In fiction, people from the Present often travel to the Past. People from the Future often travel to the Present. Either way, the time-travelers get to show off their superior knowledge and technology (and often get shown up by the people from the Past/Present). Are there any works (especially films) where a person/people from the Past come to the Future?
That is to say: The work is written in the present day, and someone from the Past visits the Present. This is different from H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine , which was written ‘in the Past’ (if you catch my drift) and has events in the Present (and beyond). In other words, it’s the same as someone writing a novel or making a film in 2016, and setting it in the Future. What I’m getting at is, in a film made this year, say someone from 1860 gets zapped into 2016.
Time after time
It was made in 1979, but that was the present that they zapped to.
Good movie. I just rewatched it not too many months ago and it holds up well from when I saw it as a kid.
I’d forgotten about that one!
snfaulkner:
Time after time
It was made in 1979, but that was the present that they zapped to.
Good movie. I just rewatched it not too many months ago and it holds up well from when I saw it as a kid.
Mary Steenburgen shines in that picture.
Isaac Asimov once wrote a story where Shakespeare was brought forward in time and took a class discussing his works. He failed.
OTOH, the Doctor brought Vincent van Gogh to the present so he could see how he was regarded.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Journeyman (13-episode TV series; one character travels forward in time, the other travels back, they meet up in the 80’s).
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The Twilight Zone did something similar - and with Burt Reynolds in the cast, no less!: The Bard (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia
Elendil_s_Heir:
The Twilight Zone
Aha! In addition to The Bard , TZ also had A Hundred Years Over The Rim
In the year 1847, Chris Horn is one of the leaders of a small wagon train from Ohio attempting to reach California…
Horn crosses over a high, sandy hill rim and suddenly finds himself in New Mexico, in 1961.
There’s also the TZ episode The Last Flight , about a WWI pilot transported to the present.
And the episode about a criminal brought to the present at the moment of his hanging.
Colibri
October 12, 2016, 3:34am
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Asimov’s The Ugly Little Boy
Marvel Comics did a cute bit where Conan the Barbarian, and Red Sonja of Hyrkania, came forward to the 20th century. Teamed up with Spider-Man.
(Not sure this actually counts, because they didn’t come forward to “the real world,” but to the Marvel Universe.)
Anyway, charming bit of writing!
Iceman - John Lone as a prehistoric man revived in modern(ish) times. Struck a chord with me when I was a youngster. (In the ice ages, I mean.)
Yeah, I’ve seen a few different works of fiction where HG Wells travels to the present day.
He was a recurring character in the Dean Cain version of Superman.
If waking from suspended animation counts, there’s
Ugh, I loathe myself for remembering of its existence, BUT…
WotNot
October 12, 2016, 8:46am
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The first thing I thought of was Catweazle ,
There’s also the French film Les Visiteurs ,
Mijin
October 12, 2016, 8:56am
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Which of course reminds me of Captain America / The Avengers
More seriously, ISTM a lot of the past-to-the-present “time travel” stories will be some kind of suspended animation.