Beautiful scene.. so much more intelligent than the usual alien 'advanced knowledge reveal.' I particularly love how the Tirian initially appears so odd and alien, but in the space of 6 minutes leaves as a familiar old friend, his 'humanity' and beauty shining through.
Your response is as profound as the scene and I meditate on it, especially now. It brings me peace, the proper perspective in any situation is profound, and this brings me peace.
Yes it is! Love and thought on a higher plane! ❤️❤️👍 but meanwhile these physical bodies! I may well reincarnate, I believe I will! But no excuse for not taking care of the practical! 😆 ❤️👍
I regard the spirit world as etheric material. I prefer to use the term physicalism to describe those people and ideas that are mired in the atomic world of the standard model of physics.
I've always thought that the Martians were never actually aliens but the descendants of the humans left on Mars who had evolved to the Martian environment
Beautiful scene. It both intrigues and saddens me. Was there life on Mars? Will there be ANY life left here in a hundred years? We must live life on life's terms. There is no other way......
Taken from Bradbury... Beautiful.Well acted. And, a deeper truth is within it about time eternal and souls, secrets, eternity.. "...there is no secret. Anyone with eyes can See the way to live"...
this scene is amazing. makes me wonder how i'm actually living. doesn't it happen to you that you feel attracted to abandoning everything and leaving off to live life for itself?
I do keep coming back to it. But isn't it strange that I find it more spiritual than anything I've heard in a church or in the speech of anyone who says they are religious? The secret of the Universe hidden away in a largely forgotten low-budget sci fi TV programme from the early 80s... there something so appealing about that...
The martian may have been either a native martian from the remote past (when the planet had oceans) or a descendant of the human colonists from the remote future (millions of years).
The philosophy proves Bradbury is a closet Pagan, which is fine by me. If only other religions truly promoted "working in common cause with the the Process of Existence" instead of against it.
And I bet it gave spiritual nourishment as it gave me. I was born in 74 i remeber this scene. When i was lost i watch this scene, then I'm found. Derivering pleasure from the gift of pure being.
Amazing that this was actually a 1979 television mini-series. I watched it when it was first broadcast. Yet it has more depth and meaning than any of today's "sci-fi" movies, with 20x the budget and f/x technology they had back then.
Isn't it amazing what can inspire us to want to see or know more? I can suggest a bunch of other shows -- Foundation, American Gods, The Expanse, Babylon 5 that are quite deep with all levels of meaning.
I always liked this scene. But listen to Rock Hudson footsteps as he walks around. You can hear him stepping on plywood set that is suppose to be the carved stone ground. At at around 2:47.
In 2022 we would IGNORE the mystery and beauty of this scene. Today it would be: "There are TOO MANY WHITES on Mars! What can we do to improve minority representation and DESTROY White supremacy on Mars?"
Time Space continual. Thee automate hear now. Multi-universe paradox. Not the mundane here now. Rock Hudson is Tirin past. But Tirin is Rock Hudson past.
I think the Martians are long dead but there are artificial intelligences based on Martian mind uploads that linger and can appear using a technology so advanced it looks like magic.
Except in this scene there is no hostility, no antagonism. Only acceptance by each of the other's perception of their surroundings, a willingness to communicate underscored by a profound humility and respect for life and consciousness.
@@ilokivi It's merely a reference to the fact that so many Americans seem to be occupying the same space and yet are experiencing two different realities.
I look back at the words on the TV all those years ago and I see that God has been at work, trying to draw me to Him, which is done through Christ, and His selfless sacrifice so that we can enjoy the promise of eternal life, and peace forevermore.
As a person who believes in character Astrology, this scene reminds me of a fanciful conversation between two opposite signs of the Zodiac - mystical Pisces and the analytical Virgo.
I was so mad at this show as a kid i wanted to see the martians and how they lived all we ever got was bad empty sets and a conversation with a ghost which at the time made no sense since i so young. 😢
"Secret? There is no secret. Anyone with eyes can see the way to live." "How?" "By watching life, observing nature, and cooperating with it. Making common cause with the process of existence." "How?" "By living life for itself, don't you see, deriving pleasure from the gift of pure being." "The gift of pure being." "Life is its own answer. Accept it and enjoy it, day by day. Live as well as possible; expect no more. Destroy nothing, humble nothing, look for fault in nothing, leave unsullied and untouched all that is beautiful. Hold that which lives in all reverence, for life is given by the sovereign of our universe, given to be savored, to be luxuriated in, to be respected. But that's no secret. You're intelligent. You know as well as I what has to be done. Now I must go. My people are waiting for me." "I have people waiting, too." "Good."
Anyone know if this is a set or did they film on a location that pre-existed. I would love to go see the set with all of the structures and rock cones and spheres.
The series was filmed at Shepperton Studios in England and on both the Mediterranean island of Malta and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Almost certainly fake... But like you I would love to have walked down this scene
Thought about getting some of the Martian’s philosophy tattooed but, would it be rendered meaningless if I stepped on an ant or catch a mouse in a trap? If I turn on the bug whacker and killed thousands of bugs, does that go against the message? I’m so f’n confused.
What he shows me is 2 parallel l worlds were one the martians had survived several thousands years of years the future & they experience in their time line that earth was destroyed thousands of years ago.
@@soulbrotherheuck2603 But who is really in the past and who is in the future in this scene? You'd think the martian would be in the past, but he could have evolved from us 10,000 years in the future and is actually the living one.. Mindfuck
Loved the speech although the earlier martians went out to destroy the humans.... Maybe the philosophy didnt stand well with all of them as some haf weapons.... Still a brilliant epic series
As much is riding on definitions of the Martian's words as those of your comment. If I obey your knowledge in your comment, does that make me your slave or me a hippee to you my guru? Any one of us has to look outside of ourselves for life and truth. The small amount within yourself is something you were either taught by reality and other people or you were born with it as a human being. You were not born with the English language, you learned it. You did not learn your capacity for language, it was a given you were born with. If you make yourself, with what reality and truth you do have, in common cause with the rest of reality and truth, you are on your way (incomplete but sufficient for no one of us knows everything). Outside of this is only illusion, insanity, and nonaliveness/death.
@@GravityBoy72 Oh I know you were not giving commands like a colonel ordering about a group of bumbling cadets. But we both, along with every one else in the comments section, do give our takes on reality or opinions. Yet for some issues it is hard to separate the way one sees things, or the way one lives one's life, from implying that other people would be better off if they did the same as that person. Such is the risk of comments for writer and reader.
The mini-series was out in 1980, and film technology was as far as it was, in the special effects used on that series - which to us today appear minimal. Now go find the book and read it, and imagine it being made today, with CGI and no holds barred as to what can be shown on the big or little screen.
@@WalterPetrovic The more elaborate the special effects, the more it distracts people from the story and dialogue. A good or great movie is always about the story/plot and dialogue, the effects are an added bonus but even the best effects can't carry a movie with only a little or bad story.
@@WalterPetrovic it’s funny to watch a movie in the 2020s which depicts how space travel will be in 2007 😆. Time Machine back to 1979. CB radios were all the rage. Most telephones were still rotary dial. 8 track cassette tapes, cable TV just starting, personal computers largely non-existent ……… completely different times.
@@soulbrotherheuck2603 You're both wrong! This is an episode from McMillan, the one where he's sent on an investigation to seek truth in all meaning of existence and couldn't find anyone on Earth intelligent enough to talk to.
@@soulbrotherheuck2603 ..Gentleman, gentlemen please. You are both right and you are both wrong. You are not fools nor idiots. Why don't we just go to a pub for a "Cigar and Lager" and discuss this like grown Terrans?
A wonderous scene spoilt by bad special effects.The seies was hated by Bradbury,It needed a bigger budget to make it work,a shame could have been so much better.
I loved it when it came out in 1980 and still do I watched it again recently and it is still one of my all time favourites tv shows, the music, atmosphere etc, it had it all.
It was a missed oppotunity to reflect a great peice of writing,For some reason they choose tv writers(who do not understand this material) to adapt great works of literature,and it just doesn't work.
Beautiful scene.. so much more intelligent than the usual alien 'advanced knowledge reveal.'
I particularly love how the Tirian initially appears so odd and alien, but in the space of 6 minutes leaves as a familiar old friend, his 'humanity' and beauty shining through.
There is more intelligence in the writing here than in many contemporary films. Sadly, there is a great irony at work.
under the duck
i love this scene and the beauty that goes with the series. makes me look beyond the seeming madness that surrounds us every day
Your response is as profound as the scene and I meditate on it, especially now. It brings me peace, the proper perspective in any situation is profound, and this brings me peace.
Life away from cities is more peaceful, more beautiful, less madness.
word
Here here! That sort of abstract city is wonderful.
My dad let me stay up late to watch this back then. It left an impression on me all these years lovein' the soundtrack
Deriving pleasure from the gift of pure being.
It’s the only way xxx when we stop fighting each other ❤️ That’s when the blue globes come!
Pretentious stuff
I cannot stress enough how much of an impact this scene had on me as a kid. It stuck with me to this day.
I love this scene.It tells you life is living in the moment.Materialism is meaningless.
bro
Yes it is! Love and thought on a higher plane! ❤️❤️👍 but meanwhile these physical bodies! I may well reincarnate, I believe I will! But no excuse for not taking care of the practical! 😆 ❤️👍
I regard the spirit world as etheric material. I prefer to use the term physicalism to describe those people and ideas that are mired in the atomic world of the standard model of physics.
"Materialism is meaningless"
True.
However, such a statement is "un-American" and "unpatriotic"
Life is it's own answer...has stuck with me for DECADES!
I've always thought that the Martians were never actually aliens but the descendants of the humans left on Mars who had evolved to the Martian environment
Beautiful scene. It both intrigues and saddens me. Was there life on Mars? Will there be ANY life left here in a hundred years? We must live life on life's terms. There is no other way......
I like to think the Martian actually is from the future with human and martian surivors living together peacefully.
I loved it when it first came out in 1980 and still do.
It's like meditation watching this movie
Humanity in 2023 could really use the Martian's advice right now.
Well, we're here. Maybe we'll do for now.
Great scene. The meeting of the minds.
Taken from Bradbury... Beautiful.Well acted. And, a deeper truth is within it about time eternal and souls, secrets, eternity.. "...there is no secret. Anyone with eyes can See the way to live"...
Anything written by Bradbury- have been and always shall be- devoted! Meanwhile- taking care not to tread on any butterflies! 👍
this scene is amazing. makes me wonder how i'm actually living. doesn't it happen to you that you feel attracted to abandoning everything and leaving off to live life for itself?
Every day
no
Probably the greatest movie scene ever (tv or otherwise)
I do keep coming back to it. But isn't it strange that I find it more spiritual than anything I've heard in a church or in the speech of anyone who says they are religious?
The secret of the Universe hidden away in a largely forgotten low-budget sci fi TV programme from the early 80s... there something so appealing about that...
@@jmack8767 there is indeed mate
Maybe not the greatest- but certainly made us think- about what we think matters most in life ❤️👍
anyone remember when matey blows up the ship and leaves his fam stranded on Mars
Beautiful scene. I watch this at least once a month.
This is a wondrous moment!
The martian may have been either a native martian from the remote past (when the planet had oceans) or a descendant of the human colonists from the remote future (millions of years).
Saw this scene when I was a kid, loved it but I understand it more now
This scene is so wonderful, and based on my favourite chapter of the book
The philosophy proves Bradbury is a closet Pagan, which is fine by me. If only other religions truly promoted "working in common cause with the the Process of Existence" instead of against it.
DAFUQ?
This one scene has stayed with me since I first saw it. It wasn't until now that I am able to watch it again
Yippee I’ve been looking for this for years lol I remember it as a child watching it
Me too!
And I bet it gave spiritual nourishment as it gave me. I was born in 74 i remeber this scene. When i was lost i watch this scene, then I'm found. Derivering pleasure from the gift of pure being.
@@Photonface...aaand thus we romantic fools were born to be governed by the realists who want to annihilate us all 😐
this scene is how everyone should believe. how can it not make sense. What this Martian is saying about how they live.
fucheduck true. Unfortunately, the human race will have to mature before we will be able to follow that philosophy.
This is a representation of purity at its max. {{ The past is the future & The future is the past }}
I remember this scene when first broadcast in 79/80ish in Uk ,,,,,,,,the talk in school was “that guy had no ears”
Today they would IGNORE the beauty of this scene. It would be: "There were too many Whites on Mars. How can we improve minority representation there?"
Wonderful scene.
Amazing that this was actually a 1979 television mini-series. I watched it when it was first broadcast. Yet it has more depth and meaning than any of today's "sci-fi" movies, with 20x the budget and f/x technology they had back then.
love this scene
One of my favourite books and this was an amazing version of it
I watch this scene and hope that if I ever meet an alien, I too will not act like a jerk.
I would give anything for such an opportunity and hope to learn from them
I watched the whole movie because I had seen this scene.
Isn't it amazing what can inspire us to want to see or know more? I can suggest a bunch of other shows -- Foundation, American Gods, The Expanse, Babylon 5 that are quite deep with all levels of meaning.
@@WalterPetrovic I'm writing these down. Anything else?
@@ChemEDan Pre JJ Abrams Star Trek
Thank you for posting this
Time does not exist we live in other dimensions.
But something is preventing us seeing the other dimension.The earth is not what we see.
I always liked this scene. But listen to Rock Hudson footsteps as he walks around. You can hear him stepping on plywood set that is suppose to be the carved stone ground. At at around 2:47.
Love this scene too, but I like never be made a reboot
In 2022 we would IGNORE the mystery and beauty of this scene. Today it would be: "There are TOO MANY WHITES on Mars! What can we do to improve minority representation and DESTROY White supremacy on Mars?"
Does the Martian actually say "have a cigar and a lager" at the beginning?
Hahahahaha!!!
nah bro he was stoned
I know this is just fiction, but it shows the Tierans (Martians) are as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above Ants?
It was written by a human though.. such sentiments are in no way beyond us.
Now today in 2021AD a NASA Rover landing vehicle is searching the planet Mars surface.An oxygen creating machine is there too.
Time Space continual. Thee automate hear now. Multi-universe paradox. Not the mundane here now. Rock Hudson is Tirin past. But Tirin is Rock Hudson past.
I think the Martians are long dead but there are artificial intelligences based on Martian mind uploads that linger and can appear using a technology so advanced it looks like magic.
This is an excellent metaphor for our current state of politics in America today.
"You see your world and I see mine"
Except in this scene there is no hostility, no antagonism. Only acceptance by each of the other's perception of their surroundings, a willingness to communicate underscored by a profound humility and respect for life and consciousness.
@@ilokivi It's merely a reference to the fact that so many Americans seem to be occupying the same space and yet are experiencing two different realities.
Too many times this scene is cut out when they show this on TV.
Good Lord, why? It's the keystone in the dramatic arch of the whole series.
This is the best scene in the whole thing!
I look back at the words on the TV all those years ago and I see that God has been at work, trying to draw me to Him, which is done through Christ, and His selfless sacrifice so that we can enjoy the promise of eternal life, and peace forevermore.
Give me a break.
Amen
dope
As a person who believes in character Astrology, this scene reminds me of a fanciful conversation between two opposite signs of the Zodiac - mystical Pisces and the analytical Virgo.
That is an interesting analysis that does work.
scifi excellence
Dr. Evil has gone all philosophical hasn’t he?
Mr Martian don’t drop the soap near big Rock 😳
I was so mad at this show as a kid i wanted to see the martians and how they lived all we ever got was bad empty sets and a conversation with a ghost which at the time made no sense since i so young. 😢
Just because we named the planet Mars doesn't mean the inhabitants are "Martians".
Tier not Mars.
Barsoom!
It was spelled Tyrr in the book.
Interestingly, "Tyr" was the Norse god of war, just as "Mars" was the older Roman war god.
"Tyr" now survives only in our weekday name: "Tuesday".
Tyrtians.
That Philosophy is pure Taoism
"Secret? There is no secret. Anyone with eyes can see the way to live." "How?" "By watching life, observing nature, and cooperating with it. Making common cause with the process of existence." "How?" "By living life for itself, don't you see, deriving pleasure from the gift of pure being." "The gift of pure being." "Life is its own answer. Accept it and enjoy it, day by day. Live as well as possible; expect no more. Destroy nothing, humble nothing, look for fault in nothing, leave unsullied and untouched all that is beautiful. Hold that which lives in all reverence, for life is given by the sovereign of our universe, given to be savored, to be luxuriated in, to be respected. But that's no secret. You're intelligent. You know as well as I what has to be done. Now I must go. My people are waiting for me." "I have people waiting, too." "Good."
Anyone know if this is a set or did they film on a location that pre-existed. I would love to go see the set with all of the structures and rock cones and spheres.
The series was filmed at Shepperton Studios in England and on both the Mediterranean island of Malta and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
Almost certainly fake... But like you I would love to have walked down this scene
I wondered that as well. The Martian city looks like a concrete water reservoir with some props added on top of it to make it look more martian.
it Mars
Thought about getting some of the Martian’s philosophy tattooed but, would it be rendered meaningless if I stepped on an ant or catch a mouse in a trap? If I turn on the bug whacker and killed thousands of bugs, does that go against the message? I’m so f’n confused.
What he shows me is 2 parallel l worlds were one the martians had survived several thousands years of years the future & they experience in their time line that earth was destroyed thousands of years ago.
This a portal way station between 2 worlds.
@@soulbrotherheuck2603 But who is really in the past and who is in the future in this scene? You'd think the martian would be in the past, but he could have evolved from us 10,000 years in the future and is actually the living one.. Mindfuck
Scary want to bite the alien head
Loved the speech although the earlier martians went out to destroy the humans.... Maybe the philosophy didnt stand well with all of them as some haf weapons.... Still a brilliant epic series
yo, is dere life on Mahrs
This philosophy doesn't consider the sociopaths that have enslaved humans throughout history.
This is hippy stuff.
As much is riding on definitions of the Martian's words as those of your comment. If I obey your knowledge in your comment, does that make me your slave or me a hippee to you my guru? Any one of us has to look outside of ourselves for life and truth. The small amount within yourself is something you were either taught by reality and other people or you were born with it as a human being. You were not born with the English language, you learned it. You did not learn your capacity for language, it was a given you were born with. If you make yourself, with what reality and truth you do have, in common cause with the rest of reality and truth, you are on your way (incomplete but sufficient for no one of us knows everything). Outside of this is only illusion, insanity, and nonaliveness/death.
@@deuteriummeridian8998 I'm not asking you to obey anything.
@@GravityBoy72 Oh I know you were not giving commands like a colonel ordering about a group of bumbling cadets. But we both, along with every one else in the comments section, do give our takes on reality or opinions. Yet for some issues it is hard to separate the way one sees things, or the way one lives one's life, from implying that other people would be better off if they did the same as that person. Such is the risk of comments for writer and reader.
@@GravityBoy72 When it comes, happy 50th. I didn't take mine so very well. May yours be good for you.
what year is it ? 2007
1980 - from the Ray Bradbury book written in 1950.
LOL…..”What year is it?” “2007”…..LOL…… Movie must’ve come out in the mid 1970s!
The mini-series was out in 1980, and film technology was as far as it was, in the special effects used on that series - which to us today appear minimal. Now go find the book and read it, and imagine it being made today, with CGI and no holds barred as to what can be shown on the big or little screen.
@@WalterPetrovic The more elaborate the special effects, the more it distracts people from the story and dialogue. A good or great movie is always about the story/plot and dialogue, the effects are an added bonus but even the best effects can't carry a movie with only a little or bad story.
@@WalterPetrovic it’s funny to watch a movie in the 2020s which depicts how space travel will be in 2007 😆.
Time Machine back to 1979. CB radios were all the rage. Most telephones were still rotary dial. 8 track cassette tapes, cable TV just starting, personal computers largely non-existent ……… completely different times.
In this snippet from the Martial Chronicles, Rock Hudson speaks like an idiot, not like a person whom has traveled to Mars from Earth.
I disagree. He is learning about the unknown. Multi-Universe paradoxes. The proof that the past is the future & The future is the past
@@soulbrotherheuck2603 You're both wrong! This is an episode from McMillan, the one where he's sent on an investigation to seek truth in all meaning of existence and couldn't find anyone on Earth intelligent enough to talk to.
I fooly disagree
@@soulbrotherheuck2603 ..Gentleman, gentlemen please. You are both right and you are both wrong. You are not fools nor idiots. Why don't we just go to a pub for a "Cigar and Lager" and discuss this like grown Terrans?
It’s Riff Raft
A wonderous scene spoilt by bad special effects.The seies was hated by Bradbury,It needed a bigger budget to make it work,a shame could have been so much better.
Bad acting, script and poor make up and effects even for 1980
Rock didn't believe in wasting good makeup unless he really liked the dude.
I loved it when it came out in 1980 and still do I watched it again recently and it is still one of my all time favourites tv shows, the music, atmosphere etc, it had it all.
It was a missed oppotunity to reflect a great peice of writing,For some reason they choose tv writers(who do not understand this material) to adapt great works of literature,and it just doesn't work.
@@johnwayne1464 great music great acting and moving.
Richard Matheson wrote this screenplay