"Time Enough at Last" became one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone. It is "the story of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world"[5] and tells of Henry Bemis (/ˈbiːmɪs/), played by Burgess Meredith, who loves books yet is surrounded by those who would prevent him from reading them. The episode follows Bemis through the post-apocalyptic world, touching on such social issues as anti-intellectualism, the dangers of reliance upon technology, and the difference between solitude and loneliness.
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Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself... without anyone.
Bank teller and avid bookworm Henry Bemis reads David Copperfield while serving a customer from his window in a bank. He is so engrossed in the novel he attempts to regale the increasingly annoyed woman with information about the characters, and shortchanges her. Bemis' angry boss, and later his nagging wife, both complain to him that he wastes far too much time reading "doggerel". As a cruel joke, his wife asks him to read poetry to her from one of his books; he eagerly obliges, only to find that she has crossed out the text on every page, obscuring the words. Seconds later, she destroys the book by ripping the pages from it, much to Henry's dismay.
The next day, as usual, Henry takes his lunch break in the bank's vault, where his reading cannot be disturbed. Moments after he sees a newspaper headline, which reads "H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction", an enormous explosion outside shakes the vault, knocking Bemis unconscious. After regaining consciousness and recovering the thick glasses required for him to see, Bemis emerges from the vault to find the bank demolished and everyone in it dead. Leaving the bank, he sees that the entire city has been destroyed, and realizes that, while a nuclear war has devastated Earth, him being in the vault has saved him.
Finding himself alone in a shattered world with canned food to last him a lifetime and no means of leaving to look for other survivors, Bemis succumbs to despair. As he prepares to kill himself using a revolver he has found, Bemis sees the ruins of the public library in the distance. Investigating, he finds that the books are still intact; all the books he could ever hope for are his for the reading, and time to read them without interruption.
His despair gone, Bemis contentedly sorts the books he looks forward to reading for years to come, with no obligations to get in the way. Just as he bends down to pick up the first book, he stumbles, and his glasses fall off and shatter. In shock, he picks up the broken remains of the glasses without which he is virtually blind and breaks down in tears, surrounded by books he now can never read.
Footage of the exterior steps of the library was filmed several months after production had been completed. These steps can also be seen on the exterior of an Eloi public building in MGM's 1960 version of The Time Machine.[7] John Brahm was nominated for a Directors Guild award for his work on the episode.[8] The book that Bemis was reading in the vault and that flips open when the bomb explodes is A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving.
Although the overriding message may seem to "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it", there are other themes throughout the episode as well.[7] Among these is the question of solitude versus loneliness, as embodied by Bemis' moment of near-suicide. Additionally, the portrayal of societal attitudes toward books speaks to the contemporary decline of traditional literature and how, given enough time, reading may become a relic of the past.[9][10] At the same time, the ending "punishes Bemis for his antisocial behavior, and his greatest desire is thwarted".[11]
Much of the implacable seriousness of The Twilight Zone is seemingly keyed by the clipped, dour delivery of Serling himself and the interlocutor. He never encourages us to laugh, or even smile, even when the plot twist is at least darkly funny. For example, in "Time Enough at Last" ... The H-bomb is still lurking in the background of the bookworm's "accident." The point is that the bomb could never have gone off on network television were the plot couched in a more realistic format.
"Time Enough at Last" was a ratings success in its initial airing and "became an instant classic".[13] It "remains one of the best-remembered and best-loved episodes of The Twilight Zone" according to Marc Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion,[7] as well as one of the most frequently parodied. When a poll asked readers of Twilight Zone Magazine which episode of the series they remembered the most, "Time Enough at Last" was the most frequent response, with "To Serve Man" coming in a distant second.[14] In TV Land's presentation of TV Guide's "100 Most Memorable Moments in Television", "Time Enough at Last" was ranked at No. 25.[15] In an interview, Serling cited "Time Enough at Last" as one of his two favorites from the entire series. (The other episode was "The Invaders", with Agnes Moorehead.)[16]
The episode has been referenced many times in popular culture. For example, The PC game Fallout Tactics (2001) includes a librarian in a desolate world who wants the player to find his missing glasses so he can read his books.[17] The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a theme park ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios and formerly Disney California Adventure Park, displays a replica of Henry Bemis' broken glasses in the lobby. It is noted that, while they are indeed reading glasses, Burgess Meredith wears them the entire episode to make Bemis look more bookish.[18]
Should teens be reading Twilight at all?These books, and the movies inspired by them, provoke thought about the choices we make at the same time that they present challenges in moral discernment to those who read them. Twilight deals with issues many adolescents struggle with: friendship and romance, family dynamics, chastity and pregnancy, questions of self-worth, depression, fear of aging, etc. In some cases, the way these issues are presented provides positive food for thought. In other cases, the presentation urges readers to question how and whether teen readers will be able to separate fiction from reality, and whether they will step back far enough from the romance to make discerning judgments about decisions the characters make.
Part of the reason the Twilight movies are so successful was because they had a built-in audience. Stephenie Meyer had already managed to ensnare thousands of readers with her books prior to them being adapted into movies. Some of those readers included the actors who were eventually cast in the films. Kristen Stewart, for example, has been very vocal about how much she enjoys the books over the years.
It's October, and everyone loves a good vampire. Keyword: good. I read the Twilight series. You see where I'm going already, right? The only reason I finished was because I'd started, and by the end, I was ready to go punch something. I know a lot of parents object to the really screwed up toxic relationship between Bella and Edward, but my objection was that it was just horribly written. Nobody had to sacrifice. Nobody had to grow. (Spoiler rant alert.) Bella got everything she ever wanted and lived happily ever after with her sparkly friends, convenient new powers, and a mind-reading baby that doesn't require any child rearing.
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