One thing that I think goes understated in why the original Twilight Zone still has so much appeal is the aesthetic old timey fashion and language. Seeing women in those nice dresses and hats with everyone speaking well it's just so very comfy
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Stop holding onto softcore propaganda of an era you never lived in.
I know people wouldn't have spoken as well as they did in the movies and tv but the fashions were popular
Perhaps because things being "dated" is mostly nonsense and many themes and writing that make stories compelling and interesting go beyond the shitty veil of the fluff nonsense people consider current culture?
To be fair even during the running of Big Bang Theory, the nerds were joked about for wearing "children's clothes" several times.
You're dumb as shit.
Stop supporting the destruction of a once-great nation
>america sucks now
>stop supporting its destruction!
In other places, with other people, this might seem like a contradictory statement. In other places, with other people. But we're not in those places and we aren't those people...this is...the Twilight Zone.
Men really dressed well in that era too. The infantilzation of society didnt hit full throttle until the 90s. Up until that time, if you were over 25 and wearing a T-shirt or something with a logo, people thought you were mentally challenged.
Yeah, ok.
Those are homosexuals, anon. The Village People had a sailor for a reason.
Society decided to aspire 'down' rather than up. You can hear it in the way people speak in old news vox pops footage too.
>it's not just wearing graphic tees which is bad (understandably), it's now regular tees too
Wow I love how you people love making shit up
scariest episodes are "You Drive" and "A thing about machines"
something eerie about both that give me chills to this day
most havent aged well but these two still stand out to me
>most havent aged well
You're wrong, the vast majority of the show is timeless.
no, he's right. they don't even have smartphones. dated bullshit. and being in black and white? eww!
That's unironically why something like
doesn't happen. Normies just can't take it.
They spoke like that because microphones were shitty back then, morons. Its the same reason stage actors know how to project their voices so plebs like you could hear them from the cheap seats.
It was the 60s, we had high quality condensers and magnetic tape by then. This isn't wire recordings or wax cylinders dude.
Queen of the nile is one of favourites but no one ever talks about it
That poor woman was going through hell. It wasn't a nice time for her at all.
>I'm racist and sexist and can't enjoy anything after the code era
ftfy
im not racist or sexist
Well joke's on him, because Twilight Zone is extremely liberal. Ton of episodes about Nazis bad, facism bad, and sometimes go out of their way to remind you to not be racist towards heckin' brownos.
What is the most racist Twilight Zone episode?
Probably the ones where the villains are German. There are quite a few about how evil Germans are.
Just take a quick peek at Rod Serling's Early Life section, you won't regret it
I'm not surprised in the slightest.
Based israelites always making the best television and film
how do they do it bros?
By not letting anyone else in their clubhouses.
why didn't others just make their own studios?
They do sometimes, but then they get eaten by the bigger businesses or simply die out. Whoever has the most money wins.
Pogroms in Europe flushed israelites into America at the turn of the century, just in time for them to get in on the ground floor of mass media production, including founding all five of the major film studios. Then nepotistically only hiring their own (or those they wanted to to frick) as much as possible
Most of the people who worked on the show were WW2 vets or came up in that era, of course they would hate nazis.
Yeah, the propaganda back then was nuts, plus people still trusted the media
Sounds like that would make sense, but there were also episodes that sympathized with the Japanese. But never the Germans.
>I'm racist and sexist
So is every other person that's ever lived, ever
What a complete farce we're living in right now
Calling men women was just the next logical step in the reality-denial sequence
If you think you're male, you're mistaken.
I Shot an Arrow into the Air was a great one.
But And When the Sky was Opened is even better! Scary stuff.
I wish there were more Twilight Zone threads on Cinemaphile so I can enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.
what episode is that? i love devil girls
Same. That’s Julie Newmar (’60s Catwoman) in “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville”
Try Hitchwiener's shows for some variety
ive never seen anyway of them, do they have twists?
yes. watch the alfred hitchwiener hour though, instead of the half hour episodes. they're much better.
I've always wondered what a twilight zone reboot that adopted the aesthetics of the original would be like. black and white, similar music, hollywood backlots/sets with artificial lighting in many cases, cheaper looking practical effects, etc.
it might turn out to be a disaster, but at the least it would be interesting to see an attempt if they ever bother again. or a new series that apes things shows from that era did, like tz, or hitchwiener, outer limits, etc.
genuinely wonder why no one has even bothered to attempt it, especially with executives being so lazy and creatively bankrupt. why not copy old popular thing wholesale?
Honestly I think a more likely thing to happen would be the best episodes get remade with modern effects and a more 'diverse' cast. Imagine in the eye of the beholder and the big reveal is she is a beautiful black woman!
dear god no
That could be amazing IF they had good writers, so it’d be a bad idea to try
Esp cause the few left who can turn a phrase would guaranteed do the obvious preachy what if…it is le SOCIETY that is bad??? hackery. Not to say the original show didn’t criticize society, most of the episodes of course did, but it wasn’t surface level, was generally abstracted some amount so it could apply to multiple groups (i.e. not just America bad, everyone else good, which is what passes for commentary now), and would generally be empathetic to the antagonist instead of just having them as a mustache-twirling caricatured demon
>I've always wondered what a twilight zone reboot that adopted the aesthetics of the original would be like. black and white, similar music, hollywood backlots/sets with artificial lighting in many cases, cheaper looking practical effects, etc.
No point imo, one of the biggest strengths of the Twilight Zone is that it feels like a modern series set during the 60s anyway. It's timeless and doesn't need a remake.
not really. it's very much a product of its time. I just happen to love that era.
hasn't aged as much as other shows from that same era imo
I didn't say it "aged". just that it feels like the era it was made in. it's always annoying when I see people criticize something where people use technology that existed at the time and point out that it's not like current times, as though that makes any fricking sense at all.
people will tolerate shit set in medieval times, but go back a few decades and they'll b***h about people in kairo using floppy disks or some shit and say it's "dated".
>just that it feels like the era it was made in.
feels modern to me, but that's just me
no wigger ebonics, comfy
>those handful of Season 2 episodes where CBS shot on videotape and cut the budget in half
Are they soap opera-tier?
The one with the stripper going crazy in a hospital was pretty good
I liked the Final Destination one where that woman refuses to board a plane that blows up 15 seconds later.
Loved the twilight zone, gotta get chatgpt to make a python script that shows random episodes in mpv like a marathon.
Stepford Wives came from this social etiquette being so rigid that women turned into robots. Charm schools for women that want to get "good" husbands used to be a thing.
you are so impossibly clueless it's astonishing.
TZ is rewatchable for Serling's FLAWLESS writing ofc. He turned TV into actual short story booklets. Night Gallery was more pulpy, like Hammer horror.
Watching this for entertainment is great. If you want it for a lifestyle, be prepared to wait on your wife taking 1hr+ to get ready before leaving the house. Who has the time/energy?
Yup. It's an America that's gone. Of course, Serling himself stated openly that his aim was to subvert that America, which he did by portraying sinister forces underlying it. Typical.
I see a Twilight Zone thread, I post in it, simple as
picrel is my TZfu
I recommend the movie Seconds it you like Twilight Zone
Thanks anon
i like the episode where some military guy doesnt remember a thing and theres nobody in town amd he goes crazy haha or the william shatner one with the fortune telling napkin dispenser