| Author | Subject: Re: It's happening |
| Niteowl | Posted At 12:19:40 05/30/2002
Although I've said elsewhere about imagining The Time Machine in a style like anime- You're right-the greatly exaggerated mouths and such I would NOT like at all(Dragon Ball Z- is that an adult or three year old?)...But The Eloi were described as having large limpid eyes, delicate faces and pointed chins and small mouths. Some of the more realistic anime- most of the people have that elfin beauty...males and females alike. Maybe the artists could just pick up that look for the eloi.. Disney would probably throw in some bumbling morlock henchmen that alternate between screwing up and toadying to their leader- I can just imagine them wrestling the machine into the sphinx- one gets his toe caught under it for example. Maybe they'd be griping about getting the crummy jobs.. And Weena would still be a romantic interest for our time traveler.. It would probably come out looking like a cross between this 2002v and Atlantis..I'd probably end up loving that version too.. If you saw Disney's Atlantis- remember the scene where the shadowy figures go by in the foreground while the expedition is on it's way? I always thought that would be how the morlocks would move with eyes glowing red instead of blue, white hair flying..maybe skip the pole vaulting spears though.. Also the scene with Milo first meeting the masked Atlanteans- That came very close to what I imagined the time traveler's experience down the well as the morlocks check him out, murmuring in their strange language...Seeming only curious until he makes the mistake of speaking Eloi words to them... What I'd like to see is an animated version that kept to the book.. Would any good animation studio keep fully to H.G.Wells' book? And maybe then follow up with an animated version of 'The Time Ships' I saw that as an animated feature playing in my head while I read Stephen Baxter's book.. *sigh* |