Most Christian Bale fans won’t know the name Orson Welles. So please allow us to contrast the two:
Welles was called The Boy Genius. Bale isn’t.
Welles was an Academy Award-winning actor, director, writer and producer. Bale isn’t.
Welles wrote, produced, directed and starred in Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. Bale played Batman.
Welles also had a magnificent voice. In the later years of his life, he was paid obscene amounts of money to use that voice in commercials. The attached audio track is famous. It’s made up of out-takes from a London recording session in which Welles picks some unfortunate English ad agency people to pieces. But unlike Bale, he does it without losing his dignity.
Orson Welles is dead and Christian Bale is alive. Definite proof that life isn’t fair.
Please see our previous story today called Christian Bale is a stinkin’ #%&*@ to hear Bale’s audio. Contrast the two.
