This exquisite TV pilot cannot be overrated. It ranks with the best TV stuff ever, and it is a joy for the cinema buff to praise it. Its form is very adequateconcise and lapidary, nononsense. It has great emotional density. A masterful treatment of a camp legend. It is a new version of the tale of Frankenstein's uncanny, cursed experiments. The intelligence put in this pilot episode is quite unusual even for a period rich in TV and movie accomplishments. TALES
belongs to the highest class of the B league.
A word about the advantages of the shorter TV episodes. They are more than a sketch, less than a waste of time.
The short episodes all managed their content much better than the ulterior longer ones. An episode consists essentially of one idea. The compact, laconic ,sustained form of these short episodes served the contents the best. It is also a taste for this rapidity that does not allow the action to linger.
TALES makes obvious the advantages of this concentrated, ultradense and highly dramatic form. Here the content consists of emotions.
The B movies fall into three categoriesthe camp (that is, the dignified and respectable movies that belong to the B in virtue of their budget restrictionsmodest ,even tiny budget ;indeed artistic and intelligent, small jewels of taste and skills, they may sometimes B classified as B not only in virtue of their tiny budget, but also for adopting some notes and touches that distinguish the B leaguethe B indicates also their aesthetics, not only their budget; this is true for melodramas, noir films, SciFi, etc., i.e. genre films generally );the goofy (sometimes silly, goofy, clumsy, yet amiable, enjoyed, very likable; they do have qualities, even charm);and the crap, the inexcusably bad movies .Needless to say that a lot of A movies are very camp, today most of the bigbudget are; or,often, less than that. Sometimes, the B movies, when not exclusively comic, may be straightforwardmovies to take as straightforward stories; others, humorous; others, straight masquerading as humorous, or viceversa.
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A word about the advantages of the shorter TV episodes. They are more than a sketch, less than a waste of time.
The short episodes all managed their content much better than the ulterior longer ones. An episode consists essentially of one idea. The compact, laconic ,sustained form of these short episodes served the contents the best. It is also a taste for this rapidity that does not allow the action to linger.
TALES makes obvious the advantages of this concentrated, ultradense and highly dramatic form. Here the content consists of emotions.
The B movies fall into three categoriesthe camp (that is, the dignified and respectable movies that belong to the B in virtue of their budget restrictionsmodest ,even tiny budget ;indeed artistic and intelligent, small jewels of taste and skills, they may sometimes B classified as B not only in virtue of their tiny budget, but also for adopting some notes and touches that distinguish the B leaguethe B indicates also their aesthetics, not only their budget; this is true for melodramas, noir films, SciFi, etc., i.e. genre films generally );the goofy (sometimes silly, goofy, clumsy, yet amiable, enjoyed, very likable; they do have qualities, even charm);and the crap, the inexcusably bad movies .Needless to say that a lot of A movies are very camp, today most of the bigbudget are; or,often, less than that. Sometimes, the B movies, when not exclusively comic, may be straightforwardmovies to take as straightforward stories; others, humorous; others, straight masquerading as humorous, or viceversa.
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