"It Happened Tomorrow." I love the title of this movie. The movie itself wasn't too shabby either.
A reporter named Lawrence "Larry" Stevens (Dick Powell) flippantly asked an older archivist for tomorrow's news because with that he could know and achieve a lot. The old archivist named Pop Benson (John Philliber) granted Larry's request, but with the warning that it would do him more harm than good. Larry wasn't all that serious about the request anyway because it was like wishing for a million dollars, or even more unlikely.
Once Larry got the first of a few tomorrow's papers, his life and his ideals were forever changed. The movie, a bit exaggeratedly, went into what a person's decision making would be like if he/she knew the future even one day ahead. A later movie called "Time Lapse" (2014) also explored the exact same idea. They became slaves to that future because they either wanted to make it happen or defy it, which only made them act unnaturally. Instead of simply living their lives and making decisions based upon whatever criteria they'd normally use, they were basing their decisions upon a future that they wanted to create or oppose.
"It Happened Tomorrow," as a predecessor, was the same as "Time Lapse" except funnier and less serious. Just in relation to a movie that was made 70 years later it was cool to see where the idea came from.
A reporter named Lawrence "Larry" Stevens (Dick Powell) flippantly asked an older archivist for tomorrow's news because with that he could know and achieve a lot. The old archivist named Pop Benson (John Philliber) granted Larry's request, but with the warning that it would do him more harm than good. Larry wasn't all that serious about the request anyway because it was like wishing for a million dollars, or even more unlikely.
Once Larry got the first of a few tomorrow's papers, his life and his ideals were forever changed. The movie, a bit exaggeratedly, went into what a person's decision making would be like if he/she knew the future even one day ahead. A later movie called "Time Lapse" (2014) also explored the exact same idea. They became slaves to that future because they either wanted to make it happen or defy it, which only made them act unnaturally. Instead of simply living their lives and making decisions based upon whatever criteria they'd normally use, they were basing their decisions upon a future that they wanted to create or oppose.
"It Happened Tomorrow," as a predecessor, was the same as "Time Lapse" except funnier and less serious. Just in relation to a movie that was made 70 years later it was cool to see where the idea came from.