| 词条 | I Shot an Arrow into the Air |
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| title = I Shot an Arrow into the Air | series = The Twilight Zone | image = | caption = | season = 1 | episode = 15 | airdate = January 15, 1960 | production = 173-3626 | teleplay = Rod Serling | story = Madelon Champion | director = Stuart Rosenberg | guests = * Dewey Martin as Officer Corey
| music = Stock from "And When the Sky Was Opened" by Leonard Rosenman | season_article = The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 1) | episode_list = List of Twilight Zone episodes | prev = Third from the Sun | next = The Hitch-Hiker }} "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is episode 15 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Opening narration{{cquote|Her name is the Arrow 1. She represents four and a half years of planning, preparation, and training, and a thousand years of science, mathematics, and the projected dreams and hopes of not only a nation, but a world. She is the first manned aircraft into space and this is the countdown. The last five seconds before man shot an arrow into the air.}}PlotA manned space flight with eight crew members crash lands on what the astronauts believe to be an unknown asteroid. Their expectations of survival or rescue are bleak. Only four of the crew survive: the commanding officer Donlin, crewmen Corey and Pierson, and a crewman who is barely alive. After they bury the dead men, Donlin and Pierson concern themselves with taking care of the injured crewman, but Corey, realizing water is in short supply, is only concerned about saving himself, setting himself at odds with Donlin and Pierson. After the injured crewman dies, Donlin has Corey and Pierson trek out into the barren desert to see if there is anything that might improve their chances of survival. Six hours later, Corey returns but Pierson does not, and Corey claims not to know where Pierson is. Donlin calls Corey out on having more water in his canteen now, than what he left with, and demands to know where Pierson is. Corey claims that he found Pierson dead and filched the water supply from his dead body. Donlin forces Corey at gunpoint to lead him to Pierson's body to see for himself. They find Pierson, still barely alive, who with his last bit of strength draws a primitive diagram in the sand with his finger, and then dies. Corey confesses that he attacked Pierson earlier, and he then kills Donlin and sets out alone, confident that he will survive longer now that he has all of the water supply. Corey climbs a nearby mountain and sees a sign for Reno, and then sees telephone poles, which were what Pierson had attempted to draw before he died. Realizing that they had in fact never left Earth and that he had killed his partners for nothing, Corey breaks down weeping. Closing narration{{cquote|Practical joke perpetrated by Mother Nature and a combination of improbable events. Practical joke wearing the trappings of nightmare, of terror, and desperation. Small, human drama played out in a desert 97 miles from Reno, Nevada, U.S.A., continent of North America, the Earth and, of course, the Twilight Zone.}}Episode notes{{bquote|I got 15,000 manuscripts in the first five days. Of those 15,000, I and members of my staff read about 140. And 137 of those 140 were wasted paper; hand-scrawled, laboriously written, therapeutic unholy grotesqueries from sick, troubled, deeply disturbed people. Of the three remaining scripts, all of clearly poetic, professional quality, none of them fitted the show.|Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone Companion}}Despite this, Serling did end up producing an idea from an industry outsider when he paid Madelon Champion $500 for the idea on which this episode was based, an idea that came up in a social conversation between the two.[1] Though Serling was frequently approached with suggestions for the series, such a purchase was never repeated.
References1. ^1 {{cite book|title=The Twilight Zone Companion|last=Zicree|first=Marc Scott|page=98|publisher=Sillman-James Press|year=1982|edition=2nd|location=Hollywood}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=The Twilight Zone Companion|last=Zicree|first=Marc Scott|page=277|publisher=Sillman-James Press|year=1982|edition=2nd|location=Hollywood}} Further reading
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