It's Not a Man at All -- 2 Minute Twilight Zone -- The Old Man in the Cave

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  • @Galantski
    @Galantski 12 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Goldsmith: "The old man in the cave knows all. He said if you mix an iced tea with lemonade, you come up with an Arnold Palmer."

  • @NCTStudio
    @NCTStudio 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I feel like this is getting more and more accurate to current events in the late 2010s and 2020s

  • @voicetube
    @voicetube 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Wow… I've seen this episode several times and like so many other Twilight Zone episodes, just PURE GENIUS! These two-minute versions are probably a good way to turn new generations of young people onto this amazing and important television series.

  • @undergroundbasement
    @undergroundbasement 12 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    One of my favorites of the old Twilight Zone. I couldn't figure out and it never explained on how Goldsmith was the only one who was aware of the computer in the cave and referred to it as "The Old Man In The Cave".Supposedly he had been going up to the cave for years getting computer information on weather,soil,food,radioactivity,ect.Did Goldsmith build it? Goldsmith came off as highly intelligent.Goldsmith always puzzled me.

    • @almamorrissey8594
      @almamorrissey8594 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I figure he’s a local engineer that worked on it or helped build it.

  • @emilytrott
    @emilytrott 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Very prophetic watching this in April 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic and it's social distancing/stay at home policies. I'd forgotten all about this episode until a few minutes ago.

    • @c3aloha
      @c3aloha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Emily Trott yup the Trump followers don’t want to listen to science.

    • @nobelissimos8719
      @nobelissimos8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@c3aloha Says the science-denier.

    • @canomalo3662
      @canomalo3662 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is what q is wake up folks

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      hahaha do tell me more about the scary COVID-19 virus. what a stupid comment. you should probably delete your internet browser off of all of your devices, jackass 😂😂😂

  • @MasterTaiki
    @MasterTaiki 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    New Vegas is basically this episode and Howard Hughes mixed.

    • @Hedhnter
      @Hedhnter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and yet I seemed to learn nothing from this episode, since I too took a 9-iron to the "computer's" uh... head.

    • @maxhydekyle2425
      @maxhydekyle2425 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hedhnter Gotta keep the arrow to the knee meme alive for historical research purposes

    • @Hedhnter
      @Hedhnter 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@maxhydekyle2425 TDIL 9-Iron = arrow and head = knee.
      Boy, that's a stretch.

  • @brodyun-heroichero3498
    @brodyun-heroichero3498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    While I know the episode is a moral story about faithlessness, I feel it can also double as a warning about refusing advice from others. People who believe they know best at all times (such as the soldiers) will often fall due to their own negligence. Whilst freedom is all good and well, you should always at least take others advice/opinions into account. You never know, you very well could learn something about yourself through the challenging of your own beliefs.

  • @woodychadwick9834
    @woodychadwick9834 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    And now I have one of those computers in my pocket.

  • @scottuehlinger7887
    @scottuehlinger7887 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Friends, Romans, Farm Animals......" James Coburn gives an Inspired Performance in this episode..always one of my favorites!

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coburn

  • @The-Rose-and-the-Cross
    @The-Rose-and-the-Cross 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I only regret that, in the episode, they didn't actually show the townspeople (specially Major French) in agony due to radiation.

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_poisoning_(disambiguation)

  • @frankroy2005
    @frankroy2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "The Old Man in the Cave" is a half-hour episode of the original version of The Twilight Zone. It is set in a post-apocalyptic 1974, ten years after a nuclear holocaust in the United States. The episode is a cautionary tale about humanity's greed and the danger of questioning one's faith in forces greater than oneself.
    The best scene from this episode is Goldsmith's ending quote, "When we talked about the ways that men could die, we forgot the chief method of execution. We forgot faithlessness, Major French. Maybe you're not to blame. Maybe if it weren't you, it would have been someone else. Maybe this has to be the destiny of man. I wonder if that's true. I wonder. I guess I'll never know. I guess I'll never know."
    Mr Goldsmith, survivor. An eyewitness to man's imperfection. An observer of the very human trait of greed. And a chronicler of the last chapter-the one reading "suicide". Not a prediction of what is to be, just a projection of what could be. This has been The Twilight Zone.

  • @PaulKyriazi
    @PaulKyriazi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, flawless editing and music manipulation, as well as story clarity. Good job.

  • @j.clementec.m.1558
    @j.clementec.m.1558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This reminds me of the survivalist storyline and the gunners from fallout 4

  • @dafrog491
    @dafrog491 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such a great episode

  • @BipolarPics
    @BipolarPics 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You saved me the trouble of having to watch the whole episode. Thank you.

  • @DrKenHildebrandt
    @DrKenHildebrandt 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Though I strongly disagree with the assertion that faith without reason is a good thing,
    I can relate to the Old Man in the Cave's messenger who states in the end,
    "Maybe this has to be the destiny of man. I wonder if that's true. I wonder. I guess I'll never know."

  • @Fan_Made_Videos
    @Fan_Made_Videos 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the closing scene from the full episode is eerily similar to the No Country for Old Men when Moss walks into the aftermath of a drug deal gone bad.

  • @theproplady
    @theproplady 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The people might have had such a fear of technology (after the nuclear war that destroyed the world) that they would not have accepted the word of the machine, no matter how good an explanation Goldsmith had given them. They were also pretty desperate. They might not have believed the word of some silly magic box (whose inner workings they knew nothing about) , but they might have been more inclined to believe the world of a wise old man.

    • @oneverymadlad1124
      @oneverymadlad1124 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      theproplady They likely just blindly believe that the machine was just giving out random information and making their lives way more difficult, also they were blindly following that military douchebag and he wanted to get rid of all other authority so he could fulfill his own power fantasy

    • @maxhydekyle2425
      @maxhydekyle2425 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's pretty understandable. The average person had no idea what a computer actually was and no reason to believe that some electronic, metal box with lights had knowledge.

  • @ALCPEREZ
    @ALCPEREZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is just like watching it in syndication.

  • @marciereynolds6627
    @marciereynolds6627 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Bear with me, not to make everything religious, but it's an updated version of Adam and Eve, this time she gets two cans given her, The old man in the cave represents God. The Soldier would be Satan hungering for the death of people and tricking them with the poisoned food (apple) and the rebellion is faithlessness and shows death from sin.

    • @Scripturegirl.
      @Scripturegirl. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But we know, in the bible it doesn't say what fruit.

    • @VLSMITH1000
      @VLSMITH1000 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ditto!

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    they did die from a lack of faith. Greed and fear are a two edged sword. I sympathize with with the impulse behind your statement. There is no freedom without the law.

  • @MyPedorro
    @MyPedorro 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work!

  • @helbent4
    @helbent4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I used this as an example of "Freedumb!" for a friend. It would have been more on the nose if Maj. French also quoted the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution. Typically done to spite science and scientists and the faith/trust placed therein.

  • @howardschwartz9489
    @howardschwartz9489 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Welcome to our Twilight Zone today called the Corona Virus....where the old man is Science itself.

  • @TheNotverysocial
    @TheNotverysocial 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Maybe so. But the biggest question is where the energy source is coming from. These soldiers have gasoline, but what does Goldsmith have for his computer? That is something to ponder.

    • @ScottLeGrand
      @ScottLeGrand 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah yeah, _Last Man On Earth_ covered this very subject, then _Fear The Walking Dead_ eventually addressed it with a fight over a post-apocalyptic refinery, but I would assume they just added fuel stabilizers because that's the sort of thing the military is good at, no? It's also how I handle my generator between outages. As for the computer, it's an AGI, it can regulate its own solar or nuclear or even geothermal power source. What did I miss?

  • @paladinzorro
    @paladinzorro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is probably one of the greatest and most relevant episodes of the Twilight Zone. Be it the Covid pandemic, global warming or the shortage of basic resources. Humanity will always priorities its wants over its needs. We are the only species on Earth that will willing cause our own extinction.

  • @fanelfabien6672
    @fanelfabien6672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    About what they broadcasting see.

  • @TheMaz1964
    @TheMaz1964 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i rather trust a computer than an old man

  • @paulzy5192
    @paulzy5192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This reminds me me of all the people who are suffering and dying of Covid-19 because they listened to bad personal advice instead of accurate scientific truths.

    • @video2000ification
      @video2000ification 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This episode has the theme of "living" vs surviving, this ignorance will cost lives. Listen to the medical proffessionals, no matter how unpopular it sounds (and not the Major Frenches).

    • @c3aloha
      @c3aloha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      video2000ification Don’t listen to Maj French or Trump!

    • @nobelissimos8719
      @nobelissimos8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@c3aloha You're the ignorant sheeps to the slaughter, the drones that listen to what they're told by the guy with a gun, and getting yourselves killed.
      Keep listening to the Media, and China, you absolute moron. They have already proven to be liars, time and time again, especially about the wuhan flu. Trump was right about everything he said so far.

    • @browsertab
      @browsertab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      On some subconscious level I probably have this episode to thank for following the guidelines specified by health experts. This is my favourite TZ episode too.

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      OOF another science worshipper with another terrible and off base take. turn to christ or burn in hell for eternity, heathen.

  • @usbport123
    @usbport123 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Everybody knows Serling wasn't from Vega. He was a chain-smoking alien from Arcturus.

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    That would be funnier if it wasn't so sad. Thanks for posting.

  • @tadimaggio
    @tadimaggio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Faith is an extremely complex subject, not least of all because it can sometimes lead one to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. George Bernard Shaw pointed out that, if a medieval peasant had been asked why he believed the earth to be flat, and that the sun orbited Earth, he would have responded: "Just use your eyes." Modern people believe that the earth is round and that it orbits the sun, not because even one in a thousand has ever read one word written by Copernicus, Galileo, or anyone else who discovered these truths, but because they were told these things in childhood by people who seemed to speak with authority (parents and teachers), and thus thought it best to believe them. The medieval peasant may have been wrong on the facts, but he was the more scientific of the two in his method. Faith -- a variant of love -- can lead to insight and awareness; or it can lead Othello to murder his innocent wife because of his faith in Iago. As "The Old Man in the Cave" illustrates, seeing the truth can sometimes be the equivalent of seeing the face of Medusa.

  • @masa624
    @masa624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Replace with covid-19 and not practicing social distancing and the people of Florida.

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      very stupid comment. you completely missed the point of the episode, tard.

  • @Jellogel
    @Jellogel 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's the guy that sleeps with the horse's head in The Godfather

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your comment on the Twilight Zone Old man episode is interesting. You make a good point. But, I'd figure the point is faithlessness. Freedom is pointless without the law. I guess there's more than one way to look at it. Thanks for the post. The post from JOBLOSHOW makes the counter-point argument for me. Both you and he seem valid.

  • @Heretic1981
    @Heretic1981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Covid denialists brought me here

    • @video2000ification
      @video2000ification 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same. This scenario has and was bound to happen

    • @c3aloha
      @c3aloha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly. I thought of this episode immediately when I saw the re-open zombie protestors.

    • @nobelissimos8719
      @nobelissimos8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      While people who think the virus isn't real are morons. The people who listen to the media and China on everything they say are far more ignorant and moronic.

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ouch! this aged terribly lmao

    • @Heretic1981
      @Heretic1981 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@randysneed570 Did it? A mil dead chief. Bet your immune systems aging like fine wine

  • @dafrog491
    @dafrog491 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i keep forgetting to buy this Ep. It has a Day of the Dead-ness about it in that the bad guy is the Soldier. A dictator/ tyrant Like Rhodes.

  • @Roger85able
    @Roger85able 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It kept them alive

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jason jason and the golden fleece

  • @rescot00
    @rescot00 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would have destroyed or got rid of the contaminated food long ago. I am sure the "old man in the cave" would have yelled "don't I want you to suffer from temptation"

  • @777RockNRollin
    @777RockNRollin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    ,..The best laid plans of mice and men ,........................................................................................... : /

  • @marciereynolds6627
    @marciereynolds6627 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I agree with the other comments too though

  • @AtticTapes14
    @AtticTapes14 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A computer as big as a tank

  • @lemmann6362
    @lemmann6362 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This would be a lot better with the Serling parts added.

  • @khandarwilliam5439
    @khandarwilliam5439 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is weather forecast

  • @rescot00
    @rescot00 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why did they keep the contaminated food and liquor all these years?

    • @generalgrievous696
      @generalgrievous696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Since they had been in the bunker so long the town wasn't in the initial epicenter of the blast since everything was intact, but the area was saturated in radiation so they had probably been in the bunker until the radiation levels lowered. That had probably just been a zone they had off limits maybe due to it being a hot spot

    • @tarmbruster1
      @tarmbruster1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The contaminated food and liquor was a metaphor for an implicit temptation. The rule, the law was, ‘don’t eat it, or you will die.” No food no story

    • @rescot00
      @rescot00 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tarmbruster1 Good point but I would argue you still get brownie points for removing "temptation". When I had a medical event, I came home I was on painkillers. Eventually when the pain wasn't so bad, I flushed the remaining pills.

  • @ewaf88
    @ewaf88 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's several episodes of Star Trek which copied this concept. The Return of the Archons is very similar.

  • @quesondriac
    @quesondriac 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you have got to be kidding me. Have you forgotten about Batista and what he did to the average Cuban? This story is about greed and how it destroys us
    when we lose our faith.

  • @TheNotverysocial
    @TheNotverysocial 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Goldsmith could have told the others that a computer was his source of information. Faithlessness and power/food hunger aside, they alone are not to blame for their demise.
    Had Goldman validated his info, they would have listened, more likely than not. Their rash reaction to the truth might not have happened had he not spun that absurd faery tale of the cave-dwelling recluse.

    • @Nutt_lemmings
      @Nutt_lemmings 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      If that's the case then how cone they're not attacking the cars?

    • @oneverymadlad1124
      @oneverymadlad1124 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TheNotverysocial It wouldn’t matter, the military douchebag had practically everyone under his spell and even if they did start to believe him the military douche would likely have just silenced him

  • @kurtwayne1672
    @kurtwayne1672 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    COVID fears today, anyone (btw, I fear we're very much overreacting, but that's for another commentary)? This WAS an excellent piece; I only regret that my favorite scene in this episode was left out, where Major French first takes a bite out of some food and pretends to die on the spot. The look on all the townspeople as they drop their cans and bottles says it all, as does the "Major" when he opens his eyes and starts laughing.

    • @c3aloha
      @c3aloha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kurt Wayne do you still feel like we’re overreacting?

    • @TheNotverysocial
      @TheNotverysocial 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But radiation is far more dangerous than a virus, as it doesn't go away when you try to wait it out, avoid crowds, wipe surfaces, and wash up before you eat and after you clean your system. It can take decades, centuries, even longer depending on the situation to clear up, and developing vaccines even for herd immunity or symptom relief is a pipe dream. You don't even get temporary relief from radiation sickness, just wait for the inevitable to happen, recover or die with time.

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@c3alohau people 100% over reacted. you used COVID to create fear in the population and create a mass formation psychosis to serve your own means. guess what - we won’t ever forgive you for stealing over a year of our lives and destroying the economy. one day the chickens will be coming home to roost and I look forward to it.

  • @Scripturegirl.
    @Scripturegirl. 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have this 1.

  • @MrTHEMONEEMAKER
    @MrTHEMONEEMAKER 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good point but if that machine is advanced enough to keep a village alive for 10 years it may run on the very nuclear power that destroyed the world or something more advanced.

    • @heedmywarning2792
      @heedmywarning2792 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      of course, the sun is also .... nuclear power

  • @007coleyfoley
    @007coleyfoley 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    COLEY FOLEY SAYS: CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG............ HAHAHA!

  • @ScottLeGrand
    @ScottLeGrand 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    s/radiation/COVID-19/g

  • @Rickwmc
    @Rickwmc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's January 24, 2022 and I'm watching this episode as our real world keeps reeling straight to Nuclear Armageddon. Apart from the fear, I look at other people on the street and listen to them on the internet and nobody seems to be concerned much less aware.

  • @attackofthecopyrightbots
    @attackofthecopyrightbots 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    there was a star wars comic that kinda took this plot
    and halo anime i think

  • @tadimaggio
    @tadimaggio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Goldsmith says of the canned goods: "There may be enough strontium-90 in those cans to kill every man, woman and child in this village." WHAT children? We don't see a single child in the whole episode. I always overlooked that remark; I thought that the absence of children meant that the nuclear catastrophe had rendered everyone sterile. If THAT were true, it wouldn't matter what Major French did -- the community would be doomed anyway. (And if there really are only 500 people left alive between Buffalo and Atlanta, the ship has already pretty much sailed on humanity's chances). Oh, and to those people who have compared Donald Trump to Major French, and Goldsmith to Dr. Fauci: Fauci isn't acting like an oracle, or expecting anyone to take what he says on blind faith. He bases his views on medical science, which may not be infallible, but which is way ahead of Trump's lunacy, which isn't even as organized and coherent as astrology or a Magic 8-Ball.

    • @generalgrievous696
      @generalgrievous696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shows like the twilight zone ran on a tight budget from episode to episode back then so casting child extras was probably out of the budget.
      the other thing is that there were very strict standards from the motion picture and television associations that set guidelines in hollywood from episode to episode depending on the subject matter for what and who they could show in an episode, especially when dealing with mass death and depicting minor's. Those associations from the 20s through the 70s had a iron grip on the movie and tv industry.

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      your brain is too small to understand this show and you should probably stop watching it. fauci is a cunt who needs to be dealt with.

  • @tooties545
    @tooties545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is what will happen to us if we listen to trump.

    • @tooties545
      @tooties545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @bill bixby 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @tooties545
      @tooties545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @bill bixby 🤡💉👻

    • @nobelissimos8719
      @nobelissimos8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything Trump has said about the Wuhan Virus has turned out to be true and accurate, why would we not listen to him? Because the media (that is paid and bought by china) is telling you not to?
      No matter what the guy does or says, the media tells you the complete opposite, and you retards keep eating it up. When are you going to realize that they just mirror anything he says no matter what? It's not about being right or wrong, it's about politics and trying to destroy the president for not bowing down to their political agenda. It's an abuse of power, and you're another slave marching to the tune of your whip master.

    • @tooties545
      @tooties545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nobelissimos8719 you must be on a different planet maybe you should read John Bolton's book. It's gonna be a doozy.

    • @randysneed570
      @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tooties545 what was that again? can you repeat that? lol. Idiot.

  • @NeptunII
    @NeptunII 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    so the villagers killed the computer, just because his looks differed from the way they imagined him.
    it's more an anti-racism-message than anything else, really.

    • @video2000ification
      @video2000ification 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If it was an actual old man, I don't think he'd stand a chance. They would shut it out like they did to Mr. Goldsmith. I'm glad Goldsmith wasn't killed or imprisoned...

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    And the moral of the story is...

  • @normalguyable
    @normalguyable 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    serling would be alive if he was a vegan.

  • @randysneed570
    @randysneed570 ปีที่แล้ว

    been one of my favorite episodes of the twilight zone for a long time. it’s very un nerving to know we are living in the time of chatbotGPT and AI imaging programs. hopefully the engineers that are creating them are well intentioned…

  • @chrisboyer4348
    @chrisboyer4348 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way things are going this could become reality 😒😔