Great Speech From The Twilight Zone
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2014
- I've been watching the original TZ series from the beginning for the last few weeks and have been loving every episode. I'm 112 out of 156 episodes in so far and while there have been hundreds of scenes that have left me either pulling the old lean slightly back while slowly nodding and grinning in approval or the *awe inspired slow clap while shaking head and smile-gasping as the final twist, point or message lands*. However, this particular scene is the only one that I just had to re watch over and over. I felt compelled to share it's wisdom. Episode 112, 'No Time Like The Past'
Rod Serling was a genius.
Died to young
Indeed he was. I will add that he was a bit of a visionary as well. He was thinking outside the box before, check that, WAY before the term was even thought of.
Yes for this series, not The Night gallery
Defo.
He wuz coming from another dimension...this iz deep psychological horror SHIT, designed 2 make u think...he never had any children...hmmm
..."A few germs will rise up out of the rubble and wave microscopic flags of victory".
Pure friggin genius.
It's not true though. The germs have always done fine for themselves, and are doing fine even now.
@@justin_5631 you missed the entire point 🙄
Aye
@Charles Yuditsky seen their parades all over my bathroom and shower. not impressed.
@Charles Yuditsky not _on_ me yet but they try.
I think the Twilight Zone is the most intelligent show ever made, and definitely one of the best.
The Outer Limits was a great TV series as well. Different, but I feel just as good.
Bullshit! Not enough boobs, explosions and fart jokes... Seriously, this is the pinnacle of cerebral TV.
Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits I watched as an adolescent. 65 yo now and I still remember having the bejesus scared outta me. I wish I could roll into a baseboard now and enter another realm.
The stories were not always that smart, but they were a vehicle for ideas and performances. The "gimmick" worked in TV, since when done well it plays to both a casual and more serious viewer, which is why TV has tried to copy it ever since.
@@janetphelps6879 Yup, me too. Same age. Same frightful watching. And my older sister sitting right next to me, laughing at me. That is, until one night. She was as scared as me. She never laughed at me again.
I watched The Twilight Zone as a child, having no idea what a visionary Rod Serling was !
Me too. I couldn't wait for the next one.
He had great background for it as a WW2 vet.
Same here. Only now, the last few years, go I realize how influential, insightful, and talented he was.
Same here and his name and show will live a very long time .
The Twilight Zone has been a great influence in much fiction and reality that followed it. I had a conversation with my aunt where I said I missed watching The Twilight Zone. She claimed the show was evil and when pressed to give a reason for that could not give me a single reason for her claim. I suppose in her mind anything that makes you question anything is evil.
The Obsolete Man starring burgess meredith was hard hitting too!!!
Also 'Judgement Night'
Favorite episode.
Yes, just watched that yesterday n was thinking the same when watching this
I am the night- color me black. Another hard hitter. He's Alive is still valid to this day
@@carterjeremy89 very true, He's alive IS still valid
The sign of our times. Welcome to January 8th, 2021.
Do not go quietly into that dark night
~Jan 11th 2020
Welcome to the twilight zone, coming soon to a city or suburb near you, hope you enjoyed your stay,or at least the beginning,the end is near,have a nice day!
The Twilight Zone’s was so over the top in the 60’s as I recall...so why does it feel so real today?
@@davidweigel2238 Prescience is like that. 1960 was 60 years ago.
We've all been hearing The Sound of Silence on the radio for over five decades now.
Black mirror
If you didn't like the 20th Century, then you won't like the 21st Century much either...
people just live with it. its pretty sad.
True that my friend...true that!
The 20th century was at least sane....that cannot be said of the 21st century...
@@stevebishop9468 And the 21st century was off to such a good start too. Such a disappointment..
whether or not you'll like any of the future centuries, depends on whether or not willing to do something to change it into something better.
Now it's January 10th, 2021 and we are in a real twilight zone...
Yes we are. The truly sick part is that we could stop it if enough of us wanted it.
@@minermike61 I am not sure we can, any longer. I feel that these trends have been picking up speed since my teens and perhaps the real roots of this age are as far back as World war I or the American civil war. I don't know when we could have totally stopped this train from running over us. (or, to change the analogy, stop our train from running off the cliff?) You are right about the numbers but if 72 million wasn't enough to stop it, well then, there is no stopping it. What things could have stopped these trends and final results? How do we get from Hippies (different strokes for different folks) to Internet inquisitors and censors? The birth of computers to computers becoming the eyes and ears of rich, powerful men? I feel We are all on the same train rushing towards the cliff and none of us knows how to stop it, but that is nearly the definition of history.
Maybe if a Napoleon or Caesar arose but usually such men make things worse, not better.
Welcome to the twilight zone... This is Kathleen Hensley, she thought she was going to have a quiet retirement in the country, little did she know...
@@kathleenhensley5951 WWW is not just world wide web, it is the spiritual battle talked about in the Bible.
@@msrhuby I know, but don't say it often. This is a war at all levels.
@us71 What does that mean please?
Rod Serling had a genius ability to explain the paradoxes of human existence in screenplays that last less than 30 minutes.
Week after week after week.
And you can't overlook the casts of actors he employed. So many of them were unknown at the time they helmed there Twilight Zone episodes. So many went on to Fame and Fortune because of their talent.
There hasn't been a better sci-fi anthology series on TV since.
More intelligent? No
Better? Maybe
The remake 1990s Outer Limits came close. Well worth watching.
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I have been a Twilight Zone fan since it first aired. At 68yrs old i'm still amazed by the brilliance of Mr Serling and how prophetic many of the episodes are. I still watch TZ and have my favorites.
He was Absolutely brilliant. I remember the original shows and I've listened to the radio dramas, since.
I am also 68yo & greatly appreciate Rod Serling’s brilliant body of work today & since the first episodes of The Twilight Zone. 👍
Where could I watch those old shows? I was just a little kid when they came out and was not able to appreciate them.
I'm 45 I remember watching This with my father I make a lot of Twilight Zone references to my coworkers they have no idea what the hell I'm talking about I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone
Kazil, we are the same age.
I keep thinking I see Rod in the corner of my eye. Life is surreal.
Those Twilight Zones shows were warning us and now we are living them👁️
The question remains: Are we yet prepared to pay attention and listen?
Unfortunately in 21st century most people will only learn the hardest way of all how precious a thing freedom is.
A warning or predictive programming ?
JakDRpr, so timely. Most telling is the original MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET. Air date: March 4, 1960 episode 22, so timely indeed.
@@stephennicholas1590 was.
Dana Andrews was a great American actor, one of the most underrated stars of the century and a American patriot.
I think my wife has a bit of a crush on Dana Andrews. Has had ever since she saw "Laura".
I agree
As was Robert F. Simon.
The speech in the video questions patriotism, yet you choose to use it as a good quality. It is interesting because it relates to the insanity statement. An old thought, but never appreciated nonetheless.
@@Destruction320 You do not understand the point of the speech. There is nothing to do with "Patriotism" in the dialogue . It is a statement about world wide concern, made during the height of the cold war. Just amazes me how literal people take RUclips comments without understanding the historic and commercial applications of the programs produced. Lighten up! Dana Andrews was a great actor, thats all I wanted to say. Take ur soap box to the fire pit. Its doing you no good.
The cesspool is now so large that it is all we've ever known and we can't imagine a world without it.
That's sad, right? Now That's some honesty right there. It's refreshing. I can imagine a world without it. Imagination was never the problem.
Yup
Rod Serling, such an incredible speaker, writer/orator for 'any' time period. Dana Andrews.. Great delivery!
You mean Dana Andrews.
@@luisreyes1963 TY
Amazing!
@@luisreyes1963 You can give Rod Serling credit too. He wrote the speech.
Rod Serling isn't talking
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
That would be you.
@@mirrortoyourweakness9769 Just by looking at your user name and samples of your comments, tells me all I need to know about you. Luckily for you, there is still time to repent and ask God into your life. It’s not too late. 🙏🏻🕊🙏🏻🕊🙏🏻
And we never really learn......
Creepy that warnings from 50+ years ago are not being heeded.
I am afraid that in 50 years there will be very few of us left. The first dominoes have fallen and it is just amatter of time.
Beyond heeding date...
Life imitating art, for sure.
Is man to be dumber than the animals? To give up its teeth and claws before the lion or bear does? Shall we naively lay down our arms and trust in the tender mercies of our overlords? Of our self appointed enemies? Make no mistake this is part of the relentless propaganda bent on getting you to go silently into that good night (after slaving away for your enemy for a hard lifetime)... Don't you buy it!
I've had this same thought and conversation many times. HOW MANY movies or shows or prophetic warnings do people need to stop and think or to NOT do something or change and alter your approach. Dumbfounded by all the foolishness...
"the obsolete man" is a great episode.
That n, Death's Head Revisited...
One of the most intelligent programs ever to air on television. Way ahead of it’s time and alway appropriate for the times.
Honestly at this point I think it's more clear that we're simply behind the times in today's day and age. Our fathers were so much more intelligent than we are.
I miss seeing writing this good.
Here's a good comment. They can't write dialogue like this anymore. Not possible. First, the so called " writers " of today are mental midgets whose only ambition is to kiss the backside of their god ....the state.
And secondly the audience for thoughtful dialogue no longer exists. The same can certainly be said of good music. The audience is just too dumb.
This clip is SO PROPHETIC.
We are indeed technically advanced monkeys, but be advised......the monkeys have grown far more obtuse since this piece of art was filmed. FACT! Like it or not...FACT.
We are in one melluva hess!!
It still exists.
@@calebjanus2000 Barely. It has a tenuous hold. Perhaps the future will present excellent writing, it's certainly not here right now.
... and acting this brilliant.
Ahead of his genius Time. What a wonderful man. He's peacefully resting out in the twilight zone in the universe.
Hard to beat the dialog of the Twilight Zone. Great themes, edgy portrayals and magnificent English. Serling contributed so much to our culture. "Passage on the Lady Anne" is one of my favourites.
Byron Gordon - "...entirely forgotten."?
I don't see how you can say that.
We're talking about him now, there are tons of videos just on RUclips of his show, you can watch TZ still on Netflix and Amazon Prime, not to mention seeing his influence on television and in movies even today.
No, not entirely forgotten my friend.
Perhaps unheeded by some, but certainly not forgotten.
OK, not forgotten but not sufficiently appreciated by the masses at large. Serling was a provocative intellectual and for whatever reason there is a terrible strain of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Evidence of that is the trump administration.
When I watch these episodes makes me wonder now how did Serling wrote so much as if he knew the future?
Even Star Trek , with its exploration
of themes and concepts,
has to bend a knee to The Twilight Zone.
My personal favorite was the one with Dennis Hopper entitled "He Lives!". It was written when Gov. George Wallace was running for president. He was the most notorious bigot at the time. The episode is a dramatic example of a bigot gaining public acceptance of his bigoted beliefs. He has Hitler has his example, and insight will tell you all about Trump and his disciples. Yesterday's Trump riots at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. will tell anyone Hitler still lives in the mind of Trump and others who share his bigoted beliefs.
The Twilight Zone series was a shocking television show for it's time, especially for us kids in the late 50's early 60's. Serling was
offering alternative realities to what us little guys were experiencing in our every day lives. It was pretty bold for our parents to let
us watch shows that delt with nuclear annihilation or time travel. Really what Serling was exposing us to was creative thought
Nuclear annihilation was the meme of the period. As a kid, I loved the shows where we had a fleet of flying saucers traveling the galaxy being beat to a pulp by another planet's pioneer giant woman or used to pick up prisoners from an asteroid. Then there were the aliens who got people to kill their neighbors based on paranoia and suspicion. Being a kid who loved to read, I remember most the episode of the nuclear war survivor who loved to read but broke his glasses.
@@ArizonaWillful time enough at last. An excellent episode. And yes i love sci fi. My favorite genre.
Also even now this is still very creative, showing that twilight zone is really one of the best tv shows ever.
@@redfox574 The Twilight Zone is mentioned by nearly every director as having a profound influence on their decision to get into film
The way things are going theses days it seems like we are living in the TWILIGHT ZONE.
Especially the past 5 years - absolute surreal horror, absurd mockery of reality.
This reality is killing me!
I had Twilight Zone theme as my ringtone for several years.
@@AndrewVelonis your out of this world andrew☄️
But the end of our nightmare is almost here. No more trump after 1/20/2021
Rod Serling Was A Genus With Enough Guts To Say The Truth.
Another show that was very much involved in teaching what happens when man decides to screw with Nature is "The Outer Limits."
In 2021 America Serling would be cancelled by Big Brother.
O-K.
Isn't it a pity how thoughts like this, expressed so well and profoundly, are, to this day, just words tossed to the wind...unheard, unappreciated and sadly unheeded. And the greatest irony is that the central character's ultimate impotence in effecting change (essentially, the author) though he makes an eloquent cry/warning, is still unheard fifty-two years later. We do travel back to the past to revisit these nostalgic gems, only to return to a world and a time steeped in "reality tv" and wars that vainly promise "liberty".
i appreciate it and belief n live by it.
kweju3 - When I read this I heard it in Rod Serling's voice in my mind.
No it isn't. It's a deepity. It's something that seems deep and profound to a naive simpleton but in actuality is less profound than a fart joke. There's nothing profound about it. Because what's the alternative to modern science, you want to go live in a cave and die in nature with no sanitation, healthcare, easy access to food or relief from parasites? Do you think a tiger living in the jungle has a better life than even one living in a zoo, let alone a better life than you have? I dare you to try to live for a week without using tap water or toilet paper, let alone electricity, and then see if you want to go RIGHT back at the end of that week. You're just romanticizing the life of the tiger in the jungle, that's all. In reality it has a horrible life, always on the threshold of starvation, and it will live a short, miserable while, and die young of a violent death, or a terrible disease, or starvation, or it will be eaten alive by an infected wound. Have you ever seen gangrene? I have.
medexamtoolsdotcom - I think that you completely missed the point of that little speech.
It wasn't technology in and of itself that our would be time traveler objected to, but rather how we've used it.
That dispite all of our advancements we're still just a vicious and cruel as we ever were.
That's why he chooses the word "monkeys" to describe the human race.
Was he right?
IDK, but by calling people you don't even know "naive simpleton"s for their appreciation of a piece of art that you clearly didn't understand you've effectively displayed the kind of casual cruelty, and everyday nastiness that has become such an unfortunate part of our culture today.
No, the Internet didn't create this culture of bitchy know-it-alls, but it sure makes it a lot easier doesn't it.
For the things that are typed would rarely, if ever be spoken straight to another person's face.
Medexamtoolsdotcom is correct. But the blinders that the speech writer, speech giver and commenter give are the same ones that you're wearing. They mistake pessimism for realism. There is a lot wrong with the world, but there is a lot right with it too and both need to be acknowledged.
The Twilight Zone was a phenomenal show. These amazing tales are entertaining as ever.
"We live in a cesspool. A septic tank."
This was filmed yesterday.
When you wrestle a gorilla, you rest when HE'S tired--Not when YOU'RE tired.
Excellent thought
Why do you fools always incapable of speaking clearly? I know you must be discrete but boy does it make you look... When is the gorilla tired word salad kings?
A perfect example of how Serling used the Twilight Zone as his own soapbox to comment on human vagaries. A brilliant writer with an unmatched imagination.
Nothing endorses a TV show as a classic timeless thought-provoking masterpiece than its watchability, currency, relevancy, and intellect 60 years later. The 60s certainly were the Golden Age of TV and this was one of the most Golden. Rod Serling thank you. You , and Carl Sagan are legends.
they don't make dialogue like this anymore, because they know modern day viewers punish a show by zapping away when it makes them feel stupid.
And God forbid they learn anything.
Not to mention creativity (in regard to the writers) is fostered by freedom of thought and we all see that being discouraged by the technocracy.
Remember stupid to us, is superiority to them.
I simply feel ignorant and I love this kind of stuff. I want to learn not to be ignorant.
I MISS how people used to debate, share ideas, discuss philosophy, humanity, the concept of a thinking animal. The attack on ancient philosophy by media and academia has destroyed the human soul and all nobility in so many souls.... When I speak of philosophy I am typically shunned but.... I refuse to stop drinking wisdom!!! Its beauty in written form. Thoughts put to reality to examine this condition of being a human.... ah, tonight I think I will sit by my phone and listen to the wisdom of Socrates!!!
I get the same feeling of anxiety watching The Twilight Zone in my 60's that I had watching when I was a kid.
Dana Andrews had a great presence and great voice .
Watch an interview of Rod and you'll get a flavor of how intelligent and insightful he was.
Yes, Terry, I was absolutely amazed at just how articulate he was.
Dana Andrews had one of the great film voices in cinematic history--up there with Ronald Coleman, and Orson Welles. And this is a truly great speech delivered splendidly. Thank you for posting this and appreciating it!
I remember Ronald Colemans voice from "The Prisoner of Zenda" and the great coocoo clock speech that Orson Welles gave in "The Third Man". Wow.
It sort of reminds me of Cliff Robertson's speech to the assembled scientists in 'Charlie'. Agree with you about Andrews' voice and he's a very dependable actor.
May I add John Carradine and Cary Grant to that list?
This actor could produce gravitas and give mature thoughtful authority to his words. I remember him from childhood TV in the late 50's and 60's. Now we have a President who talks about pussy.
"you are the junk man, you get everything in the end"...
Dana knocks it out of the park in this top 10 episode of time travel in The Twilight Zone.
I love Dana Andrews....and that distinctive voice!☺️
TZ was one of the BEST TV shows ever.
The Twilight Zone is one of those series that truly deserves the title of Classic. It's intelligent, thought provoking and exceptionally well written, along with being innovative and striking in its technical production. I simply love it.
These words are just as poignant today as they were back then. A time when talent and dialogue, not green screen and CGI, determined the quality of film and television. Perhaps having grown up with true entertainment like this, is why l lament the reality vomit that is served up to us by the networks today. Rod Serling you were a genius in every sense, thankyou. Your legacy is greater than you possibly ever envisioned.
I agree. Today's ' entertainment' is anything but entertaining to people who grew up having to use their minds and knowledge instead of relying on being spoonfed, talked down to and having laugh tracks added so we would know when to laugh. I stopped watching TV over 10 years ago. I don't miss it.
"everything he designs as an art for dying...is his excuse for living." One of the best sentences ever uttered in a monologue.
who is 'he'? not me. it's just pathetic generalization.
@@RG-iw7py Granted that it is a generalization. But because the destructive impulse Serling describes would also be general (even genocidal) if it were ever unleashed, and would fall on the witnesses just as fatally as on the designers, we have no practical power to exclude ourselves from the generalization, no matter what our moral stance may be.
@@RG-iw7py - mankind
False profundity...
Been watching them for 40 years. Such a brilliant show and such a brilliant man.
I had forgotten how remarkably great this program was. It is like attending a great stage play each time. 💛🙏🏼
The underrated Dana Andrews delivering Rod Serling dialogue with acting skill
I went to do a job in a very rural area in the Ca. Desert. A big portrait of this actor was hanging up. I said I’m sorry I don’t know his name but he’s the man who said” Push the button my friend, send me back into time” The home owner replied “Yes, that was my Father” he shared some cool stories about how his father was able to survive after he was blacklisted by then Sen McCarty’s Red Scare witch hunt of the 1950’s.
I remember vividly, staring at our B&W tv screen in the 60's as a child. Mesmerized by the eloquence of Mr Stearling's voice. Instructive, haunting, humbling... RIP ROD !
Sheer brilliance in content, relevance, and truth, delivered in a virtuoso acting performance.
No time like the past one of the best underrated TZ episodes
Dana just makes it pop
Wow! Dana Andrews, delivering the speech. A fine actor! He was in "The Best Years of Our Lives," "State Fair," and numerous great WWII films. He was also in "The Curse of the Demon," one of the top supernatural thrillers of the '50s.
I knew a Kayla Andrews.
In 1967 he starred in `Hot Rods to Hell`.
@ Skippy Zeiger : "Wow! Dana Andrews, delivering the speech." Yes, he could do that when he was able to stay sober long enough.
Love Dana Andrews!
Night of the Demon / Curse of the Demon is an absolute classic adaptation of the M.R. James ghost story Casting of the Runes.
I made sure it was in my DVD collection right from the start.
This aged well.
As long as there is man, there can never be peace...
Have you watched any National Geographic videos on animals tearing each other apart? There are no innocent species.
Part of it is that since human beings are at the top of the food chain, the only competition we have to face is ourselves. It makes for greed, violence, and chaos, all for survival.
Naturally, the lukewarm are the problem to movement!!
I can't believe we're still fighting because of skin color. Skin color!
@@debbieseverson5130 we are not, zionist Israeli media is!!
The great Dana Andrews! I never saw this episode of TZ, brilliantly written and produced by the genial Rod Serling. Unmatched still to this very day.
To me, one of the best episodes is "I Am The Night: Color Me Black." Outstanding writing.
The Passerby Episode actually was a catalyst in changing my life. The Obsolete Man is relevant today, with all the non-essential job BS talk.
When T.V. made Good sense, not MOCKERY
Serling the 20th~century Shakespeare
Wow... I always loved the show and I never saw it its entire run.
This episode is totally new to me and it is exactly how I think today.
Thank you for sharing.
Life expectancies were steadily rising at the time this was filmed, and over a half century later we are in wildly more danger from power mongers who pretend to value our safety than from anything environmental.
I thought that Palace was saying that those who are in power are ignoring the threat of global climate change, thus endangering the future. Perhaps I misread the intent.
I would have sworn I've seen every episode. This speech I don't recall at all! Thanks.
Thanks for posting this. I've seen quite a few episodes of the Twilight Zone, but don't remember this one. The poignancy of this speech amazes me.
How did this quality of thought provoking television from the early 1960s degenerate into the state of television that is shown in 2018 with its endless programs vomiting out narcissistic automatons trying to out compete with each other for who has the best butt implants and plastic lips ?
And the Twilight Zone was considered to be a horror program of sorts back then, Imagine if the writers time traveled to this day and age .....
Culture degenerates as the innovations of the creative, becomes the tools of greedy primates that, for now, pass as H. sapiens.
Serling writes like a poet. Even with the original Planet Of The Apes, you could hear his writing throughout the movie
The rise of the housewives led to the demise of the twilight zone and good writing.
@Mr Andrew May
: "How did this quality of thought provoking television from the early 1960s degenerate into the state of television that is shown . . ."
Newton N. Minow (former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission) was correct when he referred to television as "a vast wasteland".
today's programming is groomed for the lazy, uneducated viewers of today
So strange that for so many years, far too many of us said, "It could never happen", and while we kept repeating that, and nodding to each other reassuringly, behind our backs evil little minds were busily making sure that it DID happen.
"I Am the Night-Color Me Black" is another episode that has an amazing speech as well. It's from the fifth season, and it's very similar in scope to this speech.
Serling writes like a poet. His English is so fluid, it makes you think, when speaking on the flaws of mankind. That's why they called him the most angriest man in Hollywood.. But I don't blame him
#SamDamage: HELL YES! One of the most deepest themes ever explored in the entire series could be summed up in Ivan Dixon's take on race relations from that very episode: THAT'S ALL THERE IS, IS THE MAJORITY. THE MINORITY MUST HAVE DIED ON A CROSS 2,000 YEARS AGO....🇵🇷🇺🇸😎📽🗽🦂
I think George Lindsey was in that one. It was quite interesting to see him in a darker sense, and that whole episode itself was a beautiful symbolism
This lighting is really good. Black and white is an art.
The writing and naturalness of the actor ( I believe Dana Andrew’s.), you just don’t see that quality today.
This show speaks to me at a fundemental level. It eclipses pretty much every other show in terms of its depth.
Twilight Zone was visionary. Rod Serling was epic in so many ways.
At least we now all live firmly in the 21st century where none if that happens....
...Oh wait. Never mind.
😂😂😂
The speech conveys indignant self pity. The challenge of life is to make it better.
You cannot fix it unless you see it’s broken
one of the greatest episodes of the twilight zone!
After feeling like he's lost the debate, Harvey turns dispassionately to the controls. With a few twists of a large knob. he sends a high voltage flash to the target below. His scientific colleague crumples into a writhing mass of charred bone and pungent smoke. "Yeah, Paul, you're probably right about humanity, I concede the argument."
I highly recommend a book that apparently has long remained in print: "The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!" by Otto L. Bettmann, founder of the Bettmann Archives. This fourth-season episode has some padding characteristic of the hour-long episodes of the original Zone...but Rod wrote the dialogue and it sure sounds good.
I don't need a lesson in current events; I'm pretty well up on the times.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS.
I too love that statement!
I have loved the Twilight Zone since I first saw it in the 1960s. Rod Serling's scripts were A1, and the actors (in this case Dana Andrews and Robert F. Simon) could deliver them so professionally. Listen and celebrate the literacy level. Then go onto some Facebook groups and see how standards have tumbled into an abyss.
Screenplays written at collegiate honors level, for consumption by a viewership that now trends below a fifth grade reading comprehension level....
Wow....Rod Serling really saw the future. That was a powerful scene. I honestly don't remember this dpisode.
It is not a matter of seeing the futur... his fear was the past repea ting itself with new tech to make it feel new. Humanity is a shit sandwich with space-race and cold war packaging. Makes me wonder what Rod would say if he saw the world today with the "the twilight zone" as a platform.
I believe he was a genius in knowing a lot more than we think he did.
I've watched this clip over 100 times in 2 years. And still I ponder how relevant many parts of this dialog is. Terrifying and Thought-provoking.
Rod Serling wrote some of the most creative and intelligent dialog.
I’m fascinated by the props and lighting too. The small “halo” over the man at the top; the larger shiny circle under the feet of Dana Andrews’ character at the bottom.
Love watching the " ZONE " when I was youngster in the 50's and 60's.
Was my favourite program in England. Wish something could compare to the twilight zone today.
His words are as true today, if not truer, than ever. It's too bad that more people don't watch these episodes today. There is much to be learned from them.
If someone came up with a script summarizing today and gave it to Rod Serling he would say it was too far-fetched...
Wow, Stirling was ahead of his times. He nailed it then and describes it now.
Not only is the speech great, but the delivery by both characters is superb. Pure class.
This 3-minute dialogue had more substance than most 3-hour movies made this year.
Harvey, the sharp and articulate man up by the computers, was actor Robert Simon, who played a dense and unimaginative general on M*A*S*H in three episodes, including Henry Blake's trial on charges concocted by Frank and Margaret. Robert Simon was a great character actor.
Robert F. Simon also was one of the many people to have played character parts on both "The Andy Griffith Show" and "MASH." AGS for instance is where MASH Producer Gene Reynolds made his big break in Show Business. After being a child actor.😏B.W.
He was J Jonah Jameson in the short-lived Spider-Man live action 70’s show too - not the best JJJ but memorable enough.
Simon as Dense General delivered the classic line "this is a press conference...the last thing I want to do is answer a lot of questions."
"exquisite bedlam" The man wrote with insight and skill.
Science fiction becomes science fact and history repeats itself. When will we ever learn?
You need to view this speech in the context of the full episode. After he returns from the past he realizes he needs to quit running from the troubles of the present and be the change he seeks to make a better world.
Dana was so smooth
Dana Andrews was a quality actor.
Reminds of something said in another fictional story "Cloud Atlas".
"We do the same thing, over and over again"
So sad for us...the universe is huge place...let's explore it...Peacefully!
Written by a man who knew he was living in the Twilight Zone long before the rest of humanity knew.
Watching this now, 12/21/2020, in the middle of the pandemic. Germs did rise out of the rubble.
@Old Corps Marine This is a flu of a "different color" . Stay safe, Old Corps Marine.
@Old Corps Marine I wish you well, and you call me a sucker? Where did you learn your manners? GED class? or Trump University?
@Old Corps Marine maybe you'd prefer dunce.
@Old Corps Marine Yeah, I and the entire scientific community.
Truer words never spoken, Rod Serling was always on point with his shows, just never gets old. Time is running out for earth inhabitants called human beings. We had all this time to make a better world, but the human condition is what it is, and it does not change. Time will tell.
I always thought that the Twilight Zone was amazing. Here was a show with a nothing budget but had the best writers in the business. I remember this episode because it made incredible sense to us.
And had so many excellent actors, too!
“A few germs will rise up out of the rubble and wave microscopic flags of victory and shed a few tears for the race of man(kind)”.
Andrew, excellent post, who would have thought those microbes waving flags of victory would have been the Covid Virus? Rod was certainly more of a visionary than I thought when I watched the series.
@@c123bthunderpig I think he was more referring to amoeba, and whatever microscopic organisms would survive the aftermath.
But, eye of the beholder and all that
@@th3graveofwrath354 I forgot about those little guys 😀, they would be a good choice.
His best film was the Best Years of Our Lives
Mine too.
Dana Andrews' part in "Best Years..." is my favorite.
Imagine what he'd be saying about the 21st century.
He'd be saying the same thing. There's nothing he said that didn't/doesn't apply to humanity in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or the new millennium.
Rod Serling was a great teacher to me from childhood. A
moral element in his character , he understood the importance of mutual respect between cultures of people and the dignity of human freedom. A visionary, he saw the higher capabilities of humanity while having a deep understanding of our frailties. For this , it has made him a very strong influence in my life😊
Some of the best writing in tv ever.