David Warner and Malcolm McDowell dialogue in Time after Time (1979)
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- 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.
😒😢
first time I ever saw David was this movie, loved it... think I was 10 or so
@@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)
I sad to hear of David Warners passing. He was a brilliant actor. 👏
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.
David, May You Forever Be At Peace in the Arms of God.
God Bless
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Very well said 👏
One of the few actors worth watching in the second half of Twin Peaks, season 2. If that isn't a testament to his abilities, than what is?
"Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur."
That line always send chills up my spine.
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.
It's depressing how he has a point in this scene.
Since this movie was made, he would be a noob.
I don't quite get chills from that line but I often come back to watch this video. 3:26.
Two great actors and a great director. "Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur ." What a great and sadly true line.
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"
I would have much preferred an alliteration. "Ninety years ago, I was an atrocity. Today, an amateur."
@@BogeyTheBear No, that completely changes the meaning of the line. He’s saying ninety years ago there was nobody like him.
@@egglady Then 'aberration' suits the line even better. Less modern-sounding, alliterative, and a synonym.
@@BogeyTheBearatrocity sounds horrible in this sentence
Two of the greatest British voices in the same scene - absolutely perfect.
Their chemistry is perfect. But David has the more beautiful, expressive, memorable voice, IMO.
"90 years ago I was a freak. Today, I'm an amateur."
Damn, if that's not an understatement, especially comparing Jack to the Zodiac, Hitler, Stalin, Manson, and all these shootings.
Classic line from the movie.
One of my very fave movie lines. Classic.
@The Wraith True.
@@johnnystapleton9842 A man kills a handful of prostitutes and is never found. Happens everywhere, all the time, at least in America.
david warner and malcolm McDowell, if that isn't an amazing combonation of actors, I don't know what is
Agreed!
RIP Mr. Warner
*Carbonation
They’re British
@@therespectedlex9794carbonized
"It's catching. Isn't it? The violence." RIP David Warner
It would have been epic if he found a scene from A Clockwork Orange on the TV.
Yeeesss! 😂😂😂
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?)
Good luck getting the intellectual property rights.
@@carnotantonioromero3024 Wait I need that
A little bit of the ultra violence
These men don't agree, but you can see the respect that the bad guy does have for Herbert.
Jack the Ripper fits in very well in 2023 with all the chaos going on lately.
Since this movie was made, he would be a noob.
"We must add DETECTIVE to your list of accomplishments." Hello, Ra's al Ghul.
Oh yeah David Warner did play Ra's All Ghoul and Malcolm McDowell played Metello. Instersting. David Warner also played the Scarecrow one time.
StormsongK McDowell also played Warner's son on TAS, in a flashback episode in the Old West. McDowell's character was Arcady (sp?)
@@martinguzman3995 I don’t remember Warner as Scarecrow but McDowell was also Mad Mod on Teen Titans
This movie is better than the newer movies you see today. I remembered it from childhood and borrowed it to show my son. He was not disappointed.
RIP David Warner. What a magnificent actor...
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.
and he was also in Titanic!
and he was also in Titanic (1997)
@@theKDLChrncls Yes and he was very good in that too.
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.
"Bless my soul" hahahahaha They were both good in this but David Warner really nailed it.
@Barnabas Collins David died 🥀
RIP David Warner, the actor that voiced Ra’s Al Ghul in Batman The Animated Series
He was Jor-El in Lois and Clark tv series
I watched the Batman The Animated Series in prime time and didn't know that. Thanks.
he played the role of Spicer Lovejoy, Cal Hockley's valet and bodyguard in Titanic (1997)
Great movie.
It deserves better recognition.
Agree
One of my all-time favorite movies! Brilliantly written and acted. I saw this in the theater in 1979 and couldn't stop thinking about it for days.
@@LazyIRanch same....it leaves an affect on people. Glad I have this movie in collection
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.
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!
Holy dialog batman, that was a lot of typing.
RIP David Warner. Great actor. Always so natural no matter what he was doing. This is a terrific performance by him (and McDowell).
There will never be another David Warner.
I cracked up at how the famous Monetery Pop footage of Jimi Hendrix was used to portray modern violence.
Yeah, or the Looney Toons!😂🤣🤣
This is a "HOLY SHIT" moment for me. Two of the best actors of their generation in the world.
RIP David. Timeless work.
David Warner was exquisite as Jackt. the Ripper
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.
Maximum Respect to the Warner.
Legend
One of my favorite movies of all time. David Warner is so under-rated, a brilliant performer.
Indeed. I always hoped he would've been given a role as a Bond villain. He'd have been epic.
@@marmichaux7520 Totally agree! I always hoped he'd be a Bond villain.
@@OneAndOnlyMe You, too? Yeah, he'd have been perfect for the role.
RIP David Warner. I liked him in Star Trek and he was good in Titanic. But I loved him in this. A really under rated movie.
Two of the greatest actors ever. I was in love with them and the movie for many years. Utter perfection. I even liked Warner in "Titanic".
So did I , I also liked him in SOS Titanic
@@beyondjupiter99
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!
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.
RIP David Warner. I will always have a soft spot for this film.
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.
that whole clip was truth. and yet done over 40 years ago. most movies today dont say anything real.
This film contains one of my all time favorite movie lines..."He who raises a fist is the first man to run out of ideas."
Unforgettable.
Yes.
"Come on, I won't bite you."
Oh yes, you're *so* trustworthy, Mr. the Ripper.
😂😂🤣
True, but he did respect Wells.
The late and very great David Warner... One of the finest actors of his generation and some of my favourite films.
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
I just read David has sadly passed away…RIP to a great actor!!🌹
RIP David Warner. Passed away yesterday.
Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2, Morpheus from Fallout- this man's voice is amazing.
David Warner signed my Baldur's Gate book.
David Warner and Malcolm McDowell, Two Actors who bring Their "A" Game, No matter what the role.
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.
Such a Great actor! Usually played a Villian " Always a good performance" Sad he died today at 80. Rip David Warner
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)
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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.
R.i.P. David Warner(1941-2022)
Great sadness David Warner passed away amazing career in film & Tv 💔💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Rest in Peace, Mr. David Warner.
McDowell is unrecognizable from the pretty puppy he played in Clockwork Orange.
The words towards the end of the dialogue are amazingly prescient today.
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.
Great comment, damn he has always been so underrated.
Oh, but the homicidal tendencies would keep you on your toes
😂😂🤣 Right!
@@Teobi1 😂😂😂
What's wrong with the denim vest?
My absolute favorite Time Travel flick ! This is such a great scene !
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.
His performance was so impressive. Did you know he didn't have time to learn his lines so was reading them off cards?
@@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.
David Warner gives me Alan Rickman vibes, brilliant scene.
David Warner somehow turns his eyes into pure evil here. Genius.
Happy 80th birthday 🎂🥳🍾🎉 David Warner
David Warner underrated actor, great in his horror movies that he did. RIP 2022
David Warner is up there in my top two most watchable actors. The second spot goes to Cushing. Great stuff.
I dare to add Gary Oldman, Bill Nighy and Alan Rickman
It's catching, isn't it? Violence.
Warner's character would love now.
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!)
Actor David Warner died at the age of 80 on July 24, 2022. Time indeed marches 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.
Pounds??? A gentleman only carries Guineas.
And then you find out about the potential for global thermonuclear war...
@@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?!?🤔 😠😮💨
@@zonilo1 If Oppenheimer hadn't invented the bomb, someone else would have.
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.
RIP David Warner 💔💔💔 He was a FABULOUS ACTOR!!!!
Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
Maybe the best scene in the film. MacDowell and Warner are so fantastic, but the way Warner plays the scene is brilliant. It helps that he has great dialogue. 'You haven't gone forward, Herbert. You've gone back.' 'The future isn't what you thought. It's what I am.' Warner makes Stevenson so self-aware. He knows he's a fiend and that violence is abhorrent, but he can't control his murderous impulses and is tormented by them. Great film, great acting!
Yes and "lost is what I am." Love it!!
I simped for this man so much, not only because of his looks, but because of his charisma, his voice and it was his interpretation of a sick, vile, serial killer.
Metallo and Ra's al Ghul arguing
I was gonna say the same thing lol
Malcom also played Ra's son Arkady Duvall on Batman TAS for an added connection
No.... Metallo and the Doctor (Unbound version of 3rd)
@@346436 oh yeah I forgot about that!
This is not a movie, this is a film.
Great characters, great writing, directing and amazing performance.
This is one of my all time favorite movies! Thanks for this.
A brilliant performance. One of my all time favorites.
May his memory be a blessing.
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..📽🌎
wonderful little flick. I'm always in tears by the end.
when Wells breaks down at the end, begging Jack to spare her... pain, I guess. ;)
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.
Probably my favorite scene from one of my favorite films; it speaks volumes.
RIP David Warner
This is a great scene I always liked this scene thanks for posting this.
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!
love Malcolm McDowell and David Warner.Two of the most interesting actors you can watch
Today's the first David Warner birthday he won't be present at. He was hugely talented.
RIP David Warner! Epic scene, brilliant performance of both Warner and McDowell. One interesting thing I noticed is when Wells knocks on the door, John asks "Who is it?", and Wells answers "Your breakfast, sir" with American accent, hahaha, trying to mislead John (and Wells succeeds).
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.
FUCK i wish that had happened :(, though robert englund was a fantastic choice for the role as well
One of my favorite roles of both David and Malcolm.
Thanks David for all these amazing performances and for mentoring Patrick another gift to us all.
I just Love and Admire Malcolm McDowell and David Warner. And both of them have contributed to the Industry and David Warner will be missed.
RIP David Warner 😔
Is it wrong that I find David Warner scary but incredibly attractive in this?
+shaitarn I don't think so. I also found/find him attractive.
He does have a commanding presence, as well as a good deal of charisma.
_"Is it wrong that I find David Warner scary but incredibly attractive in this?"_
Evil is not always repulsive. That said, those actors who can brilliantly play bad guys tend to be very nice people in real life.
David Warner is sexy looking
Welcome to the club! 😂😂🤣
For gods sake.
David Warner is a master, so is McDowell. Look at the man's face(!). As Warner's Ripper gloats, as only a master villain can, you can see the heartbreak as everything Wells (McDowell's character) hoped for is lost.
I love this.
RIP David Warner 🙏😢😇👼🏽✝️
RIP David Warner.
"Yer breakfast, sir."
David Warner, the only actor who could upstage Malcolm McDowell.
This scene stuck with me over several years
David Warner was originally cast as Freddy - i know Robert Englund made the role what it was but it would have been interesting to see what Warner would have brought to the role
THE CHILD OF BAAHL HAS AWOKEN... IT IS TIME FOR MORE.. EXPERIMENTS.
"You will suffer...you will ALL suffer"
And McDowel's response to these experiments...." Where I was taken to, brothers, was like no sinny I ever viddied before. I was bound up in a straitjacket and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lidlocks on my eyes so that I could not shut them no matter how hard I tried."
RIP David Warner 1941-2022
RIP, David Warner.