Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 9, 2007 15:03:50 GMT -5
Focus in the movie is on time travel and the potential dangers that might pose which have been exhibited within the movie. Basic idea is that even a minor change that the time traveler might implement in the past can be a cause for a drastically different distant future.
Movie Link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder
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Plot introduction
This well-known story about time travel revolves around a business called Time Safari, Inc. Time Safari promises to take people back in time so they can hunt prehistoric animals, such as a Tyrannosaurus rex.
In order to avoid a time paradox, they are very careful to leave history undisturbed on the principle that even the slightest change can cause major changes in the future. Travellers are only allowed to shoot animals that are already about to die, and they are required to stay on a path which hovers slightly above the ground. Hunting trophies are not taken; no souvenir is allowed except a photograph of the hunter standing next to the dead monster.
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Plot summary
In the story, a hunter simply known as “Eckels” is about to embark on his adventure. A democratic man named Keith has just won the presidential election the day before, defeating a potential totalitarian dictator named Deutscher. Eckels seems jittery in the time machine, and when he sees the Tyrannosaurus, he becomes afraid and declares killing the dinosaur impossible. His guide, Travis, who is trying to kill the dinosaur himself, tells Eckels he can leave, but Eckels panics and veers off the path. The two guides kill the dinosaur, but Travis is furious when he sees Eckels’ muddy boots, which prove he went off the path. Travis threatens to leave Eckels in the past unless Eckels removes the bullets from the dinosaur’s body, as they can’t be left in the past.
Upon returning to the present, Eckels notices subtle changes. English is now spelled phonetically, people and buildings are different, and, worst of all, Deutscher has won the election. Looking at his boots, Eckels finds a crushed butterfly, whose death was apparently the cause of the changes. He pleads to Travis to take him back into the past, but Travis refuses and fires his rifle. It is left untold what he shoots, although it is presumed that he kills Eckels. The dark ending is the meaning of the title: the story’s final words are “There was a sound of thunder.”
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Meaning
The story is a fictional exploration of the principle in chaos theory which later came to be called the Butterfly Effect (or “sensitive dependence upon initial conditions,” in the words of Edward Lorenz) through the literary device of time travel. Although both the story and the scientific principle use a butterfly as an example of a seemingly insignificant thing whose actions can ultimately lead to vast differences in outcomes, there is no evidence that one directly influenced the other. Bradbury's story pre-dates Lorenz's work by nearly 10 years. The two examples refer to different phenomena: changes in weather patterns caused by tiny disturbances introduced by a butterfly flapping its wings in on case, and the effects of killing an organism on the course of history via time travel. Furthermore, Lorenz's initial example was that of a seagull flapping its wings, which he changed to a butterfly later.
Movie Link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder
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Plot introduction
This well-known story about time travel revolves around a business called Time Safari, Inc. Time Safari promises to take people back in time so they can hunt prehistoric animals, such as a Tyrannosaurus rex.
In order to avoid a time paradox, they are very careful to leave history undisturbed on the principle that even the slightest change can cause major changes in the future. Travellers are only allowed to shoot animals that are already about to die, and they are required to stay on a path which hovers slightly above the ground. Hunting trophies are not taken; no souvenir is allowed except a photograph of the hunter standing next to the dead monster.
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Plot summary
In the story, a hunter simply known as “Eckels” is about to embark on his adventure. A democratic man named Keith has just won the presidential election the day before, defeating a potential totalitarian dictator named Deutscher. Eckels seems jittery in the time machine, and when he sees the Tyrannosaurus, he becomes afraid and declares killing the dinosaur impossible. His guide, Travis, who is trying to kill the dinosaur himself, tells Eckels he can leave, but Eckels panics and veers off the path. The two guides kill the dinosaur, but Travis is furious when he sees Eckels’ muddy boots, which prove he went off the path. Travis threatens to leave Eckels in the past unless Eckels removes the bullets from the dinosaur’s body, as they can’t be left in the past.
Upon returning to the present, Eckels notices subtle changes. English is now spelled phonetically, people and buildings are different, and, worst of all, Deutscher has won the election. Looking at his boots, Eckels finds a crushed butterfly, whose death was apparently the cause of the changes. He pleads to Travis to take him back into the past, but Travis refuses and fires his rifle. It is left untold what he shoots, although it is presumed that he kills Eckels. The dark ending is the meaning of the title: the story’s final words are “There was a sound of thunder.”
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Meaning
The story is a fictional exploration of the principle in chaos theory which later came to be called the Butterfly Effect (or “sensitive dependence upon initial conditions,” in the words of Edward Lorenz) through the literary device of time travel. Although both the story and the scientific principle use a butterfly as an example of a seemingly insignificant thing whose actions can ultimately lead to vast differences in outcomes, there is no evidence that one directly influenced the other. Bradbury's story pre-dates Lorenz's work by nearly 10 years. The two examples refer to different phenomena: changes in weather patterns caused by tiny disturbances introduced by a butterfly flapping its wings in on case, and the effects of killing an organism on the course of history via time travel. Furthermore, Lorenz's initial example was that of a seagull flapping its wings, which he changed to a butterfly later.