The Time Warp Machine

Film: The Time Machine (2002 version)
Album: The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack album
When track 14 ends start Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd

This was fascinating. Synchronicities with this album are always very funny, yet the film didn't seem to have much humour in it. They went well together though, with a little humour, but I'd rate as a 'B' grade synchronicity after watching once due to some slow portions. I picked it because of the song 'Time warp'.

One of my favourite lyrical synchronicities was when time was moving forward at great speed with the Earth getting technologically advanced, and as numerous satellites are seen orbitting the Earth the lyrics say, "Shooting up junk", then "Taking everyone for a ride" as a space shuttle takes people on a ride to the moon. Other examples...

"Here's the ring to prove that I'm no joker" as the guy rushes off to propose to his beloved, and his housekeeper holds out the ring he forgot.

"I was feeling done in, couldn't win" as the guy is depressed because he cannot prevent his beloved from dying, even though he can travel back in time.

"Come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab, I see you shiver with anticipation" as the guy in his lab finally unveils his time machine.

This needs more examination, a lot of the lyrics define things that happen in the second half of the film. Often this album ends and restarts at the end of track 14 and the two additional versions of the song 'Time warp' are missed out. But as it got to the end of track 14 the moon is seen all broken up, so I started 'Dark Side Of The Moon' at this point (film time 44:57 when the guy Guy is in the middle of sitting down) and it synchronised extremely well. As usual the song 'Money' barely synchronised at all, I've noticed this usually happens.

It also contains a song called 'Time', which coincidentally plays at the same time as 'Time warp' if you play the two albums at the same time. With the album 'Bob Dylan Greatest Hits' (UK version) the song 'The times they are a-changing' also plays at this time. I think there are other examples of time-related songs on other albums all playing at the same time as well, but those are the only three I remember at the moment. The first two albums also synchronise wonderfully with an episode of the TV show 'Lost', and the time-related songs play when a guy goes back in time. I'll try that Bob Dylan album anyway with the film, though it didn't seem to synchronise with the Lost episode.

Some examples with the film...

The guy finds his time machine when the song 'Time' starts, then the alarm bells start ringing when the creatures attack.

"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun" as the guy is running, being chased by a creature.

"Racing around to come up behind you again" as he climbs up and the creature also comes up behind him.

"Hanging on in quiet desperation" as he is desperately hanging on by one hand at the top.

With the song 'The great gig in the sky' the little speech about the inevitibility and acceptance of death is spoken whilst the village leader explains about how it is the way of the world that they are hunted and killed.

The song 'Us and them' begins as the 'Uber-Morlock' explains about how the human race has evolved into two different species. "Us and them, and after all we're only ordinary men."

"Black and blue" as the colours of the scene are almost entirely black and blue.

"Up..." as the Morlock lifts up a little creature out of the water, then "...and Down" as he drops it back down again.

"Down and out" as the time machine comes down and the Morlock tells the guy to leave.

Overall this is quite excellent. The album ends shortly before the film does, as the story reaches its conclusion. Not sure what happens for the last scene, but nothing is really necessary.