Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:50:44 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/06/2025 10.24, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:32:26 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 09/06/2025 19.06, Tony Nance wrote:

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The Time Machine - Wells

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This is the second classic Wells you've recently mentioned (the other one
was _The War of the Worlds_), neither of which I've read. (I have seen the
George Pal interpretations of both, of course.) I need to fix this.

 
Yes. You do.

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Pal's version of /The Time Machine/ is -- awful. No, seriously, read
the book and forget the film, if you can. (The main problem is that it
is obsessed with Nuclear War which, of course, the book knows nothing
of.)

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Nuclear war? Wells didn't even know about the Blitz when he wrote it, or
even WWI.

Thanks for confirming my point.

I didn't notice this when I saw it as a child, but the Eloi are lured
into the Morloch domain /in the movie/ by the sound of an air raid
siren and the opening of an air raid shelter's doors -- a siren we
heard and a shelter we saw earlier in the film.

The problem for me here isn't that they changed the book, the problem
is that the changes are modern-day (well, "modern" when the film was
made) concerns.

Maltin, who likes the film, calls it a "cartoon version" of the book.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"