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A new movie version of H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine came out in 2002, ... In the original novel and comic book, Weena gets separated from the Time Traveler and is not seen again, ... As I suggested above, Wells seemed more interested in speculating on the future of the human race than in telling an adventure story.
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The Time Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sitting by the side of these wells, and peering down into the shafted darkness, I could see no gleam of water, nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match. But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud-thud-thud, like the beating of some big engine; ... Then I tried talk, and found that her name was Weena,
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`Beneath my feet, then, the earth must be tunnelled enormously, and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race. The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes--everywhere, in fact except along the river valley - ... I proceeded, as I have said, to question Weena about this Under-world, but here again...
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If you have one, watch it with a girlfriend with strong feelings about the depiction of women on screen (my wife's imitation of Weena is a scream). It makes an interesting matching bookend for Pal's earlier and darker War of the Worlds, his even looser adaptation of a Wells novel.
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George then drags the time machine back into his laboratory so that "he may return to Weena standing outside the Pyramid". This would not be necessary because the space of the garden is actually further away from the Pyramid than the laboratory. ... I'm really interested in reading the H.G. Wells story now, so hopefully in...
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NYT 9:08; Newsday 8:28; LAT 4:12; CS 2:33; Hoo-boy! The family went out for dinner tonight at Chili Mac's 5-Way Chili and your faithful correspondent ordered the blue margarita. (What flavor is that? The consensus seems to be "blue.") ... From Wells' The Time Machine, we get the ELOI, [Weena's race, in an 1895 novel].
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The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two theatrical films of the same name as well as at least one television and a large number ... However, the race names Eloi and Morlocks, and the character Weena (played by Priscilla Barnes of Three's Company fame),
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H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine was innovative when first published in 1895 and remains fresh even today. Hartdegen presses on and ends up in 802701, finding most of "civilization" gone and the human race divided into two distinct species. The Eloi are meek and very Politically Correct, living in cliffside...
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You know, Weena... ...I'd hoped to learn such a great deal. I hoped to take back the knowledge and advancement man had made. Instead, I find vegetables. The human race reduced to living vegetables. They're gone. Are you all right?
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