![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Twain’s 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is perhaps one of the earliest such examples. Given the pressure to pack maximum entertainment into a 2-hour movie, perhaps it’s the written word that provides better opportunities. Surprisingly, Hollywood didn’t repeat this successful formula in later years subsequent time travel movies like 12 Monkeys (1995), Source Code (2011) and Looper (2012) have used time displacement as an element in a mystery/ thriller rather than to explore cultural differences. A big part of the charm of the Back to the Future movies was seeing Marty McFly try to navigate a culture from 30 years in his past. Splash (mermaid among land-dwellers almost literally ‘fish out of water’!), Big (corporate world from a kid’s perspective) and even Cocoon (senior citizens suddenly able to participate in the activities of younger people).Īnd of course, using time travel as a device opens up many entertaining possibilities. In the 80’s there were some ‘fantasy’ movies in Hollywood which explored this trope from various angles, e.g. ![]() The country bumpkin in the city, the city dweller in the countryside ( City Slickers) or the foreigner in another land ( Coming to America) – these kinds of stories have used culture clashes as a basis for humor and melodrama. We are all familiar with the ‘fish out of water’ trope in fiction. ![]()
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