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A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Rod Taylor: H. George Wells
This is my ultimate classic! Watched this countless times when I was a boy! The air headed Eloi and their passive nature. The creepy Morlocks. I love the way when he uses the time machine everything around grows and dies, changes, warps and the mannequin in the window with her changing fashions, so clever. Incredible music score and direction.
Rod Taylor is amazingly charismatic and dashing as the main protagonist. The lady (Yvette Mimeux) is so stunning. Original is so damn perfect and beautifully made its still good even today. Would recommend to any intellectual guys/ladies out there. Which three books would you take? At the time when this came out all the Religious people thought the bible would be one, if only it was so simple!, If it was me i know what id take. It would be a book that portrays the good of mankind and its morals and empathy, philosophy and Plato. Show emotion for all its good sides and glory, always do the best thing. The Eloi remind me of little children innocent and needing guidance. The young are so receptive and ideas flow through like water into the sea from a flowing river ending its journey. I think H.G wells hit the nail on the head with the Morlocks and a big stab at the industrial revolution and what mankind could become if we went the wrong way forward. An emotionless hungry race with ugly machinery void of morals(like a group of cannibals/animals), still i love how the two races are the same but one has been trapped underground while the other living on the surface, two different paths altering them entirely. The dusty books too totally disregarded by the Eloi the climactic, recorded singing rings telling the sad tale. Worth watching time and time again! This film had no need of a remake nothing could surpass this!
After scoring popular hits with When Worlds Collide and The War of the Worlds, special-effects pioneer George Pal returned to the visionary fiction of H.G. Wells to produce and direct this science-fiction classic from 1960. Wells's imaginative tale of time travel was published in 1895 and the movie is set in approximately the same period with Rod Taylor as a scientist whose magnificent time machine allows him to leap backward and forward in the annals of history. His adventures take him far into the future, where a meek and ineffectual race known as the Eloi have been forced to hide from the brutally monstrous Morlocks. As Taylor tests his daring invention, Oscar-winning special effects show us what the scientist sees: a cavalcade of sights and sounds as he races through time at varying speeds, from lava flows of ancient earth to the rise and fall of a towering future metropolis.
10/10
