The TimeMachine.
A wonderful book that is simply far better than any film could come close to matching.
We follow the adventures of the time traveler, who in the book has no name. Not sure if that was somehow significant to H.G.Wells?
He is trying to convince his friends of the plausibility of time travel and how it exists and so can be moved through. they are unconvinced but unknown to them he has already built a prototype in his conservatory. Later that evening he decides to test it out and off the reader goes on what must be, even today, a wonderful and fresh adventure.
He travels to the year 802,701 A.D. where humans have become timid and only 4ft tall. They are called the Eloi and are prayed upon by cannibalistic Morlocks.
He can not stand by and do nothing but he is fighting the evil Morlocks ...
The TimeMachine.
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Author - H.G.Wells.
(1866 - 1946)
Dismiss the original 1960s film from your mind because there are notable differences in the book.
In fact ignore completely the 2002 film which was so removed from the spirit of the book that Wells must have been turning in his grave.
It begins with the nameless 'Time Traveller' conversing with his fellow academics about the theory of a 4th dimension, Time.
He demonstrates with a tiny model which they are sceptical about, all accept Filby, his closest friend.
He proposes to time travel before they next see him.
A week later he is late for his own dinner party, eventually making a startling entrance, dishevelled and agitated.
He takes a seat and a glass of champagne (yes champagne) and begins to recite his story.......,
He travels forward to ...
Advantages: Just a splendid SCi Fi film. Disadvantages: None really!
earlier he demonstrated a working scaled down model of the timemachine which upon being activated by one of his friends, dissapeared before there very eyes and was instantly sent into the future......which rather obviously they thought was a mere conjurers trick or something. The only remnant he brings back from the future is a flower which he gives to his friend 'Filby' . 'I bet you won't find that species anywhere' , he says , offering some small proof of his story.
Travelling in time through three world wars , the third one inexplicably in 1966 , the time traveller moves on to the year 802701. Here he meets the ' Eloi ' . A gentle peacefull people who rather oddly still remember the wars some 326 years earlier. He saves ' Weena ' from drowning upon his arrival and forms a very close relationship with her. Astonished at the ' Eloi ...
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