So, here come the next legend from the box of Sci Fi Movies and for some reasons, I liked one very very much for its unique set of events and concepts encapsulated within.
The Butterfly Effect: A metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence of initial conditions in chaos theory. In other words, the small differences in the initial conditions of a dynamic system may produce large variations in the long term behaviour of the system.
As per wiki, the term “butterfly effect” was related with work of Edward Lorentz and the term for the first time appeared in literature by Jacques Hadamard in 1890 and was popularized by Pierre Duhem’s 1906 book. The idea was first appeared in 1952 short story named “A sound of thunder” by Ray Bradbury about time travel, later got a movie over the same story in 2005 with the same name and also a video game over it.
But this so popular idea for many of the time travel related sci-fi movies, always be credited to Edward Lorentz. In 1961, he was working over a numerical computer model related to weather predictions and found that making some seemingly minor changes in initial conditions resulted in a completely different weather scenario. He published his researches in the paper by 1963 and his speeches and paper with the poetic word “butterfly”
Title: The Butterfly Effect Change everything
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Banner: New Line Cinema
Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
Cast: Aston Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Eiden Henson, William Lee Scott, John Patrick Amedori, Irene Gorovaia, Kevin G. Schmidt, Jesse James, Logan Lerman, Sarah Widdows, Jake Kaese, Cameron Bright, Eric Stoltz, Callum Keith Rennie, Lorena Gale, Ethan Suplee, Camille Sullivan, Tera Wilson, Jesse Hutch
Story: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
The first one was the most creative one and kind of an original piece of work (although I enjoyed watching the third of the series more than the other two), I guess and I heard that Director’s Cut version was along with many more variants of the story. This movie has been a precious part of my sci-fi movie collection along with its other two successors.
A boy, who finds that he has capability to go back in past over some selected memory places, tries to correct some of worse part of his life and his repeated tries over the same purpose come to show us that in what way minor events could change the whole course of life, but a man just can’t be the God even if gifted with some of his powers.
Title: The Butterfly Effect 2
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Banner: New Line Cinema
Director: John R. Leonetti
Cinematography: Brian Pearson
Cast: Eric Lively, Erica Durance, Dustin Milligan, Gina Holden
Story: Michael D. Weiss
This one kind of prequel to first movie having references to story of that boy’s father, with the same elements of time travel and changing the future things (although was having much little to be related with the first movie and no problem at all in watching this one as a fresh movie).
Story plot is the similar to the first one. A man finds that he has the power to reach to past events happened in his life, by closely looking at pictures and tries to alter a few things of his life and repeated tries make him learn that we never know that how smaller and seemingly irrelevant events could cause the biggest changes to your life.
Title: The Butterfly Effect 3: Death repeats itself
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Banner: Lions Gate
Director: Seth Grossman
Cinematography: Dan Stoloff
Cast: Chris Carmack, Rachel Minor, Sonya A. Avakian, Melissa Jones
Story: Holly Brix
This one was much more technical and unpredictable than other two of the series. Much more complicated with a lot of more suspense added in the movie, it was a remarkably thrilling movie I ever watched.
A person is using his time travel skills systematically to help out unsolved cases without altering anything from the past, but things go bizarre, when he just tries to know that how his girlfriend was actually killed and he come to know that there is a serial killer out there now!! What he did? What was altered that this serial killer appeared? Who is he? Some interesting twists and turns make the already exciting sci-fi concept more engaging.
The third movie has no references to other two movies in any way as in my knowledge. The banner is different and so the treatment is even if has the same basic elements of story. I really wish to watch few more names added in the series.
