"You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen."
MWAHHHH the Cybertronians
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Brody Sanchez
We must remember that Orson was old at this point. He'd long sinced burned himself out, had a history of minor prima donna'ing, and was literally doing a kid's cartoon he knew exactly fuck all about.
He was a real version of what normies think about Alec Guiness and Star Wars.
Caleb Jenkins
>literally gives no shits about who you're playing
>old, half-dead and tired
>still give what is easily one of the best voice performances in animated history
How more based can you get?
Hudson Hill
That's just it, though- despite being old and burnt out, his Unicron is still regarded as the character's absolute peak.
If there one person in Transformers who left a legacy that stands the test of time, it's quite honestly an old, half-dead Orson Wells.
Brandon Young
I always liked his "They cast me as a planet as a fat joke" crack.
Jayden Butler
Orson Welles was prick but it's not an unusual opinion to have on a toy cartoon you don't care about. It's more interesting that he didn't phone it in than that he hated it
Lincoln Sanchez
There was a bonus clip on one of the Australian DVD sets for the movie, where voice director Wally Burr related how nerve-wracking at first it was to work with a legend-- and ego-- as big as Orson. The stress vanished when he attempted to check if Welles had even read the script, so Wally Burr started reading some of Galvatron's lines at him.
>"You're line reading me," Welles snarled
Line reading being "you say THIS line THIS way exactly like THIS".
Burr, though nervous, realized this was his moment.
>"N-no, sir. I'm reading Mr Nimoy's lines."
Wells glanced down at the script, scanned it for a moment.
>"Ah. So you are."
And like that, all the tenseness evaporated.
Daniel Howard
I swear you make one greatest movie of all time and suddenly you're too good for everything. It's no small wonder he got stuck voicing toy robots and peaness.
Also Citizen Kane wasn't that good.
Camden Cooper
Alexander Rogers
peak shit taste, robocuck
Tyler Lee
It's a pile of self aggrandizing back patting self indulgent garbage.
Henry Morgan
>drunk Unicron
Brandon Williams
>Gets paid to do voice of giant robot for toy commercial.
>Knows full well what he signed on for and at this point he was so rich that "I was young and needed the money" doesn't cut it.
>Whines about it later.
Seems kind of unprofessional.
Asher Rodriguez
Big actors are always unprofessional. Apparently "ARTISTS" get it into their head that they don't have to do their jobs.
Caleb Mitchell
You haven't actually seen it, have you?
Logan Watson
It seems to be an unwritten rule in showbiz that if you do a role that is considered “low” or unglamorous, you have to feel ashamed of it later on or otherwise not feel anything positive from it.
Alexander Cooper
Unless you're Michael Caine on Jaws 3
Evan Walker
In a US release, an interview with the movie's director said Welles was in incredibly poor health when he did his lines, he had to be wheeled in through a wheelchair because he'd gotten too heavy to move on his own and his recordings were so bad they had to be modified just to be audible.
Nathaniel Morales
Yes, I've seen it. Every douche bag film school upstart has seen it.
William Butler
At least you're honest about yourself.
James Kelly
Mr. Arkadin was better
Aaron Robinson
Hell yeah it was.
Ian Taylor
Who'd be a great voice for any future Unicron in your opinion?
John Noble was alright, and I'm a big fan of David Kaye (yes~), but I'm sure there's another beratone VA that could bring forth his immense threatening godhood presence.
Robert Diaz
Keith David
Christopher Johnson
I use to have some old Sherlock Holmes radio dramas where Welles played Moriarty, just had a look at at least one is on youtube. great stuff
Elijah Clark
SEETHING
Eli Hernandez
>Orson Welles
>rich
I've been waiting years to have an opportunity to ask this, would you teach me the art of speaking from my ass?
Xavier Miller
Or based Frank Langella on Masters of the Universe, or Alan Rickman.
Grayson Evans
That... that might actually work. It'd be a bit of a stretch but I think he could pull it off.
Lucas Ramirez
What's James Earl Jones doing these days?
Alexander Diaz
>I swear you make one greatest movie of all time and suddenly you're too good for everything.
You also get grotesquely obese, apparently (for further research, SEE: Marlon Brando).
Evan Sullivan
california wine tho
Jose Garcia
It's kind of impossible to understand what Welles was like back in the day. The man was SYNONYMOUS with radio and radio was the dominant medium for entertainment. He was a massive star on the screen and an even bigger theater star. There's really nothing you could compare that to.
Welles was like if the Beatles, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, the cast of the Big Bang Theory and PewDiePie were one person firing on all cylinders at once.
Noah Wilson
Yeah, but I imagine that had died down a bit around 1985.
Ethan Lee
It's the best movie ever made by a 25 year old
Xavier Morales
Alec Guiness didn't hate Star Wars?
Carson Fisher
he thought it was all a bit rubbish while they were filming it, but he said after attending a screening of the finished product with the music and space battles and what not in, that it had all come together very nicely and turned out rather well.
plus he obviously saw something in it as he negotiated a percentage of gross into his contract and made a mint from it
Elijah Adams
Jim Cummings, Tim Curry, Clancy Brown, Corey Burton, Scott McNeil, Neil Kaplan, maybe even Frank Welker
Lincoln Moore
The man was a Shakespearean actor with a long and varied career under his belt. His preferred version of sci-fi wasn't space opera but things like "The Man in the White Coat".
He took the part of Obi-Wan because money was money, and because Lucas was busy being such an mopey cunt over not getting to make his Flash Gordon during the making of IV he managed to negotiate yet more money out of him.
Guy went through the effort of character acting by having him and Mark roll in the sand to dirty their clothes up, and even when he was basically phoning it in, he still made the role his own.
To him, the film was just that- a film, albeit a well-made one after he'd seen it.
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Eli Clark
>To him, the film was just that- a film, albeit a well-made one after he'd seen it.
this desu, the films you can really tell Guinness enjoyed doing were things like Kind Hearts and Coronets, where he played 8 different characters
Christian Peterson
at the same time?
Jaxson Foster
Buddy, he was being downright diplomatic compared to his baseline
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Nathan Young
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Christopher Torres
He was also based
David Sanchez
We're talking about a man who rather than hail taxis would just call ambulances since they could get him to his destination faster.
Alexander Jones
>being so good at your craft you can half ass it and still ace it
There goes that green eyed monster again
Brayden Wood
Citizen Kane is the Super Mario Bros 1 of film, it's revolutionary in that it had what's now basic competence and that's about it
Henry Hill
>at this point he was so rich
He wasn't. But he had expensive 'movie star' habits
Thats why he did all the commercials and stuff.
Nicholas Watson
>Tim Curry
Ummm user I hate to break it to you but Tim Curry is off the menu for VA work.
Nicholas Bailey
*suit. The man in the white suit.
Liam Smith
No, that’s just my list of who could pull it off.
True however
Orson Welles was literally on his last legs when he did Unicron. I could see with the right effects Curry still being able to do it.
Hudson Barnes
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