War Of The Worlds Book Vs 2005 Adaptation References & Comparison
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- Опубліковано 8 бер 2024
- War Of The Worlds 2005 References To The Book is a video by pupbenny in which I investigate some of the obscure references War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise directed by Steven Spielberg released in 2005 made to the original novel The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells.
Thanks to #PikaLabs for helping me bring more life to this video!
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H.G. Wells The War Of The Worlds is a story by British author Herbert George Wells in which alien visitors from Mars arrive in space capsules first in Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey. This is at first thought to be a meteorite by the English men that discover this cylinder with the astronomer Ogilvy exclaiming that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. However, as the Narrator explains, Martian creatures soon make themselves present before using a Heat Ray to disintegrate some of the English people. They soon begin using massive Tripod Fighting Machines and using weapons such as the heat-ray as well as the black smoke begin to lay waste to the British army, leaving people such as the Artilleryman and the protagonist separated from everyone including his wife, and with the defeat of the ironclad torpedo ram HMS Thunder Child the Royal Navy as well succeeding in defeating the biggest Empire in human history, The British Empire at the height of it's power in the Victorian age in which H G Wells wrote the novel. The Martians very quickly establish a dominion over man as they spread their Red Weed across the Earth reaching the capital city of Britain London the Fighting-Machines cause great devastation. Other methods of transport the martian invaders use include the Handling-Machines as well as the Flying-Machines.
On paper there have been many illustrated editions of the story, the first of which were done by Warwick Goble in the original serial version. Relatively soon after, Alvim Correa drew his illustrations. Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian artist who traveled to London in 1902 to present H. G. Wells with drawings that he'd done for the story of The War Of The Worlds and there have since been many been many illustration versions by artists such has Edward Gorey and Lou Cameron. There have also been audio adaptations of HG Wells War Of The Worlds, including the infamous 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the iconic 1978 album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds. There were likewise many attempts to bring the story to the big screen as well, including by icons such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ray Harryhausen, but it wasn't until The War Of The Worlds 1953 film by George Pal that this was finally accomplished. Later on, there's been Steven Spielberg's 2005 War Of The Worlds starring Tom Cruise and The Great Martian War 1913-1917 documentary style drama set in World War 1. Recently, the BBC made a TV miniseries the BBC British TV series war of the worlds and FOX, Epic and StudioCanal did a TV series starting in 2019 called War Of The Worlds that claims to be adapted from the source material. There has also been several war of the worlds movies recently as well, including 2021 War Of The Worlds, also known as Alien Conquest, which had a sequel called War Of The Worlds Annihilation and this year in 2023 War Of The Worlds The Attack. There have also been many indie games and art with a survival horror war of the worlds 2005 game which will be a multiplayer survival game based on the Tom Cruise War Of The Worlds movie as well as a faithful adaptation of HGWells War Of The World game set in the Victorian era by GelatoDev and TeamGreen with Team Green also making their survival game a multiplayer war of the worlds game as well and there's another announced in 2023 called The War of the Worlds: Siberia. There's also The War Of The Worlds 1913 game which is a worthwhile, fun and nicely stylised adaption of H G Wells The War Of The Worlds.
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It's pretty interesting how many subtle references this film made to the source material that most people, such as myself, probably miss. :)
Whats the game in the beginning of the video?
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that ground moving looked like it was unscrewing.
For me, Spielberg's War of the Worlds is still a faithful adaptation.
Best one yet imo
In the script for the 2005 movie the hillside battle is actually referred to as operation Thunderchild, a reference to the battleship Thunderchild that appeared in the H.G. Wells book
The film also referenced the radio broadcast from Orson Welles seeing as it took place in New Jersey/NYC like in the radio drama, and the news van scene, as well as, the scene where they’re flipping through tv channels and caught some evening news that showed CBS, which originally broadcasted the radio play
Yes. Spielberg even said this. I think that street or store names in the street scene reference the radio play and or 50's movie too.
@@danteanise3013Indeed! I wrote another video alongside this one that should be out soon with references to the 1953 film in the 2005 film and there's a sign saying 'Van Buren Street', which is also the name of the female lead in the 53 film, Sylvia Van Buren.
@@pupbennyand also two of the actors from the orignal film are also in the film
Glad I am not the only one that made this connection 12:54
Awesome video!
I also thought that the steeple collapsing in the intersection scene was a nod to the book, lol
Thank you, glad I'm not the only one that noticed it! :)
Thanks benny this brought a whole new perspective to the way the movie is for me
I'm glad to hear that!! :)
@pupbenny
Hey, Pupbenny, I've been watching your reviews on the different designs and depictions of the Tripods and I found them interesting and detailed.
I also wanted to point out that I may have found/theorized a possible reference to the book:
It is during the scene where the daughter discovers multiple dead bodies in the river. Now the people in the river were most likely killed by the Aliens, but it couldn't have been from their Heat Rays as we would just see their clothes only. And it is unlikely they were drained of their blood.
It is my belief and theory that those people were the victims of the Black Smoke.
Maybe they were near the river when they were attacked by the Tripods which released the Black Smoke causing them to die from it.
Now, while the movie was focusing on Tom Cruise's Character, I think that while he saw what the Tripods were capable of with the Heat Rays and Red Weed and Harvesting of Humans, others saw the Black Smoke.
After all, in a massive event like this, the main character can't be everywhere at once.
I mean, after all, in the BBC War of the Worlds, the Main Character wasn't with his wife and brother during the Tripod attack in London when they released the Black Smoke.
So, what do you think?
That's a really good observation! Yeah, it seems likely that they must've been killed by somehow. Even in the book, it takes several chapters away from the main character to say what his brother was doing instead. There's not an equivalent to that in the book where we see other parts, so it seems very possible that the tripods were using the black smoke. Very good catch!
Great video. While not relevant to the topic, when you were talking at 12:40 about how the film was shot, I was reminded of something I read long ago of how Spielberg used footage from 9/11 as a source of inspiration on how to film the Tripods. I think it’s most apparent in the shot of the first Tripod firing the heat ray. We start at ground level as we shakily pan up to this towering figure in which death awaits. Just an interesting observation to add to the ones you talk about in your video. Great work. Excited for more!
These videos are very helpful because I'm thinking of making an analog horror for The War of The Worlds
I am too, I’ve been planning on making an EAS Scenario on the concept. I can’t wait to see yours :)
Yoo i am too! Mine is based off of a world war 2 scenario using the Alvim design.
I am also making war of the worlds…. What is going on here
I'm glad you find them helpful, that's really nice to know! :) I look forward your analog horror releasing. It's great to see so many people in the replies saying they're doing one too. I've also been casually working on a VHS series as someone asked me about the concept on a video a couple of months ago. Will be interesting to see more people introduced to The War of The Worlds through analog horror. :)
Why do I keep seeing you everywhere
Why am i just discovering this channel now? I am totally digging all of this War of the Worlds content!
Ha, thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it! :)
Same I only just discovered this channel today and I love it
Yo pupbenny my friends and me are absolutely obsessed with your channel you honestly are the best cause you are so relatable at knowing this stuff
Ha thank you much! That's very nice of you to say! :)
No problem dude! :D
12:56 I'm sooo glad I'm not the only one who noticed the very direct homages to old paintwork, the ferry scene also has one with the tripods razing the hill.
Personally I also think the reporter girl describing the national guard being wiped out is also referring to the bit where the artilleryman describes his unit being blown to bits. I also don't particularly mind the way the aliens look, as it reflects their design philosophy of their machines, they're pretty much just alien mechs in that sense.
One thing that does make me wonder is why the ferry scene is so different, there's no warship and the ferry is taken out shortly after leaving. Obviously its harder to translate a pre WW1 warship to a modern day equivalent due to the long range nature of modern ships, but I wonder if there was more to it than that.
One of the biggest head scrathers for me was people complaining about the aliens dying from germs. I mean, where are you from? That's 100% accurate to the source material. Also, I would love to see you do a video about the tripods and their weapons in Scary Movie 3.😂
Exactly! I have a video recorded about that coming out (probably) soon (whenever I get around to editing it). I'm always baffled when people say this as a criticism of the film when it's literally what happens in the book lol. And I've been planning to do the Scary Movie tripods for a while, I love that version. I had long been planning to do them on April Fools Day, but I've got another one coming out around that time so I've pushed it back a bit.
@@pupbenny Cool. I can't wait to see those videos.
0:05 Legends who watched the movie and had to face the girl scream all the time. 💀👍
lol!
I was one of those people.
I always thought that if you just cut the head off the aliens in the movie and slapped tentacles at the base of the head you would essentially have the Wellsian martians
I hadn't thought about that before but yeah I see what you mean. I've never really noticed it before but they've even kind of got the 'beak' described in the book too I guess.
You forgot the fact that the news lady said that the tripods come down and capsules
hmmm cant wait till the next video
I do have more respect for the film after seeing this video. But I still don’t like how the Tripods were buried underground.
They would have to be buried pretty far down to not be detected or stumbled upon. And somehow they are able to unscrew the top of the surface and emerge after only a few minutes. Advanced or not, that is a ridiculous speed that makes no sense when given how slow the Tripods move when on the surface.
@@BBBHueyif you remember the tremors they felt before the ground began breaking, I think it was them digging their way up to the surface. And perhaps it didn’t take that long, and were already moving after the lightning strikes.
@@harvestercommander3250Even still, that's way too fast if these machines were buried that far deep. Of course the real question is how these machines even survived that long underground without being damaged by earthquakes or other geological changes.
@@BBBHuey why should it matter? This is a movie. Name one movie or book that had any kind of scientific accuracy?
It’s better not to think about it too much otherwise it would just ruin the fun of it.
@@harvestercommander3250You're probably right.
It's still just a movie and it does a good job at being scary. No argument there.
My my that was probably the best.
You got the best eyes in history don’t you. I just love it i mean now im a huge fan. And um whats the name of the tripod with the egg head and one arm with the heat-ry?
Thank you! :) The egg head is what I've decided to refer to as 'The Tintin Tripod' as it first appeared in Tintin Magazine in 1946. Will have a video out about them in four days. :)
Spielberg's film is still the best adaptation. The whole basement & red weed section is peak
Nice
I thought the church scene was a kind of homage or a finger point to the original film movie. In the original movie the invasion troops seem to start to die after attacking a church where in the Spielberg movie a church is destroyed just before the invasion of North America begins.
I maybe in the minority but I really loved this adaptation of the novel. I am sure, contrary to what the movie characters thought, they were not already here. I could go on about that. 😉
My problem with the "War of the Worlds" novel and movies is that odds are our sicknesses and the like wouldn't effect aliens that evolved on a different world.
Do a video about all the similarities between The War of the Worlds novel to the Independence Day movie.
Been a while since I've seen it but might do that, a few people have pointed out the similarities between those films. :)
Although mostly all of it is not accurate to the book it is a kinda like seeing the 1953 wotw as the 1973 Jeff Wayne wotw and the 2005 wotw as the next generation wotw but with different machines but keeping a few lines like "once they start moving, no news comes out of that area" or "NOT MY BLOOD!", you know?
Ahhhhh, yes!!
excellent video. could you cover the great martian war pseudo documentary the history channel did?
Thank you, will do eventually. :)
About a week ago I came across some videos on UA-cam of the War of the Worlds, but instead of humans it was a race of reptiles being attacked by the martians. They were black and white animations. But now I can't find them anywhere, they've just vanished into thin air. Have you seen these animations?
I'm not sure but if I hear of it I'll let you know.
Thanks, keep up the great work. This has become my number 1 channel fir War of the Worlds content
It's not exactly War of the Worlds, but have you ever read the Tripods novel series? I read two of them when I was very young and I thought they were sequels to the War of the Worlds. I've been thinking of rereading them after watching your WotW playlist
I hope one day you talk about War of the Worlds Goliath
I intend to one day.
Maybe the tripods are in a vehicle of some sort which could explain how they can move so fast to the surface While also the "unscrewing" of its cylinder occurs plus the movement of the cylinder digging through the earth We could assume it could be using some advanced laser technology to essentially disintegrate. The matter above it explaining how it can move so fast to the surface.
They could also be in the machine that uses some form of drill. So that could be a reason why the ground appears to turn.
Yeah that's a good theory! There must be more to it than we're told or shown in the film.
Actually, the 2005 movie never said they were from Mars.
I thought 2005 was a decent modern day adaption. I still wish we got a real time accurate adaption of WOTWs, BBC 2019 don't count. That was just Coronation street with aliens.
Ha, exactly! An accurate description of the BBC one.
@@pupbenny Thanks, It really did feel like some soap opera.
could you please cover the 2012 animated movie War of the Worlds: Goliath
I will do eventually. :)
@@pupbenny thank you
Don’t forget odd world
I'M CALLIN IT... when you mentioned cylinders nod I CAN JUST PREDICT You're gonna talk about the whole intersection spinning slowly xddd
edit: ...we war of the worlds fans think so alike! :D
Question? What’s the gameplay in the background?
Old footage of one of GelatoDev's War of the Worlds versions. Not sure if it's still available.
What do you think the tripods looked under the ground before rising out ?
Not sure, depends if they were in a cylinder underground or not. I suppose they would've looked pretty much how they did when they rose out if so. Otherwise, I guess they would've looked the same but been covered in dirt.
@@pupbenny I guess
I also don't like the fact that the aliens have three legs, just like their Tripods. Not that any alien would have three legs, but that's like saying that humans should have wheels instead of legs because our cars have wheels. The Martian machines at least made some sense because they themselves were nothing but giant brains.
That is literally the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. You got a problem with aliens designing machines based on their own image? I say you have a problem with creativity.
And let’s not forget how different the Martians looked the 1953 adaptation.
@@harvestercommander3250I've got no problem with creativity. Just thought it was a lazy design choice.
I'm kinda surprised you didn't bring up the fact that most human made mecha in other franchises are often human-looking in appearance. And granted that's a good point.
I mean, if they had put the martians/aliens like in the book, it wouldn't had been much of a fight.
Very true!
kid got booked to the face as my one brain Cell lost it as my brain is very dumb and an idiot history and war of the worlds
The main inaccuracy is that its set in the present day, when the book was originally set in the near future... 😜
7th
This film was a great disappointment and quite frankly it sucked a big jobbie. That said, the BBC version sucked an even bigger jobbie thus raising signor Speilbergo's to masterpiece status.
While there are many good references to the book (as well as the 1953 movie), the movie still is considered a weak portrayal of War of the Worlds. The aliens were clairvoyant enough to place machines deep and safe underground for millions of years until humanity was ripe for the picking, and yet they still somehow didn't take into account that germs and bacteria would present a huge problem.
It's a level of intelligence similar to the aliens in Signs. They master spaceflight but can't break through wooden doors. And water is lethal to them, while they are invading a world that's practically 70% water.
In the book you can argue that the Martian were too overconfident. Having wiped out all disease on Mars and thinking they were immune. Or that God somehow had a hand in their defeat. Whatever the case, a small vanguard of Martian forces were sent to Earth, before their planet suddenly ceased their invasion and focusing their attention on Venus. Meaning that they somehow knew and were being cautious by sending a small and expendable expeditionary force.
I really like the movie but the things you mentioned always bothered me even as a kid .
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