One thing that always struck me about the tripods was the one huge "eye" on the front. With the way the part above it slightly overhangs it, when seen from certain angles it looks like a half-lidded stare. The look of boredom, or indifference, which reflects how the invaders regarded humans when they began their invasion. They weren't angry with us, they didn't hate us, we just registered to them as pests to be exterminated. "War between men and maggots" indeed.
I'm not sure if you're literally proposing it was where they looked out from but I always thought that odd thing on the top of the shell was the cockpit
@@easypeezy03 Nah, I don't think it was literally their viewport, if anything it looked kind of like... Well, a big turbine. As there's no visible windows on the tripods, my guess is they navigate by RADAR/Sonar, like a submarine. Windows may be seen as a weak point for anything that happened to make it through their shields.
@@allenharper2928 idk, the way the top is shaped looks very much like a cockpit perhaps reinforced? Besides they didn't have to worry about it being vulnerable because they weren't planning for their shields, which could protect it from any modern weaponry, to go out. The lights perfectly turning to shin on humans in front of it definitely proves they have some way of viewing the outside of their machines
I’ve been obsessed with everything about the tripods in this movie since I was a kid. Literally my second favorite movie, and watching this was just great!
@@ProjectACHERON The thing we see get sprayed out of the tripod when it rises out of the ground completely is actually dirt. Later in the movie the red stuff being sprayed out is either fertilizer, the red weed, or a combination of both.
especially if the humans could have figured out what energy source the tripods used to move and make those beams, and also more importantly how it made the protection shield
They don't have teleportation technology. The news camera footage in the movie clearly showed there was some type of pod in the lightning bolts that transported the aliens to the tripods. That physically moved them down into the machines.
What if those capsules aren’t actually the aliens and they’re instead some activation keys. When it reaches the tripod, the machine is turned on, and I have a theory which suggests that the aliens driving the tripod were actually buried with it thousands of years ago. They were frozen inside the tripod and that activation key which is coming down the lightning is a code which tells the tripod to defrost the aliens. When the aliens wake up from hibernation they instantly remember that THE DAY has come and then they start operating the machine. Does that sound plausible?
Lol yes that would be great haha, but you fail to remeber they have a second type of laser than destroys all kind of matter so they could just switch top that.
@@constantine4331 there’s another type of heat ray, it’s not violet colored instead it’s green colored, u can see the other second type of laser where ray gets his kids on his friend’s car
The purpose of the horn is to strike fear into humans so they can take loads of them or it is used like a lion roar , to make sure you know it is here and it is hostile in other words , it is used to intimidate others
I think the horn was used to let other tripods know that they've found some humans that they can harvest. It's like a signal. But it sure as hell would've gotten me terrified so your theory works just as well lol
Did you notice the two types of death rays ? The purple-ish beams vaporize organic material - or cause sudden dehydration - leaving clothing behind. Their energy comes from a generator - similar to a commercial aircraft APU. The crystal plates on their "hands" are a type of laser that are tuned to organic material - similar to how a microwave oven heats the water but not the paper cup. The more powerful greenish beams react with matter - perhaps filled with anti-matter on the bridge, house tops. These make more of a lateral sweep at around 3 times a second to create a rocking effect that overturns the bridge roadway. Your comments ?
I'm guessing something like different ammo types the incineration ray proprobly acts as pest control while the greenish one is used for demolition control, but also during the hill scene the heat ray looks a bit different to me like it's sort of an incendiary setting for the weapons
@@ProjectACHERON when you said they have teleportation, I believe during the very beginning they rode the lightning inside capsules into the machines, so they used a life pod to get in, not teleportation
War of The Worlds was written in 1897. Cars were a rare sight in some parts of the world and the most advanced machines we had were powered by steam engines. Now picture yourself in that time frame and you pick up this book that talks about metal objects falling from the sky with aliens moving around inside of them. The Aliens bring weapons that walk on 3 legs and shoots a beam of heat that melts or vaporises what ever it hits. H. G. Wells was so far ahead of his time,
@@DVincentW well there must be some kind of inspiration from the tripods. since the story existed long before half life, and fits its post apocalyptic setting. especially considering aliens
Thank you for this one! I know its very controversial, but that was one of the first long sci-fi movies I've watched hence I was a kid. And it was (among with alien and the animatrix second reneissance) genuinely demoralized and terrified me. I still am stuck on the scene where the main characters look onto the mountain and the tripods just standing... looking on the city like a cat enjoying the kill time before it attack a pigeon. The tripods, to me, were/are the embodiment of exterrestrial/alien technology. Odd looking, absolutely not terran, and the death rays... The aliens're on the other hand were so alike as humans, definetly not physically /fit/ , has no animal like raw power, and get to the global domination & invasion solely by their sheer bloodlust of intelligence. This was a long one but War of the Worlds is like a classic to me :D
I really love the movie and hey any alien themed movie, tv series, game or wahtever you want to see on the channel just let me know because if people want to see it then im happy to produce it for you all. I agree the 2005 movie is the best version in my opinion, as a child watching it i had nightmares about just how insignificant humanity is in the grand scheme of the universe and how an advanced race of alien might see us as nothing more than meer animals to the slaughter to fuel their own galactic needs and motivations. I agree the tripod aliens really just are what humanity is slowly becoming a force that tears through its resources until there is nothing left leading to us inevitably having to move to another planet only to do it all again!
This is the design I wish they could've used in the BBC version. It's so close to what Wells described them. While I can't say much for the alien pilots, the machines are just impressive.
It is implied in the book that the Martians already conquered a past civilisation on Mars. H.G Wells invented the red weed because it mimicked the red surface of Mars, since back in the time no one knew why it was red. I can assume that the Martians jumped from planet to planet until their resources (any organic being) had been drained dry, leaving it covered in red weed that terraformed whatever world it occupied into an environment suitable to them.
After watching this video (Which I loved, one of a kind), and some comments from below, I started thinking... If the horn that the Tripods make are some kind of communication, like alert other Tripods of human activity, tactical alerts, like for retreating and that kind of stuff, and even for orders (When the first Tripod rises, giving a first horn to the others Tripods that are underground), then, in the final battle with the Tripod, when Ray was trying to tell to the soldier that the Tripod didn't have his shield, the Tripod was actually calling desperately for help, but, as the other Tripod has fallen down, that ONE Tripod didn't have a chance, and only screamed in vain. It isn't sad, 'cause his malicious intentions, but it feels, somehow, horrible, a giant bio-mechanical machine calling for help, just for nothing.
Wow never saw it this way before. Thats actually very cool to think about and makes a dark film ever so slightly more darker when your realise the fear these sirens generated we also sometimes directly connected to the fear of the invades themselves.
The "hooting" as HG described in the original book was spot on. He described the song of the tripods as a deep bass "AAAHHHLOOOOOOOOO" sound. What didn't make sense to me is why the tripod lost its shield. Unless it required some operator attention, it should have remained, even as the crew took ill. Now, others have said that there was possibly some biological symbiotic relationship between the aliens and their machines. If the aliens got sick, the tripods went as well.
@@HighAltitudesCO Since there's totally more than two martians inside the Tripods, it's more plausible the operator theory. I was going to say "Maybe they simply ran out of power for the shields", but that couldn't be it. They made it so far with that technology to be that stupid. And since the Tripods moves so smoothly, the movements are probably made by motion capture, so that would mean that every martian inside has a role. Maybe the vital signs of the martian that was operating the shields detected a flatline, and that made the shields went down automatically, and with no one else to take care of it. Idk.
I like the theory that the ships are like exo suits for the aliens. The way they move and also the way they look like larger versions of the aliens themselves makes me think they are controlled through neural inputs rather than through analog controls. What’s strangest about the ships is the fact that they do appear to have some biological characteristics, such as the fleshy tongue-like “grabber” that it uses to pull human captives into the ships interior. This indicates that the ships are not 100% machinery, but rather some combination of technology and sentience that is completely beyond the limits of human understanding.
In the 2005 film there were actually 3 distinct kinds of tripod. The first tripod is the traditional fighting machine. This tripod is the first tripod we see. It is present at the intersection, fairy scene on the hill, and the end fight in Boston. It is characterized by its apparent lack of tentacles and cages. This tripod is equipped with the standard dual heat ray configuration, has a slender hood (top cockpit area), stands 100ft high, and has 3 flood lights. The second tripod we see is somewhat of a heavy weapons variant of the fighting machine. It is first scene in the water during the fairy scene and is also present during the hill battle. As with the fighting machine it has dual heat rays and stands 100ft high. However, unlike the fighting machine, this tripod class sports an array of tentacles, two cages, and 5 flood lights as opposed to 3. This tripod also has a noticeably wider hood. The third tripod we see is the handling machine. This tripod class is the one that snatches Tom Cruise and ultimately pays for it. It is also seen in the very last shot of the film, dead in the streets of Boston. The most striking difference between the handling machine and the other two classes is size, standing likely no more than 50 to 75ft high. This is very clearly demonstrated in the final shot of the film, as a handling tripod is laying next to a much larger fighting tripod. This tripod has tentacles and cages, but an apparent lack of heat rays. It has 3 flood lights as well and a hood nearly identical to the traditional fighting machine.
Thank you for this insight, if i ever make another video or update this one ill be sure to address some of these important facts that i hadent realised before!
11:49 You actually see the blood draining process a man is brought down and a tube with a needle is jabbed into him and you see the blood going up the tube
Just imagine your at a train station and while your waiting for the train you see a flock of birds all flying away in one direction and then you turn around and see a giant 3 legged tripod appear behind you.
I wish there was a spinoff WoTW of this one like from a different perspective we have Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) a father that tries to get his kids far away from the Martian invasion as he can (at least that's what I see in this movie) but if there was a spinoff WoTW from a different perspective that has a lot of WoTW like the destruction of cities and the WAR part of War of The Worlds etc etc then it would be awesome. Like with that news crew at the plane crash that woman showed Ray a clip of a city getting annihilate by a big army of tripods and the battle on the hill when the GIANT tripods on the hill showed up it was getting tense as heck for a few seconds until they cut back to the main characters. I wish there was more of those stuff in the 2005 adaptation but if there *WILL* be ever a spinoff movie of the 2005 adaptation then I'll defenently watch it. Would you?
Oh yeah for sure that would be absolutely fantastic, seeing the story through a soldiers eye would be great having to attempt to deal with beings such as the invaders and everything that entail, that would be epic !
The radio broadcast that caused mass panic (supposedly) was actually very good at showing various points of view. You should listen to it if you haven't already.
the horn sound was a way for the aliens hips to communicate to each other to transport hidden messages or secrets that the humans cannot understand. Also it is used to alert the other tripods that there are humans near by as when you re watch the scene were ray and his kids are travelling to the boat, one tripod appeaars and signals the horn, then not long after, two more tripods then appear then loads more clearly showing that the sound signals there are humans and it is to transport messages to each other
I wish they make another WOTW film. I have so many questions about these aliens. If their tripods are just harvesters, could there be an even tougher battle tripod? Could there be cave drawings, symbols in pyramid or centuries old scriptures that links to the martians to determine how long they are on Earth. What are they planning now after the failed attempt to terraform the earth in 2005? They might be finding a way to be immune to us before they reattempt to invade Earth!
I remember this movie gave me nightmare for years, especially the green van used in the movie, now I love the movie for the tripods, even though they gave me nightmares for over 7 years
Thank you for doing a video on the tripods from War of the worlds I've always loved the tripods ever since I read about them, I'm glad that you used the design of the tripod from 2005 film adaptation because to me that design is more faithful to the book's description in which they're described how you did in this video (also this is my favorite design of the tripod everything about this design I love to me its an excellent example of fusion between organics and non-organics). In an interview, Speilberg did state the aliens in his film don't originate from mars but from a much farther and darker side of the galaxy, as far away as E.T. comes from, anyway thank you for doing this video I loved it. 😁❤❤❤✔✔💖💖😊😊
Yes its no problem im glad so many people have enjoyed it, the tripods scared the shit out of me when i was little and i find the whole concept of the film and other media so terrifying and interesting! my favorite design by far is the 2005 movie, so superior! And yes in my next video surronding the "Martians" im going to be deeply exploring their possible origins and why they do what they do!!
@@ProjectACHERON Awesome thanks for the reply I can't wait to see that video. I'm glad that you liked the tribute I made really appreciate it thanks. :)
When i see the scene where you have all those people in the basket who were being processed along with ray and Rachel I usually imagine it being like like a factory machine kinda. The human gets pulled into the hood then pulled through the machine which grinds up the person till all that’s left is small pieces of tissue, bone and blood then the machine separates tissue and bone from the blood and discards the leftovers leaving the blood to be sprayed. Dunno wether anyone else has had the same idea.
Most people don't know this but the horn is actually used to call other tripods to it's location it will notify the other tripods that the tripod that sounded the horn has found a group of humans
theres a theory that the aliens lived on earth before humans and placed the machines there then then left and came back to see the humans and were angry to see their planet in human hands so they invaded
I like the imagination aspect of this movie, what I mean by in certain scenes, we can imagine what we would do in that exact situation. Like when the military passed the family, would you join the fight, or try and survive and so on in different scenes
Ueah i like thats there is many different options possed through the lens of the family giving the audience a sense of uncertainty of what they would chose had they been placed in the same situation
I never realized that the tripods of this movie, could very well represent us in the distant future. Terraforming worlds after we destroy our own. Conquering by sheer technological supremacy. Using psychological torture to strip the will from our enemies. Surrounding ourselves in machines to accomplish our goals. Making use of every last resource.
These were indeed one of the best,nope infact the 2nd best fighting giant mecha units ( after my top favourite, Pacific Rim Jaegers ) coz they have excellent protection ( their force shields don't even exhibit weakness even during firing), and good speed.
same i love both of those to. all so Goliath from war of the words Goliath is a good one to. i all so love the metal gear's from the metal gear solid game series those are war machine's to.
there's this theory going around that says if you hit a table at exactly the right time, all the atoms in your hand (and table) will all miss each-other and your hand will pass right through it. that could possibly explain how they were able to teleport the way they did.
The tripod call seems to definitely be some kind of communication device between the tripods/aliens. During the ferry scene, a single tripod stands outside the town and sounds its call, then a few seconds later more tripods show up. Also later on when the aliens are exploring the cellar, a tripod outside the house sounds its call, and the aliens leave the cellar all at once.
If you listen REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY closely the horn almost sounds like the word *hello* just slowed down and stretched out, especially the 2nd version 8:07 i also noticed in some scenes in the movie especially the scene where the main character gets capture by a tripod and put in the back cages, the tripods have weird markings on them (Possibly the Martians language i guess?)
Yeah that’s fair, the main thing that makes the 2005 ones my favourite is the bio-mechanical nature of them, being a massive alien fan that fact alone has me hooked on their design.
*Wait so what are we? Are we like crops? Are they Attempting to harvest us? They have been growing us for millions of years and now it’s time .. to feast...* (sorry for writing the end like a 14 year old girl)
The Martian body has no internal organs except the heart as they extract the fresh living blood of human beings and inject it into their own bloodstream meaning the martians could not process foods themselves.
Exactly. The resource is us. That's why the aliens could show up thousands or even millions of years ago on Earth, identify a promising sentient species and allow it to develop and dominate the planet after hiding their machines. This alien civilization could have adapted to where it now preys on other intelligent species by letting them develop a civilization and grow to billions of individuals. The aliens could see themselves as the machines in the Matrix. By harvesting a dominant species that doesn't exist in balance with its environment, they might see themselves as "curing" the target planet of a "virus"
You failed to mention that there were different types of Tripod. The human harvesting tripods had the cages etc and were much larger than the fighting tripods.
The background music used in this video is "Time part 1 (Firey The Angels Fell) - Background Music" By CO.AG Music My original comment was deleted due to an error, it was posted a week ago at the time of writing this, in which I I asked if anyone knew what the background track was.
Something I never quite understood, correct me if it has been mentioned already, is the location of the aliens during the lightning storm. They ride the lightning down into the tripod, but I never understood where the aliens were hanging out prior. Were they above the Earth? In the atmosphere?
I am very amazed about this machine technology because after thousands of years or more buried underground, they just start up instantly with no errors not like our machines on earth like a car after a few decades it had a hard time to start
their home planet would probably look extremely similar to Mars. in one of the older movie adaptations, it's said that they originated from the constellation of Tauri from a planet named "Mor'tax". the planet was pretty much just a garden planet that looked near identical to Mars, just with large bodies of water.
One theory that I have about the “lightning storms” were that they weren’t ships at all but instead wormholes and as they appeared in the sky they were presented with a storm like appearance interacting with earth’s atmosphere and their home planet’s atmosphere which is why it looked so strange and the winds were blowing towards it instead of away from it. And these wormholes traveled and appeared across various areas of the earth with the aliens riding the unnatural lightning into the ground. I could explain this better in person lol.
I mean not always. And anyway i think the importance around that trope is that as a species becomes so successful and overconfident, with very overinflated egos they begin to develop a rather dangerously large hubris. One that’s ripe for a natural selection correction. Such as in the case of human in this current era we are living in. We live life with little regard for how our actions affect others or the planet and the planet just though us a massive curve ball.
Perhaps the species had eradicated the plagues and diseases that killed their species and so forgot about the threat of bacterial infections. But also perhaps they expected the diseases to only affect humans.
Something I always thought about during the time when the first tripod came out of the ground was that the first horn that was played wasn’t a sound to scare humans. It was to tell the rest “ I’ve made it “
but the lack of the movie's story is that aliens with such technology could have predicted that their bodies can't handle earth's bacteria, and second that all the aliens mustn't have landed on earth. the story still has to continue because it's incomplete
Speaking of the grenade weakness I liked the part when that baby tripod went down Tom cruise: spits grenade rings into his hand Soldier: everybody down!! Tripod: boom bang pow denk donk dink
@@ProjectACHERON eh, I would just like the thrill and the adrenaline of it. I wish there was a console/PC game that is free roam and takes place during a tripod invasion and you have to gather food, water, protection, etc. you also meet people and build a sanctuary where they can live.
Why do the aliens look at us as if we're food? Surely they notice the technological advancements we made , as far as architecture, buildings, skyscrapers, etc. Imagine them seeing Dubai . They should see were more than just a herd of sheep. That were capable of building great things. Why couldn't they see that?
Ants and bees are capable of of creating complex colonies and hives, social structures form, they produce their own for and preform agriculture, their success comes from their ability to build functioning societies together. But humans still step on ants and swat away bees.
@@ProjectACHERON the comparison is not the same. Humans are much bigger than bees and ants. We step on them because we can’t see them most of the time lol. Aliens are humanoid and are almost the same size as us. As far as bees, we swat them out of fear of getting stung. It’s a normal human reaction. We don’t actively hunt bees for the sole of conquering them… also over the years humans have learned that bees are important part of our ecosystem, so we are taught not to kill them and to leave them alone if we encounter them. Bees cannot build skyscrapers, airplanes, art, music, etc. I’m sure there was a time when aliens use to be primitive like us.. it took many years to get where they are. Just as it will take us many years to get to a Type 1 civilization.
They are literally space vampires. Most depictions of earth-based Vampires don't have a problem feeding on humans even though they themselves were born and raised as humans. They now see themselves as doing what is in their nature. They don't think about the advancements in technology, great works of art and engineering, or the growth of human civilization over their long existence. They only see a means to sustain their own lives. Human technology is only seen as a possible threat to be planned for and overcome.
i dont wanna go through the youtubers entire youtube channel to find a song. and my phone keeps saying its oceans of time wich it isnt.. what song is this?
I think a weapon with as much force as a hydrogen bomb would instantly destroy a tripod as in the film the people say the standard weapons detonate to far away to do any damage if this truly is the case then a hydrogen bomb would simply not stop for any shield and destroy the machine.
I suppose it’s how you take that statement because that was people explanation for something far beyond them. Maybe that’s not how the shield work at all!
@@ProjectACHERON that certainly is another way of seeing it, these aliens we're far superior in their intelligence so it is likely we won't ever know, always fun theorizing however
It would. Physics is physics, I don't care how advance someone is, no material can withstand the energy release density of a star at point blank. Theirs a reason why nukes leave perfect circular holes in the ground, the dirt is litterly vaporized. If a tactical like was dropped right on one, it'll rip it three a*seholes.
one thing i dont know is, why they didnt try chemicals or other stuff once they realized explosives didnt work, or set up traps to try and trip the tripods like starwars.
So wait, those aliens were outside the planet and have sent lighting to make the tripods wake up? Or were they already underground? Where did the lightning come from then???
The tripods were under ground, the alien teleport via the lightning into the tripods and the it’s likely they had a ship in orbit or stationed somewhere like mars that housed the teleportation device!
The tripods were under ground, the alien teleport via the lightning into the tripods and the it’s likely they had a ship in orbit or stationed somewhere like mars that housed the teleportation device!
@@ProjectACHERON ohh okk thank you!! 🙏🙏 So they were basically in space ships outside of earth? And got teleported? I always thaught they were hiding underground lol...
That foghorn is a communication they share to signal when they go online and begin their operations. It sounds like a foghorn due to earth's dense atmosphere. However, on their homeworld the atmosphere is very thin like Mars and to our ears the signal would be as silent as a dog whistle.
I need more info for my short novel. I'm writing a story about a campaign set in Alien universe, but the enemy are the Covenant from Halo. I still have to understand or find info about some points. UAAC don't have nor an intelligence service nor special forces. Plus their ships are mostly primitives, unable to pose a serious threat to the Covenant counterparts. Their naval guns are pretty much made by lasers and plasma, as like the Covenant, but without shields, UAAC are just slow targets. I need to know more about their ships if I want to find out if it's possible counteracting the Covenant.
@@ProjectACHERON yeah, I'm figure out a way to repurpose the CM 88B "Bison" M-class and also the CM 90S "Corvus" G-class as small corvettes for the UAAC fleet. Small targets could be useful to create screens against enemy fighters etc. The most reasonable point I can use to help the UAAC in this scenario is make the Covenant weaker. There's no other chances.
I remember seeing this movie with my dad and brother in the theaters and the sound that the tripods made horrified me. Like it was so bad that the horns from the trains passing made me think that they were here to take over the world. 🤣🤣🤣 my tiny lil brain was terrified
I think the continued popularity of WOTW owes a great deal to the iconic tripods. For reasons not entirely clear to me, their physical appearance is in itself thoroughly menacing and conveys emotionless slaughter. The aliens that piloted them are not the antagonist. The tripods are. Spielberg’s rendition of the fighting machines is perhaps the most frightening.
A point that almost no one seems to talk about or notice is how similar they look to the aliens themselves. To me they are like giant exo suits for the aliens. In the original the aliens were a squid like creature. Which could explain the orange liquid inside the tripod. They swim in it and live in it, which is also why you see a fleshly looking hole at the back of the cage where the tentacles come out from to take humans. Both aliens and tripods have 3 legs and a very similar head shape. Towards the end you see the tripod stumble around as if it was sick, why would a machine move as if it was sick? Probably because the alien inside is making those movements.
My vision of these tripod machines is that they are not actual mechs, but rather an anti-gravity-propelled saucers that use legs to push themselves in a set direction. This would explain why, despite the unimaginable heavines of their disproportionately large cabin, tripods apper fo have some sort of flowy motion when 'walking'
Still waiting for an actual adaptation of the book. The director that manages to capture that story in earnest strikes gold but it's not for the masses. The movies/series focus on the big boom boom and explosions and each captures something from the book but never the whole. The book is a rollercoaster that starts safe and familiar, with a sudden disruption of human normalcy that lingers in disbelief and assurance that it's not an issue and even a belief that the aliens are weak and dying because they are physically weak. Before slowly but steadily crashing into horror, sheer mortal terror and extremely dark human moments when he and others realise the truth of what is happening when the Martians reveal their true forms. Eventually it's an almost slow and serene departure from sanity as the protagonist's world unravels around him and he turns from a human on the run from aliens into a forlorn soul in a world that belongs to a race of unknowable strangers. I can't word it better than that. It's mesmerising.
i feel like the book is a piece of its era and should lagerly be left on its own. trying to repilcate it has always proved problimatic, i think they should do what this film did and take the story in differnt directions, drawing inspiration from the reference material.
@@ProjectACHERON Essentially, WotW has been adapted over and over. But the more tasteful adaptations of the alien invasion story that went in different directions and just drew inspiration from the novel didn't carry its namesake and deviated enough to be their own thing. There's hundreds, some good, some bad. And that's fine. But when you slap 'The War of the Worlds' on your movie and you go to lenghts to follow the events of the book (such as the 2005 movie and the BBC series) but then deviate in such a way that your own interpretation of that specific story is just a worse version of that story, then your movie is bad plagiarism. I'm not saying don't make alien invasion movies, I'm not even saying try to re-create a cool spin on WotW. I'm only saying that when you use the name, the string of events of the book and then make your own trashy version of it, I'm going to be mad at you. :P
There are actually 3 types of tripod, 1 is the warrior which has just lasers which we see at the start of the film, the 2nd is the harvester which has the long tentacles and cages, and the third is the massive heavy tank tripods which we see when robbie goes with the military and these have tentacles and lasers, a way of telling the difference is visual, warriors have no tentacles whilst harvesters do and also these 2 tripods have 3 spotlights whilst the 3rd tank tripods have 4 spotlights
I’m not sure, I don’t know of any kind of hydraulics that spray gas. But from what i can speculate is that is has to have something to do with the grow the of their terraforming weed. However I could be wrong and it may simply be the by product of one of their biomechanical systems!
@@ProjectACHERON I always thought it was just blowing out the dust and dirt that made its way in over the thousands of years it was buried. Like a guy crawling out of the sand and blowing a bunch out of his mouth & nose.
I wish this movie will turnout like many Movie universes, as you can see the title "War of the Worlds" Which absolutely indicates other worlds is engage in this concept
I certainly hope others see this comment. . . I'm a big Fan Of this story By H.G.Welles. I read the abridged version of his book, in addition to 3 movie adaptations of this classic novel. Interestingly the 2005 film follows the original BOOK, closer than the 1953 film, Yet are both fantastic, told from 2 different perspectives, time frames, or eras. The 2005 film was so impressive that it inspired me to write a SPIN on the subject. During the film where the human fodder cages are featured, under the war machine's hull, gears in my head began turning, as I saw in my imagination, An ambush taking place. As the war machine is walking away from the camera, showing other war pods in the background, I imagined a blast from a PPC, A particle projection cannon, from a surprise attack from one of my favorite BATTLE MECHS from my favorite game of BATTLETECH. The very idea of something from another, or an additional part of the universe, with weaponry of equal strength and armor to fight off the alien advance, hit me so strongly that I had to put the idea to PAPER. Check out "RIFT, The Telk Invasion". Part 1 is now available on amazon.
Thanks so much I’m really glad that you guys are enjoying these new addition to the channel I was really scared deciding to branch out a little but you guys have been awesome about it !!
One thing that always struck me about the tripods was the one huge "eye" on the front. With the way the part above it slightly overhangs it, when seen from certain angles it looks like a half-lidded stare. The look of boredom, or indifference, which reflects how the invaders regarded humans when they began their invasion. They weren't angry with us, they didn't hate us, we just registered to them as pests to be exterminated. "War between men and maggots" indeed.
yeah for sure
I'm not sure if you're literally proposing it was where they looked out from but I always thought that odd thing on the top of the shell was the cockpit
@@easypeezy03 Nah, I don't think it was literally their viewport, if anything it looked kind of like... Well, a big turbine. As there's no visible windows on the tripods, my guess is they navigate by RADAR/Sonar, like a submarine. Windows may be seen as a weak point for anything that happened to make it through their shields.
@@allenharper2928 idk, the way the top is shaped looks very much like a cockpit perhaps reinforced? Besides they didn't have to worry about it being vulnerable because they weren't planning for their shields, which could protect it from any modern weaponry, to go out. The lights perfectly turning to shin on humans in front of it definitely proves they have some way of viewing the outside of their machines
Very possible
Fun fact: the charge up sound effects for the heat ray in the beginning was actually made by recording the sound of the M1 Abrams tank turbine engine
Oh wow really I never knew that actually very cool!
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It also kinda sounds like a giant induction motorua-cam.com/video/pdSKT_8OfKg/v-deo.html
I really wish someone had told me that the m1 was powered by a gas turbine engine much sooner
And the strange noises they sometimes make are fog horns.
I’ve been obsessed with everything about the tripods in this movie since I was a kid. Literally my second favorite movie, and watching this was just great!
Thank would definitly be interesting to see!
I wanna buy one and live in one
That would be pretty epic!
Me to.
@@blankblank5409 lol me too I'll paint him green and name him stoner oh never mind I have 1
Oh imagine the reverse engineering that the humans were able to do on all the tripods after the movie
I know that would be awesome to see a human version of a tripod!!
@@ProjectACHERON The thing we see get sprayed out of the tripod when it rises out of the ground completely is actually dirt. Later in the movie the red stuff being sprayed out is either fertilizer, the red weed, or a combination of both.
@@liteimation4013 I'm pretty sure he's referring to the black smoke from a deleted scene.
@@ProjectACHERON if you are active now, check the Malaysian animated movie :- war of the worlds Goliath
especially if the humans could have figured out what energy source the tripods used to move and make those beams, and also more importantly how it made the protection shield
They don't have teleportation technology. The news camera footage in the movie clearly showed there was some type of pod in the lightning bolts that transported the aliens to the tripods. That physically moved them down into the machines.
Yeah that was a mistake on my part really sorry about that! it seems to be some form of beam/ultrafast physical transportation system.
"They come down in capsules."
What if those capsules aren’t actually the aliens and they’re instead some activation keys. When it reaches the tripod, the machine is turned on, and I have a theory which suggests that the aliens driving the tripod were actually buried with it thousands of years ago. They were frozen inside the tripod and that activation key which is coming down the lightning is a code which tells the tripod to defrost the aliens. When the aliens wake up from hibernation they instantly remember that THE DAY has come and then they start operating the machine. Does that sound plausible?
@@astonalex For an advanced alien race? Sure.
Besides, the actual book goes into great detail about the pods.
In the scenes where the humans are vaporized only jackets survive, therefore the best protection would be bunkers lined with jackets
Lol yes that would be great haha, but you fail to remeber they have a second type of laser than destroys all kind of matter so they could just switch top that.
@@ProjectACHERON Do they? Was that shown in the 2005 movie, or is it mentioned in another version? I'm confused.
@@constantine4331 there’s another type of heat ray, it’s not violet colored instead it’s green colored, u can see the other second type of laser where ray gets his kids on his friend’s car
@@constantine4331 sorry for my bad grammar though I’m Filipino
@@fahafsugsisbsn, being a filipino is not an excuse for you bad grammar.
The purpose of the horn is to strike fear into humans so they can take loads of them or it is used like a lion roar , to make sure you know it is here and it is hostile in other words , it is used to intimidate others
Yeah i definitly think their is a mental aspect to it, wether it was intensional or not
It's a ship's fog horn
Oh you mean in real life?
I think the horn was used to let other tripods know that they've found some humans that they can harvest. It's like a signal. But it sure as hell would've gotten me terrified so your theory works just as well lol
@@markcaza320 yep that’s what I’ve exactly thought of and especially that’s how they communicate aswell
Did you notice the two types of death rays ? The purple-ish beams vaporize organic material - or cause sudden dehydration - leaving clothing behind. Their energy comes from a generator - similar to a commercial aircraft APU. The crystal plates on their "hands" are a type of laser that are tuned to organic material - similar to how a microwave oven heats the water but not the paper cup. The more powerful greenish beams react with matter - perhaps filled with anti-matter on the bridge, house tops. These make more of a lateral sweep at around 3 times a second to create a rocking effect that overturns the bridge roadway. Your comments ?
yeah now that you mention it that is interesting so ill might look into it and see if they is any video i can produce based on those facts.
I'm guessing something like different ammo types the incineration ray proprobly acts as pest control while the greenish one is used for demolition control, but also during the hill scene the heat ray looks a bit different to me like it's sort of an incendiary setting for the weapons
nice point, thanks for observing the move so accurately, you think that the green rays used antimatter to destroy material?
@@ProjectACHERON
when you said they have teleportation, I believe during the very beginning they rode the lightning inside capsules into the machines, so they used a life pod to get in, not teleportation
A good detail, nicely observed
Omggg this movie had me scared for years when I was little. The sound they made was TERRIFYING. And I LOVE IT!!
I know right me too it had nightmare all the time about these horrors !!
Project: ACHERON same was 5 when i watched even though I watched it in 2010
I watched it when I was 5, now I’m 20 and I still have nightmares.
Let me just say that Jeff Wayne’s version of the tripod is my favourite!
Fun fact:Originally the sound was was “ULAHH”
War of The Worlds was written in 1897. Cars were a rare sight in some parts of the world and the most advanced machines we had were powered by steam engines.
Now picture yourself in that time frame and you pick up this book that talks about metal objects falling from the sky with aliens moving around inside of them. The Aliens bring weapons that walk on 3 legs and shoots a beam of heat that melts or vaporises what ever it hits.
H. G. Wells was so far ahead of his time,
truly a visionary
He's one of them, warning us because he disagrees with their genocide haha
Plot twist: h g Wells accidentally invented the Mecha genre with his tripods
My brain : ThOsE lOoK lIkE tHe StRiDeRs FrOm HaLfLiFe.
yeah i suppose
Remember the strider's born after the classic war of worlds
They are very different, even the way their legs function is much different.
@@DVincentW well there must be some kind of inspiration from the tripods. since the story existed long before half life, and fits its post apocalyptic setting. especially considering aliens
The tripods were "invented" in 1890, some 114 years before Half-Life 2.
And they did instill fear as that horn made me get feared of them
yeah same here!
I think it's an awesome sound. Scary, but awesome.
Both of u are correct
My parents are still wondering Why I’m scared of this movie like they didn’t hear the horn😂
Thank you for this one!
I know its very controversial, but that was one of the first long sci-fi movies I've watched hence I was a kid. And it was (among with alien and the animatrix second reneissance) genuinely demoralized and terrified me. I still am stuck on the scene where the main characters look onto the mountain and the tripods just standing... looking on the city like a cat enjoying the kill time before it attack a pigeon. The tripods, to me, were/are the embodiment of exterrestrial/alien technology. Odd looking, absolutely not terran, and the death rays...
The aliens're on the other hand were so alike as humans, definetly not physically /fit/ , has no animal like raw power, and get to the global domination & invasion solely by their sheer bloodlust of intelligence.
This was a long one but War of the Worlds is like a classic to me :D
I really love the movie and hey any alien themed movie, tv series, game or wahtever you want to see on the channel just let me know because if people want to see it then im happy to produce it for you all. I agree the 2005 movie is the best version in my opinion, as a child watching it i had nightmares about just how insignificant humanity is in the grand scheme of the universe and how an advanced race of alien might see us as nothing more than meer animals to the slaughter to fuel their own galactic needs and motivations. I agree the tripod aliens really just are what humanity is slowly becoming a force that tears through its resources until there is nothing left leading to us inevitably having to move to another planet only to do it all again!
I wonder what’s inside the tripod look like tho?
The closest thing we got to that was what we saw when Ray and Rachel got abducted and put in the baskets
Yeah i would have loved to see the actual interiors of the tripods and how they were operating considering they were very biomechanical
@@ProjectACHERON I still wanna know what that writing was on the Tripod 🤔
Gabi Brown I heard the writing was random words in a galactic-alphabet like language
Maybe like the cockpit of a plane but with less buttons
This is the design I wish they could've used in the BBC version. It's so close to what Wells described them. While I can't say much for the alien pilots, the machines are just impressive.
i completely agree!
It is implied in the book that the Martians already conquered a past civilisation on Mars. H.G Wells invented the red weed because it mimicked the red surface of Mars, since back in the time no one knew why it was red.
I can assume that the Martians jumped from planet to planet until their resources (any organic being) had been drained dry, leaving it covered in red weed that terraformed whatever world it occupied into an environment suitable to them.
After watching this video (Which I loved, one of a kind), and some comments from below, I started thinking...
If the horn that the Tripods make are some kind of communication, like alert other Tripods of human activity, tactical alerts, like for retreating and that kind of stuff, and even for orders (When the first Tripod rises, giving a first horn to the others Tripods that are underground), then, in the final battle with the Tripod, when Ray was trying to tell to the soldier that the Tripod didn't have his shield, the Tripod was actually calling desperately for help, but, as the other Tripod has fallen down, that ONE Tripod didn't have a chance, and only screamed in vain.
It isn't sad, 'cause his malicious intentions, but it feels, somehow, horrible, a giant bio-mechanical machine calling for help, just for nothing.
Wow never saw it this way before. Thats actually very cool to think about and makes a dark film ever so slightly more darker when your realise the fear these sirens generated we also sometimes directly connected to the fear of the invades themselves.
I’m not the only one who thought of this!
Nicely said. 👍
The "hooting" as HG described in the original book was spot on. He described the song of the tripods as a deep bass "AAAHHHLOOOOOOOOO" sound. What didn't make sense to me is why the tripod lost its shield. Unless it required some operator attention, it should have remained, even as the crew took ill. Now, others have said that there was possibly some biological symbiotic relationship between the aliens and their machines. If the aliens got sick, the tripods went as well.
@@HighAltitudesCO Since there's totally more than two martians inside the Tripods, it's more plausible the operator theory. I was going to say "Maybe they simply ran out of power for the shields", but that couldn't be it. They made it so far with that technology to be that stupid.
And since the Tripods moves so smoothly, the movements are probably made by motion capture, so that would mean that every martian inside has a role.
Maybe the vital signs of the martian that was operating the shields detected a flatline, and that made the shields went down automatically, and with no one else to take care of it.
Idk.
I like the theory that the ships are like exo suits for the aliens. The way they move and also the way they look like larger versions of the aliens themselves makes me think they are controlled through neural inputs rather than through analog controls.
What’s strangest about the ships is the fact that they do appear to have some biological characteristics, such as the fleshy tongue-like “grabber” that it uses to pull human captives into the ships interior. This indicates that the ships are not 100% machinery, but rather some combination of technology and sentience that is completely beyond the limits of human understanding.
Yeah thats why I love these craft so much, the biological aspects add a whole other level of creepiness and fear to these tripods!
They might be bio-mechanical in nature but the tripod itself is confirmed not to be alive so definitely not sentient.
Love the sounds they make in the movie, sounds like the gun on from A-10 Warthog
Yeah it’s terrifying yet epic right ?
oscar skals no it doesn’t!
I know its freaky but intreaging
Definitely
In the 2005 film there were actually 3 distinct kinds of tripod.
The first tripod is the traditional fighting machine. This tripod is the first tripod we see. It is present at the intersection, fairy scene on the hill, and the end fight in Boston. It is characterized by its apparent lack of tentacles and cages. This tripod is equipped with the standard dual heat ray configuration, has a slender hood (top cockpit area), stands 100ft high, and has 3 flood lights.
The second tripod we see is somewhat of a heavy weapons variant of the fighting machine. It is first scene in the water during the fairy scene and is also present during the hill battle. As with the fighting machine it has dual heat rays and stands 100ft high. However, unlike the fighting machine, this tripod class sports an array of tentacles, two cages, and 5 flood lights as opposed to 3. This tripod also has a noticeably wider hood.
The third tripod we see is the handling machine. This tripod class is the one that snatches Tom Cruise and ultimately pays for it. It is also seen in the very last shot of the film, dead in the streets of Boston. The most striking difference between the handling machine and the other two classes is size, standing likely no more than 50 to 75ft high. This is very clearly demonstrated in the final shot of the film, as a handling tripod is laying next to a much larger fighting tripod. This tripod has tentacles and cages, but an apparent lack of heat rays. It has 3 flood lights as well and a hood nearly identical to the traditional fighting machine.
Thank you for this insight, if i ever make another video or update this one ill be sure to address some of these important facts that i hadent realised before!
Dont mind me correcting the boat is a ferry.
@@matthewyoung9828 Thank you, I didn't notice I misspelled ferry.
@@RojoFern your very welcome
yes i knew that.
5:37 actually they ride the lightning in capsules, which you are told when we see the CIA lady after the plane crash near to the beginning.
yeah my bad on that one, CIA i thought she was just a reporter.
I do believe she was just a reporter, but otherwise you are correct.
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@Cole Walker a
Project: ACHERON I agree with your version , I think they have teleportation so they can get out and inside of the tripod whilst above the ground
11:49 You actually see the blood draining process a man is brought down and a tube with a needle is jabbed into him and you see the blood going up the tube
Where exactly?
@@Samuelcarbajal57 when they were hiding in that paranoid guys basement
@@tempacct1135 oooooooh now i remember...man aliens are weird 😕
yeah pretty much
yeah i realise
The tripod on the Hill scene always had me nightmare
Same here!!!
I know. It's a money shot of a scene!
@@ProjectACHERON There's actually 3 more horn variants in the Movie.
Same
Just imagine your at a train station and while your waiting for the train you see a flock of birds all flying away in one direction and then you turn around and see a giant 3 legged tripod appear behind you.
I wish there was a spinoff WoTW of this one like from a different perspective we have Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) a father that tries to get his kids far away from the Martian invasion as he can (at least that's what I see in this movie) but if there was a spinoff WoTW from a different perspective that has a lot of WoTW like the destruction of cities and the WAR part of War of The Worlds etc etc then it would be awesome. Like with that news crew at the plane crash that woman showed Ray a clip of a city getting annihilate by a big army of tripods and the battle on the hill when the GIANT tripods on the hill showed up it was getting tense as heck for a few seconds until they cut back to the main characters. I wish there was more of those stuff in the 2005 adaptation but if there *WILL* be ever a spinoff movie of the 2005 adaptation then I'll defenently watch it. Would you?
Oh yeah for sure that would be absolutely fantastic, seeing the story through a soldiers eye would be great having to attempt to deal with beings such as the invaders and everything that entail, that would be epic !
The radio broadcast that caused mass panic (supposedly) was actually very good at showing various points of view. You should listen to it if you haven't already.
the horn sound was a way for the aliens hips to communicate to each other to transport hidden messages or secrets that the humans cannot understand. Also it is used to alert the other tripods that there are humans near by as when you re watch the scene were ray and his kids are travelling to the boat, one tripod appeaars and signals the horn, then not long after, two more tripods then appear then loads more clearly showing that the sound signals there are humans and it is to transport messages to each other
That actually makes alot of sense. Hadnt though of that actually. Is this your theory or did you find it somewhere?
@@ProjectACHERON my own theory i can tell from just watching it carefully
Nice I really like it !!
Guess their hips don't lie, huh?
@@MrWhatdafuBOOM 😂
*tripod appears on hill*
Tripod: Say cheese!
*shoots death rays*
I wish they make another WOTW film. I have so many questions about these aliens. If their tripods are just harvesters, could there be an even tougher battle tripod? Could there be cave drawings, symbols in pyramid or centuries old scriptures that links to the martians to determine how long they are on Earth. What are they planning now after the failed attempt to terraform the earth in 2005? They might be finding a way to be immune to us before they reattempt to invade Earth!
Yeah id love to see a big budget follow up to this film
One that combines the best bits from both 1953 and 2005 films preferably. Both films have great strengths and flaws
For all we know, the inside of a tripod is an utopia complete with pools, hot tubs, and saunas. Very bloody, but still.
exactly, for all we know. Im sure the military know otherwise.
I remember this movie gave me nightmare for years, especially the green van used in the movie, now I love the movie for the tripods, even though they gave me nightmares for over 7 years
Yeah it was a real nightmare generator.
Thank you for doing a video on the tripods from War of the worlds I've always loved the tripods ever since I read about them, I'm glad that you used the design of the tripod from 2005 film adaptation because to me that design is more faithful to the book's description in which they're described how you did in this video (also this is my favorite design of the tripod everything about this design I love to me its an excellent example of fusion between organics and non-organics). In an interview, Speilberg did state the aliens in his film don't originate from mars but from a much farther and darker side of the galaxy, as far away as E.T. comes from, anyway thank you for doing this video I loved it. 😁❤❤❤✔✔💖💖😊😊
Yes its no problem im glad so many people have enjoyed it, the tripods scared the shit out of me when i was little and i find the whole concept of the film and other media so terrifying and interesting! my favorite design by far is the 2005 movie, so superior! And yes in my next video surronding the "Martians" im going to be deeply exploring their possible origins and why they do what they do!!
@@ProjectACHERON Awesome thanks for the reply I can't wait to see that video. I'm glad that you liked the tribute I made really appreciate it thanks. :)
No worries my friend!
In the behind the scenes Steven Spielberg says that the aliens on this movie are from the same part of the universe that ET.
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Shit well they are of very different beliefs about the valued of other lifeforms
When i see the scene where you have all those people in the basket who were being processed along with ray and Rachel I usually imagine it being like like a factory machine kinda. The human gets pulled into the hood then pulled through the machine which grinds up the person till all that’s left is small pieces of tissue, bone and blood then the machine separates tissue and bone from the blood and discards the leftovers leaving the blood to be sprayed. Dunno wether anyone else has had the same idea.
i mean it think you're definitely onto something
When I was a kid I use to have nightmares from those cages 😂 Nonetheless still an awesome movie
Most people don't know this but the horn is actually used to call other tripods to it's location it will notify the other tripods that the tripod that sounded the horn has found a group of humans
Yep
It's all thanks to Well's masterpiece book.. It's all based on his book so he has all those ideas 🔥 rip Wells u will always be a legend 🙏❤️
Very very true !! 👍🏻
theres a theory that the aliens lived on earth before humans and placed the machines there then then left and came back to see the humans and were angry to see their planet in human hands so they invaded
Yeah i know thats a fairly likely scinario
When I turn off the movie and still hears tripod sounds. Me: We will die
Haha yeah that noise is terrifying !
I like the imagination aspect of this movie, what I mean by in certain scenes, we can imagine what we would do in that exact situation. Like when the military passed the family, would you join the fight, or try and survive and so on in different scenes
Ueah i like thats there is many different options possed through the lens of the family giving the audience a sense of uncertainty of what they would chose had they been placed in the same situation
I never realized that the tripods of this movie, could very well represent us in the distant future. Terraforming worlds after we destroy our own. Conquering by sheer technological supremacy. Using psychological torture to strip the will from our enemies. Surrounding ourselves in machines to accomplish our goals. Making use of every last resource.
These were indeed one of the best,nope infact the 2nd best fighting giant mecha units ( after my top favourite, Pacific Rim Jaegers ) coz they have excellent protection ( their force shields don't even exhibit weakness even during firing), and good speed.
Yep they are Bio-Mechanical terror that continue to grant me nightmare after nightmare!
@@ProjectACHERON oh you to huh
Yeah, two of a kind i guess!
same i love both of those to. all so Goliath from war of the words Goliath is a good one to. i all so love the metal gear's from the metal gear solid game series those are war machine's to.
there's this theory going around that says if you hit a table at exactly the right time, all the atoms in your hand (and table) will all miss each-other and your hand will pass right through it. that could possibly explain how they were able to teleport the way they did.
Thank you.
The tripod call seems to definitely be some kind of communication device between the tripods/aliens. During the ferry scene, a single tripod stands outside the town and sounds its call, then a few seconds later more tripods show up. Also later on when the aliens are exploring the cellar, a tripod outside the house sounds its call, and the aliens leave the cellar all at once.
If you listen REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY closely the horn almost sounds like the word *hello* just slowed down and stretched out, especially the 2nd version 8:07 i also noticed in some scenes in the movie especially the scene where the main character gets capture by a tripod and put in the back cages, the tripods have weird markings on them (Possibly the Martians language i guess?)
It’s definitely possible
The 2005 tripods look good and very sci fi but I personally like the henrique alvim correra illustrations from 1906
Yeah that’s fair, the main thing that makes the 2005 ones my favourite is the bio-mechanical nature of them, being a massive alien fan that fact alone has me hooked on their design.
*Wait so what are we? Are we like crops? Are they Attempting to harvest us? They have been growing us for millions of years and now it’s time .. to feast...* (sorry for writing the end like a 14 year old girl)
Pretty much!
Or terraform the earth into something like Mars by using Human blood.
The Martian body has no internal organs except the heart as they extract the fresh living blood of human beings and inject it into their own bloodstream meaning the martians could not process foods themselves.
Well we know little about them currently so its hard to say!
Exactly. The resource is us. That's why the aliens could show up thousands or even millions of years ago on Earth, identify a promising
sentient species and allow it to develop and dominate the planet after hiding their machines. This alien civilization could have adapted
to where it now preys on other intelligent species by letting them develop a civilization and grow to billions of individuals.
The aliens could see themselves as the machines in the Matrix. By harvesting a dominant species that doesn't exist in balance with
its environment, they might see themselves as "curing" the target planet of a "virus"
You failed to mention that there were different types of Tripod. The human harvesting tripods had the cages etc and were much larger than the fighting tripods.
The background music used in this video is "Time part 1 (Firey The Angels Fell) - Background Music" By
CO.AG Music
My original comment was deleted due to an error, it was posted a week ago at the time of writing this, in which I I asked if anyone knew what the background track was.
Steven Spielberg himself said that his aliens in the 2005 film are from some dark corner of the universe, much farther than where E.T.'s from.
yeah absolutely
Something I never quite understood, correct me if it has been mentioned already, is the location of the aliens during the lightning storm. They ride the lightning down into the tripod, but I never understood where the aliens were hanging out prior. Were they above the Earth? In the atmosphere?
I am very amazed about this machine technology because after thousands of years or more buried underground, they just start up instantly with no errors not like our machines on earth like a car after a few decades it had a hard time to start
I don't know why but the tribods always felt more of biological than machine.
i agree!
@@ProjectACHERON this was intentional but they are still mechanical in nature, or atleast not actually alive.
their home planet would probably look extremely similar to Mars. in one of the older movie adaptations, it's said that they originated from the constellation of Tauri from a planet named "Mor'tax". the planet was pretty much just a garden planet that looked near identical to Mars, just with large bodies of water.
Someone needs to use THE SOUND on their Tesla for the horn
One theory that I have about the “lightning storms” were that they weren’t ships at all but instead wormholes and as they appeared in the sky they were presented with a storm like appearance interacting with earth’s atmosphere and their home planet’s atmosphere which is why it looked so strange and the winds were blowing towards it instead of away from it. And these wormholes traveled and appeared across various areas of the earth with the aliens riding the unnatural lightning into the ground. I could explain this better in person lol.
Why does Hollywood always make Aliens have supreme technology but stupid as a bag of hammers?
I mean not always. And anyway i think the importance around that trope is that as a species becomes so successful and overconfident, with very overinflated egos they begin to develop a rather dangerously large hubris. One that’s ripe for a natural selection correction. Such as in the case of human in this current era we are living in. We live life with little regard for how our actions affect others or the planet and the planet just though us a massive curve ball.
Because it’s Hollywood....
I suppose
Perhaps the species had eradicated the plagues and diseases that killed their species and so forgot about the threat of bacterial infections. But also perhaps they expected the diseases to only affect humans.
Yeah I thonk thats possible!
I believe that the terrifying horn sounds are used for communication to communicate other tripods
Something I always thought about during the time when the first tripod came out of the ground was that the first horn that was played wasn’t a sound to scare humans. It was to tell the rest “ I’ve made it “
That would make sense. Singling it made its emergence.
but the lack of the movie's story is that aliens with such technology could have predicted that their bodies can't handle earth's bacteria, and second that all the aliens mustn't have landed on earth. the story still has to continue because it's incomplete
I would love for that to be true but i seriously doubt it
Speaking of the grenade weakness I liked the part when that baby tripod went down
Tom cruise: spits grenade rings into his hand
Soldier: everybody down!!
Tripod: boom bang pow denk donk dink
Honestly, a tripod invasion sounds amazing
Honestly? I think it sounds terrifying
@@ProjectACHERON eh, I would just like the thrill and the adrenaline of it. I wish there was a console/PC game that is free roam and takes place during a tripod invasion and you have to gather food, water, protection, etc. you also meet people and build a sanctuary where they can live.
@@gounthers Holy shit yeah a survival game based on the movie would be freaking awesome! I'd definitely buy it.
@@gounthers actually they’ve made a war of the worlds PS4 open world survival game now.
@@bobjames994 yeah but it's absolute shit.
If any movie entertains the audience AND makes a profit for the studio, it"s a great success. War of the worlds succeeded on both accounts.
I agree i think it was a great film!
Why do the aliens look at us as if we're food? Surely they notice the technological advancements we made , as far as architecture, buildings, skyscrapers, etc. Imagine them seeing Dubai . They should see were more than just a herd of sheep. That were capable of building great things. Why couldn't they see that?
Ants and bees are capable of of creating complex colonies and hives, social structures form, they produce their own for and preform agriculture, their success comes from their ability to build functioning societies together. But humans still step on ants and swat away bees.
@@ProjectACHERON the comparison is not the same. Humans are much bigger than bees and ants. We step on them because we can’t see them most of the time lol. Aliens are humanoid and are almost the same size as us. As far as bees, we swat them out of fear of getting stung. It’s a normal human reaction. We don’t actively hunt bees for the sole of conquering them… also over the years humans have learned that bees are important part of our ecosystem, so we are taught not to kill them and to leave them alone if we encounter them. Bees cannot build skyscrapers, airplanes, art, music, etc. I’m sure there was a time when aliens use to be primitive like us.. it took many years to get where they are. Just as it will take us many years to get to a Type 1 civilization.
They are literally space vampires. Most depictions of earth-based Vampires don't have a problem feeding on humans even though they
themselves were born and raised as humans. They now see themselves as doing what is in their nature. They don't think about the advancements in technology, great works of art and engineering, or the growth of human civilization over their long existence.
They only see a means to sustain their own lives. Human technology is only seen as a possible threat to be planned for and overcome.
Mmmm yummy human smoothie go slurp
Human history is filled with groups with more advanced technologies enacting genocide of societies they deem to be inferior. There is precedence.
If i remember correctly one of the characters mentions that they managed to bring down a few tripods in Osaka
Yea something g like that
how many aliens are in each tripod and what does the interior of the machine look like?
I dont know what's inside of the tripod but inside of the tripods theres bloody pools and stuff like that
I think the blood is for their energy or something
I would guess tht it some kind of bio-mechanic architecture
@@ProjectACHERON Argree
FYI, Spielberg explicitly said that these aliens did NOT come from Mars, but rather an other planet from millions of light years away.
I always wanted to know the anatomy, the inside of a tripod
"yo guys some humans here gonna kill them lol"
what humans heard: *horn sounds intensify*
I like to think that the horn is a way to signal that their prey have been detected.
possibly
i dont wanna go through the youtubers entire youtube channel to find a song. and my phone keeps saying its oceans of time wich it isnt.. what song is this?
I want a 6 inch die cast tripod model so bad
How cool would that be!!
I want an RC tripod
A guy made some figures
There are models like those made of resin, unfortunately you have to assemble, glue and paint them
Yeah thats sucks because I would by a full model of one in immediately if they existed
In the Jeff Wayne wotw at the end we are given emphasis the aliens attack again in the future (2005 wotw)
I think a weapon with as much force as a hydrogen bomb would instantly destroy a tripod as in the film the people say the standard weapons detonate to far away to do any damage if this truly is the case then a hydrogen bomb would simply not stop for any shield and destroy the machine.
I suppose it’s how you take that statement because that was people explanation for something far beyond them. Maybe that’s not how the shield work at all!
@@ProjectACHERON that certainly is another way of seeing it, these aliens we're far superior in their intelligence so it is likely we won't ever know, always fun theorizing however
It would. Physics is physics, I don't care how advance someone is, no material can withstand the energy release density of a star at point blank. Theirs a reason why nukes leave perfect circular holes in the ground, the dirt is litterly vaporized. If a tactical like was dropped right on one, it'll rip it three a*seholes.
one thing i dont know is, why they didnt try chemicals or other stuff once they realized explosives didnt work, or set up traps to try and trip the tripods like starwars.
Great video btw what’s the name of the song in the video?
its something from the channel CO.AG cant remeber what exact track
Sup earthlings I’m here to invade your planet earth again in 2025 with new upgraded machines & new army
Interesting any word on what time of year so I know when to pack for Mars ?
Well what is the code when they where put in the basket
That's cute; we have gundams now, very many and very powerful gundams.
Joseph Christovich are you giving me owo or uwu because I’ll destroy you furry people
@@Bassecko808 You're going to think owo with a blast from a beam rifle cuts through your tripod like a hot knife through butter. KA-BOOM!
God, your channel is a new fav. So glad I found u!
Yay! Thank you! So glad you are enjoying my content.
So wait, those aliens were outside the planet and have sent lighting to make the tripods wake up? Or were they already underground? Where did the lightning come from then???
The tripods were under ground, the alien teleport via the lightning into the tripods and the it’s likely they had a ship in orbit or stationed somewhere like mars that housed the teleportation device!
The tripods were under ground, the alien teleport via the lightning into the tripods and the it’s likely they had a ship in orbit or stationed somewhere like mars that housed the teleportation device!
@@ProjectACHERON ohh okk thank you!! 🙏🙏 So they were basically in space ships outside of earth? And got teleported? I always thaught they were hiding underground lol...
Yeah they teleported from ships outside earth and a pod rides down in the lighting to the tripod head unit and then out of the ground it comes
That foghorn is a communication they share to signal when they go online and begin their operations. It sounds like a foghorn due to earth's dense atmosphere. However, on their homeworld the atmosphere is very thin like Mars and to our ears the signal would be as silent as a dog whistle.
That’s a decent theory
I love this movie.
Same here !!!
I need more info for my short novel.
I'm writing a story about a campaign set in Alien universe, but the enemy are the Covenant from Halo.
I still have to understand or find info about some points.
UAAC don't have nor an intelligence service nor special forces. Plus their ships are mostly primitives, unable to pose a serious threat to the Covenant counterparts.
Their naval guns are pretty much made by lasers and plasma, as like the Covenant, but without shields, UAAC are just slow targets.
I need to know more about their ships if I want to find out if it's possible counteracting the Covenant.
thats gonna be a very one sided war
@@ProjectACHERON yeah, I'm figure out a way to repurpose the CM 88B "Bison" M-class and also the CM 90S "Corvus" G-class as small corvettes for the UAAC fleet.
Small targets could be useful to create screens against enemy fighters etc.
The most reasonable point I can use to help the UAAC in this scenario is make the Covenant weaker. There's no other chances.
Technically, humans faught tractors
Haha yeah essentially could you imagine if the tripods were actually designed with warfare in mind and not simply defence!
Now martians fighting weaponized human tractors
I remember seeing this movie with my dad and brother in the theaters and the sound that the tripods made horrified me. Like it was so bad that the horns from the trains passing made me think that they were here to take over the world. 🤣🤣🤣 my tiny lil brain was terrified
Yeah same here watch as a kid and it was nightmare fuel for years
I loved this movie as a kid.
Yeah it was terrifying when I was little and so interesting now that I’m older !!
@@ProjectACHERON yup that right
100%
Fucking Nightmare fuel
I think the continued popularity of WOTW owes a great deal to the iconic tripods. For reasons not entirely clear to me, their physical appearance is in itself thoroughly menacing and conveys emotionless slaughter. The aliens that piloted them are not the antagonist. The tripods are. Spielberg’s rendition of the fighting machines is perhaps the most frightening.
9:10 I thought you were gonna say The Tripods were Manufactured "by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries"
Hahah no sadly that’s not that case
A point that almost no one seems to talk about or notice is how similar they look to the aliens themselves. To me they are like giant exo suits for the aliens. In the original the aliens were a squid like creature. Which could explain the orange liquid inside the tripod. They swim in it and live in it, which is also why you see a fleshly looking hole at the back of the cage where the tentacles come out from to take humans. Both aliens and tripods have 3 legs and a very similar head shape. Towards the end you see the tripod stumble around as if it was sick, why would a machine move as if it was sick? Probably because the alien inside is making those movements.
they are advanced from human perspective, but they buried them very long time ago, probably even before the human existed
Proably much more advanced at this modern day!
Perhaps a bit TOO advanced...
That moment when u realize that the tripods just want to give u a warm blast on a cold day.
Yeah they really just misunderstood
Imagine putting thousands of years worth of time energy and resources for an invasion just to fail because of microbes, and diseases.
Oooof moment
Kinda how life is
My vision of these tripod machines is that they are not actual mechs, but rather an anti-gravity-propelled saucers that use legs to push themselves in a set direction. This would explain why, despite the unimaginable heavines of their disproportionately large cabin, tripods apper fo have some sort of flowy motion when 'walking'
Still waiting for an actual adaptation of the book. The director that manages to capture that story in earnest strikes gold but it's not for the masses.
The movies/series focus on the big boom boom and explosions and each captures something from the book but never the whole.
The book is a rollercoaster that starts safe and familiar, with a sudden disruption of human normalcy that lingers in disbelief and assurance that it's not an issue and even a belief that the aliens are weak and dying because they are physically weak. Before slowly but steadily crashing into horror, sheer mortal terror and extremely dark human moments when he and others realise the truth of what is happening when the Martians reveal their true forms.
Eventually it's an almost slow and serene departure from sanity as the protagonist's world unravels around him and he turns from a human on the run from aliens into a forlorn soul in a world that belongs to a race of unknowable strangers.
I can't word it better than that. It's mesmerising.
i feel like the book is a piece of its era and should lagerly be left on its own. trying to repilcate it has always proved problimatic, i think they should do what this film did and take the story in differnt directions, drawing inspiration from the reference material.
@@ProjectACHERON Essentially, WotW has been adapted over and over. But the more tasteful adaptations of the alien invasion story that went in different directions and just drew inspiration from the novel didn't carry its namesake and deviated enough to be their own thing. There's hundreds, some good, some bad. And that's fine.
But when you slap 'The War of the Worlds' on your movie and you go to lenghts to follow the events of the book (such as the 2005 movie and the BBC series) but then deviate in such a way that your own interpretation of that specific story is just a worse version of that story, then your movie is bad plagiarism.
I'm not saying don't make alien invasion movies, I'm not even saying try to re-create a cool spin on WotW. I'm only saying that when you use the name, the string of events of the book and then make your own trashy version of it, I'm going to be mad at you. :P
At 10:56 that part under the light of the tripod Just looks like a grey Alien lol
There are actually 3 types of tripod, 1 is the warrior which has just lasers which we see at the start of the film, the 2nd is the harvester which has the long tentacles and cages, and the third is the massive heavy tank tripods which we see when robbie goes with the military and these have tentacles and lasers, a way of telling the difference is visual, warriors have no tentacles whilst harvesters do and also these 2 tripods have 3 spotlights whilst the 3rd tank tripods have 4 spotlights
One-Take Jake is on the scene, I respect it.
Yeah its an older video of mine since then i have made strides to improve my content.
I thought when the tripods emerged and sprayed the black gas it was just hydraulics and stuff
I’m not sure, I don’t know of any kind of hydraulics that spray gas. But from what i can speculate is that is has to have something to do with the grow the of their terraforming weed. However I could be wrong and it may simply be the by product of one of their biomechanical systems!
@@ProjectACHERON yeah it seems more plausible than hydraulics
I thought it was some sort of exhaust
@@ProjectACHERON I always thought it was just blowing out the dust and dirt that made its way in over the thousands of years it was buried. Like a guy crawling out of the sand and blowing a bunch out of his mouth & nose.
I wish this movie will turnout like many Movie universes, as you can see the title "War of the Worlds"
Which absolutely indicates other worlds is engage in this concept
I mean its possible
they look like they came from half life 2
lol maybe a little bit!
The bug eyed machine in the other war of the worlds for me look more like the striders in half life 2, with them moving quite stiffly.
S t r i d e r
I certainly hope others see this comment. . . I'm a big Fan Of this story By H.G.Welles. I read the abridged version of his book, in addition to 3 movie adaptations of this classic novel.
Interestingly the 2005 film follows the original BOOK, closer than the 1953 film, Yet are both fantastic, told from 2 different perspectives, time frames, or eras.
The 2005 film was so impressive that it inspired me to write a SPIN on the subject.
During the film where the human fodder cages are featured, under the war machine's hull, gears in my head began turning, as I saw in my imagination, An ambush taking place. As the war machine is walking away from the camera, showing other war pods in the background, I imagined a blast from a PPC, A particle projection cannon, from a surprise attack from one of my favorite BATTLE MECHS from my favorite game of BATTLETECH.
The very idea of something from another, or an additional part of the universe, with weaponry of equal strength and armor to fight off the alien advance, hit me so strongly that I had to put the idea to PAPER.
Check out "RIFT, The Telk Invasion".
Part 1 is now available on amazon.
What’s with the constant cutoffs mid sentence?
Poor editing and recording which i have reall tried to improve in the newer uploads.
@@ProjectACHERON don't Rush you're self Take you're time to learn
Thanks friend!
@@ProjectACHERON np
You’re the first UA-camr I’ve come across to comment that the tripods play A and C through their horn.
Amazing video and analysis.
Thanks so much I’m really glad that you guys are enjoying these new addition to the channel I was really scared deciding to branch out a little but you guys have been awesome about it !!
@@ProjectACHERON Anytime buddy, keep doing what you enjoy.
Thank you so much I love our community !
@@ProjectACHERON Hell yeah