Now I’d like to talk about a pretty amazing movie I just saw, "Things to Come," a 1936 movie based on the story by H.G. Wells.
I got this off one of the public domain movie RSS channels on Miro. You can download the whole thing from the internet archive, should you so desire.
It’s the story of the cycle of war and progress starting from the 1930s and stretching past the weird and distant 1970s.
The prediction of a global war is eerily prophetic.
Or perhaps not so much, considering what was happening in Germany at the time.
After the war and the plagues, there was a period of barbarism, which only came to an end once the engineers took over.
It was the purpose of the engineers to instate a "freemasonry of science." This they did, with the help of all the weapons the freemasonry of science can build.
At this point, the film goes all utopian on us, and I wish that I had seen it when Super Dave put out his public call for utopian movies.
It’s a brilliant design of the future. A monumentally modern future of the sort that we don’t see too often.
With more than a little of the art deco aesthetic thrown in.
I watched this and wished that Guy Madden would make a sci-fi epic like this. I would happily throw in everything I have to fund it. Because it would be just that awesome.
