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* DrivesLikeCrazy: [[spoiler: Wells, due to never having driven before.]]
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** [[spoiler:But then Wells finally caves in and buys a gun.]]
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* ChessMotifs: Starting with an actual game between Stevenson and Wells, and continuing with the theme of thinking ahead.
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* TheIdealist: "The first man to raise a fist is the man who's run out of ideas."
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* UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco: Sure enough, the movie shows off the cable cars, Bay Bridge, Golden Gate, the exterior of the Exploratorium, etc.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Amy has this for Wells.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: When Wells first catches up to Jack in the future, he attempts to reason with him, explaining that they don't belong there. Jack goes into a speech about how much he relishes the violent world he's discovered, until finally the normally peaceful Wells can't take it anymore, slaps him in the face, and screams, "Stop it!"
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: When Wells first catches up to Jack in the future, he attempts to reason with him, explaining that they don't belong there. Jack goes into a speech about how much he relishes the violent world he's discovered, and how easy it is to buy guns with cash, until finally the normally peaceful Wells can't take it anymore, slaps him in the face, and screams, "Stop it!"
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* UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict: Stevenson uses this as an example of why he belongs in the modern world.
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* GenreSavvy: Wells is savvy about a few things, such as:
** There is a distinct possibility that he may need to trade jewelry for money in the future.
** A museum exhibit of his desk may also have a perfect replica of his glasses.
** There is a distinct possibility that he may need to trade jewelry for money in the future.
** A museum exhibit of his desk may also have a perfect replica of his glasses.
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** Jack [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this. He [[LikeAFishTakesToWater blends into his new life splendidly]], as the quote at the top of this page illustrates.
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Giving his word as a gentleman, Stevenson offers to trade [[spoiler: Amy for the anti-return key Wells holds. [[ILied He naturally fails to deliver the hostage]], and [[DidYouActuallyBelieve chides Wells]] for [[GoodIsDumb not realizing that he is no gentleman]].]]
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** [[{{TRON}} [[Film/{{TRON}} Sark/Dillinger]] is Jack the Ripper!
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1979 novel by Karl Alexander and movie directed by Nicholas Meyer (which, while based on the book, was made before it was published) starring Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, DavidWarner Creator/DavidWarner and Mary Steenburgen.
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* StealthPun: Herbert misremembers the name of that "Scottish restaurant" as [[McDonalds MacDougals.]]. No doubt that the audience was waiting for him to make a total dork of himself. But it would have made him seem too odd to Amy too early in the film.
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* StealthPun: Herbert misremembers the name of that "Scottish restaurant" as [[McDonalds MacDougals.]]. No doubt that the audience was waiting for him to make a total dork of himself. But it would have made him seem too odd to Amy too early in the film. Especially when she was already willing to overlook the fact that he didn't pick up immediately on [[VietnamWar which war]] an American girl of her generation would have been protesting, something that's common knowledge in 1979.
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Nothing to do with the song by CyndiLauper.
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* PlayingAgainstType: MalcolmMcDowell, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, who thanks to various prior roles generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells -- in a movie with Jack the Ripper.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Malcolm [=McDowell=], who [[Film/AClockworkOrange thanks to various]] [[{{Caligula}} prior roles]] generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells -- in a movie with Jack the Ripper.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Malcolm [=McDowell=], MalcolmMcDowell, who [[Film/AClockworkOrange thanks to various]] [[{{Caligula}} various prior roles]] roles generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells -- in a movie with Jack the Ripper.
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** Jack [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this. He [[LikeAFishTakesToWater blends into his new life splendidly]], as the quote at the top of this page illustrates.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The lighthearted music box tune during the murder in the opening scene.
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* RomanceOnSet: Malcolm [=McDowell=] and Mary Steenburgen would marry and have 2 children together before splitting up in 1990.
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* TheFutureIsShocking: The film has HGWells and JackTheRipper taken to modern times. Jack changes the channels on a TV to show constant scenes of violence to claim that he belongs here and Wells doesn't.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: When Wells first catches up to Jack in the future, he attempts to reason with him, explaining that they don't belong there. Jack goes into a speech about how much he relishes the violent world he's discovered, until finally the normally peaceful Wells can't take it anymore, slaps him in the face, and screams, "Stop it!"
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Giving his word as a gentleman, Stevenson offers to trade [[spoiler: Amy for the anti-return key Wells holds. [[ILied He naturally fails to deliver the hostage]], and chides Wells for [[GoodIsDumb not realizing that he is no gentleman]].]]
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Giving his word as a gentleman, Stevenson offers to trade [[spoiler: Amy for the anti-return key Wells holds. [[ILied He naturally fails to deliver the hostage]], and [[DidYouActuallyBelieve chides Wells Wells]] for [[GoodIsDumb not realizing that he is no gentleman]].]]
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** [[spoiler: It can also be interpreted as an inverted SwordOverHead moment. It appears that he knows the game is up and is nodding to Wells that there's nothing left to do except jut GetItOverWith.]]
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-->Wells: '''Wells:''' [[McDonalds MacDougals.]]
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->''"Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur."''
-->-- '''JackTheRipper'''
1979 novel by Karl Alexander and movie directed by Nicholas Meyer (which, while based on the book, was made before it was published) starring MalcolmMcDowell, DavidWarner and Mary Steenburgen.
In 1893, aspiring writer and inventor HGWells ([=McDowell=]) invites some friends over to dinner, where he shows them one of his latest inventions -- [[TheTimeMachine a device he claims can travel through time]]. Despite the general mockery he receives, one of them -- a surgeon called John Leslie Stevenson (Warner) -- takes particular interest in his claims, and not for no reason; moments after, the police intrude into Wells' home, claiming to have traced none other than JackTheRipper to the premises. When a search reveals that Stevenson has disappeared, Wells realises that not only is Stevenson the Ripper, but that he has used Wells' time machine to escape into the future and evade justice.
Appalled at the thought of having unleashed a monster onto the social utopia he believes the future will be, he decides to follow Stevenson into the future and bring him back to face justice. Arriving in San Francisco in 1979, Wells finds that the future is not everything he thought or hoped, befriends an attractive, feminist bank clerk called Amy (Steenburgen) and discovers that Stevenson is up to his old tricks -- and that Amy may be his next victim...
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!!Provides examples of:
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: If not actually the first story to be built on the idea of 'hey, what if HGWells really ''did'' have a time machine?', then certainly one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Stevenson. He finds out that being Jack the Ripper in the Twentieth Century makes him an ''amateur'' when it comes to killing, and feels right at home starting up his killing spree again.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The "send the passenger to infinity" key]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Wells finds that the future isn't the utopia he'd thought.
** Also, he has this exchange with Amy:
--> Wells: Much superior to that scottish place where I breakfasted.
--> Amy (Looks at him in confusion)
--> Wells: [[McDonalds MacDougals.]]
* GoodIsDumb: Wells, during [[spoiler: the HostageForMacGuffin scene.]]
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Stevenson considers Wells to be this.
* HeyItsThatGuy: A ''very'' young Corey Feldman as a kid in the museum where the time machine ends up.
** [[{{TRON}} Sark/Dillinger]] is Jack the Ripper!
* HostageForMacGuffin: Giving his word as a gentleman, Stevenson offers to trade [[spoiler: Amy for the anti-return key Wells holds. [[ILied He naturally fails to deliver the hostage]], and chides Wells for [[GoodIsDumb not realizing that he is no gentleman]].]]
* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Inverted and subverted; to blend in, Wells, adopts the name of a period fictional character he's sure will be forgotten ninety years later. Unfortunately, this fictional character happens to be SherlockHolmes.
** Also, despite still being famous in the future, being known by his initials allows him to blend in quite nicely with his real name Herbert Wells.
* JackTheRipper: Well, yeah.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Stevenson]] during the climax when he realizes [[spoiler: Wells is about to pull the [[ChekhovsGun "send the passenger to infinity" key]] out of the time machine]].
** [[spoiler: It can also be interpreted as an inverted SwordOverHead moment. It appears that he knows the game is up and is nodding to Wells that there's nothing left to do except jut GetItOverWith.]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Malcolm [=McDowell=], who [[Film/AClockworkOrange thanks to various]] [[{{Caligula}} prior roles]] generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells -- in a movie with Jack the Ripper.
* TakingTheHeat: When the cops [[PoliceAreUseless refuse to listen]] to Wells's Jack-the-Ripper story, he gets so desperate that he confesses to the killings in an attempt to get them to check Amy's apartment and make sure she's safe.
* TerminatorTwosome
* VillainsBlendInBetter: Provides the above quote -- HGWells struggles to fit in (although to be fair to him, in practical terms he adapts a lot better than most; it's mainly culture shock over the idea that the future isn't everything he'd built it up to be), while ''JackTheRipper'' of all people acclimatises comfortably.
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-->-- '''JackTheRipper'''
1979 novel by Karl Alexander and movie directed by Nicholas Meyer (which, while based on the book, was made before it was published) starring MalcolmMcDowell, DavidWarner and Mary Steenburgen.
In 1893, aspiring writer and inventor HGWells ([=McDowell=]) invites some friends over to dinner, where he shows them one of his latest inventions -- [[TheTimeMachine a device he claims can travel through time]]. Despite the general mockery he receives, one of them -- a surgeon called John Leslie Stevenson (Warner) -- takes particular interest in his claims, and not for no reason; moments after, the police intrude into Wells' home, claiming to have traced none other than JackTheRipper to the premises. When a search reveals that Stevenson has disappeared, Wells realises that not only is Stevenson the Ripper, but that he has used Wells' time machine to escape into the future and evade justice.
Appalled at the thought of having unleashed a monster onto the social utopia he believes the future will be, he decides to follow Stevenson into the future and bring him back to face justice. Arriving in San Francisco in 1979, Wells finds that the future is not everything he thought or hoped, befriends an attractive, feminist bank clerk called Amy (Steenburgen) and discovers that Stevenson is up to his old tricks -- and that Amy may be his next victim...
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!!Provides examples of:
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: If not actually the first story to be built on the idea of 'hey, what if HGWells really ''did'' have a time machine?', then certainly one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Stevenson. He finds out that being Jack the Ripper in the Twentieth Century makes him an ''amateur'' when it comes to killing, and feels right at home starting up his killing spree again.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The "send the passenger to infinity" key]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Wells finds that the future isn't the utopia he'd thought.
** Also, he has this exchange with Amy:
--> Wells: Much superior to that scottish place where I breakfasted.
--> Amy (Looks at him in confusion)
--> Wells: [[McDonalds MacDougals.]]
* GoodIsDumb: Wells, during [[spoiler: the HostageForMacGuffin scene.]]
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Stevenson considers Wells to be this.
* HeyItsThatGuy: A ''very'' young Corey Feldman as a kid in the museum where the time machine ends up.
** [[{{TRON}} Sark/Dillinger]] is Jack the Ripper!
* HostageForMacGuffin: Giving his word as a gentleman, Stevenson offers to trade [[spoiler: Amy for the anti-return key Wells holds. [[ILied He naturally fails to deliver the hostage]], and chides Wells for [[GoodIsDumb not realizing that he is no gentleman]].]]
* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Inverted and subverted; to blend in, Wells, adopts the name of a period fictional character he's sure will be forgotten ninety years later. Unfortunately, this fictional character happens to be SherlockHolmes.
** Also, despite still being famous in the future, being known by his initials allows him to blend in quite nicely with his real name Herbert Wells.
* JackTheRipper: Well, yeah.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Stevenson]] during the climax when he realizes [[spoiler: Wells is about to pull the [[ChekhovsGun "send the passenger to infinity" key]] out of the time machine]].
** [[spoiler: It can also be interpreted as an inverted SwordOverHead moment. It appears that he knows the game is up and is nodding to Wells that there's nothing left to do except jut GetItOverWith.]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Malcolm [=McDowell=], who [[Film/AClockworkOrange thanks to various]] [[{{Caligula}} prior roles]] generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells -- in a movie with Jack the Ripper.
* TakingTheHeat: When the cops [[PoliceAreUseless refuse to listen]] to Wells's Jack-the-Ripper story, he gets so desperate that he confesses to the killings in an attempt to get them to check Amy's apartment and make sure she's safe.
* TerminatorTwosome
* VillainsBlendInBetter: Provides the above quote -- HGWells struggles to fit in (although to be fair to him, in practical terms he adapts a lot better than most; it's mainly culture shock over the idea that the future isn't everything he'd built it up to be), while ''JackTheRipper'' of all people acclimatises comfortably.
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