Posted on 04/10/2010 1:53:53 AM PDT by RogerFGay
1936 classic sci-fi film, with screenplay by H.G. Wells.It's Christmas 1940 and the people of Everytown, unprepared and ill-equipped, find themselves at war against an enemy who has been planning such a conflict for years. The land is devastated by the horrors of aerial bombardment as the war drags on for thirty years, causing a period of despair, with feudal tyrants ruling a downtrodden populace suffering famine and pestilence. Can the human race rise above its desperate circumstances and build a scientific utopia!
A future history as scripted by the visionary writer H.G. Wells, Things to Come set a high benchmark for science fiction with its fantastic design, gigantic sets and spectacular special effects. Acknowledged as a landmark within the genre, Oscar-winning William Cameron Menzies (Invaders from Mars) creates an astounding vision of post-war desolation and Utopian futurism. Starring Oscar-nominated Raymond Massey (A Matter of Life and Death) as John Cabal and his descendants (yes, more than one part) and the award-winning Ralph Richardson (The Four Feathers) as The Boss, Things to Come showcases a gorgeous, and instantly recognizable score by Arthur Bliss.
A world-first, the two-disc special edition of Things to Come has been painstakingly restored in High Definition from the remaining film elements and represents the most complete version known to exist.
Special Features:
- Digital restoration of the longest existing version.
- Virtual Extended Edition – a viewing option allowing for the inclusion of text and images from long-missing and unfilmed scenes to present a tantalizing “what if?”
- Audio commentary with Things to Come expert nick Cooper.
- On Reflection: Brian Aldiss on H.G. Wells - a 25 minute documentary from 1971.
- Ralph Richardson interview by Russell Harty in 1975.
- Extensive booklet written by Nick Cooper.
- The Wandering Sickness - an original 78 rpm recording.
- Comprehensive image gallery including many rare stills.
- Merchandise image gallery.
- US re-release trailer.
Any idea of the price tag? I’m going to have to buy it.
H.G. WELLS’ globalist quotes are available in my tagline link.
He may also have been clued in on the UFO research and events PRE-ROSWELL.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
The specific version reviewed is pretty cheap, but the link is to Amazon UK. Good, reconditioned, digital US versions are available and not particularly pricey.
Rented it years ago. Great flick.
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_HG-wells.html
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H. G. Wells: novelist, historian, authoritarian, anticapitalist, eugenicist . . .
EXCELLENT FIND.
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However, be warned . . . some . . . lofty folks in these parts are hostile to even the facts about such things.
Supposedly this is a site interested in facts in support of the Republic, The Constitution and authentic patiotism . . .
so long, that is . . . as such facts do not jangle personal fantasies and sensibilities.
Sigh.
I first saw it for $1 at a special Saturday Night at the Movies presentation in one of the engineering buildings when I was in college - organized by students in the theater dept.
I thought mentioning the movie to be quite timely just now. One the back of the global warming hoax, there are books out now giving guidelines on how to destroy industrial civilization. Just thought it would be interesting to put something out there that envisions what that would be like. Things to Come seems spot on.
VERY PERCEPTIVE OF YOU.
And very well put.
Thanks tons.
God be with you and yours.
. . . back to bed . . .
Doubtlessly one of the great films of the 20th Century, and one of my favorite sci-fi pieces.
HG Wells had knowledge of Roswell before it happened? Did he get that telepathically from the Illuminatti or some secret Thule Society code?
You guys need to get some sleep.
Here is a site discussing lost and deleted scenes. This is some years old and may not cover newly discovered material. The deletions discussed don’t seem majorly important. One interesting one though:
6). Cabal and Gordon are repairing a tattered biplane at the airfield. A jagged cut leads straight to Roxana leaning out of Dr. Harding’s lab, shouting, ‘Look! It’s your Gordon!” to Mary.
What is missing in between is an entire dialog scene (24 lines) to explain why Everytown’s First Lady is visiting commoner Mary in the first place. Roxana acknowledges that The Boss has set his eye on Mary, and asks Mary to explain the meaning of this new Wings Over The World aviator and his scientific socialism.
There’s some startling feminist talk in the description of the ‘new world’. When Mary says women will work like the men do, Roxana denies that women want a part in this quest for “knowledge, civilization, and the good of mankind”, preferring the glory of “being loved and desired, the glory of feeling and looking splendid”. The world as Mary has described it would have no lovers, no warriors, no danger, and no adventure.
Instead of helping men build a new world, as Mary proposes, Roxana decides the right thing to do is to let the airmen conquer the world, and then women can conquer them. At this impasse, Roxana notices the airplane flying above.
This is one of the most telling elisions. Roxana’s character is established as the female equivalent of The Boss, the unregenerate primitive unwilling to submit to the dictates of progress. It is interesting, however, that Mary’s alternative still places woman as a servant to male aspirations, ‘helping them,’ instead of their equal. This makes Roxana’s devious mindset to dominate men, as she has The Boss, actually seem a viable choice! Despite his involvement with several feminist icons of the early 20th century, H.G. Wells’ ideas about women had definite limitations.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s65things.html
Perhaps the Illumaniti infiltration of the Thule Society revealed lost secrets from the Alexanderean copies of pre- dynastic Egypt papyrii of the settlement of Atlantis.
“Revisionist historian” is closer to the truth.
But at least we have Hilaire Belloc’s “Companion” to Wells’ “Outline of History.”
Indeed. But where do the Roswell Aliens fit in? Could this be another indication that perhaps what Roswell is really all about is travel via a ripple in the time-space continuum? Or that the Atlanteans were in fact little green men?
What will be the impact on the UFO Museum? Will they have to close the snack bar?
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Be sure to look for the inimitable Ralph Richardson in his bravura performance as “Sir Boss”.
In answer to your questions
1. In any San Francisco bar or Ralph Nader for president rally.
2.yes
3.no - they were large endowed green women ( ask Kirk)
4. The end result of the impact will be a large crater.
5. Only if Michelle Obama has her way.
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