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THE TIME MACHINE
Film 2002. Written by John Logan. Directed by Simon Wells and Gore Verbinski. Starring Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, Phyllida Law and Alan Young.

Source Features: BBB (3) TIMELINE (6) OTHER (19) THEMES (1)

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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU

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Fleur De Lis Florist

Fleur De Lis Florist
Flower shop where Dr. Alexander Hartdegen buys flowers for his fiancee Emma.

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Omnibus

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Time Machine

Time Machine
Dr. Alexander Hartdegen builds a time machine to travel back in time four years from 1903 to 1899 prevent a mugger from killing his fiancee Emma. He is not successful in saving her, and then ventures into the future.

FICTITIOUS TIMELINE

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January 18, 1899

19th Century and earlier

January 18, 1899
Original timeline: a mugger kills Dr. Alexander Hartdegen's fiancee Emma.

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January 18, 1899

19th Century and earlier

January 18, 1899
Dr. Alexander Hartdegen travels back in time four years from 1903 to 1899 prevent a mugger from killing his fiancee Emma. This time, she is killed in a carriage accident.

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February 3, 1903

20th Century: 1st Half

February 3, 1903
Dr. Alexander Hartdegen travels back in time four years from 1903 to 1899 prevent a mugger from killing his fiancee Emma. This time, she is killed in a carriage accident.

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May 24, 2030

21st Century: 30s and up

May 24, 2030
Alexander Hartdegen travels into the future to May 24, 2030, where he meets an A.I. hologram librarian named Vox.

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August 20, 2037

21st Century: 30s and up

August 20, 2037
Lunar mining demolitions cause the moon to break apart. Pieces of the moon crash into Earth, affecting its orbit and causing mass extermination of the human race.

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July 16
Dr. Alexander Hartdegen travels far into the future to July 16, 802701, where he meets Mara, her peaceful people the Eloi, and their enemies - the ape-like Morlocks.

OTHER

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Alexander Hartdegen

Alexander Hartdegen
Alexander Hartdegen: This is, this is a perversion of every natural law.

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Alexander Hartdegen

Alexander Hartdegen
Alexander Hartdegen: You're forgetting one thing. What if?

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Alexander Hartdegen

Alexander Hartdegen
Alexander Hartdegen: I could come back a thousand times... and see her die a thousand ways.

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Alexander Hartdegen

Alexander Hartdegen
Alexander Hartdegen: You were right, Philby. We did go too far.

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Alexander Hartdegen

Alexander Hartdegen
Alexander Hartdegen: My proposal for utilizing solar power... rejected. My concepts for harnessing microenergy waves... rejected. The Dean suggests that I focus on something that might actually help mankind... like his study on the benefits of tobacco consumption!

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David Philby

David Philby
David Philby: I'm glad he's gone. Maybe he's finally found a place where he can be happy.

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David Philby & Alexander Hartdegen

David Philby & Alexander Hartdegen
David Philby: Nothing can change what happened.
Alexander Hartdegen: No, you're wrong. Because I will change it.

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Mara

Mara
Mara: Some things are better left unsaid.

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Mara

Mara
Mara: You must do things to be safe where you come from. Or when you come from.

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Mara & Alexander Hartdegen

Mara & Alexander Hartdegen
Mara: What are you doing with it?
Alexander Hartdegen: Changing the future.

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Teacher
Teacher: Tommy, you stop what you're doing, or I will resequence your DNA, so help me.

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Uber-Morlock

Uber-Morlock
Uber-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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Uber-Morlock

Uber-Morlock
Uber-Morlock: You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and 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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Uber-Morlock

Uber-Morlock
Uber-Morlock: Who are you to question 800,000 years... of evolution?

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Uber-Morlock

Uber-Morlock
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 fled underground. Then centuries later when we tried to re-emerge into the Sun again, we couldn't. So, we bred ourselves into castes.

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Uber-Morlock

Uber-Morlock
Uber-Morlock: Come a little closer, I don't bite.

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Vox

Vox
Vox: 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."

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Vox

Vox
Vox: Live long and prosper.

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