PT.1 - HARLAN ELLISON: MASTERS OF FANTASY (1998)

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MASTERS OF FANTASY: HARLAN ELLISON
(1998 / Crew Prods. - SciFi / 22 mins. total)
Prod. by - Jon Knoll
Narr. by - Ray Hamberger
Immensely popular episode of SyFy (then SciFi) Channel's no-longer-existent docu series interviews acclaimed author / essayist / screenwriter Harlan Ellison, who's socio-political science fiction forever changed the face (and intent) of the genre. Features on screen commentary by Leonard Nimoy, William Gibson, Robin Williams, Chris Carter, Octavia Butler, J. Michael Straczynski and more.
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@MagnumCallender 3 ай бұрын

honest to god watch videos with Harlan in it for his voice 💀 his way of speaking is so charismatic and weirdly calming

@Jynkins 8 жыл бұрын

Makes me sad to know that his books aren't mainstream anymore. I walked into Barnes and Noble recently and they didn't have any of his wonderful collections or stories to buy. :( The "I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream" collection is still my favorite of his works.

@jondunmore4268 2 жыл бұрын

it doesn't surprise me that ignorance is taking over even our book stores. Literally, in my suburb alone, over the past ten years, two major book stores have turned into pharmacies. shows you where it's all headed - people wanting drugs to assuage their imaginary diseases instead of feeding their intelligence

@CarlosMedina-hx7ie 2 жыл бұрын

It is truly sad. He was ahead of time and space, yet his imagination knew no boundaries or limits. They need to incorporate the new writers with the trailblazers.

@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ Жыл бұрын

Seven years later: He's one of the most known people only by the I have no mouth and I must scream😂 Seriously. He's a genius.

@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ Жыл бұрын

@@CarlosMedina-hx7iehe was WAY AHEAD of his times, for example the I have no mouth and I must scream not only it became well known work and game the last couple of years but they HAVE had to listen to him when he said to the developers "I don't want a game where you, win. I want a game where you lose better", it would have been an extreme hit if they went by his advice.

@kzinful 6 жыл бұрын

Oh Harlan you glorious bastard, I will miss you . And of his temper that wasn't hyperbole, at a book signing( Future Visions - Houston, Tx ) I experienced it first hand ( not at me but directed at a young lady in front of me- over geography [lol ] He died recently, and yes his muse was strongest in the sixties and throughout the seventies, but what tales he left us with! Thank you for opening my eyes that summer before starting high school from reading- A Boy and his Dog...peace, from Texas

@gordons-alive4940 Жыл бұрын

I crossed paths with Ellison at a hospital waiting room. I was briefly tempted to try to speak with him, but thought better of it. I didn't want to risk him being annoyed at a stranger approaching him in that setting, even if it was just to show some appreciation for his work. Probably made the right decision!

@HeatIIEXTEND 6 жыл бұрын

"I'm a little person, you're a midget!" :D

@StephanieCrawford333 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this! Man, I love the sound of a typewriter at work, so rare nowadays...

@Serai3 6 жыл бұрын

I was at Dangerous Visions that day that Chris Carter brought the idea. An amazing thing to watch.

@CrimsonHound84 3 жыл бұрын

Serai3 is there any place to read this? The concept sounds really interesting.

@tomdriver9968 3 жыл бұрын

Him and Orson Wells. Two of the only people who are justified in their pomposity.

@marcinb4647 2 ай бұрын

Are you ret@rded? How can anyone justify that pompous fraud and infamous one movie wonder that was Orson Welles?

@ladyfaye8248 4 жыл бұрын

wow! Am I happy I have found this guy! Now I have something to really take my mind off the end of times!

@Quazar1138 11 жыл бұрын

wasn't aware of youtube limitation of clip length. Thank you for straightening that up. Found pt2. thank you for sharing this.

@fedecasares 5 жыл бұрын

Isaac Asimov (rip) described Ellison's personality very well in his autobiography, but I think the good doctor fell short. Harlan Ellison was a whirlwind. Just as it was better not to fight Mike Tyson, it was better not to get into a discussion with Harlan Ellison. This guy could defeat you in less than 5 minutes. A true hurricane, verborragically speaking. Rest in true peace, Harlan. I think you earned it.

@appidydafoo Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the upload. RIP Harlan.

@ishtarian 11 жыл бұрын

Can Ellison be petty? Certainly. Can he be trying? Ooooh, yes. He can also be generous, kind, courteous, and fascinating. I've encountered more of the latter than the former myself, but I've known those who have seen the other side. In the end, though, it's the work that matters, and that will live on... and I have no doubt a goodly amount of it WILL live on... "Jeffty is Five", for instance; or "In Lonely Lands"; or "All the Sounds of Fear"; or "the Deathbird", or "The Other Eye of Polyphemus"

@matthewperry5518 5 жыл бұрын

Or "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" or "Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman."

@warmecanic 4 жыл бұрын

I bet that teacher got the best feed back of his life

@itsallinchaucer 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, Man! Thank you!

@Eudaimonist 11 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with Harlan Ellison that the writer's vision should always be kept intact.

@LenHummelChannel 6 жыл бұрын

A brilliant mind. a true curmudgeon. angry, yes. of course. and very entertaining in his own kind of way. ... this life was difficult and troublesome. he certainly had little or no faith in "Man" OR God. And again: yes, he was arrogant; often VERY arrogant, ... but mostly entertaining anyways.

@1who4me 4 жыл бұрын

Man all these greats are dead now

@lordhermis8718 5 жыл бұрын

G.R.R.M Could learn a thing or two from this man.

@voidforpurpose 11 жыл бұрын

Imagine how good his work would have been if he could have used his other 8 fingers for typing! I have no thumbs and I must hitchike.

@sauldinglesteinlll9543 6 жыл бұрын

Gotta love Leonard Nimoy pretending he read I Have No Mouth. I'm not saying he definitely didn't read it but it sounded kind of like he was just doing a good job of pretending. Don't lynch me, I'm just pointing it out because it made me smile.

@shinstridge4871 5 жыл бұрын

RIP Harlan Ellison, you will be missed.

@Paul_J._Poduslo 11 жыл бұрын

That's easy to agree with. It's not so easy, however, to find a compromise between the writer of the individual episode's vision and the "vision" of the creator of the actual show itself and how he or she wanted his characters to be like. For example, Gene Roddenberry altered Ellison's script for the Star Trek episode "The City On the Edge of Forever." Both "visions" should be respected.

@user-ue7vt5pq6x 2 жыл бұрын

😍👍🤩

@myceliumman7554 6 жыл бұрын

Ironically posted on the world's biggest facilitator of copyright violation...

@ishtarian 11 жыл бұрын

(cont.) As for "hearing" this or that about the script for "City on the Edge of Forever"... why not read the script? It has been published years ago, in more than one format. Some will prefer it; others will prefer the broadcast version. I have affection for the latter, and admire the former (and think it the better of the two, as it is more complex and multilayered, with even more humanity to it). Ellison's screenplays are actually damn' easy reading, and good "theatre" of the mind....

@nunyabizness6595 2 жыл бұрын

Painsville, Ohio. Look at that name. I'd run away too!

@Eudaimonist 11 жыл бұрын

Fair enough!

@crynovapie3 11 жыл бұрын

i finish reading his stroy i have no mouth but must scream and i played the game

@calaphasto 11 жыл бұрын

You really don't like him, do you? I'm not attacking you or anything, you're entitled to your opinion, but I've seen your name on other Ellison-themed videos, poisoning the well, so to speak. I myself was a fan for awhile (have a bunch of his books), but have since kinda moved on. The perpetual anger at the world that he generates was very appealing to me when I was young and angry at the world myself, but it got old fast.

@cincifilocca 6 жыл бұрын

calaphasto It got old because you got old, probably. There's still a lot to be angry about, in this world; but you need a young heart to feel and fight, I give that to you.

@ddiamondr1 5 жыл бұрын

calaphasto he also had a wicked sense of humour and was one of the funniest writers of all time.

@JoseChung1 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at the entirety of 2020, Harlan wasn't angry enough.

@ishtarian 11 жыл бұрын

Perhaps I shouldn't respond to some of these posts, as there is an air of pique (to say the least) about them, but.... "I Have No Mouth", etc., nihilistic? By no means. A cautionary tale, most definitely. And let's face it, in the end, it was the human being that won -- though paying a terrible price -- and the "god" that lost.... Also can't agree that Ellison Is a "poor writer"; even his early work, though at times crude, has strong points; and soon became very fine indeed. (cont.)

@fayeSunshine48 11 жыл бұрын

he sounds amazing .... i bet he has a touch of German ....... he an I Wouldn't get along because he would hate my grammer as much as I do :)

@boke75 2 жыл бұрын

Harlan Ellison....the Roddy Piper of science fiction...erm..speculative fiction.

@Quazar1138 11 жыл бұрын

Does anyone else have 11 minutes missing ?

@anatolyyurkin6635 7 ай бұрын

Жестикуляцию позаимствовал Житинский?

@zissou6928 8 жыл бұрын

120 wpm with 2 fingers..?

@greyeyed123 5 жыл бұрын

I noticed that also. Clearly a lie. You can hear in these clips the speed is FAR slower than that. (It's not possible to type 120 wpm with 2 fingers.)