A Sound of Thunder story
A Sound of Thunder is a 2005 American science fiction thriller film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack and Ben Kingsley. It is based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Synopsis: Time tourists accidentally interfere too much with the past, completely altering the present.
11 total · 3 choice · 2 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| technological risk to civilization | choice | The frivolous use of experimental time travel technology to send rich people into the past to hunt dinosaurs nearly sealed humanity's doom after one of the hunters inadvertently stepped on a butterfly, resulting in a catastrophic series of world altering time waves hitting the present. |
| the butterfly effect | choice | A time tourist inadvertently stepping on a butterfly 65 million years in the past resulted in an existential crisis for humanity in the present. |
| time travel | choice | A company offering the opportunity for rich people to hunt dinosaurs in 65 million years in the past via time travel technology constitutes a main novelty of the film. |
| greed for riches | major | Avarice blinded the Time Safari company CEO Charles Hatton to the inherent dangers of sending wealthy clients into the past to hunt dinosaurs. |
| time portal | major | The time travelers routinely emerged 65 million years into the past through a portal of some sort, perhaps a wormhole. |
| father and daughter | minor | Mr. Wallenbeck paid top dollar to go allosaurus hunting together with his daughter 65 million years in the past. |
| hologram | minor | Sonia was startled by a life-like, holographic lion. |
| human vs. beast | minor | An allosaurus sent the Eckels and Middleton hunting party into disarray when their guns didn't work as expected. |
| hunting | minor | Mr. Wallenbeck and his daughter went back in time to hunt dinosaurs, as did Eckels and Middleton. |
| suicide | minor | Middleton took his own life in an act of utter desperation. |