In searching for the perfect commercial for Saturday, I stumbled across the Dark Tower commercial starring Orson Welles and thought “I’ve found it.”
Then I noticed that they had embedding turned off for some reason I can’t fathom. Depressed, I soldiered on and found the recording of Orson Welles doing (or not doing) a peas commercial. I had heard *OF* this (the guy who does The Brain (of Pinky and The Brain) references this quite regularly) but never heard *IT*.
It’s more wonderful than I had imagined.
Ladies and Gentlemen, you *NEED* to hear this (warning: he drops an ‘S’ bomb and that may make it unsafe for some environments.):
So that’s my recommendation for you this week.
Wow, even Wells had his Christain Bale moments. Show how far temper tantrums have fallen though.
Wells, “This grammar is terrible!”
Bale, “%^$*^%#$@#^$&*^O(&*)*)(^%##!@#$@^%*(&(*!!!”
Wells, “I have never had this problem with the other commercials I have done!”
Bale, “)*&^%^$$#@^*(&)_(*_)(^%^#$$&^)(&*^%^$^%!!!”
Enough said.
Oh, pardon me, he did say the S word once. Gee, how horrible….
That’s how startling the curse word is. It’s not just that he said it, it’s that *HE* said it.
He makes one word sound like an episode of Deadwood.
Personally I find it hillarious that they are having an argument of what word to emphisize…. It boogles my mind. Imagine the fit Wells would have today with texting and emailing that people do today.
“Now what is it you want? In the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?” Brilliant.
That was a laugh-out-loud moment.
This post has been tweeted 15 times.
When I look at those who have tweeted it, I assume that they did so based on *NOTHING* but the title.
Which makes me wonder if they are the types of folks who tweet stuff without reading it, surely those who follow them realize this and don’t bother checking the articles they link to.
Anyway, now I’m wondering exactly how many folks may have stumbled across this post and listened to Orson Welles discuss line reading based on the recommendation of one of those 15 folks.