S4YA S3E6 – The Mirror – Twilight Zone

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Dan Lefebvre joins the show for a Columbo connection with this week’s Peter Falk starring tale, “The Mirror”!

My guest this week is the host of the award winning podcast, Based on a True Story which focuses on the historical side of movies, comparing the accuracy of fact-to-film. A warm welcome to the show, Mr. Dan LeFebvre

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SHOW NOTES – The Mirror

Show Info

  • Originally aired: October 20th, 1961
  • Starring:
    • Peter Falk (Ramos Clemente)
    • Vladmir Sokoloff (the priest) (3 episodes)
    • Antony Carbone (Cristo)
    • Will Keluva (De Cruz) (2 episodes)
  • Directed by: Don Medford (5 episodes)
  • Teleplay by: Rod Serling

You, Me, and IMDB Synopses:

  • My Synopsis: The leader of a successful rebellion discovers that the path to tyranny might start with a good hard look in the mirror
  • Your Synopsis: Absolute power corrupts absolutely 
  • IMDB Synopsis: A Central American revolutionary comes into the possession of a mirror that shows him his potential assassins.

Discussion:

  • What are your initial thoughts?
  • Tyranny
    1. Focus on the tyrant
      1. Is this an accurate assessment of dictatorships or is this a viewpoint from the outside looking in?
    2. Focus on the people as “the spoils”
  • Stray Observations
    1. Cristo taunting him
    2. “Any resemblance to tyrants living or dead is hardly coincidental”
  • What do you rate the episode?
    1. I give it 8 glasses of wine
  • An alternate ending?

Choose your Own Endventure

    • Dan – There was nothing special about the mirror
    • Brandon – The mirror has the bad side of each character

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