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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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. ua-cam.com/video/TdfGJOaUPlw/v-deo.html
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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
The more I learn about Orson Welles, the more awesome a person I realize he was.
My favorite interviewed man ever.
His voice was amazing.
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.
This is astonishing, and inspiring...how I wish there were someone I could vote for today that thought and spoke like this man.
It's almost scary how relevant all this still is.
yes
Even more so today!!!!
Not according to the right wing in the US. They think that we need _more_ police harassment, not less.
@@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.
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).
Here ua-cam.com/video/ar_A6UJR_4A/v-deo.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.
I think you’re right
California?
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.
I think you mean regressed. But I digress.
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.
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.
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
The same irritants which plague us tends to increase in successive generations. Nothing changes and only grows greater as a nuisance.
Brilliant video, thank you for the upload
"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! What an amazing mind. He would have been a hell of a president.
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.
@@kraken138
Everything I read says he was only in consensual relationships unlike a Clinton, Kennedy etc
@@billharris1847 Yeah, but I was referring to the countless infidelities and giving people VD's
@@kraken138
How do you know that
@@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. ua-cam.com/video/TdfGJOaUPlw/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for uploading!!
The police's job is to protect the freedom of the individual, not to chase criminals thats an incidental part of his job. Pure truth
Love the camera work. Vloggers pay attention!
Wonder what he'd have to say about the Jacob Blake case happening now in his hometown of Kenosha.
Very well said so long ago .
Thanks for airing this
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
I wouldve loved to hear his opinion about Seattle this year
That it was no longer nothing like this: ua-cam.com/video/mRNpa_vTjRM/v-deo.htmlsi=j5da33uTW7XBgZpN
All the eyes upon us are human yet
different
he was a legend ✨
Is*
Way ahead of his time.
Sounds like Orson was already creating Hank Quinlan in his mind during this talk
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.
The film "made in four different countries" is probably Othello (1952)
+1
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.
Well said orson
The homie was really saying defund the police before it was cool
Haha. Atom bomb. Orson welles trolling like a sir
Nietzsche called this
Super Human
Über Mensch
incomprehensible for Normals
Relevant
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.
Joseph Nicholas was it for crimes against spelling?
maybe because your spelling of that famous avenue was so ..ignorant.. of "your own" address.
@Hank3four bruh
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
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a race grifter and a despicable person.
Vingul and you’re clearly a mug
@@aliofly no.
@@Vingul troll
@@Vingul "Race grifter" is just racist code for "I don't like this person of color because they say things that make me uncomfortable."
AHAHA dude was funny as fuck! "WHY im not an anarchist (hehe im really an anarchist!)"
7:55
Orson Welles is God.
This isn't The Garden of Eden
After viewing this, I wonder what year the NAACP came into being.
1909
1909. Google the name Dr W.E.B. Dubois.
The "golden 10 percent,?"
"That policeman was the exception" how unfortunate that that exception has become the majority.
Espana un pais incredible
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?"
Orson Welles: Enemy of the State.
He expands on this theme in The Trial (1962): dai.ly/x6mofjm
Intolerable nuisance....
We’ve gone from no passports to vaccine passports.
Oh dear, preserving public health is such an inconvenience.
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
I think Welles would have made a good VP for Trump. What a ticket that would have been
@@ModMokkaMatti That's really unfair to call Welles a Nazi. He deserves better than that QuadMocha etc;
7 communists...
Walk in to a bar?