War Of The Worlds Explained: BBC Tripods
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2023
- War Of The Worlds Tripods Explained: BBC Tripod is a video by pupbenny explaining this subject. In 2019, the BBC released their adaptation of HG Wells The War Of The Worlds. It was quite a bit different, which includes in their portrayal of the Fighting Machine Tripods. These Fighting Machines were seemingly plant inspired and resemble trees tree. Like giant tree spiders. Which sounds like a name of an actual spider. This video explains how these Martians came from Mars in their cylinder - or in this version ball - capsules to begin an invasion of Earth against Edwardian England and The British Empire.
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H.G. Wells The War Of The Worlds is a story by British author Herbert George Wells in which alien visitors from Mars arrive in space capsules first in Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey. This is at first thought to be a meteorite by the English men that discover this cylinder with the astronomer Ogilvy exclaiming that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. However, as the Narrator explains, Martian creatures soon make themselves present before using a Heat Ray to disintegrate some of the English people. They soon begin using massive Tripod Fighting Machines and using weapons such as the heat-ray as well as the black smoke begin to lay waste to the British army, leaving people such as the Artilleryman and the protagonist separated from everyone including his wife, and with the defeat of the ironclad torpedo ram HMS Thunder Child the Royal Navy as well succeeding in defeating the biggest Empire in human history, The British Empire at the height of it's power in the Victorian age in which H G Wells wrote the novel. The Martians very quickly establish a dominion over man as they spread their Red Weed across the Earth reaching the capital city of Britain London the Fighting-Machines cause great devastation. Other methods of transport the martian invaders use include the Handling-Machines as well as the Flying-Machines.
On paper there have been many illustrated editions of the story, the first of which were done by Warwick Goble in the original serial version. Relatively soon after, Alvim Correa drew his illustrations. Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian artist who traveled to London in 1902 to present H. G. Wells with drawings that he'd done for the story of The War Of The Worlds and there have since been many been many illustration versions by artists such has Edward Gorey and Lou Cameron. There have also been audio adaptations of HG Wells War Of The Worlds, including the infamous 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the iconic 1978 album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds. There were likewise many attempts to bring the story to the big screen as well, including by icons such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ray Harryhausen, but it wasn't until The War Of The Worlds 1953 film by George Pal that this was finally accomplished. Later on, there's been Steven Spielberg's 2005 War Of The Worlds starring Tom Cruise and The Great Martian War 1913-1917 documentary style drama set in World War 1. Recently, the BBC made a TV miniseries the BBC British TV series war of the worlds and FOX, Epic and StudioCanal did a TV series starting in 2019 called War Of The Worlds that claims to be adapted from the source material. There has also been several war of the worlds movies recently as well, including 2021 War Of The Worlds, also known as Alien Conquest, which had a sequel called War Of The Worlds Annihilation and this year in 2023 War Of The Worlds The Attack. There have also been many indie games and art with a survival horror war of the worlds 2005 game which will be a multiplayer survival game based on the Tom Cruise War Of The Worlds movie as well as a faithful adaptation of HGWells War Of The World game set in the Victorian era by GelatoDev and TeamGreen with Team Green also making their survival game a multiplayer war of the worlds game as well and there's another announced in 2023 called The War of the Worlds: Siberia. There's also The War Of The Worlds 1913 game which is a worthwhile, fun and nicely stylised adaption of H G Wells The War Of The Worlds.
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The BBC Tripods are not one of my favourites, but there's definitely a lot to explain with them considering how unique they are. I was surprised at how complicated and in-depth their mechanisms were and that actual logic had been developed for them, apparently.
Probably a dumb opinion of mine but while I really do like the BBC tripods design, I am kind of disappointed they have no tentacles for capturing people
My opinion is the fans of wotw should ve aprecciate every Adaptación of wotw, fans of wotw, You are so greedy :/
This adaption stunk!
All the people bashing this version have forgotten how bad the 2005 version is. I'm convinced this IP is cursed. We either get low budget and poorly acted faithful adaptations or "contemporary bold retellings" that are absolutely terrible
It was just a shame this version was utterly ruined since it was written by the usual BBC writers. It could have been SO much better :/
These Tripods are a crystalline in their design. We see them constantly shedding crystals off their bodies through out the story. Presumably these are being replace like our skin does. When the spheres arrived they must have planted crystals in the ground that grew into their version of fighting machines from the novel
The BBC interpretation just comes of as "what if someone who doesnt quite grasp 'the war of the worlds' made a war of the worlds series" 🤔
Visually, they look great, but I really feel the creators were just condescending in order to cope with the fact that they didn't really know what they were doing. The whole adaptation was a failure, I hear.
How in the world did we go from the tripods back in 2005 looking good to 2019 having…….this
Something interesting came to mind when you were talking about the Production Team's approach to the machines. Doug Chiang, the design director for Star Wars Episode 1, spoke about having done a series of designs and having a favorite. Then George Lucas walked in and approved 2 or 3 of the designs, none of them being the favorite. Doug later asked George why and George explained that "the design have to live by themselves... the audience has to connect with it right away. They have to know its personality, they have to know its function, they have to know where the pilot sits. All those things in less than 3 seconds. And if you can do that in a design with no explanation, the design will be that much more powerful." And so taking that philosophy into account, its interesting to see how the design of the BBC "Tree" Tripods kind of fail because a lot of that function is not going to be seen by all of the audience on their first viewing. I sympathize with the BBC Production Team because I know I'm the same way creatively. I put a lot of thought into the details even though I know it's not necessarily going to be seen in the final product. But it's interesting to consider that had more time been given to highlight the details the Production Team came op with, the design might have connected with more of the audience.
I'm astounded that you found so much to talk about in such a dire example of literary adaptation.
Maybe the aliens teleport from Mars and into the tripods, like the Steven Spielberg adaptation.
personal theory is that thatthe Red Weed itself is the Martians , they never left , they're still there , a hive mind fungi that uses other living beings or the "machines" to spread itself and become bigger , a race that has evovled beyond ego so much that they're only that , the red weed and the crystals, though i cannot be sure of how much ground this holds
The Tripod design is very interesting and unique, I did not mind it as another interpretation of the Tripods for WOTW. But the Show itself really did not do them justice though, since the poor story never really focused on the Martian invasion and they're are very rarely on screen doing much. So many great scenes with them where cut from the book in the show, like their battle with the Army using heavy artillery near the river town, and then we got a half baked Thunderchild/navy scene. The Martians themselves where let downs as well, just terrible honestly. Got to this design credit for the Tripods being the only ones with book accurate invisible heat rays that only be seen by the fizzle effect they do to the very air and burn the ground as it is fired.
i really wish they stuck to the original designs for the tripod considering h.g wells had some pretty wacky designs the water tower tripods are my favorite
One thing is very good on this series is the soundtrack
The Tripedal creatures in the series don't convey to me the feeling of "walking brains" that the original Martians from the book did. How would those creatures evolve and build tools if they have no limbs for grasping and fine manipulation? They show basic intelligence but don't seem like mental giants capable of understanding complex math and physics on the quantum level.
The heat ray effects were good, and right up until the 'cylinder opened' it was going quite well, after that it just fell apart very quickly, which was a shame because it at least had the setting and the era right unlike 95% of the adaptations.
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