Who will be the adenoidal adolescent they choose to intone that banal dirge, Imagine, for the ball drop this year, I wonder.
That's a lie. I don't wonder. I don't care. I just needed to put up the Mopheads post I said I would. I didn't want to dishonor the Bronzeville writer, producer, director, cast, etc. by responding to Simps on it. He's going really off, now he's arguing that the sets for The Twilight Zone were like those of MGM extravaganzas because they produced Gone With The Wind a quarter century before Rod Serling did his TV series with their often minimalistic sets and small casts, proving less can be much more, something he said he learned as a writer, producer, director and sometimes actor in radio dramas in the 40s and 50s. He brought up King Kong, too. Simps must have gone to one of those schools where they didn't teach children how to tell time, depending on them eventually finding the motivation to teach themselves. He never had that much curiosity and doesn't understand the difference between the 1930s and movies and the 1960s and TV.
"he's arguing that the sets for The Twilight Zone were like those of MGM extravaganzas:
ReplyDeleteNot "like," you simple ignoramus. The exact same ones.
I went back and looked at some of the pictures from those extravaganzas and from The Twilight Zone. Anyone who would contend that they used the same sets as a way to counter the observation that Rod Serling faced extremely low budgets for the episodes of TTZ has to either be as casual a liar about obvious things as Trump or as demented as Trump.
DeleteI also went to see what they said online about the budget restraints that Serling faced in doing his TV shows and just about everything that talks about the series notes that the series was done on a shoestring budget, often having to restrict sets (which led some to note the creative camera use to compensate).
Simps, I know it's boring at Duncan's Confab of Conventional Consensus but if you want to come here to try to kick up something to exercise what's left of your wittwe wits don't say such stupid stuff.
Imagine no John Lennon. . . Literally, imagine it, it might lead to something.