The movie is interesting from a 2025 POV because of the tragic death of the two child actors and of course, the death of Vic Morrow, but also from the appearance of a young Nancy Cartwright (the future voice of one of the biggest cartoon characters ever) who gets sucked into the TV hell of a scary cartoon.
Life's Too Short ... But Here's a Big Little Sync About it;-)"During the filming of the "Time Out” segment directed by Landis on July 23, 1982, at 2:20 a.m., actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6) died in an accident involving a Bell UH-1 helicopter being used on the set."
I notice that Vic Morrow was born on Valentine's Day in 1929, and that the last segment of the movie directed by George Miller of 'Mad Max' fame, involves a character by the name of Valentine who spots a gremlin on the wing of his plane trying to destroy the jets engines and crash the plane.
Byron Kennedy died in a helicopter crash in 1983, while a 15-year-old boy named Vic survived the crash, according to Byron Kennedy's Wikipedia page.
"In 1983, at the age of 33, Kennedy was killed at Warragamba Dam in New South Wales, Australia, when the helicopter he was piloting crashed. Family friend Victor Evatt, aged 15, survived the crash and was rescued the next day after spending the night in the cold waters of the dam."
 |
| "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) |
 |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie with Macon Blair |
Why reboot a movie if you can't make it better than the original?
Obviously, some people like it ... but I didn't.
It had its moments, but they were few and far between I thought.
Back to The Twilight Zone now (but did we ever leave it?-)
""Time Out", is a partial reworking, but not a full remake, of the episode "Back There", involving a man who exits a club after a conversation about the feasibility of utilizing time travel to change history, only to find that he has been transported into the past. The premise of the story from there, however, is mashed up with the morality tale of another classic episode "A Quality of Mercy", in which an overly impetuous lieutenant finds himself suddenly having swapped places with the enemy, an experience which teaches him a lesson about empathy."
""Back There" is episode 49 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on January 13, 1961 on CBS, and was the 13th episode of the second season."
I sometimes wonder where to draw the line between the actor and the characters they play, when it comes to real/reel life;-)
No comments:
Post a Comment