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Freiberger & Gorn -- together again for the first time!

posted 8 years ago by grizzledgeezer
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Comet is running the original MST3K episodes. Last night it showed one of Bert I Gordon's turkeys, Beginning of the End.

The screenplay (such as it is) is credited to Fred Freiberger and a Lester Gorn. What a coincidence!

If one ever doubted Freiberger's general lack of talent, this script richly demonstrates it. He has no idea how to pen compact, focused dialog, needlessly repeating stuff. And when characters argue, it sounds like eight-year-olds. ("Don't turn on the amplifier!" "Yes, I will. So there!"))

PS: Audrey Ames is presumably modeled after Margaret Bourke-White. She should have sued.

[–] chris109 8 years ago

Funny, I saw that also. It was from 1957.

[–] TheOldGuyFromHalloween3 8 years ago

and the Mugatu was named after a character in Zoolander

[–] grizzledgeezer 8 years ago

Are you sure you've got your cause and effect right?

[–] TheOldGuyFromHalloween3 8 years ago

You give a 10 to an episode of Frazier yet think city on the edge of forever is terrible? you're insane

[–] grizzledgeezer 8 years ago

You give a 10 to an episode of Frazier yet think city on the edge of forever is terrible? you're insane

No, I simply have a good grasp of story telling and script writing. As I said, Ellison's version depends wholly on coincidence -- it isn't a real drama. If you'd like to see what Ellison should have written, I'll gladly send a copy.

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

It's a spy thriller got transformed into a romance. That's what you're not getting.

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

"Arena" was penned decades before Trek borrowed the idea and put it on screen. It was a short story and a comic book story with Adam Strange before Kirk got put in the lead role.

So it's not really Freiberger's creation, on any level.

[–] grizzledgeezer 8 years ago

Of course it isn't. I was punning on the alien species and Freiberger's co-writer.

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

not a very clever pun

[–] MAGolding (1125) 6 years ago

"Humor. A difficult concept. It is not logical".

Anyway, I like puns.