Sound of Thunder by Bradbury

[hracctsold]

Years ago, I got a tape of the short story by Ray Bradbury titled, "Sound of Thunder". It was about a Time Safari, Inc. group that took hunters back to the dino's for hunting. But they had many requirements about upseting the future by changing the past.<br />The storyline says that for the lack of a butterfly that is killed back then, its preditors could suffer and cause those above it on the preditor scale to suffer and this would expound that lack to a major break in present times. It was a short story that ends with just that, and the star vows to get the one man that did that on his hunt he directed, for he somehow changed the present realities to something worse.<br /><br />I seem to think time is a little harder to break then that, and can overcome such challenges to its order of things. <br />What does anyone else think?<br /><br />The reason for this post is that I just found the movie of the same name at Blockbuster that was suppose to come out a long time ago. It never made it to the movie house, but went to video directly. It is cheaply made with blue screens done just like the movies of the 1950's, with the stars walking in place to a moving screen behind them, or to their side. But it is still somewhat good in it's concept. The hunter kills the butterfly and changes time of the present in waves. The waves come in series that first change the plant life, animal life, and then more complex life forms, mankind. The star has to go back and change things and cause it to never happen again.<br /><br />The movie is not intense enough to worry about if he makes it, but what is interesting is the changes that are now made on the world, monkey/bats and other new changes of all creations. <br /><br />Has anyone heard of changes in time to happen in waves? This is totally different from the book, but I already have separated the movie from the book. I liked the short story, and was interested in how they could expand it into a movie. Like I said it was interesting in how th

 

[tom_hobbes]

You're perhaps thinking of John Varley's <i>Millenium</i> which was novelized for the film version from his short story <i>Air Raid</i>. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[hracctsold]

Millenium was a much better made movie. Now I did enjoy Sound of Thunder, but it was not made as well.

 

[hracctsold]

Not to revive old posts, but I am watching an old show of ST now, yesterday's enterprise. It had an interesting time travel question. The "C" ship comes into the future where the "Fed." is fighting the Klingons, and Tasha goes back in time to fight. <br />Later, we find out she was captured by the Romulens, and had a child that considered herself a Romulen. <br /><br />Some think that an alternate universe is the answer for those who go back into the past, and then show up in the present, or their decendent do, but that is not what happens here is it, or is it?