![]() The novel explicitly makes the Eloi the descendants of the indolent, leisured ruling class and the Morlocks the descendants of the working class. In the film, the two new species are descended from groups of people who randomly decided to sit out Nuclear Winter above or below ground. Wells was a pioneer in transforming the science fiction genre into the humanist, socialist, one-worldist, Darwinist and spiritualist propaganda tool that it still is today (with feminism and environmentalism now tacked on for good measure).Īlthough Wells would probably have been pleased with the antiwar polemic of this film version, the novel has a different thrust. Up till Wells’ time, most “science fiction” (such as the best work of Jules Verne) was intended as reasonable guesses at what real science might accomplish in the future. Moreau) studied under evolutionist Thomas Huxley, and was a Fabian Socialist (that means his goals were the same as those of the Communists, but he believed they could be achieved by gradual, nonviolent change through “reeducation”). Wells ( War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, Island of Dr. 11:1-9) to break up one-world government. John Lennon said it well: “Imagine there’s no countries-nothing to kill or die for.” God sent the judgment at the tower of Babel ( Gen. Nothing wrong there except that (as I learned while I was a ’60s activist) the leadership of the antiwar movement intends to abolish war by instituting one-world government. Underlying Philosophy (Film): Definitely antiwar in outlook. As George escapes from 802,701 he at first goes farther into the future and watches the time-lapse decay of the body of a Morlock that he’d just killed. A glimpse of a large cave full of Eloi skeletons. A lot of violence and some blood as George kills several Morlocks while rescuing Weena. A quick-budding romance between George and Weena, but no sexual content. Special effects of a nuclear attack on England, but no visible deaths. No profanity, except one “I’ll be d*” from Dr. ![]() When Weena and other Eloi are taken underground to be slaughtered, George must save her a second time. ![]() Since the Eloi do no work and don’t care about anything, George can’t figure out how they’re fed and clothed-until he discovers that other descendants of humans, the apelike, underground-dwelling Morlocks, provide for the Eloi’s needs but also eat them as though they were cattle. He meets a race of childlike blond, blue-eyed people, the Eloi and rescues one of their women, Weena (Yvette Mimieux), from drowning. When the lava mountain around him has worn away, the year is 802,701 A.D. Volcanic eruptions triggered by the nukes bury him and his machine in lava, but he’s unhurt due to his time-travel speed. ![]() George passes through WWI and WWII (the screenwriters had the benefit of hindsight) plus an imaginary nuclear war set in 1966, six years after the film’s release. Actually the second meeting is shown first and the rest is flashback, allowing George to supply voiceovers during his journeys. George agrees to meet his friends again five days later, and in the meantime uses a full-size time machine to journey to the future and back again. But within this fictitious story, there’s both forward and backward time-travel. 4 and 5 Mark 14:12-16 John 6:64) so there cannot be two “ends” for the same “beginning.” Standard physics also says that backward time-travel is impossible. 41:4 48:3-5) as well as by fulfillment of minutely-detailed prophecies (Genesis Chs. God knows the end from the beginning, as shown by direct statement ( Isa. Hillyer (Sebastian Cabot) argues that time-travel-especially backward time-travel-is impossible because the future is fixed and can’t be changed. When he hits the control lever, the machine disappears. 31, 1899 a British scientist, “George” (Rod Taylor), demonstrates a small working model of a time machine to his friends. Wells novel (although that’s soon to change), and because it’s the functional ancestor of later films on the same theme (“ Back to the Future” copies the house full of clocks and the talk about thinking fourth-dimensionally). This film is historically important, because it’s the only widely-available adaptation of the 1895 H.G.
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