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Timeline - Novel and Movie

4/20/2015

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Timeline was Michael Crichton’s entry into the time travel genre. Crichton who had already given us such wonderful novels, such as The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, and Jurassic Park, published Timeline in 1999.

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Timeline was about a group of history students and archeologists who discover an eye glass lens and a note in modern English at a dig in a French monastery. They both belonged to their teacher, Professor Johnson who had flown back to New Mexico to meet with their funder, an organization called ITC. When the students go back to ITC to find out what happened to their professor, they are told about a machine that will take them back to Medieval France, and are urged to go back to rescue Professor Johnson.

The machine takes the group back to 1357 in Dordogne, France on the eve of a great battle between the English and the French. 


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Michael Crichton died in 2008 at the age of 66.
Crichton has a wonderful way of bringing true technology, history and action into his novels. (The idea of extracting DNA from prehistoric insects preserved in amber was actually being considered at the time he wrote Jurassic Park).

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Timeline, the film was released in 2003 by Paramount Pictures. It cost $80 Million to make, but was considered a box office flop as it only brought in $43 Million. My new bride and I were among those first viewers. I’m not sure why this movie did so poorly. I liked it, but I have to admit, I like it even more after having just seen it for my fourth time. I believe the movie grows on you.

It had a wonderful cast including, the late, Paul Walker of Fast and Furious fame, Frances O'Connor from AI Artificial Intelligence, Mansfield Park and BBC’s, Mister Selfridge, and Billy Connolly, Scottish actor and folksinger who has been around since the 1970s. 


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Frances O'Connor and Paul Walker in Timeline
I am in love with Australian actress, Frances O'Connor…her work and her looks. In this film, she is badass, climbing up walls and jumping from rooftops. I also like the British actress, Anna Friel who plays the French, Lady Clair.

But my wife loves this movie because she says it stars three major hunks.


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Paul Walker
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Gerard Butler
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Billy Connolly
Timeline may have flopped at the box office, but it is a great film to watch on Blue Ray or Netflix. It has my elements for a good time travel flick, romance, a sense of awe of traveling in time, and great conflict and action.

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Anna Friel as Lady Clair.
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3 Comments
Virginia Wright link
4/20/2015 02:44:31 am

The one movie I probably watched four times was the Wizard of Oz and maybe Charlie Brown's Christmas. If you watched this movie four times, it must be good! Great post!

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Denise Baer link
4/22/2015 07:37:33 pm

I never heard of this movie, but I always thought Michael Crichton was an incredibly talented writer. When he passed, I believe the world had lost a beautiful mid.

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Dennis Higgins link
4/25/2015 09:45:58 pm

Indeed, you are correct, Denise. Crichton was a great writer and an incredible loss.

Virginia, I watch all my time travel movies multiple times. I guess I'm obsessed.

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