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1. #Teleportation movie jumper movie
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3. #Teleportation movie jumper series

I mean, we are dealing with an ability that so few people possess – how does a young teleporter live amongst non-teleporters? Very well, seems to be the conclusion. After a few disbelieving "WTF?"s he figures out what he can do and proceeds to rob a bank simply because he could (leaving IOUs at the scene as a way to salve an adolescent conscience which is kind of correct if seen from a certain point of view). There's nothing like certain death to activate a dormant ability to be elsewhere. That's why I quoted from Bester's classic novel. Davy falls under the ice, is presumed drowned, lost to his community but ends up teleporting into the safest place he knows (explained in the book but not the movie) – the Ann Arbour library.

#Teleportation movie jumper serial

In the movie, his dad's still an asshole, (Michael Rooker who after Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, will never be any casting threat to Hugh Grant) but the inciting incident is a bully throwing an Eiffel Tower snow-globe on to thin ice, a gift Davy gives to his prospective girlfriend. A beating from a nasty father is the spur that gets its hero Davy 'jumping' in the first place. It's a book that got noticed by its presentation of child abuse, not a subject traditionally associated with young people's literature even though it should be. Jumper is based on a 1992 young adult's novel by Steven Gould.

#Teleportation movie jumper series

To its credit, ITV's ultra-lame but almost fondly remembered TV series The Tomorrow People used the word as a verb, a rare nod to a bona fide classic of literature, science fiction or not. In the prologue of Bester's Tiger! Tiger!, the first person to exhibit teleportation ability is named Jaunte and logically, a verb is born.

#Teleportation movie jumper movie

While we're here, Bester also wrote the classic on telepathy too, two years earlier in The Demolished Man (and no, Stallone's macho movie had nothing to do with that brilliant, iconoclastic and all-too epic novel). Yes, leaping or jumping instantaneously from one place to the next may have been featured in stories written before 1955 but Alfred Bester's Tiger! Tiger! is the classic that really put teleportation on the sf cultural map. The cheaper solution? Beam the buggers down! Cost effective and science-fictiony all in one.įor teleportation's true literary origins you have to go back another decade. Gene Roddenberry could not afford what would be the expensive and primitive special effect of his Starship Enterprise simply landing on an alien planet week after week. It's my humble opinion that the latter ability became universally famous due to budgetary constraints on a young TV exec in the mid-60s.

Both seem mired in wish-fulfilment rather than any intellectual musing on where our species is going next.

These are words that need no attached idiot guide so well versed are we in their meanings. The two big 'human changes on the genetic level' are telepathy and teleportation. There are several science fiction ideas that have gone through so many iterations that they have become almost humdrum standards in the whole genre's repertoire, the "My Way"s of the Karaoke bars if you will.