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Wanallo
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 Posted: 13-Aug-2005 13:54 Post subject: War of the worlds question |
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Ok, firstly, even as a fan of the original book by HG Wells i was quite impressed by Spielbergs verson of this film. It stuck loosely to the books original plot but gave it a modern theme.
Howver, of both movie versions, i found something that bugged me...
In the book, the English cannons were able to actually destroy some of the martian tripods. Whereas in both films the martians were completely invulnerable. Personally i think that it would have made more sense to at least make them destroyable. Albeit under very heavy fire. Its just we have seen the invulnerable aliens in Independance day and the like. So it would emphasise the struggle element if the martians were destroyable through the shields.
What do you think?..... 
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Karagin
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| Posted: 18-Aug-2005 09:10 Post subject: RE: War of the worlds question |
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I think a mixing of both. At first the tripods would be hard to destory but by the time the novel ends or the movie, the military should have come up with something to destory the tripods that works a good chunck of the time.
The shields that both the current and 1953 version have aren't to far fetched, just that they are favored to the aliens and the theme then becomes nature wins since the aliens aren't able to handle our germs and other illnesses etc...
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| Posted: 18-Aug-2005 17:19 Post subject: RE: War of the worlds question |
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In both the '50s movie and the modern version, the aliens are facing much more advanced military forces than Wells could have imagined in 1898. Tanks hadn't been invented. Anti-armor shells and tactical nukes weren't even dreams. Shoulder-fired tank-killers and helicopter-mounted 30mm rotary cannons... the list of improved destructive technology goes on.
Since Wells' Tripods could be destroyed by the (what is now considered) backward or primitive weaponry of the very late 1800s, it would stand to reason that they would be QUITE vulnerable to modern technology. Thus, the moviemakers had to contrive something that made them immune to all that, and have wells' ending come into play.
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Karagin
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| Posted: 19-Aug-2005 11:38 Post subject: RE: War of the worlds question |
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All of the stuff you listed, HG Wells or Vernes had either imagined or written about.
Read some of Wells books like Things To Come or some of his work written right before and during WW1.
Armor Peirceing shells were around, the naval guns of the era had them, though not as advanced as what we have today.
Having adavanced weapons and tech is fine, but to make it a believable movie the other side has to have something that over comes it.
Even the "natives" won a lot of the battles against more modern armies and have been doing so for a long time.
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