RE: War of the Worlds

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

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From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU] On Behalf Of John K Lerchey
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:02 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: War of the Worlds

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 
> 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.
>
> John Crimmins
>
>
>
>

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