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Prompt:

Part 1:

The film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure presents various anomalies in the existent understanding of Time Travel. Certainly, aspects of the film when analyzed become rather confusing as a consequence. Do you think these temporal anomalies detract from the film? Explain why or why not and be specific.

 

Part 2:

I would argue that part of this film's success is that it does not take itself too seriously and seems consciously aware of the ludicrousness of its own plot. This film uses cliches and stereotypes of American culture in the 1980s to derive much of its humor, heightening the fads and slang of the day to the extreme, for example the cut off T-Shirt and the overuse of the word "dude". Movies can reflect culture (interests, people, passions, trends, social behaviors, etc . . .) In watching this film and having not "lived" as a teenager in the 1980s (I am assuming most of your were teens in the 90s), you have an opportunity to approach the film as an outsider to that time, and in such a capacity be more aware of how meaning is being presented to you. In other words, even if you did not know this film was set in the 1980s, it "looks" and "sounds" like it is the 1980s. Choose either a character, a setting (place), or clothing and conduct an analysis in which you discuss how the 1980s is represented. What about the film looks or sounds like the 1980s and how do you know it's the 1980s?

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Wonwoong

 

Part 1

 

     There are two errors. First, thefilm Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ignored the theory of "Grandfather Paradox". If both Ted and Bill take famous people such as Mr. Abraham Lincoln and Socrates to the present time or from the past, the present must be changed by Ted an Bill's past behaviors. That is to say, the film did not think "cause and effect". Because of disappearing both  Lincoln and Socrates, Lincoln and Socrates can not be Ted and Bill's target  for their history report, and also, they would not need to bring them to their presentation space. Therefore, whatever they did, they can not get good grades. They might pass their history class, if Bill and Ted bring Lincoln and Socrates to the present just before they die with fame.  Second, if Bill and Ted return Socrates and Lincoln to their right place in history, they would still remember their time travel after going back to their home. They would study or record their time travel, and they would become a just poor fiction writer. Maybe, only Ted and Bill would know the fact of existence of Socrates and Lincoln. I think there are many small and big errors in the film. Unless I studied Time Travel Narrative,  I could not see that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is just for kids.

 

Part 2

 

     The film, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" was made in the 1980s. My birthday is in the 1980s, so I can remember that 1980's style. Actually, in that time, hair style was so strange to me. Long and curled hair was popular. Also, I can find lower video quailities and color in the film than a present video. As soon as the movie starts, I can figure out this film is a 1980s' film. Moreover, Bill's mother enjoys putting on her pants above her waist. It is 80s' clothing style and in Korea it was called "the belly pants". Additionally, today, Hip-hop and R&B music are really popular among teenagers instead of Rock music. This is good example to show 1980s' character. Last, Jean d'Arc aerobics in a shopping mall. Aerobic dancing was one of the fashioned sports in the 1980s.

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Julia

Part 1: In order to discuss the various time travel anomalies in "Bill and Ted" as either detracting from the film or not, it would have to be in specific aspects. In comedic and entertainment terms, as the film was intended, the time travel anomalies of the movie only add to the hilarious and nonsensical attitude of plot. But in terms of exploring time travel narratives, and in relation to the currently understood scientific study of them, the plot of "Bill and Ted" can certainly be confusing. Because this film was not intended to illucidate student's serious understanding of worm holes and time machines though, it is unfair to expect it to. Mainly, this film was incredibly useful in providing excellent visual representations of those concepts, and for exploring (although somewhat haphazardly) the various ways in they can be used to benefit the time traveler and alter the future. 

 

Part 2: I was born in 1988, and as such am a baby of the 80's who has no actual memory of it. It was a time period in close enough relation to my childhood that I can vaguely recall the fashions I was dressed in as a baby and the dwindling effects it had on pop culture as the early 90's progressed. However, my main knowledge of 80's culture can be derived from the MTV show, "I Love the 80's." Each episode would review popular trends is music, fashion, toys, movies, celebrities, lingo, etc. While watching "Bill and Ted," several specific cultural representations portrayed the setting of the film as being in the 80's. These included mall scenes, with neon signs and colors, with many people in 80's fashions like big glasses, teased, curled hair and tacky makeup, as well as Bill's stepmother with bright spandex clothing, and Bill and Ted's own grungy, amateur-rock band style. In addition, electric guitar and the exaggerated surfer-esque lingo of the duo were signifiers of the 80's. 

 

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Arielle

 

          Part 1

 

In Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure there are a lot of questions that the viewer may have that are never answered; some of them stated in the Temporal Anomalies Site. Like if all of these historical figures were taken from their time period, having experienced the future, wouldn’t it change their perspective and view of their time and change the future? And if Rufus goes back in time to make sure Bill and Ted pass history in order for there music to put an end to war and poverty, wouldn’t that mean at one point in time they had already passed history without the help of Rufus? There wouldn’t be a Rufus to give them a time machine. And if that’s so then why does Rufus doubt that the boys will pass now? Is there a time period when the future still has war and poverty?  And why is time repeating itself if in the end they pass history? There are so many things in the movie that don’t add up, but yet the movie remains entertaining.

Although the viewer definitely wonders “how could this really happen?” the movie is a comedy and all of the questions that are pondered during this movie add to the comedic facts. I mean Abraham Lincoln says, “party on dude,” at the end of the movie. Napoleon downs a bowl of ice cream, cheats during bowling, and pushes children out of line at the water park while a bunch of historical figures cause a ruckus at the mall leading them to get arrested. The movie is not realistic except for the names of the historical characters, so as I am watching, I know that nothing in this movie could ever be real. I didn’t think about what the real consequences of Bill and Ted’s actions would be if they really had taken the historical figures from history so much because the movie was humorous. It was a comedy. Therefore the temporal anomalies do not detract from the film.

 

 

 

Part 2

     I  was born in 1990 but I have older brothers and sisters and have seen many movies made in this time period. I can tell that Bill and Ted were in the 1980’s by how they dressed and the way they spoke. Both Bill and Ted wore Chuck Taylor high top converse, baggy jeans, and cut up t-shirts and sweatshirts. They have shirts that show their stomach and crossing the top shirt around the waist was definitely more popular in the 1980’s. This type of dress seemed like how a lot of teens in the 80’s would dress. And boys living in California using what I think of as surfer slang-words that I don’t hear used quite as often except for dude like: bodacious, totally, bogus, hanus, dick wad, and most_____. Their tone and choice of vocabulary seemed to be used more in the 1980’s. 

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Mike

Part 1

 

Hmm...it is true once presented with the temporal anomalies, the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure idea about time travel gets a little murky. I understand the claims that within the movie several anomalies occur, this is an issue but I think we must not stray from the movies original intent, to entertain. This movie is simply entertainment; to be viewed at a distant without any real substantial thought inducing content, although it does present the notion of time travel as well as add visuals (somewhat shallow) to the idea. Furthermore, the movie was created for the general public who isn't so much concerned with the science of time travel but are more so intrigued by the imaginary notion of time traveling. This movie seems to fall into the category of pop culture that encompasses the likes of fairytales as Niven presents within his essay All the Myriad Ways. Also, I believe time traveling is a device within the movie in order to make the movie more interesting as a way to enhance the narrative and serves as the link to create a movie loosely based in historical fact (possibly as a way to teach basic history). Even though the names of the historical figures are mauled throughout the movie (aside from the last scene), the movie still presents these figures and provides a slightly intellectual background of the figures. 

So, to answer the question I do not think the temporal anomalies detract from the film. This film plays an important role within pop cultural history. It is Hollywoods's cry to solve the problems of the world thru the power of music and time travel! It may seem highly unlikely but at the time in 1988 the world was experiencing much tension (not uncommon) with the war in the MiddleEast, IRA (Irish Republican Army) feuding, the election of George W. Bush, death penalty threats on drug traffickers, the Armenian earthquake, and a series of other devastating events. Anywho, I think this movie presents a romantic idea of world peace. It is not to be taken as non-fiction (or even sci-fiction) but it is to be viewed as an idea. The movie doesn't present itself as non-fiction because of its obvious use of slang, stereotypes, and California mind-set. And aside, from the complexities of time travel I do believe it captures the essence of discontinuous narrative, pop culture, rock generalizations, and fairytales (as I stated earlier). I enjoyed the movie and accepted it for what it is.

 

Niven. All the Myriad Ways. 110.

 

Part 2

Although, it is true I didn't grow up (as a teenager) in the 80s or even early 90s, I do know a lot about the time (probably because I kind of wished I grew up around that time). When I was growing up, I had a deep respect for punkrock/hip-hop, because of my love for skateboarding and the surrounding culture. In effect, I listened to music that was older than I was and watched skate videos that were probably released when I was born. And from what I have learned, this movie is a definite product of the late 80s and early 90s. It captures the Cali-stereotypes of the time and presents them in a quite impressive manner. It is like they took several cliches of the time and constructed a conglomerate stereotype formed in part by the rebellious skateboarder, brain-dead stoner/surfer, hair metal rocker, and white suburban teenager. 

First off, the music throughout the music embodies the screeching, heavily distorted lead guitars of bands such as Poison, Def Leppard, Van Halen (as mentioned in the movie), Genesis and Guns & Roses to name a few. The music is continually heavy (no pun intended) with the solo rifts of electric guitars which is an almost trademark of heavy/hair metal. These type of solos were the exact thing punkrock was beginning to deconstruct in order to create a rock free from overzealous guitar solos, drum breaks, and general unnecessary tangents of the rock nature. Also, the name "Wyld Stallions" is clearly a reference to hair metal's somewhat shallow, misspelled gimmicky band names such as Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Big Pig (featured in the movie), Shark Island (also in the movie), and Vital Signs. These names all share a common string that being that they are to embody a rebellious, hetero, extoic (in this case representing the sexual individual), and overtly carnal 'animal'. 

Secondly, the cloths of the film with special attention to the dyed denim, cut-offs, primitive-esque patterns, and band t-shirts. All of these articles in some way or the other contextualize the film within the 80s early 90s. These clothes epitomize the times because of pop-cultural discourse with much respect due to the prominent icons of the times such as Van Halen, Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Billy Idol, and Run DMC other praised artists of the like. Another reference, as stated earlier, to take into consideration is the culture and more specifically fashion of skateboarding and surfing culture which is rooted in California hence the overly used words 'dude'. These fashions originally occurred out of a mindset that embraced a do it yourself aesthetic primarily formed from the subcultures of punkrock and hip-hop. Graffitti, one of the elements of hip-hop, is another major influence for this fashion in regards to the vibrant use of color. Graffitti of the time was full of bright purples, reds, greens, and yellows. This special interest to flourscents and other electric colors came out of the publics new accessibility to canned colors once created by experimentation in the 60s and 70s.      

Furthermore, the movie is inevitably trapped in the 80s and early 90s because of its full embrace of trends and pop culture. It serves as a mark in history, although it may be somewhat forgettable, it will provide the nostalgia we all need at times.     

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Cristina

 

Part 1

     One of the temporal anomalies I noticed immediately in the film Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, was when Bill and Ted traveled back in time and paid a visit to Billy the Kid. No one in the past seemed to be phased by their presence, clothing, or manner of speaking. The two did not evoke a response of wonder or fear, the kind of reaction one would expect if they were to see an alien from the future. Another question is how did time travel influence the key historical figures they once they returned? Was their memory erased, like in the movie Men in Black, or were they able to recall their moments of time travel? How could the time travel experience not alter their perceptions in philosophy, religion and even politics?  Finally, if Bill and Ted had the ability to alter the past, as they did at the police station, why would they not just simply change their final grade for the history report? Was it a moral issue that prevented them from doing so? Overall, I found these anomalies to be only mildly distracting because it is easy to surrender logic when viewing Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Since the main characters do not seem to be the brightest bulbs or even question how time travel is at all possible, the viewer can only shrug their shoulders along with Bill and Ted and enjoy the ride.

 

Part 2

     The scenes shot inside the mall dated the film to the 1980’s. Back then, suburban malls were designed as an interior-shopping destination without any association to the outside; a shopping bubble. In the past decade we have seen a shift in mall design trends to integrate an indoor and outdoor experience. Nowadays, people don’t even refer to the mall as a mall, rather they call it by name: The Grove or The Americana.

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Andi

 

1.) I do believe that the temporal anomalies detract from the film, if you are a physicist or studding time travel. They irked me slightly, and I constantly found myself questioning the loops and likely possibilities. This however is most likely a result of my reading the lecture (power point) first and the previous knowledge I have of time travel as well as what I learned from last week's lecture. My brother who watched the movie with me however, did not have a problem with the time travel aspect (not as much as with the slang). When I later asked him about this, he said he was simply enjoying the movie and many things in movies are not logical. Henceforth I believe if you are watching this film strictly for the time travel aspect, as we are, then it will pose some issues and cause quite a few pause and rewind moments. For a regular viewer it will most likely just be a movie.

 

 

2.) Although I was not a teenager in the 1980’s I'm able to recognize some of the “fads” that the movie exaggerates to create an 80’s feel. One of the characters that I believe most stands for this is Missy, Bill’s step mother. She is a young girl married to an older man and is very promiscuous.  This is perhaps a reference to the ongoing women’s movements of the 1980’s that not only focused on women’s legal right but also their sexuality. She dresses in the typical tight clothing of the eighties, bright, colorful and slightly revealing. Aside from this, her hair is always done in the typical fashion, teased to the point of no return resulting in a head that looks abnormally large. The fashion of all of the characters, not only Missy, represent that era, with exception of Rufus that is. Aside from the fashion, the slang of the characters is also an excellent indication, the word dude is stated at the begining and end of every sentence, with excellent and many others trailing not far behind. Their idiotic and airhead reactions also push the time's stigma to the extreme.

 

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Christopher

 

Part 1: One of the most glaring anomalies in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure about time travel for me was the lack of recognition of the butterfly effect. The way the characters just careened out of control through time without out any acknowledgement of the effects they were having on time. The flabbergasting kidnapping of various historical figures at some point in their life would undoubtedly affect history and the current era. The other confusing anomaly was the car keys, I do like the way the audience new about missing keys from the beginning but the way they were just conjured up based on future plans seemed a little flimsy. However a promised future time-travel expedition to the past with plans on altering said past would result in an altered present. So if there was a better way to conjure up a lost item I can’t think of it.

 

Part 2:  The movie did seem very dated. I have older sisters that grew up in the 80’s in California so I was somewhat aware of the trends. I respect the filmmaking in the 80’s particularly. Before computer generated effects became so prevalent directors relied on artists to make awesome special effects. The first thing I noticed about the film was its lack of any slick over processed CG animations, instead the use of props and miniatures. The costumes also were especially 80’s. Bill’s shirt is cut very short not a style that’s commonly worn today. Also the women’s hair was especially big and puffy.  What I did notice that I’ve never experienced before with a movie was when Bills character was eating a bag of Kettle Chips in the back of the red convertible during the first 10 minutes. I remember thinking about how the film had a very 80’s teen vibe and how kids who grew up then must relate to it today. And how kids today look at the film and see it as old, or dated.  Product labels are what stand out to me sometimes in 70’s and 80’s films, especially those of products I know today. The Kettle Chips bag looked almost exactly the same. It in a way almost made me immediately relate to Bills character. But I was conscious of that connection. The 80’s seemed like a really interesting time and it must have been fun to grow up then!

 

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Joe

 

Part 1:

Certain aspects of the film do become confusing if you nit pick at them. They were discussed in quite a lot of detail on the Temporal Anomalies site, and essentially render the film useless. When looking at the points of view on this website, their argument is certainly apt, making the plot impossible right from the very beginning. The contention is that Rufus travels from the future to help Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan pass History and keep their garage together, as their music will help form a utopian future. But as Rufus has come from the future to do this, he is the cause for his existence, in what the site refers to as a “reverse grandfather paradox”. Since Rufus was a contributing factor to the future that means that when the future comes around, and the people in charge need someone to go back, they will see that Rufus is the best person qualified to back as it has been established that he has been there. While still nit picking at the time travel-ness of the film, if the future was fine before his intervention, why would they need to send anybody back? Things must have turned out fine already if Rufus came from this society before he was sent back to help create it. However, if the film follows the “fixed timeline theory”, then everything that needs to happen will. This film holds evidence of that. As Rufus comes back to do what he needs to do, and he does, without anyone messing anything up. There was a Futurama episode where this kind of time travel is discussed  after everyone accidentally travels back in time and the professor says something along the lines of: Don’t do anything that could change the future, unless of course you were meant to do it, in which case, don’t not do it!

As far as temporal anomalies go, if you look at films too hard, it can easily detract from any film. After reading on the anomalies present, I can say that it certainly sheds a new light on things, and does take away from things just a wee bit. Yet, I’m going to let it slide via the “fixed timeline theory”, as since the present is fine and dandy already, Bill and Ted taking historical figures out of their time for a little bit won’t have a negative affect on the present as it has already happened, meaning that it was meant to. However I’m certainly not going to condemn the film simply because of time travel theories. That would be like condemning Star Wars because there were sounds in the vacuum of space, where sound should be inaudible no matter what.  I’ll be more skeptical once we’ve mastered time travel and then look back and laugh at how wrong/right Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure was about time travel. Although I think it would be hilarious if the rules of time travel in this film were absolutely right!

Part2:

    Being born in 1989, I missed the 80s and was able to piece together the general vibe of it from watching Saved by the Bell as a child. I don’t know much about the 80s other than I dislike them. I have seen it as a time filled with neon triangles, black and white squiggles, unnecessarily poofed/curled hair, and bright/annoying colors that have no place being together on a single person. That aside, it is the clothing that I recognize the most, as I see it to be some of the most out of place color schemes and shapes. There was little to no transition from 70s styles to 80s styles, and it’s perplexing to me when I am forced to think about it. But digression aside, it is the clothing that I see the most as capturing the 80s best in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. To star off, Ted is wearing an orange jacket tied around his waist, and what I can only assume are neon orange socks. It’s those kinds of out of place colors that allow me to identify this film as taking place in the 80s. When it comes right down to it, I can pinpoint it to simply bright color, or scary neon color, usually clashing in some way, against something like white or black, or displayed in some kind of asymmetrical or geometric pattern. An example of this is Bill’s Purple jacket with the square pattern on it, the one he wears over his white half-shirt. The traits of geometric patterns, asymmetry, or neon color are exemplified by roughly every person in the movie who is not an adult. The scenes where it can best be viewed are the scenes in the mall, where a variety of people can be seen, including the stereotypical exercise-video-spandex-clad-leg-warmer-wearing type of girls are being led by Joan of Arc in a crazy aerobic exercise, as well as the scene where Bill and Ted present the historical figures as most of their classmates are shown throughout the scene. I can tell that this is the 80s as films that take place during certain periods often exaggerate things to make them recognizable and it is the case here. 80s style whatsits are everywhere, except for adults, keeping it youth oriented, and on everyone in that age group showing that it is the way to go in terms of clothing, and as it is the popular, style, it is defining of the period, which makes it identifiable.

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Kelvin

 

The actual idea of using phone box as a time travel machine is very unrealistic idea in this movie. The movie actually showed irresponsible setting for time-travel. A bit of change from future dramatically can break down the coexistence of our nature or worse we can't even exist. Especially when Bill and Ted started to drag all famous people from the past existed; this could make a big change for their achievement in our history book. Also the guy from the future, who gave Bill and Ted a time-machine, is so unfortunate because he gave the high-tech time machine just for helping two idiots' assignment. I mean he couldn't go back his own time if Bill & Ted didn't return. His existence could be lost from his time of future. These temporal anomalies really detract the reality principle of our world. Still, I also have interested some theory of movie that there can be different time exist to our world so no effect can happen to their own world. There was one German scientist who really believed that he could travel through time, and he claimed once there might be a possibility of existence of different time space. I can't remember the name of him well but I can tell he was also called a genious with Thomas Edison.

 

The Bill and Ted movie sets can be analyzed as 1980s such as their cloth, hair style, camera graphic, environment, and phonebox. It is most difficult to find phonebox this day, which, I remember using one from long time ago. As for more, those female actors have a Barbie girl style such as curly hair and wearing jean, T-shirt, and skirt. Also they are wearing a jacket near weist was the style we don't use recently. Every aspect and condition of movie analyzes the time period. Those architect design in this movie was square and lower elevation. Today's building structure set is very shiny on surface and has high elevation. Even we don't recognize to see all these sets in the movie, we can actually tell how old the movie is just by looking at the visual graphic quality. 

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soap.

 

Bill and Ted: Part 1:

    Not in the slightest. The simple fact is we DON’T know how time travel works. Period. Any so-called confusing anomalies won’t change anything for me because I keep a very open mind when it comes these sorts of things remembering a trash could be possible. Great historical figures disappearing through time only to return, is totally possible, and it’s fine that in this happenstance time and the universe were un hurt.

Part 2:

    I have always loved the 80’s and 90’s. As such, this is a pivotal movie to my existence. If you ignore the “dudes” and other such mannerisms as beach culture, there is one major item of clothing that gives it away. The super colorful and crazy designed-on shorts. Encino Man is an amazing second example for these shorts. Any film of this kind will have these shorts. They are out there screaming the 80’s at the top of their proverbial lungs, louder than any drunken man can scream “Stella”.

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- cynthia

       I agree that the movie is meant to be on an entertainment level rather than a fixation on time travel theories and because we, as a class, are studying the issues and mysteries of the time travel concept, we immediately notice certain glitches that don’t necessarily make sense: It seems that certain contradictions as mentioned in the lecture notes were a bit obvious and confusing. If Rufus is already at point B (2688) then, apparently, 1988 automatically becomes point C (NOT point A again) as soon as he travels back to it. In most time travel movies, shows and books I have come across, when one goes back in time, he/she is not able to change things, only learn from them and change the future if anything. In “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures” we already have the future as a given (Wyld Stallyns already famous and successfully active); in an illogical way, the past becomes this crucial indispensible factor (variable if you may) that must be altered into one specific way in order to reassure the maintenance and consistency of the future. However, had the past not been altered, and had (like the lecture notes suggested) Bill and Ted failed their history report, would the constant (the successful band) have remained constant? I definitely believe the excessive anomalies detract from the film, since the viewer gets lost in a sequence of unanswered questions rather than having primary and secondary focal points with hierarchical set of events that support them.

     There are a couple of scenes that caught my attention especially that as a graphic designer now, I notice typography and graphics way more than a few years ago: the scene when Bill and Ted were in Bill’s room, one could notice the neon sign that has the word “hot” on it. I could not quite figure out if the second word was “scene” or not though. Also, in that same scene we could notice a poster of a woman wearing a red dress and mini black and white pictures in the form of a frame around it. In all the postmodern art I have studied, this falls under the 1980’s style. Another poster in the background, a bit smaller than that previous one, is a hint of psychedelic form where blue, yellow and pink colors are all over the piece. In addition, there is this scene where Rufus comes to talk to them in front of the liquor store, we notice Ted’s pants are rolled up which is also a reflection of the eighties. I think now, teen-agers seem to drop their pants more than they should and show their boxers rather that roll them up. Moreover, when Bill and Ted brought back Napoleon into Ted’s little brother’s room, we notice the two signs that say “Right On” and “King Kong.” Obviously, “right on” is more or less an expression of the 1980s just like “dude” even though it is still rarely used today. The “King Kong” sign is of bright orange/salmon color and this specific serif typography indicates that it’s a representation of the older King Kong of course. Finally the scene when Ted’s father asks him to talk to him in private, he makes a phone call and we notice the rotary dial phone. That was a major reflection of the eighties I thought.

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Yat

 

Part 1

I agree that there are temporal anomalies in the movie.  I have learned from the previous lecture about some theory of travel time, such as grandfather paradox and twin paradox.  If I never learn these theories, I would probably not notice that some of the time travel doesn’t make sense according to the assumptions of travel time.  In the movie, Bill and Ted was given the power to time travel by Rufus, they traveled through the past and bought back some historical figures to the present to help them accomplishing their history report.  The historical figures went into different period of history when they traveled along with Bill and Ted, and they also interacted with the people in the present time when they messed around at the mall.  And yet the movie didn’t say anything about the consequences of bringing these people from the past nor will they affect the past when they went back to their period after they have seen the future.

Part 2

Their energetic and craziness remind me of my teenage year.  I spent my teenage year in Hong Kong and America, and it is not much different than what happened in the movie except the outfitter and the setting.  I can easily tell the film was made in the 80s simply by the music, color and quality of the film.  Although I never watch this movie before, but when I first saw this, it reminds me of Back to the Future which I have been watching it since I was 5.  The outfits and haircuts are very “old school” and I can easily tell that they are from the 80s.  Both Bill and Ted tied shirts on their waist, and it was very popular back then.