The man who could do miracles
The man who wonders could do (also: "The man who wanted to change the world" and "the man of miracles could accomplish" ; in the English original "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" ) is a short story by HG Wells from the year 1898, which was filmed in 1936 under the title The man who wanted to change the world .
action
The main character - George McWhirter Fotheringay - is an average man who unexpectedly and out of the blue has divine power. When he becomes aware of this and he starts to try out his new powers and he orders, for no reason, that the earth should stop turning, he triggers an unimaginable catastrophe of global proportions.
reception
In addition to the film adaptation from 1936, there was also a Russian cartoon by director Ephraim Pruzhany ( “The Man Who Can Work Miracles” ) from 1969 and 1959, a radio production by the BBC by Dennis Main Wilson.
The subject of the average person who has divine power out of the blue has also been taken up in other films such as Bruce Almighty . According to the website tvtropes.org , this story was genre-founding for a number of similar works.
Michio Kaku sums up in his book "The Physics of the Impossible" with reference to the short story that "[...] godlike gifts also require godlike judgment and wisdom" .
literature
- HG Wells was able to accomplish the man who wonders (OT: The Man Who Could Work Miracles ), in ibid .: star of destruction - Classical science fiction stories (OT: Best Stories of HG Wells ). Heyne, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-30444-6
- HG Wells was able to do The man who wonders (OT: The Man Who Could Work Miracles ), in HG Wells: master narratives . Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich 1996, ISBN 978-3-257-22950-9
Web links
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles (English)
- Factory entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodForADay
- ↑ Michio Kaku, "The Physics of the Impossible", 5th edition 2014, rowohlt Verlag, page 125
