My favourite dialogue in the movie Time After Time. The dialogue is between Herbert Wells and his old friend John Stevenson. They have traveled to the future that, as it turns out, isn't as utopian as Wells had thought.
In the last hour, news broke of David Warner’s passing due to a cancer-related illness. I immediately came here. What a loss of a great talent and wonderful actor. Thank you, Mr. Warner, for everything.
@@Zennofobic I grew up with old videotapes of Time after Time, Time Bandits and watched Batman repeatedly. I never realised how much he was a part of my childhood sadly, until after his passing.
@@scotia7326 I just checked, 1979 I can't believe I got it right I was 10! Funny how the first time I saw Malcolm MacDowell was here as well which threw me for a loop later on when I finally saw Clockwork Orange. I recently saw Cross of Iron just a few months ago... RIP David (lol I went to check and the date is in the title)
Warner was a casting directors dream. A fine character actor, so British, a great screen presence. When Warner was in a scene you sat up and took notice. Fine qualities for an actor and he had a great career as a result. RIP David Warner and wherever you are may the curtain never fall.
Back in the 97 I bought a PC game called Privateer 2: The Darkening. The game is meh, not great not terrible. But. It had FMV cutscenes, and David Warner stole the show. My first exposure to the guy, and I can recite the words and emphasis to this day. RIP David Warner. What a guy.
He wasn't lying. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer at a time when such were relatively unknown, but his impact was relatively minor compared to later killers. He was known to have killed 5 women & suspected of 6 more. Among serial killers, he isn't in the top 100 of the world's most prolific. For that, it takes at least 16 confirmed kills. Even in England, where serial killers are relatively rare, the recordholder is a serial arsonist w/26 confirmed kills.
Two of the most dangerous psychopaths in American history currently live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and 1 Observatory Circle in Washington D.C. ... yes ... "What a great and sadly true line"
If they were to do a reboot they could use a montage of nothing but Malcolm McDowell and David Warner movies and TV appearances, before and since :) Or in fact given what media has become, something like a wall of flatscreens running various horrorshow news, politics, extreme sports like MMA and WCW, movies, good serial killer shows, bad serial killer shows... and mixed into the whole thing, scenes from McDowell and Warner clips. Jack the Ripper would be background noise in a world like today. if only he hadn't made so many bad movies later in life. (What happened to him?)
David Warner is my favorite actor. He was going to play Freddy Kruger, based on his performance from Time After Time, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. It would have been interesting to see his take on that iconic horror role.
Time After Time, Time Bandits and TRON were the first three films that I saw David Warner in. He was an exquisitely great actor and he will be deeply missed.
The way Stephenson's and Wells' characters dressed in the film always fascinated me. On one hand, Stephenson was brought up as a 19th-century gentleman from Victorian England, and you can see how he looks in the beginning. But now here, in the late 1970s, he fits in all too well - he can truly unleash his true persona, Jack the Ripper. He loves this new world, this realm of chaos and carnage and fear-mongering, and he slips into a more modern fashion sense perfectly - you never would have been able to tell he was from the Victorian British Empire. Wells' character, though, cannot fit into this world - he is a chivalrous man, fitting better in a 19th-century that was even too immoral for him; and then to see what he had stumbled into - this late 20th century, a bloody and scarred aftermath of so much horror from decades past - he could never have been able to imagine a place like this, even with his incredibly creative mind. As such, he never changes his fashion sense, always remaining in his original Victorian dress - a tweed suit and bow tie - even when no one else wears it. It's really interesting how the way characters dress in a story can be representative of their moral viewpoints - one character fits into to the new world for it's carnage, the other resists it. (BTW, when referring to H. G. Wells, I'm just talking about the character in the movie; I don't really know much about the real-world H. G. Wells.)
The real H. G. Wells was not a particularly moral man, at least not with regard to how he conducted his personal life; and he most certainly did not believe in Victorian sexual morality. He was married to his cousin Isabel from 1891 to 1894. He soon divorced her in favor of one of his students Amy Catherine Robbins, whom he nicknamed "Jane" and eventually married in 1895. So, in the movie, H. G. Wells was lying when he told Amy that he was unmarried back in 1893; either that or the writers simply got their facts wrong. All throughout his 32-year marriage to Amy Robbins, which lasted until her death at the age of 55 in 1927, Wells had numerous affairs and fathered several illegitimate children with other women, including Rebecca West (their son was the author Anthony West). Some of his other well known conquests included Dorothy Richardson and Margaret Sanger. After the death of Amy Robbins, Wells had an affair with the mistress of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky and tried to pressure her into marrying him, but she refused. Alas, it would seem that the real H. G. Wells was as much of a compulsive sex addict as Jack the Ripper is shown to be in the movie. If Wells really had traveled to the year 1979 in a time machine, he'd probably be looking to score with some loose women too. A more plausible scenario would have Wells and Stevenson wearing matching John Travolta-style leisure suits and coincidentally bumping into each other at the same disco while trying to pick up the same girl!
Rest peacefully David Warner aka Dr.Necessiter. He died Sunday from a "cancer-related illness," according to BBC News, which cited a statement from his family. He was 80.
Just watched this tonight for the first time in years. Forgot what a great scene this is. I absolutely love their voices, timing, movements. Just brilliant.
Nicholas Meyer had a novelist's ear for dialogue, and wrote lines which used the fullness and breadth that English (with its many, varied influences) could provide. When he coupled that with the right setting and actors, it was a joy to watch.
I loved David Warner in EVERY role I saw him in. From this movie, to The (original)Omen, The Island, Waxwork, A Christmas Carol, & many others. I've looked to see if this movie was ever released on DVD, because it's my most favorite time travel movie of all time. He was a brilliant, captivating, stellar actor, & had a great accent, plus, played such an awesome bad guy. It's so eerie that I wanted to watch the Omen on Tubi on Monday, & then found out he died yesterday. Rest in Peace, Mr. Warner, you loveable ole villain. 🙏🏻 You were a class act.🎩🇬🇧
I enjoyed his role as a killer of vampire bats in Nightwing, and he was hilarious as Evil in Time Bandits. He's left us a lot of terrific characters. RIP.
Sometimes it is the smallest line deliveries that stick with me. Even when he stands there at the door, stunned, and H.G. asks to come inside, Stevenson's English manners instantly emerge with, "Certainly. Certainly." That's acting.
This scene is absolutely fantastic! The first time I saw this film I was a naive 13 yr old expecting a sci-fi adventure with cool special effects... When this scene happened, I felt just like the HG Wells character- shocked! Malcom McDowell’s eyes tell the story as he watches the television.... Great stuff!
I just watched Hornblower Mutiny where David Warner acted as Captain James Sawyer which led me to this page. What a great actor. He causes one to absolutely immerse themselves in the story as he brings the screen to life. He will be immensely missed.
In 2021, I honestly keep thinking in my mind, how appropriate this one scene in the entire movie makes the statement of the decay of humanity. And how it's almost not even shocking to anyone anymore. Haven't watched in many years, but I just keep recalling him saying he belongs here (1979) more than HG. And to go home. Absolutely the truth. Really this one moment from the film is insane,,, considering it's 41 years ago.
It wasn't all kittens and rainbows in the late 1800's. Enslavement under the guise of colonialism, subjugation under the guise of industrialization. Sure, there are dreamers, visionaries and activists in those days-- but that's the same said of today.
I actually found this movie on TV years ago as a kid by accident and when I found out Malcolm McDowell is in it and David Warner and Mary Steenburgen a part of me definitely said watch it and I was not disappointed aside from Back to the Future which is my all time favorite time travel movie franchise this movie is number 2 absolutely fantastic film
This movie caught me at just the right time. I was 15 or 16 and watched it on television one afternoon. I was by this time a fan of H. G. Wells, and Arthur C. Clarke, and I was way more of a "slow and brainy" science fiction type while my friends were eating up Star Wars (which I of course enjoyed). Time After Time was just what I needed, it's a good movie that would make a good book. I could appreciate that people were making movies that were more about ideas than special effects. Then, too, this story sucks you right in from the first scene and never lets you go. And what a cast. I really didn't know who Malcolm McDowell was (I hadn't seen A Clockwork Orange yet as its violence was outside my tender sensibilities). So this movie was my introduction to Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and the extraterrestrially gorgeous Mary Steenbergen. The same writer/director Nicholas Meyer made The Day After and three separate Star Trek movies (II (directed), IV (written), and VI (written/directed)), and they're great movies, too.
To the late, great David Warner. A truly lovely man, who played his parts as vilains so well. But was a truly humourous and lovely guy deep down. As a child, I met him once for his autograph. He signed it, and gave me a big hug (frowned on today 'coz of idiots like Jim Saville etc). RIP David Hatersley Warner) 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ May You Forever Find Piece In The Arms Of God. God Bless
Wow! What a great story! Wish I could have met the man! I once met the late Sir John Hurt (Warner's lifelong friend and classmate at RADA in the early '60's) at a film festival and he was really nice. He shook my hand and everything and asked me if I was staying to watch his new movie and hoped I would enjoy it.
When David Warner appear in a movies he put the magic touch of a greatness moments and make a real situations are happening in the films.. Like "Rasputin" movie and "Titanic" movie..📽🌎
Great scene between Warner and McDowell. I just wish Warner had more screen time in this movie. A great actor with an amazing voice. I also liked him a lot in the Star Trek TNG episode: Chain of Command. RIP.
@@danielyeshe When I was a kid my older brother took me and my middle brother to see Moonraker and we didn't realize there was a double feature and the film playing was "Nightwings". At the time I was only 7 and didn't know much about movis except wanting to watch Moonraker bc as a kid I loved James Bond movies. Hard to believe a little known film with the great David Warner was playing right in front of me that day.
The more things change, the more they stay the same actually. The TVs are just flatter and the remote controls don't click. Although we definitely don't have enough Bugs Bunny on TV! Anyway, I was really bummed when the scene cut off right there ... cuz I know what comes next, and the whole scene is brilliant really. (Yeah, the violence is catching. But it's about H.G. Wells chasing David Warner's version of Jack the Ripper--who's a lot less violent than the real one--through time, so I know the violence isn't real. It's two really great actors being really really GREAT! And, yeah, what a lot of other people said. Every one of David Warner's lines is quotable, especially the way he says them!)
Me too. I feel sorry for Jack too! When Wells goes to pull the key out and Jack nods to him ... The first time I saw this back in 1979, David Warner instantly became my favorite actor. Still is. He actually has less screen time than it seems like he does, but his performance is brilliant and unforgettable.
BTW, in the DVD commentary, Malcolm McDowell ruins the crying scene a little. It's been a while since I listened to it, but as I recall, the tears are fake. He said Mary Steenbergen had some kind of thing she snuck off to use that makes your eyes tear up. He thought that was cheating but he ended up using it! Don't know about David Warner, but he looked pretty teary too, which is why I felt sorry for him. BTW, in the other commentary by the director, it didn't sound like he liked David Warner very much! When he mentioned him at all, it was to complain about him, like about how he didn't tell him before he signed on for the movie that he'd broken his feet and couldn't run, and how he kept asking if there were going to be "short takes" (i.e., fewer lines to memorize). He also refers to the Ripper character as a "plot device"! If you want to hear good things about Warner, listen to Malcolm McDowell; they were good friends.
yah there's a great Comicon interview with both of them and they were very funny together. I do agree tho that Jack IS a plot device. That is, the film is a a romance about Wells meeting the woman of the future that he'd been imagining, with the danger of Jack pushing their level of involvement forward. It's not really a film about catching Jack the Ripper. Wells doesn't really have the skills to do that, even forearmed with future knowledge.
If you never saw this movie, check it out! It’s great and holds up very well. And if you’re a fan of the ‘Back To The Future’ world, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see one of the main cast members in yet another great time-travel film. The quality of this clip is so much better than the sorry VHS tape we watched over and over! Definitely worth a watch!
David Warner was sooo dang HOT in this movie!!! That voice...wanted everything about him in this except for the homicidal tendencies and the denim vest.
That dialogue is stuck in my mind since I am 14. Still, there is something that is telling me that it's too easy and that there is something that we are not getting right about our time. If we want to understand our era, we must understand our past and look more deeply into things, those that seem obvious and those we usually don't think to look on.
Imagine living in Victorian England in 1893 and traveling in a time machine to America in 1979 and converting your English Pounds to American Dollars and then checking into a luxury hotel with a sink, shower, bath, and toilet, and a remote controlled color television and, no doubt, a vending machine and an ice machine down the corridor with central heating and air conditioning? You'd probably thought you'd died and gone to heaven.
@@Elitist20 I guess that would be the actual realization of how horrifying the future actually is which you'll quickly fast track back to the safety of the Victorian era while being glad you don't have to worry about that. Perhaps with time traveling technology in your possession however you'll try to find a way to prevent the atomic bomb from being invented in the first place by killing Oppenheimer at a young age.
@@zonilo1 Back to the Victorian era safety, but also back to the Victorian era problems. By the way, even without Oppenheimer the nuclear bomb would have been created. To prevent this, does this means they would have to kill the one who discovered E=mc^2 at a young age?!? Someone at a young age?!?🤔 😠😮💨
