The Time Machine Essay -- essays research papers

I choose The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells, for my movie book comparison. H. G. Wells copyrighted it in 1895. Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux played the main characters in the movie. It was directed by George Pal and opened in the year of 1960. There were two main characters in the book and the movie. One of them was the time traveler, George, whom Rod Taylor played. And the other one was Weena, the child like woman that George the time traveler saves. Yvette Mimieux played her. Both the characters in the movie and the book where very similar in a lot of ways but I think that George was more action packed in the movie and a little bit more aggressive. And Weena seemed to be a lot quieter in the book then in the movie and you could understand her more in the movie then in the book. The Time Machine starts out with the time traveler trying to explain the time machine and how it works to four other science guys. He goes on about four dimensions and how nobody thinks that there is a fourth dimension and how there is only three. He goes on describing the fourth dimension to them and then he demonstrates how the time machine works. The whole time he is demonstrating it the other four scientists don't know what to think. And then it disappears into thin air. All of his friends can't believe it and leave. Except one of his friends, David Filby a good friend of his. He tries to talk him into not going through with this whole time travel notion, and then he leaves. The time traveler desc...