Orson Welles and Transformers

Transformer animation movie DVD cover

With the upcoming release of the live action movie in theatres, this has made me interested in finding out more information about this animation in general, especially with regards to the original classical Transformer movie way back in 1985.




Orson Welles in 1937
Picture Source: Wikipedia

Interestingly, is the fact that one of the voice actors is the famous Orson Welles that had made the movie Citizen Kane which was touched on in my EL3880B module and which I had written on about in my essay. The fact is that Orson Welles had been much limited in his ability to create films due to the curfew that had been imposed on him by the Hollywood people, and that he had to resort to other professions such as providing voice for animation, commercials, etc in order to finance his own films. Incidentally, the voice over that Orson Welles provided for the main villain Unicron in the classical Transformers movies was his very last film role in Hollywood.


Unicron in Robot mode

With regard to the live action film, it had yet to be seen. Personally, I feel that the original films would always be the most pure form and hence the best as it had not been adapted or modified in any aspects into other medium. Adaptations could signify a divergence or a creation of an entire new content separated from the original work itself.