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Actors: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Time Machine (1960) |
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A professer from the 1800's invents a time machine. His fiance his killed, so he tries to go back in time to save her. It doesn't work so he goes forwrd in time to try to find the answer to time travel. He eventually ends up 800,000 years into the future where mankind is struggling against a group of mutants.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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George (a version of H.G. Wells played by handsome Taylor), a Victorian inventor, is fed up with his species' behavior and builds a time machine to travel into the magnificent future. He says goodbye to his friends on Dec. 31, 1899 and checks out 1917 (a disappointment), notices some buffeting around 1940, stops in August 1966 (perpetual war going on), and finally zips far into the future: Oct. 12, 802701, to be exact. At first, Earth seems to have become an Eden, but then George discovers the species has evolved into two: the dumb, peaceful Eloi and the crude, ugly, and violent Morlocks who breed the Eloi for labor and food. Partly because the Morlocks commandeer his time machine and partly because he's very taken with a sweet, innocent blonde Eloi girl named Weena (Mimieux, who debuted in three films that year at the age of 18), George leads a revolution against the oppressors. Despite some bad special effects due to a low budget, mixed acting, and a rather silly plot (with old-fashioned fisticuffs against the world-dominating Morlocks), this 1960 classic wears surprisingly well, mostly on the strength of Taylor's warm and stalwart performance, lovely color (for the era), and some nifty time-travel effects.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Time Machine (1960) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 25%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 45%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Time Travel:
- primarily to the future
Repressive Society
Yes
Time Travel Story?
Yes
Who's being repressed/enslaved?
- humans are slaves
To what time period?
- Distant future
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/medium straight
- (man) short/medium wavy
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- English/British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- Very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- very skinny (female)
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an entire race
Profession/status:
- killer
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
- super strength
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
- 60%
Hair color
- white/grey
Body type
- fat (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Intelligence
- Ordinary Dumb
- Smarter than most other characters
Physical condition
- very athletic
- healthy but a geeky weakling
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- distant future
- 20th Century (1950-1970)
- 20th Century (1900-1950)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Jungle?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Tone of movie
- upbeat
- fearful
Any profanity?
- None
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
- exotic aliens
- exotic alien landscape
Is this movie based on a
- book
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