People on Youtube laugh a lot at this clip, but what I noticed is that Orson is on the 102nd set up according to the slate (scene 102 take 3). Clearly they must have muscled through a lot of commercials in one day and probably a sip of wine for each take… we’re talking hundreds of sips. What’s amazing is that Orson is still coherent at all and that he still sounds so wonderful and musical. He even slips in a little Irish brogue in a la Lady from Shanghai. What he had to do for money. I guess it could be worse.
Orson Welles once said that he spent about ninety nine percent of his time in search of money and one percent actually making films. He said, it was a terrible way to spend a life and he should have stayed in the theater where it was easier to put on a show. But after getting to play with the world’s greatest toy train set, how could he go back? Saying I should’ve stayed in the theater is like saying I never should have married that girl. What good does it do? I loved her, I love her still…..but she ruined my life. What kind of a life is it, always chasing money?
Orson figures pretty heavily (no pun intended) in the Moby Dick Animations. Here are some note drawings on what I’m going to animate in the first part of the week.
