I think that, in a way, she saves this movie. Her beauty, grace, and youthful charm come as a welcome relief to the apparently deliberate overbearingness of HGW, and the other turn-of-the-century male characters.
I'm not faulting the actors. Their parts were written that way. They were doing their jobs.
Maybe the whole thing was meant to balance out that way. If so, it worked for me.
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The story is king.
I wholeheartedly agree. If it wasn't for Weena's character, this would definitely be a less pretty and much more difficult movie to watch.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
AND she was SO OBVIOUSLY just gagging for it throughout ...
He was a total idiot for just being so bitter & angry that they didn't come up to HIS idea of humanity/progress etc.
Yvette was the most gorgeous woman EVER!
I saw 'The Time Machine' in 1961 at the cinema. I was a 10-year old boy at that time, and I simply fell in love with her.....
That's all......................
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The Opener of the Way is waiting....
Entirely agree with you.
I missed the movie at its 1st projection in 1961 (for demerits in schoolwork).
And had to watch it in a rerun theater far from my home, later in the year.
I kept watching it every time it's shown again, having got me too a crush on Yvette (& for it I was the butt of my schoolmates' jokes !)
The choice of Yvette Mimieux as Weena is the determinant for at least 50% of the movie success.
Just my opinion.