I think he met the Eloi in the year 802701 A.D. Later he goes even futher into the future, when the sun is becoming dim. Other movies, like Star Trek, only go a few centuries into the future. I am curious what life would be like and how humans will look in the distant future.
This is so far in the future that I dont think any other film ever came close to it. One has to wonder if the people who lived 800,000 years from now would look like mop-haired kids. Of course when this was made it made sense lol.
The 2002 version doesn't really deserve any credit for that, in the original novel after he left the Eloi/Morlocks era he went so far into the future that he saw the the end of all life on earth. Or close to it. No idea what year he went to, it's been over 30 years since I read the book.
EDIT: Looks like they don't give an exact year in the book, but he went "about thirty million years" into the future.
Yes, there ar also different versions of Wells classic story. But in the unabridged he travelled further into the future and witnessed weird life among the sand dunes. Giant centipedes and kangaroo looking humans with no trace of humanity left, and then the sun went dim and, oh its so melancolic and sad and...romantic in a very peculiar way.
Read the book guys, its very easy to read master Wells´ books. He practically invented the "alien invasion" genre (War of the Worlds 1898), the eco horror subgenre (Food of the Gods 1904), Darwinian experiments (Island of Dr Moreau 1896), invisibility (Invisible Man 1897), timetravel with a machine (you know 1895), illustrating an ecosystem on a planet (First Men on the Moon 1901) and much more...
Read the book guys, its very easy to read master Wells´ books. He practically invented the "alien invasion" genre (War of the Worlds 1898), the eco horror subgenre (Food of the Gods 1904), Darwinian experiments (Island of Dr Moreau 1896), invisibility (Invisible Man 1897), timetravel with a machine (you know 1895), illustrating an ecosystem on a planet (First Men on the Moon 1901) and much more...
That's really crazy that one guy could come up with all that. Maybe he had a time machine.
Yes. He was quite a pioneer. He was very educated but also classless. He was like a socialist democrate anarchist, who loved to have sex outdoors and stuff. Ive read a lot about him (But we can never be sure about many things!), and of course his books. They are very easy to read, you know! Are you also from Sweden.....I mean Bromma-bo?
The book has the time traveler eventually reaching a point when the sun is becoming what sounds like a red giant. If updated with the latest theories that would put him at about 4-5 billion years.
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its interesting that the english language has survived 800K years.
Good point! Such a thing simply can't happen. A language evolves and is subject to change, just like anything else.
Look at how English, German or French changed over a 1000 years, to such an extent that it is difficultly understandable to the untrained eye.
Who speaks Latin or ancient Greek anymore outside of scholarly circles? Nobody. And that's within only a few centuries, so imagine 800'000 years! Impossible.
They would have been speaking completely different languages.
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I'm far from an expert but it seems the languages changed a lot more before mass communication with published books and so forth. So the cause of those changes has itself changed a over that time.
Nonetheless, hard to imagine they'd be talking English. But it would have made the film hard work if they didn't so storytelling over plausibility, like most good stories.
Mind you, they did talk haltingly slowly so it wasn't dead easy for them.
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Anyone who loves the H.G. Wells story would probably enjoy "The time ships" by Stephen Baxter. It is written as a sequel to The time machine and also in imitation of Wells' style of writing, prose, slang of the Victorian period etc; It is a great read, I enjoyed it immensely.
Didn't they go to the end of time and watch the universe end? "The restaurant at the end of the universe. " Or did I read a book. LOL I guess I should go look it up.