PAY
ATTENTION TO THE CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF THE GERMAN ARTIST
OLIVER SCHOLL FOR THE NEW "TIME MACHINE"
Cinema
itself is still the greatest invention as time machine.
Photography and literature, its more precise allies, have
an ally not always valorized by the look of the spectators:
Production Design, this fabulous engineering that recreates
past and conceives future with all the freedom of imagination.
Time Machine is now on film for the second time. The first
version of the film inspired on the science fiction genius
H.G. Wells was released in 1960, a classic nowadays, directed
by George Pal. The second version of "Time Machine"
that is released now is directed by no one less than Simon
Wells, great-grandson of the author of so many fantasies
about the future.
American
Herbert George Wells is considered by many of his fans the
father, if there is something like that, of science fiction.
"Time Machine", his first book, was written in
1895. Afterwards came "Dr. Moreau's Island", "The
Invisible Man" and "War of the Worlds", all
fertile inventories of science fiction in the movies.
The
new "Time Machine" brings the exuberance of the
future projected from the third millennium, but its sceneries
of a primitive society, especially the cocoons where this
society lives in the heights, deserved to be in the next
Venice Biennale. This creativity is all accredited to the
German artist Oliver Scholl, also responsible for the best
futurist images in "A.I.", by Steven Spielberg.
Many
ideas in the first movie from the 60's were preserved. One
in particular still gives a primitive tone also to this
new version. The shop window where a dummy tells the time
passage by the clothes it wears. One innovation by Oliver
Scholl, one of the best in the new film, is the moon implosion
by the real state speculation, it keeps on being Earth's
satellite, but eerily ruined.
The
good news in the new version of "Time Machine",
besides the pleasure it will offer to a new generation of
movie viewers, is that its distributor, Warner Bros., is
promising for soon the edition of a luxurious DVD containing
the two adaptations of the book. Time machine won't stop.