The more I learn about Orson Welles, the more awesome a person I realize he was.

His voice was amazing.

My favorite interviewed man ever.

This is astonishing, and inspiring...how I wish there were someone I could vote for today that thought and spoke like this man.

What an amazing commentary, not only for its relevance today (which is a sad commentary of our times) but also because he was saying this at a time when authorities and bureaucrats had so much power over the voiceless during that time. Remember, this was at the HEIGHT of McCarthyism -- Welles risked his career and livelihood by just saying anything even remotely deemed sympathetic to communism, which in those days would be just being pro-Civil Rights. I already loved Welles but seeing this for the first time my respect for him have grown 10 fold. What a remarkable man. God bless Orson Welles.

It's almost scary how relevant all this still is.

@karimtabrizi376

6 жыл бұрын

yes

@EklectikaAaynne

4 жыл бұрын

Even more so today!!!!

@totheknee

3 жыл бұрын

Not according to the right wing in the US. They think that we need _more_ police harassment, not less.

@pmu615

3 жыл бұрын

@@totheknee not more police harassment but police protection from criminals. It's interesting how leftists are constantly purposely misrepresenting the actual views of conservatives. It's almost as if demonizing conservatives by accusing them of being for despicable things-thereby assuring people vote for their politicians based solely on their utter disdain for the other side-is easier for them than convincing people that their terrible policies and ideas are better for the country.

@danielrae861

Жыл бұрын

Almost you say. It's been 8 years since you commented but 8 years is a blink of the eye in terms of police brutality - I had to respond to your naivety despite the time gap

so very prophetic, I wonder if he could have imagined how "watched" we have become (and will become).

@aperipatetic2827

2 жыл бұрын

Here kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6aTo5iOerXFZKQ.html

The unnamed country seems to be Spain, back then a militar dictatorship. The drawings are very fitting with that era's Guardia Civil attire, particularly the tricorne.

@davidhull1481

3 жыл бұрын

I think you’re right

@Johnconno

Жыл бұрын

California?

More timely than ever....... Sadly, contrary to what we would like to believe, he will still be persecuted today, in one way or the other.... for his total honesty and bravery as the most unflinching and sacrificed artist of our time.

@AnnaLVajda

3 жыл бұрын

He drank that is probably enough to persecute him though perfectly legal and I don't know he had a violent temper or anything. Personally it would not bother me I would probably gravitate to him at a party and try his French wine and listen to his stories with absolute delight.

Even so many years ago, his words are all the more relevant today

I'm so glad these recordings still existed in the time of being available for BBC Four to screen then in the 21st Century. They could have easily fallen into the "Missing presumed wiped" category if they had been recorded to VT! Such a relief this wasn't the case. This episode in particular is still so relevant to today in 2023, since their recording in 1955, nothing much else has changed for the better.

Brilliant stuff - I've always really like Orson Welles - his movies contain the same kind of profound messages. He was so different from the rest. I really dug his analogy about a bureaucrat being like a blackmailer - "you can never pay him off, you see ..." he said. His reference to "red-tapism" and "the coppers" was very amusing. We are mistaken to believe we've come a long way - we have actually digressed; not progressed, regarding the amount of liberties we've lost since he made this video.

@Sev826

4 жыл бұрын

I think you mean regressed. But I digress.

The same irritants which plague us tends to increase in successive generations. Nothing changes and only grows greater as a nuisance.

"Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground " - Orson Welles, 1955 Wow, prophetic

Well he says the name of a theatre in the country he was visiting, the alla scalla, to the police. That is in milan so we know that said country was Italy.

Brilliant video, thank you for the upload

Brilliant! What an amazing mind. He would have been a hell of a president.

@kraken138

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but his episodes with women could make Trump and Martin Luther King blush. He was x-rating 3-4 women a day for large portions of his life.

@billharris1847

3 жыл бұрын

@@kraken138 Everything I read says he was only in consensual relationships unlike a Clinton, Kennedy etc

@kraken138

3 жыл бұрын

@@billharris1847 Yeah, but I was referring to the countless infidelities and giving people VD's

@billharris1847

3 жыл бұрын

@@kraken138 How do you know that

@kraken138

3 жыл бұрын

@@billharris1847 I'm a big fan and have read the biographies and listened to interviews. Also...in this interview, she mentions getting, "The Clap," from Orson. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpiaqayIkbi2nNo.html

Love the camera work. Vloggers pay attention!

I have, as a general rule, always carried a copy of the Constitution and 'Common Sense' with me wherever I go. The same but different.

Just found your channel. Love Mr Welles. Subscribed

Way ahead of his time.

Very well said so long ago .

Thank you so much for uploading!!

he was a legend ✨

@RDFspaniard

Жыл бұрын

Is*

Thanks for airing this

Wonder what he'd have to say about the Jacob Blake case happening now in his hometown of Kenosha.

I wouldve loved to hear his opinion about Seattle this year

@QuadMochaMatti

8 ай бұрын

That it was no longer nothing like this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4aC0sOYprfQgrA.htmlsi=j5da33uTW7XBgZpN

All the eyes upon us are human yet different

Sounds like Orson was already creating Hank Quinlan in his mind during this talk

@rhettpeter83

3 жыл бұрын

that's interesting. To me I relate it strongly with his adaptation of The Trial, and Josef K. With what he says about bureaucrats especially.

We who believe in freedom of speech, thought, and expression, are under attack from those who would banish all speech, thought, and expression, contrary to their own.

Relevant

Haha. Atom bomb. Orson welles trolling like a sir

Where do I join? :o)

Well said orson

The homie was really saying defund the police before it was cool

The film "made in four different countries" is probably Othello (1952)

@ifandwhen-kl2cr

11 күн бұрын

+1

Ten years ago coming back to my country of orgin, the USA, I put down my address on a immigration card as 1600 Pensilvanya Avenue and was detained by immigration for 1 hour for this. Pathetic.

@teodelfuego

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Nicholas was it for crimes against spelling?

@nancyvalle2807

4 жыл бұрын

maybe because your spelling of that famous avenue was so ..ignorant.. of "your own" address.

@archangelang4772

3 жыл бұрын

@Hank3four bruh

Nietzsche called this Super Human Über Mensch incomprehensible for Normals

Really appreciate what he did in bringing that racist cop to justice. As to the practical joke he was doing in Russia I was thinking of the same wonderful approach usually done by Gabriel Iglesias aka Fluffy.

41,000 views and less than 1,000 likes?

Ta-Nehisi Coates brought me here

@Vingul

4 жыл бұрын

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a race grifter and a despicable person.

@aliofly

4 жыл бұрын

Vingul and you’re clearly a mug

@Vingul

4 жыл бұрын

@@aliofly no.

@davidhull1481

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul troll

@therexbellator

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul "Race grifter" is just racist code for "I don't like this person of color because they say things that make me uncomfortable."

7:55

AHAHA dude was funny as fuck! "WHY im not an anarchist (hehe im really an anarchist!)"

little did he know how bad it is now.

This isn't The Garden of Eden

After viewing this, I wonder what year the NAACP came into being.

@mariadt63

Жыл бұрын

1909

Espana un pais incredible

1909. Google the name Dr W.E.B. Dubois.

@kraken138

7 жыл бұрын

The "golden 10 percent,?"

"That policeman was the exception" how unfortunate that that exception has become the majority.

Intolerable nuisance....

Orson Welles: Enemy of the State.

@steverhodesvideos6244

3 жыл бұрын

He expands on this theme in The Trial (1962): dai.ly/x6mofjm

We’ve gone from no passports to vaccine passports.

@hetmanjz

Жыл бұрын

Oh dear, preserving public health is such an inconvenience.

Bet he just loved his visits to Israel. "What were your great-grandfather's political views? Are you sympathetic to people robbed of their human rights?"

I think Welles would have made a good VP for Trump. What a ticket that would have been

@spactick

8 ай бұрын

@@QuadMochaMatti That's really unfair to call Welles a Nazi. He deserves better than that QuadMocha etc;

Orson my dear, it's their country. If you wanna enter 'their' country it's only reasonable to answer a few general questions as to who you are and why you want to enter 'their' country. Remember Orson sweetie, it's not your 'right' to enter anyone else's country if they don't want you in there

@jonathanbirch2022

Жыл бұрын

Your country was stolen from other people I-d-i-o-t

@jonathanbirch2022

Жыл бұрын

Countries and borders are for small-minded people

7 communists...

@davidhull1481

3 жыл бұрын

Walk in to a bar?