There’s an AP article at Yahoo News talking about one of those fun facts I’ve always known…that Orson Welles’ last performance wasn’t particularly dignified…it was Transformers: The Movie. He was good as the planetary Unicron, but as he said, he was playing a toy.
But if we’re talking about the indignities of Orson Welles, I’d be lax if I didn’t point to this infamous video:
“What is it you want? In [the] depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?”
Classic.
It naturally has to be paired with this clip, one of my favorites from The Critic:
On a slightly more positive note, Citizen Kane was named by the AFI’s critics survey as the greatest film of all-time…again. I freely admit that in my mind I associate him equally with Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, and…Transformers (to say nothing about his various commercials). But I like to think I’m laughing with him, not at him. He took those roles to bankroll his personal projects…he had to know the absurdity of it all.