Preservation of knowledge is what makes for functional and advanced civilizations. It's not just tragic, but baffling to Wells how a society that functions so well does not preserve its own ancestral history.
@@SHAMSHAM1090 And how often do you really SEE that online? Really see it? I don't see it that much. Critical thinking is dead. We're living in a post-truth era where people believe the Earth is _flat_ and vaccines cause autism.
The scene where the books just crumble into dust is bleak as fuck. All of the intelligence, fantasy, and philosophy of the homo sapien is nothing but ash in the face of time.
@@MilanousMedia I believe if you dry out paper (bake it in an oven), it will crumble because all the moisture is gone. That's just my guess as to how they did this.
Watching this back last night...certainly one of the best and most powerful scenes from the film. It seems we're already living this in our own time...what was written down is slowly being forgotten and is turning to dust before our very eyes.
Damn. This scene resonates with me in these troubled and horrific times we live in. It's embarrassing to me what people don't know, and what little they choose to commit to memory is esoteric and worthless.
Or it's the opposite problem, where as people today choose to believe in nonsense conspiracyTheories like fake moon landings, flatEarth and/or antiVaxxing.
@alexander-yd3hz . . . so you're implying there exists some suffering that is necessary ??? Interesting. Then there is the olde Englishe meaning of " suffer. " It means " allow " or " permit. " Consider that . . . if you will.
Looking at some of the comments it seems it’s lost on people that he thought knowledge would’ve still been recorded, passed down and replicated, not that a book from 800,000 years ago wasn’t going to decay.
These comments indicate that the decline of intelligence portrayed in this scene is also happening in real life. Some people are blissfully ignorant in real life.
@Tee Rollings Remove education and remove thought, critical thinking, common sense. It is happening, I've seen it. 2 high school graduates I hired in 2021. One couldn't read. One could not make change, even though the computer gave her the numbers. Example: meal cost $16.27. She is handed a $20 bill. Computer says, $3.73 change. She can't count 73 cents change. 7 dimes and 3 pennies. 2 quarters, 2 dimes and 3 pennies. She couldn't do it. Per policy, I had to make employees read out loud a heat stroke/exhaustion paragraph so they understood the dangers of overheating in the kitchen when it was 95° outside. She struggled to read words like "trouble" or "danger" and refused to attempt "exhaustion." Both girls graduated high school. I saw their diplomas. I ran a background check. They can't read or do basic math and they graduated. You're not wrong. And it's sad. I didn't graduate ffs, and I can spell my own name and count how many letters are in it, goddammit.
@@johnburt7935 You say that like they are already aware of the knowledge and simply choose to be willfully ignorant and not look it up. No one is simply not bothering to look up information. It's not willful ignorance, it's an overwhelming, overstimulating, abundant amount of ever expanding information. An infinite frontier. What you're saying is like criticizing people for not finding and reading the "right" books at a library the size of China. People don't have that kind of time when there's an infinite amount of interesting or distracting stuff to pay attention to.
My guess is that this sort of separate evolution would have led more to something like Hell's Angels on steroids than creatures from "Land of the Lost." And Elois would have been much sloppier and dopier, like the famous Dodo birds. Has anyone ever done a decent remake of this movie?
Here's the thing though, the Eloi live in blissful ignorance and decadence because the Morlocks want that by design. They are bred like livestock to feed them, so in return they give them a life of comfort without strife almost out of some sense of moral obligation. Like they are condemned to be what they are but need the Eloi to survive and so felt the need to spare them the horror of their existence until its necessary. We also see the Eloi are herbivorous, able to survive without the proteins common in modern human diets, the Morlocks could be the opposite, unable to survive without it and the only source available to them are the Eloi. So in order for them to survive they must resort to cannibalism, something they may very well not be proud of, so they treat their food supply as humanely as they can. For all we know the Eloi that go below don't suffer or die violently. The only reason we see them snatching Weena earlier in the movie is because they can't have the Eloi deviating from the conditions they created. No going astray or venturing out at night. The entire system is threatened by this. One other thing that I found interesting about the Eloi, there are not only no older people, but no children either. How do these people breed? We clearly see there's little in terms of familial connection among them, and we know they are blissfully apathetic towards one another. So if they are without things like passion or love, how are they procreating? This is why I may suspect there's a third group not shown in the film, perhaps those who in fact do depend on the labor of the Morlocs, and so facilitate their means to feed. There could be an entire civilization deeper underground that may have to sacrifice some of their children to become Eloi.
Time traveller: how did you built this civilization Eloi: i dont know Time traveller: how you got the fruit? Eloi: i dont know Time Traveller: can you say something else besides i dont know Eloi: I dont know Me: UGHHHH
Time traveller: Do you know the earth is round. Eloi: Round? There is no round. Time traveller: Where do I go for a shit round here? Eloi: Shit? There is no shit. Time traveller: That's it, I'm done! I'm going back to my own time, where people give a shit!
2:17 I'm glad I grew up in a generation where knowledge was prized and important, one where books were read and not left to gather dust, and where hard work and struggle had a purpose and people were optimistic about the future.
Yeah, no one's optimistic today, there are no dreamers left. I remember as a kid in the nineties, I still had an imagination. And I daydreamed. Today's kids just don't do that, they let video games and smartphones and RUclips influencers think for them.
Interesting that the two scenes from this film that people most often remember are this one and the one at the end where Philby asks the housekeeper which three books she would have taken. Two scenes, both about books. Hmmmm....
2:35 What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust! A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams…For what?! So you can swim and dance and play.
@@CarlosEsparza1138 Plenty notice it. We just lack the ability to _do_ something about it. The ruling elite are laughing at us all the way to the banks.
I learned the fragility of writing when I wrote two books in elementary school, "Commando Cats" and "Pirate Dogs". I had them bound with staples and was planning on taking them to my school library to try and publish them. But I lost them after leaving them in the laundry room. I looked everywhere, even the trash but despite my efforts they were lost. It was devastating to me.
This meal scene is a profound literary example of why there's no such thing as a free lunch. Same reason a mouse gets caught in a trap; it doesn't understand why the cheese is free. The Eloi ironically believe they do not have a government, which is what any government wants its people to think regardless of what its political ideals are. The extent to which any regime dehumanizes its subjects is only a matter of degree, and the more power you let them wield, the more they will hold it over you. Any personal sovereignty the Eloi may have once had was surrendered to authority because all their needs were catered to by the Morlocks, who had placated them to the point that their human urges for wisdom, religion, philosophy, ambition, or propriety were almost literally bred out of them to turn them to livestock. A valuable lesson that resonates today more than ever.
@Anamnesis Thank you for this brilliant comment! I just shared a portion of it on Threads... telling people to come here to see the whole comment and watch the clip
Nonsense. The Eloi would neglect and ignore smart phones, too, while intelligent people can make intelligent comments on them-while other people use them make whiny remarks about kids these days with their smart phones, yadda yadda.
"Phone bad, book good" Phones can't inherently make people dumber even though they allow access to more information than any library in the world at one fingerstroke. It was never technology's fault; people are just unwilling to use it to their advantage, just as all of the Eloi were unwilling to use books. Few of us take the initiative to learn is all. It never has been technology to blame, but our own nature.
@@Sam-gx2ti I agree Sam, however I think that nothing replaces a good old pencil and paper for studying, and yes, the internet is the new Alexandria but most people use it to replace their brains
@@gertwallen I like how my phone can supplement my brain, by helping me spell words correctly, remember what word I'm groping for, avoid garbling a quotation and correctly attribute it, &c. That's aside from being able to call up links to evidence which contradicts an assertion (and I've even changed my opinion after reading background facts on a matter).
Biggest irony is they resemble a perfect paradise that Hitler would look at and give a nod of approval. I mean, I know systemic racism and all that, but they're ALL blond-haired, blue-eyed white people! Holy shit.
@@evertonporter7887 The Hippies were a tiny fraction of the population, even a small fraction of young folk, but now our Eloi are typical young folk under 40
I was looking for the scene where the Eloi hear the siren and walk towards what they've been programed to believe are "shelters", but unfortunately, it's apparently not here on youtube. :o(
I didn't even know there was a movie closer to the book and it's Eloi description. I only knew of the current one where the protagonist and his dead gf 😂
I feel that Mr. Wells predicted what is happening in some places of Brazil, particularly where I live, the Federal District. Specially in the local schools colleges and universities there are a lot of people that dislike to read.
OTC, Thanks to the Boomer generation Gen Z will have to work harder and learn more than the Boomers ever did, just to reach the level of material comfort and security that the Boomers take for granted.
@@50zcarsman Gen Z working harder than boomers??? ROFL you are another stupid-born GenZombie, right? 🤡🤡🤡🤡 it's just unbelievable the level of stupidity you guys can reach. Really
No war, no conflict, just merriment and full bellies, they get to swim, eat, fuck, and be happy. The only thing that’s bad is they get hunted at night but other than that it seems like a pretty good life tbh
@@gabrielbennett5162 So the librarian was embarrassed and swapped out the dust jacket. I'll tell you what, I worked at the LOC in 2010, there was definitely more copies of 50 Shades there than there were of "The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt!"😆
@@mossy642 I get what you are saying, an Australian putting on a slight English accent if anything sounds very similar. Not all Australians speak with an accent like Paul Hogan. Russell Crowe is a New Zealander who came to Australia at a young age and he has a mixed accent. It's not necessarily a "Trans-Atlantic English accent" he is putting on as much as it is his natural accent from spending time in Australia and the US. Errol Flynn was the same. He was Tasmanian. They sound more English than mainland Australians.
Well if you read sciance fiction from that time, its very cosmic and observatory. So my guess is that he expected for the humanity to be amoung the stars concurring and exploring half the galaxy by that time. Not a bunch of fruitarians in togas lol.
You create a society and technology advanced enough, eventually those who are served will forget how it works. Said mechanisms will simply keep populist continuing, and through the generations, said populous will lack ambition and introspection
@@kpbelshaw Standard insult these days that really means "I disagree with your comment". It's OK to disagree, see different things in a film and go off on a tangent.
@@lemsip207 lol!!! I dont disagree mate, you are indeed correct that books will naturally fall apart over time. But what you're insinuating here is that you've missed the point of the scene!! That the Eloi have lost touch with history, they have no cares in the world becuase they dont understand anything, so they are easy prey to the Morlocks. Have you even watched the whole film out of curiosity?.. or indeed read the HG Wells book?
@@kpbelshaw No I didn't see it in cinema at the time or on TV later on. I've seen as many videos about as possible. I never heard of it until last year.
We could very easily end up in this future if we let machines do all our work and thinking for us. We could be there in a couple generations once all human labor and creativity are done by sentient computers.
We are already this. I work at a nuclear plant in Ontario Canada. This is exactly the young people coming into this place. Dumb, lazy narcissistic people who know nothing, want to learn nothing and want everything for free. We are here now. This is why rome fell.
*SOYLENT GREEN IS SHEEPLE!!* 🍪=🐑⚰️! ᴸᵉᵗ'ˢ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ᶜᵒᵒᵏⁱᵉˢ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ˢᵗᵘᵖⁱᵈ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ As an avid reader and book collector, this scene broke my heart! I love classic literature and reference books... I learn so much from them. 🕮 The Eloi have the Talking Rings... knowledge might have been preserved in them. Thanks for posting this scene!!
I was 15 years old when I saw this movie in 1960 or 61. The crumbling book scene stayed with me all these years.
I saw it the first time in 1980 when I was 8. I’ve never forgotten this scene either. 🤓
The look, on Rod Taylor's face when he says
"yes, they do tell me all about you" is telling.
I saw it around 1963. I was more riveted by the "..for What?!"
This scene resonates so much in today's world. A celebration of hedonism and a passive acceptance of ignorance is to be found all around us.
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Preservation of knowledge is what makes for functional and advanced civilizations. It's not just tragic, but baffling to Wells how a society that functions so well does not preserve its own ancestral history.
@@DonnyHooterHoot welcome to Costco, I love you
Not really. The developed world is more educated than ever.
@@SHAMSHAM1090 And how often do you really SEE that online? Really see it? I don't see it that much. Critical thinking is dead. We're living in a post-truth era where people believe the Earth is _flat_ and vaccines cause autism.
Truly an underrated scene. This one really spoke to me.
The scene where the books just crumble into dust is bleak as fuck.
All of the intelligence, fantasy, and philosophy of the homo sapien is nothing but ash in the face of time.
I hear you. The people willfuly ignorant of today remind me of the eloi and morlocks and nobody seems to have a mind of their own anymore
@@geoffwilliams4478 3:08 sums up the current situation today.
@@daustin8888 Should of put the books in Mylar plastic to keep it in Mint Condition.
@@evertonporter7887 Agreed. A fraud like donald could never have been elected in 1960.
This was one of the most emotionally wrenching scenes in the movie.
The props for the crumbling books, actually so amazing... It was a really profound scene
As a film maker I do wonder how they did that.
@@MilanousMedia I believe if you dry out paper (bake it in an oven), it will crumble because all the moisture is gone. That's just my guess as to how they did this.
Came back to this in 2024, increasingly more relevant I feel.
1:21 It's like the Eloi are saying, "Mister, this could very well be our last meal. Can you just shut up and let us enjoy it please?"
...which is precisely how they got there. ;)
2:35 If a man from the past came to the present to see how far we've Fallen.
Watching this back last night...certainly one of the best and most powerful scenes from the film. It seems we're already living this in our own time...what was written down is slowly being forgotten and is turning to dust before our very eyes.
That's why we have to preserve it and live their lessons
As a bookworm myself..that is a nightmare.
Agreed. I suspect, after I am gone, my library will end up in a skip.
Thank you, it's so rare to see in the modern era. I blame Disney Star Wars.
@@josefschiltz2192 You can try to avoid that. Find someone who will appreciate them. 🤓👍
@@MS-ns2pj Over 10,000?
@@josefschiltz2192 Yes. Kids? Friends? Other family? My kids will inherit my 7-8.000 books. 🤓👍
I really liked those book props.
Really great practical effects.
I love the subtle asmr of the books and pages cracking in his hands.
Damn. This scene resonates with me in these troubled and horrific times we live in. It's embarrassing to me what people don't know, and what little they choose to commit to memory is esoteric and worthless.
Or it's the opposite problem, where as people today choose to believe in nonsense conspiracyTheories like fake moon landings, flatEarth and/or antiVaxxing.
@@RocKnight11 The same coin
Yes…
let’s see what paul allen thinks
We are pretty much an ignorant species.
3:08 "I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle and the hopeless future!"
The nihilism of this current era summed up in a sentence!
Preach it, brother!
It grows . . . it always grows.
I wonder if they were thinking of that as they were taking a shit LOL.
@alexander-yd3hz . . . so you're implying there exists some suffering that is necessary ??? Interesting. Then there is the olde Englishe meaning of " suffer. " It means " allow " or " permit. " Consider that . . . if you will.
Classic movie. Always gonna be a favorite of mine from my childhood
Looking at some of the comments it seems it’s lost on people that he thought knowledge would’ve still been recorded, passed down and replicated, not that a book from 800,000 years ago wasn’t going to decay.
These comments indicate that the decline of intelligence portrayed in this scene is also happening in real life. Some people are blissfully ignorant in real life.
@Tee Rollings Remove education and remove thought, critical thinking, common sense. It is happening, I've seen it. 2 high school graduates I hired in 2021. One couldn't read. One could not make change, even though the computer gave her the numbers.
Example: meal cost $16.27. She is handed a $20 bill. Computer says, $3.73 change. She can't count 73 cents change. 7 dimes and 3 pennies. 2 quarters, 2 dimes and 3 pennies. She couldn't do it.
Per policy, I had to make employees read out loud a heat stroke/exhaustion paragraph so they understood the dangers of overheating in the kitchen when it was 95° outside. She struggled to read words like "trouble" or "danger" and refused to attempt "exhaustion."
Both girls graduated high school. I saw their diplomas. I ran a background check. They can't read or do basic math and they graduated.
You're not wrong. And it's sad. I didn't graduate ffs, and I can spell my own name and count how many letters are in it, goddammit.
Welcome to idiocracy.
The is exactly how I feel having a conversation with someone who refuses to consider alternative thought nowadays....
Sadly we all know plenty of people like that….
Because we’re enslaved by technology
@@jediskunk67 Not at all. Our technology makes all of human knowledge accessible - if we bother to look at it.
@@johnburt7935 You say that like they are already aware of the knowledge and simply choose to be willfully ignorant and not look it up.
No one is simply not bothering to look up information. It's not willful ignorance, it's an overwhelming, overstimulating, abundant amount of ever expanding information. An infinite frontier. What you're saying is like criticizing people for not finding and reading the "right" books at a library the size of China. People don't have that kind of time when there's an infinite amount of interesting or distracting stuff to pay attention to.
@@knightofkorbin888 What is your solution, then? Have LESS knowledge available?
When the destruction of a few old books is a way more memorable than any character death from nowaday.
As a kid I was terrified by the Morlocks, but even back then I secretly rooted for them instead of the decadent and soft Eloi.
Well, the Morlocks were descended from the working class. The Eloi were the descendants of the elite. It was an example of role reversal.
My guess is that this sort of separate evolution would have led more to something like Hell's Angels on steroids than creatures from "Land of the Lost." And Elois would have been much sloppier and dopier, like the famous Dodo birds. Has anyone ever done a decent remake of this movie?
@@robwalsh9843 "Eat the rich," indeed.
Here's the thing though, the Eloi live in blissful ignorance and decadence because the Morlocks want that by design. They are bred like livestock to feed them, so in return they give them a life of comfort without strife almost out of some sense of moral obligation. Like they are condemned to be what they are but need the Eloi to survive and so felt the need to spare them the horror of their existence until its necessary.
We also see the Eloi are herbivorous, able to survive without the proteins common in modern human diets, the Morlocks could be the opposite, unable to survive without it and the only source available to them are the Eloi. So in order for them to survive they must resort to cannibalism, something they may very well not be proud of, so they treat their food supply as humanely as they can.
For all we know the Eloi that go below don't suffer or die violently. The only reason we see them snatching Weena earlier in the movie is because they can't have the Eloi deviating from the conditions they created. No going astray or venturing out at night. The entire system is threatened by this.
One other thing that I found interesting about the Eloi, there are not only no older people, but no children either. How do these people breed? We clearly see there's little in terms of familial connection among them, and we know they are blissfully apathetic towards one another. So if they are without things like passion or love, how are they procreating? This is why I may suspect there's a third group not shown in the film, perhaps those who in fact do depend on the labor of the Morlocs, and so facilitate their means to feed. There could be an entire civilization deeper underground that may have to sacrifice some of their children to become Eloi.
Wow….almost as if HG Wells actually built a Time Machine and visited 2024.
Time traveller: how did you built this civilization
Eloi: i dont know
Time traveller: how you got the fruit?
Eloi: i dont know
Time Traveller: can you say something else besides i dont know
Eloi: I dont know
Me: UGHHHH
I would have gone to sit at another table, haha
Time traveller: Do you know the earth is round.
Eloi: Round? There is no round.
Time traveller: Where do I go for a shit round here?
Eloi: Shit? There is no shit.
Time traveller: That's it, I'm done! I'm going back to my own time, where people give a shit!
"How did you build this civilization" Eloi, "We voted for Biden"
eloi: the fruit needs the electrolytes
@@teedee5978 LOL
2:17 I'm glad I grew up in a generation where knowledge was prized and important, one where books were read and not left to gather dust, and where hard work and struggle had a purpose and people were optimistic about the future.
watch the movie Rollerball to see the future now arriving when books are not in hard copy but on computer
Yeah, no one's optimistic today, there are no dreamers left. I remember as a kid in the nineties, I still had an imagination. And I daydreamed. Today's kids just don't do that, they let video games and smartphones and RUclips influencers think for them.
If it were a paradise, yes: that's exactly why people fought and died for. The dream is to return to paradise.
Terrifying for what happen to the books. But thank goodness for quartz discs that carry PDF files and those MP3 rings.
Basically what the 2002 film did with the Vox-computer: "The library is temporarilly out of order. But don't worry, I've got them all up here."
H. G. Wells visits a university campus circa 2024 A.D.
I remember watching this movie 🎥 in the 80s on Turner classic 📽️ channel and as a kid I always thought of myself as the Time Traveler
This is the only scene in movie cinema that stuck with me
Interesting that the two scenes from this film that people most often remember are this one and the one at the end where Philby asks the housekeeper which three books she would have taken. Two scenes, both about books. Hmmmm....
2:35 What have you done?
Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust!
A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams…For what?!
So you can swim and dance and play.
The scene makes me teary. We live in a dystopia, and no one notices it.
@@CarlosEsparza1138 We live in a darwinian world ; what doesn't kill you will make you strong ; no one repects weak people
@@marypowis7778 Everyone should be respected, weak or otherwise. Regardless if we live in a dystopia or a Darwinian world, we still have laws.
@@CarlosEsparza1138 Plenty notice it. We just lack the ability to _do_ something about it. The ruling elite are laughing at us all the way to the banks.
I learned the fragility of writing when I wrote two books in elementary school, "Commando Cats" and "Pirate Dogs". I had them bound with staples and was planning on taking them to my school library to try and publish them. But I lost them after leaving them in the laundry room. I looked everywhere, even the trash but despite my efforts they were lost. It was devastating to me.
...and the synopsis?
Ayo I found the same comment under a trey the explainer video ruclips.net/video/Fcb2oLSb7Cs/видео.html did you steal this comment?
The future of mankind if we're not careful!!!
Too late
@@jimdandy8996: agree.
This 60-some year old scene is pretty on-spot for what it's like today in America.
The best social critiques are timeless, not topical.
this is kind of how I feel when I hang out with Gen Z people
This meal scene is a profound literary example of why there's no such thing as a free lunch. Same reason a mouse gets caught in a trap; it doesn't understand why the cheese is free. The Eloi ironically believe they do not have a government, which is what any government wants its people to think regardless of what its political ideals are. The extent to which any regime dehumanizes its subjects is only a matter of degree, and the more power you let them wield, the more they will hold it over you. Any personal sovereignty the Eloi may have once had was surrendered to authority because all their needs were catered to by the Morlocks, who had placated them to the point that their human urges for wisdom, religion, philosophy, ambition, or propriety were almost literally bred out of them to turn them to livestock. A valuable lesson that resonates today more than ever.
@Anamnesis Thank you for this brilliant comment! I just shared a portion of it on Threads... telling people to come here to see the whole comment and watch the clip
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
-- time traveler
He doesn't know yet. It's so much more tragic than he can know.
Greatest Speach Ever
Twist: Books hadn't been printed in millenia due to computers. Destroying those antique books was basically like destroying a museum piece
TTM was written in 1895, long before computers were conceived. Don't know what to make of that.
@@OneWeirdDude That scene wasn't in the book, it was invented by the 1960 film's scriptwriter.
@@johnburt7935 Well of course!
Missing the point....
There were no computers..
The books turned to dust whilst the children played.
@@gc2696 And THAT was the point, what the Time Traveller meant when he said, "They tell me ALL about you."
The one of the best scenes in "The Time Machine" (1960).
People talk about "Brave New World" and "1984", but nobody really considers a world in which men become angels and no government is necessary.
Bad news always were more profitable than good news...
All that's left for me to do is go back in time and ask out that actress that portrayed Weena
Get in line, bud......
My mom actually wanted to name me after her, but my dad insisted on his own name for me. So Yvette became my middle name 😁
Yvette Mimieux
I like the blonde extra on the left at 0:37 - Very cute and lively. The vacuous dystopian future can't be all bad with her in it.
@@Quibblet Aww, darn, I was hoping you meant your mothe wanted to name you "Weena" - that would have been really cool.
This is exactly what social media and "smart"phones produce: a dummy society. Excellent movie.
Nonsense. The Eloi would neglect and ignore smart phones, too, while intelligent people can make intelligent comments on them-while other people use them make whiny remarks about kids these days with their smart phones, yadda yadda.
"Phone bad, book good" Phones can't inherently make people dumber even though they allow access to more information than any library in the world at one fingerstroke. It was never technology's fault; people are just unwilling to use it to their advantage, just as all of the Eloi were unwilling to use books. Few of us take the initiative to learn is all. It never has been technology to blame, but our own nature.
@@johnburt7935 Based :)
@@Sam-gx2ti I agree Sam, however I think that nothing replaces a good old pencil and paper for studying, and yes, the internet is the new Alexandria but most people use it to replace their brains
@@gertwallen I like how my phone can supplement my brain, by helping me spell words correctly, remember what word I'm groping for, avoid garbling a quotation and correctly attribute it, &c.
That's aside from being able to call up links to evidence which contradicts an assertion (and I've even changed my opinion after reading background facts on a matter).
Current state of our society.
Words are where thoughts take seat. From there they can either command or fail.
What a staggering paradoxical coincidence that the Eloi simultaneously represent every demographic the comment section doesn't like.
Huh?
John Burt
Biggest irony is they resemble a perfect paradise that Hitler would look at and give a nod of approval. I mean, I know systemic racism and all that, but they're ALL blond-haired, blue-eyed white people! Holy shit.
Well said. These comments are so annoying. Instead of appreciating this great scene, people are just using it to validate their social views.
The Eloi men. Pre Beatles haircuts and pre Animal House togas! LOL! Still my all-time favorite science-fiction movie since I first saw it in 1960.
This movie predicted hippies and flower power LOL.
@@evertonporter7887 The Hippies were a tiny fraction of the population, even a small fraction of young folk, but now our Eloi are typical young folk under 40
This is a typical people you meet in a corporate job
I was looking for the scene where the Eloi hear the siren and walk towards what they've been programed to believe are "shelters", but unfortunately, it's apparently not here on youtube. :o(
Here it is ruclips.net/video/2_XQ5ITv7p0/видео.html
@@hub5343 Thank you, Hub!
@@hub5343 Beat me to it.
"Safe... Effective.... For the greater good..."
Amazing foresight, into the posible future of paper books
I didn't even know there was a movie closer to the book and it's Eloi description. I only knew of the current one where the protagonist and his dead gf 😂
That one was Horrible.
@@bhodili-3396 not as bad as the 1987 one...
I feel that Mr. Wells predicted what is happening in some places of Brazil, particularly where I live, the Federal District. Specially in the local schools colleges and universities there are a lot of people that dislike to read.
Look at the Millennials and Zoomers now.
1:55 - a library in the USA.
More like a library in today’s generation
I'm an American and I LOVE to read. Of course, I'm also 35, so take that as you will.
What the iron generation would say about the boomers.
These characters strongly resemble Millennials and Zoomers
Yes, they DO tell me all about you...
Unappreciative.
"You will own nothing, and be happy." Klaus Schwab/World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset.
Books Crumble To Dust
The Eloi are basically what the Gen-Z will end up being.
Like all watching a girl drown thoughtlessly without a care in the world lol pretty much
Already there
OTC, Thanks to the Boomer generation Gen Z will have to work harder and learn more than the Boomers ever did, just to reach the level of material comfort and security that the Boomers take for granted.
@@50zcarsman Gen Z working harder than boomers??? ROFL you are another stupid-born GenZombie, right? 🤡🤡🤡🤡 it's just unbelievable the level of stupidity you guys can reach. Really
Ok, ok. I'll clean up my room. Better late than never.
No war, no conflict, just merriment and full bellies, they get to swim, eat, fuck, and be happy. The only thing that’s bad is they get hunted at night but other than that it seems like a pretty good life tbh
Notice there aren't any Old Eloi ?
A cow likes her life until one day she walks up a ramp in single-file and, in her turn, takes a bullet to the brain.
A Man from the past talking to Gen-Z 2:46
Johannes Gutenberg speaking to Gen Z.
More gen alpha
I bet the book was 50 shades of gray
Supposedly it was actually "The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt" (1909) by Charles Morris.
@@gabrielbennett5162 So the librarian was embarrassed and swapped out the dust jacket. I'll tell you what, I worked at the LOC in 2010, there was definitely more copies of 50 Shades there than there were of "The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt!"😆
I like to imagine they were Disney Star Wars books, haha.
50 Shades of Dust*
I forgot how extreme his transatlantic accent was. Proper nearly English accent.
@Ethan Moses Rod Taylor was Australian.
@@patrickmichaelspencecooler4768 yes. And he’s putting on an extreme transatlantic accent. Nearly English American.
@@mossy642 I get what you are saying, an Australian putting on a slight English accent if anything sounds very similar. Not all Australians speak with an accent like Paul Hogan. Russell Crowe is a New Zealander who came to Australia at a young age and he has a mixed accent. It's not necessarily a "Trans-Atlantic English accent" he is putting on as much as it is his natural accent from spending time in Australia and the US. Errol Flynn was the same. He was Tasmanian. They sound more English than mainland Australians.
So basically, current era.
It would appear he's arrived in Essex 2024.
Great scene, but they wouldn’t know the meaning of government, work, laws as those words are no longer needed.
I'd rather be a Morlock than an Eloi.
Not sure what he expected. A lot can happen in 800,000 years.
One can be hopeful, especially the first impression of seeing what seems to be a utopic society. Not everyone has to be cynical.
It came true now
@@kwanarchive Sure, but one also has to be realistic. He could have stopped after only 800 years were it not for that attack in WWIII.
Well if you read sciance fiction from that time, its very cosmic and observatory. So my guess is that he expected for the humanity to be amoung the stars concurring and exploring half the galaxy by that time. Not a bunch of fruitarians in togas lol.
You must be eloi
This is the most important three minutes and twenty seconds on the internet. Full stop.
It is.
Should have backed it all up in the Cloud
Really hits hard @2:47
Weena was a big ride ......past,present or future....x
Is this about a Time Traveler who arrives at 2022 ? 🤔
You create a society and technology advanced enough, eventually those who are served will forget how it works. Said mechanisms will simply keep populist continuing, and through the generations, said populous will lack ambition and introspection
Today's teenagers/young people are like the eloi only difference is the cellphone
Books are more likely to crumble if they are used a lot. I had two books which fell apart because I liked to read them over again.
I think with this statement you're missing the point of the scene...
@@kpbelshaw Standard insult these days that really means "I disagree with your comment". It's OK to disagree, see different things in a film and go off on a tangent.
@@lemsip207 lol!!! I dont disagree mate, you are indeed correct that books will naturally fall apart over time. But what you're insinuating here is that you've missed the point of the scene!! That the Eloi have lost touch with history, they have no cares in the world becuase they dont understand anything, so they are easy prey to the Morlocks. Have you even watched the whole film out of curiosity?.. or indeed read the HG Wells book?
@@kpbelshaw No I didn't see it in cinema at the time or on TV later on. I've seen as many videos about as possible. I never heard of it until last year.
@@lemsip207 ahh ok, yeah it's a good film! Hope you get to check it out sometime :)
This is what AI wil lead to
Where all the brothers at?
Extinct.
Only white blondes survived.
Now I feel depressed.
Meleneloi
HG Wells originally called the Eloi Gen Z. He changed it because Gen Z just sounded so fake,
Everybody roasting the Elois but anyone would be annoyed if you were trying to eat and a man don't stop asking you questions haha!
If I were him, I'd sit at another table. These peeps just aren't into it.
We could very easily end up in this future if we let machines do all our work and thinking for us. We could be there in a couple generations once all human labor and creativity are done by sentient computers.
We are already this. I work at a nuclear plant in Ontario Canada. This is exactly the young people coming into this place. Dumb, lazy narcissistic people who know nothing, want to learn nothing and want everything for free. We are here now. This is why rome fell.
WOW! Is this where the progressive movement finds its fulfillment?
Exactly.
A.I. is taking human kind to this very lifestyle.
I like this. It’s like a combination of Brave New World and Wall-E. In the future, all people will either be Tik Tok Twinks or Morbidly Obese.
The original novel was written in 1895.
So the Morlocks give them the fruit so they can be fatter then they eat them?
Have you books, no we have the Internet!
>> A conservative telling the SJWs off!
They have no concept of society, justice or war, so not SJWs at all.
Ah, but food does not require knowledge.
Where are the people of color in this future?
800,000 years have passed.
My guess is that they were bred out of the gene pool, like the Neanderthals.
Bolts and screws, let it all undo
This is what it feels like being white today
In the face of time, all of man's achievements are dust
Literally boomers
Literally gen Z
He's the boomer, gen z already being eaten
This reminds me of the Zoomers and Millennials. Virtually identical personality and intellectually soft traits.
We have irings
*SOYLENT GREEN IS SHEEPLE!!* 🍪=🐑⚰️! ᴸᵉᵗ'ˢ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ᶜᵒᵒᵏⁱᵉˢ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ˢᵗᵘᵖⁱᵈ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ
As an avid reader and book collector, this scene broke my heart!
I love classic literature and reference books... I learn so much from them. 🕮
The Eloi have the Talking Rings... knowledge might have been preserved in them.
Thanks for posting this scene!!
Say hello to 2023...😰