Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
This evening, Ol’ Robbo watched “The Time Machine” again, mostly because I enjoy the coo-el CGI effects plus the depravity of Jeremy Irons.
It got me thinking, though, that I reeeeally ought to go back to H.G. Wells’s original, which I’ve never actually read.
Ditto his “War of the Worlds“, which I read eons ago but don’t much remember and probably couldn’t properly understand back then.
Buh-lieve me, Ol’ Robbo is perfectly cognizant of the intellectual and spiritual dispute between, on the one side, Champions of the Faith such as Chesterton and Belloc, and on the other such persons as Wells and G.B. Shaw. Rest assured that I can appreciate Shaw for his wit without compromising my faith in the God of GKC and Belloc. I’m equally confident I can dip into the sci-fi wonderings of HGW without corrupting myself.
Here, though, I’m mostly prompted by a curiosity as to whether the film has any real connection with the book, a source of perpetual grievance to Ol’ Robbo. (Off the top of my head, I’ll guess that the metrosexual, smart-ass, holographic library attendant of the film prolly is an add-on.)
I’ll let you know what I think, although I’ll bet there are friends of the decanter who already know the answers to my questions. Feel free to fire away……
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February 28, 2019 at 10:34 am
Don
There’s a remake of The Time Machine? I would have thought that George Pal’s version was definitive.
I read a lot of Wells back in high school, but little since then. Even then I could tell that, imaginative though he was, his ideas were rubbish. Max Beerbohm has at him here.
February 28, 2019 at 11:16 am
CaptainNed
And then there’s the 1979 movie “Time After Time”, where the machine makes an appearance as H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) fights Jack the Ripper (David Warner) to save the girl (Mary Steenburgen).
February 28, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Robbo
Cindi Lauper earworm….engaged!
February 28, 2019 at 3:17 pm
rbj1
Don, yup, that’s the definitive one. though the 1979 movie has fond memories.
And yes, H.G. Wells was a right (child of unwed parents.) A Progressive through and through.
February 28, 2019 at 3:18 pm
rbj1
PS in breaking news, and Bryce lands . . .
February 28, 2019 at 7:33 pm
Robbo
Which see above….