Like GZGECC didn't give me enough inspiration to get back to work on
painting....
There's not one, not two, but THREE different versions of H.G. Well's
_War
of the Worlds_ being filmed right now...the archetypal alien invasion
story.
The Spielberg version, set in the here (in other words, the U.S.) and now, is
coming out this summer. Sometime later this year is a British version, which
uses the period and setting of the novel itself.
And then there's the CGI film, based on Jeff Wayne's excellent *musical*
version...from which these animation samples come:
http://www.waroftheworldsonline.com/movies/clip.htm
http://www.waroftheworldsonline.com/movies/clip2.htm
Don't remember any airships in the book, but what can you do? If I get to see
the death of the Thunder Child done well in any of these, I'll be happy.
It's always mildly disturbing how little artists and movie makers actually pay
attention to the books. I can see differences when you do a time
reset (like doing a modenr invastion - we know about chemical weapons
and at least theoretically about heat beams!), but what I can't figure is how
they can miss things like "The martians had never invented the wheel" and
thus, their walkers did not have joints in the legs. Grumble grumble.
Of course, I'll see all three movies regardless....:D
J
John K. Lerchey Computer and Network Security Coordinator Computing Services
Carnegie Mellon University
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, John C wrote:
> Like GZGECC didn't give me enough inspiration to get back to work on
You could look at the wheel as a sort of brain pun. It might seem like a
logical step to civilization and technology because we made it, but it's
entirely possible that an alien form of life would skip over it in favor of
something else.
Jason
[quoted original message omitted]
I haven't read in a while, but I remember the old films, (hmm... movie
night...must make note of that...) was there something that specifically said
the walkers didn't have joints? cause even without a wheel, a 'ball' joint
would work.....
> --- John K Lerchey <lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> they can miss things like "The martians had never invented the wheel"
Remember, even light is shaped by the darkness that surrounds it, and the true
crafters are seldom ever seen. Welcome to the shadows kid.
In a message dated 3/4/05 12:30:48 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> coldnovemberrain_2000@yahoo.com writes:
I haven't read in a while, but I remember the old films, (hmm... movie
night...must make note of that...) was there something that specifically said
the walkers didn't have joints? cause even without a wheel, a 'ball' joint
would work.....
> --- John K Lerchey <lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> they can miss things like "The martians had never invented the wheel"
<snip>
It was a 'joint' of "sliding plates" IIRC. Reread it this year in an old
library copy of 'all' (?) the 'major works' by the author.
Gracias,
IIRC, and yes, it's been a while since I read the book too, they did not
have joints. Instead, the legs and arms were made of strips of (presumabley)
metal, kind of like a leaf spring. The parts slid along each other,
lengthening and shortening to perform articulation.
Man.. I hope that that's accurate and not just one of my hallucinations...
:D
J
--On Friday, March 04, 2005 12:29 AM -0800 Rrok Anroll
> <coldnovemberrain_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I haven't read in a while, but I remember the old films, (hmm... movie
I've always found it interesting that each generation of Martians would be
destroyed by the next generation of Humans.
1890's Martians vs 1930's Radio show Humans Original Martians walkers would
have been wiped out
by light anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. Martian
nest would have been devistated by indirect artilery fire.
1930's Radio show Martians vs 1950's Movie Humans Nukes would have destroyed
any Martian nests while
tanks and hand carried anti-tamk weapons from 1950's
should have been able to take out the walkers.
1950's Movie Martians vs 2000's Humans Neutron weapons (nukes) should be able
to take the nests force fields and if not then random fired tactical nukes
should be able to get past the force fields.
Remote fired anti-tank weapons could fire up as soon
as glider (walker replacement) was passing over. Alternate is to repalce AT
weapon with a thousand pound bomb (oe equivalant in explosives).