Classic TV Shows they shouldn't or couldn't remake now?
Oct 8, 2018 19:56:51 GMT
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Post by telegonus on Oct 8, 2018 19:56:51 GMT
Yes, Amy, and as to recreating the look of old films and earlier times I agree, naturalism wouldn't work, and not just in set design. Last night I watched an entertaining, stylish Peter Gunn, in which, for a short period, a "house of horrors" was featured, and I have no doubt that no such place ever existed that looked like that outside of a movie studio, which, of course, is one of the many reasons it worked so well (odd that earlier a Twilight Zone hour long set in a wax museum was broadcast on the same channel).
Actors and writers are very different sorts today as well, as you mentioned. There simply aren't the kinds of writers today that existed back fifty or more years ago. Also, as to naturalism, today's film school writing is over-naturalized (sic), which makes nearly all the characters in a TV show or movie much under the age of fifty talk like frat house boys, if male, or empowered young professional women. So many lines are delivered "shock jock" style, in yer face, as to make them unbelievable.
Nor is there a place these days for such gifted, stylized performers like Walter Burke, Ken Lynch, Harry Townes, James Griffth or Ted De Corsia, much less women,--forget the Marilyns and Kims--of the Ellen Corby kind, or Irene Tedrow, the wonderfully (self-) named Minerva Urecal, Bette Garde, Virginia Vincent or Jeanette Nolan. Or am I expecting too much? There's a sameness to the naturalistic, seemingly, to my eyes and ears anyway, peer pressured players of our time. It's like they have to act that way or else their fellow actors would point their fingers at them and shout out "phony! phony! phony!",
Actors and writers are very different sorts today as well, as you mentioned. There simply aren't the kinds of writers today that existed back fifty or more years ago. Also, as to naturalism, today's film school writing is over-naturalized (sic), which makes nearly all the characters in a TV show or movie much under the age of fifty talk like frat house boys, if male, or empowered young professional women. So many lines are delivered "shock jock" style, in yer face, as to make them unbelievable.
Nor is there a place these days for such gifted, stylized performers like Walter Burke, Ken Lynch, Harry Townes, James Griffth or Ted De Corsia, much less women,--forget the Marilyns and Kims--of the Ellen Corby kind, or Irene Tedrow, the wonderfully (self-) named Minerva Urecal, Bette Garde, Virginia Vincent or Jeanette Nolan. Or am I expecting too much? There's a sameness to the naturalistic, seemingly, to my eyes and ears anyway, peer pressured players of our time. It's like they have to act that way or else their fellow actors would point their fingers at them and shout out "phony! phony! phony!",