Hilarious drunken outtakes aside, the premise of this commercial is funny too. This champagne isn't french, but a hundred years ago, a guy was. And it's got a date on it. What more could you want?
It’s fermented in the bottle like all champagne and it has a date on it like all beverages of any kind and like the best champagne it has a legally permissible amount of rat piss in it.
The fact that they were able to salvage the original footage and create a perfectly acceptable commercial out of it is nothing short of editing genius.
I think they maybe just went with an earlier take before he had a few too many or they had him do a voice over later. Notice how it's just "inspired by" and it's not actually from the region of champagne in France just the guy on the label was?
Well, it's clear that a lot of Welles' monlogue was done in post. It's played over the clips of him sitting there talking to the couple about champagne, but you're just watching his lips move while a later-recorded monologue was played over the top.
There were dozens of takes, that's why he's drunk in the takes everyone shares on UA-cam. For some reason they kept having him do new takes after they'd gotten what they needed.
They got Orson to come back later and re-do all of his audio lines .Then they spent as much time as possible in close-up shots of things not Orson. When you see him on camera he is being dubbed by later audio which is why his lips don't quite match up.
fun fact: Orson Welles wasn't actually drunk for the outtakes. Due to scheduling conflicts, he had two commercials practically back to back- While traveling between the two shoots, someone gave him a sleeping pill so he could crash and get some rest- but the effects obviously did not wear off. He tried doing it still tranquilized, resulting in the outtakes. Then he took a four hour nap, and wrapped the commercial in an hour
Yes, Orson went back and recorded new audio which they dubbed over the original footage. Notice how the commercial almost seems to go out of its way to show as little of Orson on camera as possible?
A little while after this ad campaign, there was a competitor called Keller-Geister who made their commercials in the form of a Paul Masson parody. The "Orson Welles" actor was even more rotund than the original, and the slogan was, "We will sell no wine... before you pay for it." Edit: I found another commercial for this company but not the one I was talking about. Still in the same cheeky style.
If you look for "Keller-Geister wine ad" it's the second result, and it's really good. It parodies a number of different popular wine brands / ads of the 1980s, apparently.
Art Vandalay Wait, so it was Joey Wheeler in disguise as Orson Welles who was drunkily screwing up? That makes waaaaay more sense now... O_O It’s funny because it’s canon for his character...
Hahaha😅 they had to do a voice over at the beginning. I think they also might of sped up the tape of his voice to make it seem like he’s talking faster at the end. aaaaaaaaaaahh the French champagne.
Seeing this after seeing the outtakes makes me realize the limited perspective of industry awards. Like if you're awarding a product on its editing, but you only award the final product, you're missing at least half the story. I don't know what won the Clio in editing in 1981, but whoever created _this,_ from... *_that,_* definitely put in the greater effort.
Say what you want about Orson he had the very popular WW2 pinup girl and actress Rita Hayworth as his wife and baby mama and Citizen Can will always be remembered as a classic "rosebud" and all that jazz. He liked to drink but many do.
True, but Orson drank far, far more than most. A whole bottle of scotch every single night whilst making Kane? Just doing that once would kill most people.
The looping (ADR) in post is pretty damn good here, saving those awful drunken takes. Here’s MY question though... Is it even Orson on the looping? Because the great Paul Frees-the king of Hollywood ADR for two decades was ALSO a dead-on Welles vocal impersonator. Listen to his Welles take on the voiceover for the first season episodes of the “I Dream Of Jeannie” opening here on UA-cam. There’s no way they got a decent vocal THAT DAY, and I doubt if the great Welles was up to drying out and returning another day to complete this.
As a little kid I never appreciated how everything around this is so funny. "didn't come from France, but made by a man who did." And it's *dated* with a year and everything, just like *French* wine! Throw in one of the best actors of all time. Hilarious.
I still think the drunk version would have sold more champagne.
Gotta show people your product is legit.
Exactly! Those were brilliant. This: bland and not befitting the great man.
Aaaaaaaaaaah! The french........................cham....pange!
Muahaaaaaaaaaa the French champange
Its still the drunk version, but with a voiceover😂😂
The editor who had to edit several takes of a drunk Orson Wells into a coherent advertisement deserves an oscar
Dude I love king crimson, best band of all time! Just went to their 2017 radical action concert in Oakland!!!
Technically he would deserve a Clio
Orson re-did his lines later in a studio when he was not drunk. That is why it looks like a kung-fu movie when you can actually see his lips.
This is basically just another day in the ad biz.
Emmy, too--they give awards for commercials in special circumstances.
BWAAAAAAAH the Fffffrench...
muaaaaaaaaah the frensh shampane
thereISacaLIFOOOrniashampayne by Paul Mass On... inspIREd... bythtsamexcellence...
Itsferementedinthebottle
That’s me most Saturdays. Only I’m not as eloquent.
Zip it logan!
Hilarious drunken outtakes aside, the premise of this commercial is funny too. This champagne isn't french, but a hundred years ago, a guy was. And it's got a date on it. What more could you want?
Lmao
At least they're honest lol
“It’s the alcohol, stupid!”
It was the 70s and we were way more naive. You'd think it would have sucked but I'm here to testify that ignorance truly is bliss.
It’s fermented in the bottle like all champagne and it has a date on it like all beverages of any kind and like the best champagne it has a legally permissible amount of rat piss in it.
The fact that they were able to salvage the original footage and create a perfectly acceptable commercial out of it is nothing short of editing genius.
LMAO no truer words
I think they maybe just went with an earlier take before he had a few too many or they had him do a voice over later. Notice how it's just "inspired by" and it's not actually from the region of champagne in France just the guy on the label was?
@@AnnaLVajda supposedly he went to take a nap and then nailed the commercial afterwards.
Well, it's clear that a lot of Welles' monlogue was done in post. It's played over the clips of him sitting there talking to the couple about champagne, but you're just watching his lips move while a later-recorded monologue was played over the top.
There were dozens of takes, that's why he's drunk in the takes everyone shares on UA-cam. For some reason they kept having him do new takes after they'd gotten what they needed.
How the hell did they turn "WOAAAAHH THE FRENCHSHSHCSHSHAMPAGNE" into this?
Close up shots and a voiceover can work miracles in the edit.
I think they postponed the commercial until he was sober.
Editing. This is how reality TV works.
They got Orson to come back later and re-do all of his audio lines .Then they spent as much time as possible in close-up shots of things not Orson. When you see him on camera he is being dubbed by later audio which is why his lips don't quite match up.
Orson redid his lines somewhat sober and they added the audio to cover the best parts of his slurring.
"Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time."
*pause*
"It's time!" *chugs*
Johnny Carson 👍🏻
That tickled my funny bone.
Mwuaahaaaa
So THAT'S how the original footage was made.
I'm so sad they didn't include the "Maaah!" line.
MUAAAAAAAH
Yo también. Era lo mejor.
mwahaaaaaa the french
+[heat-mon] HASALYWAYSBEENCELEBRATED...
@@themega10046 FORISSSEXCELLENCE . . .
@@dest-esq4822 therISaCALIfORnia... champagne...
fun fact: Orson Welles wasn't actually drunk for the outtakes. Due to scheduling conflicts, he had two commercials practically back to back- While traveling between the two shoots, someone gave him a sleeping pill so he could crash and get some rest- but the effects obviously did not wear off. He tried doing it still tranquilized, resulting in the outtakes. Then he took a four hour nap, and wrapped the commercial in an hour
I never thought it was cos he was drunk, I just figured he didn't give a shit.
Yeah, that was probably HIS explanation...
@@gmann6269 you calling Orson Welles a liar?
@@gmann6269director confirmed this story
source?
Best editing since the original Star Wars.
which coincidentally Orson Welles was almost in
Thanks
HUUUUUAAAAWRGH THE FRENCH
Having seen the outtakes first, I did not expect this commercial to be this coherent.
It's wholesome to see Unicron enjoy a glass of champagne.
If you read his lips you can see he's clearly slurring still, ten bucks says he re-recorded it and they dubed it over
Yes, Orson went back and recorded new audio which they dubbed over the original footage. Notice how the commercial almost seems to go out of its way to show as little of Orson on camera as possible?
@@harizotoh7 the magic of technology
"And if you're to devour a planet full of robots, what's better than with a glass of French champagne?"
Let's have a round of applause for the extras standing next to Orson for holding it together 😂
My goal is to someday somehow organically inject this ad verbatim into a conversation
Do the drunken outtake version, including the _"Auuuuuuhh"_
They all did a good job with whatever they had to get this commercial out. It's probably more impressive considering how funny the outtakes are.
Ah the french champagne, full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
Give that editor a rise...he is the one who is celebrated for his excellence!
A little while after this ad campaign, there was a competitor called Keller-Geister who made their commercials in the form of a Paul Masson parody. The "Orson Welles" actor was even more rotund than the original, and the slogan was, "We will sell no wine... before you pay for it."
Edit: I found another commercial for this company but not the one I was talking about. Still in the same cheeky style.
If you look for "Keller-Geister wine ad" it's the second result, and it's really good. It parodies a number of different popular wine brands / ads of the 1980s, apparently.
Honestly, this guy's voice is the most soothing thing
MWAAAAAHH THE FRench…. Champagne
This is all ADR, haha.
its so great lmao
Is it a good idea to microwave California champagne
You can tell his original speech was dubbed over because of how absolutely rockin’ drunk he was.
This is a testament to how important good directing and good editing is.
It's a testament to tapping a 🐐 Legend to appear in the first place. We need a little Orson now, right this very minute.
mmMMWAAAAAHAH the french... something..
MAHAHAHA the French. It’s vintage dated.
And the Emmy for best editing goes to...
*Clio
"And now under protest, Paul Masson."
I find it more impressive than Citizen Kane that they came up with this from the outtakes
We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire where Mrs. Buckley lives. Every July, peas grow there.
Do you really mean that, 'Every July?'
artistwithouttalent There's too much directing going on here.
jadedmastermind Who the hell are you anyway?
jadedmastermind I've spent twelve times as much for you people as any other.
+jadedmastermind "Cut! That's the wrong commercial Orson!"
It ended up being a good ad! I’d buy that for a dollar.
Don't forget Mrs. Pelles' Fish Sticks and Rosebud Frozen Peas.
I love how they just gave up on using the on-set audio and dubbed him.
maaahaaaa.... the frensshhh.... champagne....
"Gee Brain, what are we gonna do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night Pinky. Get shit faced on Paul Masson's Champagne!"
This feels like something you would see on NBC during a morning show while you eat breakfast with the family.
Someone should make an edit with the original takes dubbed over the commercial.
The problem is the music.
Say no more.
ua-cam.com/video/XyYIyj7B4Bk/v-deo.html
Thanks for this! Had only seen the classic, notorious outtakes before. Interesting to see the finished product.
I wonder if the video/voice was sped up a bit for the final commercial. He sounds far more awake here than in the outtakes.
I believe he dubbed himself a few days after they wrapped filming the commercial; you can still see how unsteady he is in the final shot of him.
Yes it was ADR'ed in a studio at a later date when he was not hammered.
NYYYEAHHHH the frenshhhh
Art Vandalay Wait, so it was Joey Wheeler in disguise as Orson Welles who was drunkily screwing up?
That makes waaaaay more sense now... O_O
It’s funny because it’s canon for his character...
he was still a little tipsy during these takes
Yeah, it's painfully obvious just by watching his hand with the glass. It's shaking quite noticeably.
"Moderately priced at a dollar a jug. Now with a little magic, I'll make this jug disappear"
"Mah.....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....the french champaaaagne....." (cut)
Praise the Lord for ADR
Hahaha😅 they had to do a voice over at the beginning. I think they also might of sped up the tape of his voice to make it seem like he’s talking faster at the end. aaaaaaaaaaahh the French champagne.
Save of the century right there...
Im just picturing the editor reviewing the drunk footage, then stops and puts his head in his hands.
POV: UA-cam decided to recommend this gem of a video to you 8 years after it was uploaded
Thanks, Unicron
They did a great job with the film edit and studio recorded voice over, can't even tell he's drunk
Impressively good. All considered.
A masterpiece of editing right here.
Sparkling wine. Champagne has to come from the Champagne region
“AaaaaAAAAAaaaaHhhHh the frenshampagne”
I would buy this not only because it was advertised by Orson Welles, but more so because it was advertised by Drunk Orson Welles!
Oh my God they overdubbed his voice in the end! So amazing!
Seeing this after seeing the outtakes makes me realize the limited perspective of industry awards. Like if you're awarding a product on its editing, but you only award the final product, you're missing at least half the story. I don't know what won the Clio in editing in 1981, but whoever created _this,_ from... *_that,_* definitely put in the greater effort.
Here, under protest, is sobriety.
I'm Bonanas for finally seeing the actual final cut of this. I never thought to look it up before.
Ahhh... the french have always been celebrated....
Watching this after the out takes is hilarious. :)
You've got to wonder how many of the commercials and programs we see are papered together out of toilet fires.
Ahhhhh...my youth....has passed me by...in a drunken stupor. Seriously though, I crack up everytime I see the outtakes.
The magic of editing...
Say what you want about Orson he had the very popular WW2 pinup girl and actress Rita Hayworth as his wife and baby mama and Citizen Can will always be remembered as a classic "rosebud" and all that jazz. He liked to drink but many do.
True, but Orson drank far, far more than most. A whole bottle of scotch every single night whilst making Kane? Just doing that once would kill most people.
Huh? So this is what the commercial eventually looked like.
The looping (ADR) in post is pretty damn good here, saving those awful drunken takes.
Here’s MY question though...
Is it even Orson on the looping? Because the great Paul Frees-the king of Hollywood ADR for two decades was ALSO a dead-on Welles vocal impersonator. Listen to his Welles take on the voiceover for the first season episodes of the “I Dream Of Jeannie” opening here on UA-cam. There’s no way they got a decent vocal THAT DAY, and I doubt if the great Welles was up to drying out and returning another day to complete this.
I wonder if the execs at Paul Masson knew Welles enough to record his dialogue beforehand. LOL
"...Full of country goodness and green peaness."
incredible editing
Here’s how funny the outtakes were making this commercial!!😂😂🤣🤣
If Unicron says sell no wine before it’s time you sell no wine before it’s time!
MUUUUUAAAAAA-HHAAAAA the French
Pairs so well with frozen peas.
Paul Masson méthode champenoise - for that country goodness and green peaness.
The Citizen Kane of wine adverts.
Yes! Always!
The way they edited this makes it more convincing than war of the worlds
the power of ADR is truly amazing
What’s adr?
@@californiaslastgasp6847 Essentially doing dubbing over something, but professionally because you're making corrections and can't reshoot
It looks like the editors sped up the clips with drunk Orson Welles in shot. Hilarious!
He did it!
Oh 78 a very good year.
AAAH, THE FRENCH!
I SHALL DRINK NO WINE BEFORE ITS TIME!!!
You know, he sounds a bit like The Master in Fallout.
I like how you can tell that the footage is sped up and overdubbed, because Welles genuinely was just _that_ drunk off his ass during taping.
"For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little winery. But now, you shall witness...its *DISMEMBERMENT!*"
As a little kid I never appreciated how everything around this is so funny. "didn't come from France, but made by a man who did." And it's *dated* with a year and everything, just like *French* wine! Throw in one of the best actors of all time. Hilarious.
they shoulda done the good one!
If you play it at 0.75x speed it sounds more like the original takes
Orsons best work no doubt
Oh what luck! There's a french fry stuck in my beard.
They actually had to remove the "AHHH THE FRENCH" in the final cut 😂😂
A French tragedy.
Did they put this on high speed ?
play at 0.5 speed for unedited version.
*points to the guy holding the bottle* "Hey doesn't do anything?"
The outtakes were great
Oh, so they did get a usable commercial out of this. Im surprised.
It must have been hard. Welles is only on-screen for a few seconds.
The director made a Citizen Kane out of this add having to deal with that drunken nobody.
AHHHH, the French!
I feel like I'm not supposed to see this.
"Aaaaaah the Frenchhhh"