAH
THUFFFF WRENCH
>>68647749
They only make brandy now and not the champagne.
>>68647215
>“You have a nice, pleasant cheap little wine here. You haven’t got the presumption to compare it to a Stradivarius violin.”
I mean, he's not wrong.
I have a feeling with Welles, you either got exactly (or better than) what you wanted, or it was a giant knock-down drag-out just to get him to say his fucking lines. Mel Brooks has a pretty decent Orson Welles story from when he was the narrator of History of the World: Part 1.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hhwp4tm6Wc
>>68647247
>his makeup already applied on his own.
Does that mean he wore one of his false noses for these ads, too?
>"IN" July
THUFF WRENCH AMPAIN
Even the Paul Masson commericial director wasn't safe from Welles' twisted vision.
"One time I yelled 'action please' and Orson turned to me and said 'what if someone just sat in the middle of a crowded restaurant set and yelled 'action?' Would they do anything?" My jaw hit the floor and it never really came back up. That's when I thought, is he getting in character to play a blotto overweight washed up actor who needs a paycheck, or had he been a blotto overweight washed up actor who needs a paycheck all along?
“Sometimes I would go to look into the cameras, and I noticed Orson had readjusted the camera to execute a technically impressive crane shot. Other times he'd leave notes inside the camera. They'd say things like 'be sure to capture me in a brooding light' and ‘Lights. Camera. Muaaaaaah.’ I had to ask him to stop because I was getting too scared to direct.”
>>68648194
>>68647995
>beluga is overpriced
>I like my caviar to be affordable
how can I miss someone I never knew
>>68647995
Sounds like a piece of shit to me. And the Jew singing praises of him is quite telling.
>>68647173
sometimes I think the concept of the meme was created just to give us something to talk about. Imagine having the same conversation over and over again with someone in person.
MAUGHAHHHHH the FRIENDSand BANE has always been celebrated forits BIGness. there is an Usbekistani fliiightplaaan by Bill Wilsón. Inspiiiiiiired. by that same masked mercenaRY. itscalledinfromtheplaneandlikethebestflighplans it includes me, my men, doctor pavel, but onl-
>uh, sir
>>68648458
Welles Thread? I think his best performance was for Dark Tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3HVCwPp7j0
>Orson Welles died to early to VA for Baldur's Gate
MMMWELL I'M sorry to hear that
>>68648458
please never post this again
>>68648602
MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE HOTHEADS
Why lads
Why did he die like poor homeless sap
Was it the Hollywood Jews?
>>68648769
He died a poor homeless sap because he was a mega-autistic man who happened to make a few well-received films but be totally unable to capitalize on his success or build the social connections to do so.
“In July”? I’d love to know how you emphasize “in” in “in July”.
>>68648914
THEY'RE'S TOMUSH DREKTINGOINONHERE!
I love watching interviews with him. He's a massive elitist, but a fucking gent I tell you what.What /tv/ thinks it is
>you'll never get the piss beaten out of you in an alleyway of some shithole night club in the 40's by Bogart and Welles
>>68648914
He's right though.
>>68647173
DOESNTDOANYTHIN
>yfw there is a california shampaign by poor myson
>>68649761
don't talk to me or my poor son ever again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaC3Hp36wXY#t=1m04s
BASED
