ArnoldF for Fake, P for Pretentious or Orson Welles ages like a badger
As I was watching F for Fake last night (an absolutely brilliant film) we began discussing how he was pretty much universally panned throughout the later parts of his career, but he remained as innovative and brilliant as he was from the beginning. the virtuosic editing in F for Fake is still unparalleled. But what we really began discussing, and my subject here, is his commercials. He did those awful Paul Mason commercials and then began doing commercials for peas (just before he was the voice of the evil planet on the Transformers Movie the year he died). But I found an audio file of him bashing the writers during one of these commercials and couldn't help but post it... and a parody from the critic, which was how we got on the subject in the first place...god bless YouTube and people with piles of spare time.
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A work of genius, ahead of its time and terminally misunderstood on release.
Loved the footage, shame he was reduced to such menial tasks.