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"The greatest adventure THROUGH all time!"

PG-13 2002 · 1h 36m
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The Time Machine
A Reflection on Time and Existence
Main cast ] ... Vox 144
[[w:Orlando Jones|Orlando Jones]
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The Time Machine
The Limits of Exploration and Innovation
Phillby I wonder if we'll ever go too far.
[looking at a futuristic picture]
Hartdegen With what?
Phillby With this. With all of this.
[pointing at the picture]
Hartdegen No such thing.
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The Time Machine
Reflections on Time and Progress
Main cast ] ... David Philby
[[w:Mark Addy|Mark Addy]
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The Time Machine
The Evolution of the Morlocks Explained
Uber-Morlock We weren't always like this. After the moon fell from the sky, the Earth could no longer sustain the species. Some managed to stay above; the rest of us escaped underground. Then centuries later, when we tried to re-emerge into the sun again, we couldn't. So we bred ourselves into castes. Some to be our eyes and ears, others to be our muscles and sinews...
Hartdegen You mean your hunters?
Uber-Morlock Yes. Bred to be predators, but bred also to be controlled. You see, my caste concentrated on expanding our cerebral abilities.
Hartdegen You control their thoughts?
Uber-Morlock Not just theirs.
Hartdegen The Eloi. So it's not enough that you hunt them down like animals?
[realises]
Uber-Morlock That's their role here.
Hartedegen To be your food?!
Uber-Morlock Yes. And for those who are suitable, to be breeding vessels for our other colonies. You see, I am just one of many.
[indicates Mara in her cage]
Hartdegen I don't understand how you can sit there and speak so coldly about this. Have you not considered the human cost of what it is your are doing?
[the Uber-Morlock rises]
Uber-Morlock We all pay a price...Alexander. Don't worry, you're safe. I control them. Without that control, they would exhaust the food supply in a matter of months.
[other Morlocks roar in the distance]
Hartdegen Food supply?! They're human beings!
Uber-Morlock Who are you to question 800,000 years of evolution?
Hartdegen This is a perversion of every natural law!
Uber-Morlock And what is time travel... but your pathetic attempt to control the world around you?! Your futile effort to have a question answered?! Do you think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories. Your nightmares. Your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: "What if?
[grabs him by the throat]
Uber-Morlock You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it wouldn't have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back to save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy. Just as I... am the inescapable result... of you. You have your answer. Now go.
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The Time Machine
Assistance Offered by Vox 144
Vox 144 How may I help you?
[an image of himself appears]
Vox 144 Over here.
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The Time Machine
A Reflection on Time and Existence
Main cast ] ... Kalen
[[w:Omero Mumba|Omero Mumba]
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The Time Machine
Uber-Morlock's Perspective on Time Travel
Main cast ] ... Uber-Morlock
[[Jeremy Irons]
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The Time Machine
The Ultimate Journey Across Time
Taglines The greatest adventure through all time!
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The Time Machine
A Reflection on Time and Choices
Main cast ] ... Alexander Hartdegen
[[w:Guy Pearce|Guy Pearce]
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The Time Machine
The Possibility of Alternative Outcomes
Alexander Hartdegen You're forgetting one thing. What if?
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The Time Machine
Memories and Farewells in Time Travel
Vox 144 Can you even imagine what it's like to remember everything? I remember this six-year-old girl who asked me about dinosaurs 800,000 years ago. I remember the last book I recommended: Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. And yes, I even remember you. "Time travel, practical application.
Teacher If you do that again, I will re-sequence your DNA, so help me!
Phillby (on Hartdegen's disappearance) I'm glad, I'm glad he's gone. Maybe he's finally found some place where he can be happy, his home.
Mrs. Watchit (last lines of film) Godspeed, my fine lad. Godspeed.
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The Time Machine
A Character's Reference to Mrs. Watchit
Main cast ] ... Mrs. Watchit
[[w:Phyllida Law|Phyllida Law]
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The Time Machine
A Journey from Past to Future Heroism
Taglines He was searching for answers to his past. He became a hero for the future.
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The Time Machine
The Possibility of Changing the Past
Phillby Nothing can change what happened.
Hartdegen No, you're wrong. Because I will change it.
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The Time Machine
Confusion Amidst a Chaotic Situation
Hartdegen How did this happen?
Soldier #1 The moon. Come on, move it.
Hartdegen That's impossible. What happened?
Soldier #1 What, you been living under a rock?
Hartdegen Yes, I've been living under a rock! Now tell me...
Soldier #1 The demolitions for the lunar colony screwed up the orbit, okay? The moon's breaking up, all right? Now, come on.
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The Time Machine
Endless Journeys of Loss and Grief
Alexander Hartdegen I could come back a thousand times... and see her die a thousand ways.
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The Time Machine
Time Machines of Memory and Dreams
Über-Morlock We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories, and those that carry us forward are dreams.
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The Time Machine
A Compliment on Vintage Style
Jogger (credited as such but actually a bicyclist) Hey.
Hartdegen Hello.
Jogger Nice suit. Very retro.
Hartdegen Thank you.
Jogger Bet that makes a hell of a cappuccino. (Indicates the time machine) That thing.
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The Time Machine
Acknowledging the Consequences of Time Travel
Alexander Hartdegen You were right, Phillby. We did go too far.
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The Time Machine
Invitation to Approach
Über-Morlock Come a little closer, I don't bite.
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The Time Machine
A Moment of Reflection on Emma
Main cast ] ... Emma
[[Sienna Guillory]
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The Time Machine
Facing the Consequences of Truth
Vox 144 So, relic - you want to open Pandora's box, do you? See all the mysteries exposed?
[darkly]
Alexander Yes.
Vox 144 And if the truth is so horrible that it will haunt your dreams for all time?
Alexander I'm used to that.
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The Time Machine
Evolution of Two Distinct Species
Hartdegen Can you tell me what's happenening here?
Vox 114 Well, my sources are no longer fully annotated and my information has become somewhat anecdotal, but I believe what was once one race is now two; one above and one below. Two distinct species that have evolved.
Hartdegen And how do those below... survive?
Vox 114 That is the real question, isn't it? ]
[winks at Kalen; [w:sheep|Baaaaa!]
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The Time Machine
Caution in Pursuing Desires
Taglines Be careful what you wish for
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The Time Machine
Time Travel at Unimaginable Speed
Taglines 0 to 800,000 in 1.2 seconds.
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The Time Machine
Exploring Time Travel Possibilities
Taglines Where would you go?
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The Time Machine
A Reflection on Time and Connection
Main cast ] ... Mara
[[w:Samantha Mumba|Samantha Mumba]
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The Time Machine
Support and Perception in Academia
Phillby A professor from Columbia University should not be corresponding with a crazy German book keeper.
Hartdegen He's a patent clerk, not a book keeper, and I think ] needs all the support I can give him.
[[w:Albert Einstein|Mr. Einstein]
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The Time Machine
Reflections on Time and Change
Main cast ] ... Toren
[[w:Yancey Arias|Yancey Arias]
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The Time Machine
The Future Awaits in Time Travel
Taglines The future awaits
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The Time Machine
Embrace Tomorrow's Possibilities
Taglines Jump start the future
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The Time Machine
Exploring Physics and Temporal Concepts
Vox 144 Area of inquiry?
Hartdegen Do you know anything about physics?
Vox 144 Ah! Accessing physics.
[opens a file]
Hartdegen Mechanical engineering. Dimensional optics. Chronography. Temporal causality, temporal paradox.
[Vox 144 opens files for each]
Vox 144 Time travel?
Hartdegen Yes.
Vox 144 Accessing science fiction--
[sighs, looking annoyed]
Hartdegen No, no, practical application. My question is, why can't one change the past?
Vox 144 Because one cannot travel into the past.
Hartdegen What if one could?
Vox 144 One cannot.
Hartdegen Excuse me, this... this is something you should trust me on.
Vox 144 Accessing the writings of ], ], ], Alexander Hartdegen--
[opens more files, still annoyed; [w:Isaac Asimov|Isaac Asimov; [w:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells; [w:Harlan Ellison|Harlan Ellison]
Hartdegen Oh! Tell me about him.
Vox 144 Alexander Hartdegen, 1869 to 1903, American scientist given to eccentric postulation. Found writings include treatise on the creation of a time machine.
[Vox rolls his eyes]
Hartdegen Tell me about the time machine.
Vox 144 The Time Machine was written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was later adapted to ] and a stage musical by ]...
[[w:The Time Machine (1960 film)|a motion picture by George Pal; [w:Andrew Lloyd Webber|Andrew Lloyd Webber]
Hartdegen No, no, that's not what I mean--
[as Vox continues]
Vox 144 Would you like to hear a selection from the score?
Hartdegen No.
Vox 144 There's a place called tomorrow / A place of joy, not of sorrow / Can't you see, it's a place for you and--
[singing to music; Multiple clones of Vox appear]
Hartdegen Thank you, that's quite enough.
[turns to leave the library]
Vox 144 Will there be anything else?
Hartdegen Uh, no, no, I... I think I'll have better luck in a few hundred years.
Vox 144 Live long and prosper!
[sarcastically giving a [[w:Vulcan salute|Vulcan salute]
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