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- War Of The Worlds Explained: War Machines is a video by pupbenny explaining the War Machines from George Pal's The War Of The Worlds 1953 movie.
Thanks to #PikaLabs for helping me bring more life to this video!
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 heat ray may be the finest sound effect ever.
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I don't agree, the other weapon the green ray skeleton sound effect is the best ever sound any weapon can make, but that's only my opinion. 👍
I would love to get it as my ringtone!
@@bradleypilch7422 so would I , the skeleton beam sound is one badass sound. 😱👍
1 OFF THE BEST SUPER SPECIAL SOUND EFFECTS OFF ALL TIME DEFINTLY ZINCHO !😅😮🎉😂❤😅😮🎉😂❤
The War Machines may be inaccurate to the Tripods in the novel, yet are perhaps one of the most iconic science fiction ship designs ever created. And their weapons and menace are certainly some of the most terrifying, arguably! :)
It’s also a great cinematic decision. The tripods would have looked completely ridiculous if made with 1950’s filmmaking technology.
But we never got a description of the flying machines, so they work for that.
just wondering but do you have that UE4 project uploaded anywhere in its current form? I'd love to play with it, maybe add more buildings or even a full city etc..
@@reidboggs4344 Let's agree to disagree. The stop motion animation in those days was at its peak. Nevertheless I agree that it would be hard to satisfy a modern public. And I agree that the choice which they made was right for the day and age, even not faithful to the novel. PS: Hollywood has a bad rep when it comes to sticking to the original, unless it's proven to return profits. Ironically that makes remakes usually pretty boring.
is that the game🤑
Fun fact, I've actually seen this machine in real life at the AAF tank museum! It was one of the machines they used to film the movie and they had it on display at the museum.
That must've been fantastic to see in person! :) I looked up pictures of it. Was saddened to see the museum is now shut down.
It would have had to be a later model recreation. All of the 1953 War Machines were donated to charity for their copper and melted down, sadly. A model was made for the later TV series and is currently in the possession of Canadian sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer.
@@BuShips that's heartbreaking to hear tbh.
@@pupbenny i think they had a king kong prop there too (but i think that's found)
I've seen it too, it appears to be home made from plastic or fiberglass. It's not an actual movie prop, the proportions are way off and it looks amateurish at best. I believe someone made it for fun or as an advertisement. The fact that I didn't deem it worthy of photographing should tell you something.
Looking at the weapons, The heat ray, in its behaviour is likely a plasma weapon. the "skeleton beams" are undoubtably disrupters. this is the type of machine you would expect the Romulans would field as a mechanized unit looking at the weapons (and) design.
On a fun note. From the various tri-pods that has appeared in various films and movies. The War Machines from the 1953 movie appears to have been the most technologically powerful and most advanced with only the Steven Spielberg Tripod variant perhaps being its only near peer.
The Martian War Machine also perhaps is the most terrifying due to the fact that it was fully dedicated to war and not for colonization and or harvesting such as other tripods seen in various films.
Very well explained. :)
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Let's not forget the other remake of War of the Worlds: Independence Day!
The war machines in WotW are the first craft utilizing repulsor lift propulsion as well as their green disruptors to enhance their heat rays. I also noticed that the “sparking” effect results from the heat rays being projected from individual cells in the sensor/targeting head.
All in all they are the most beautiful sci-fi craft I’ve ever seen
Fun fact: The visual effect for the heat ray was created by using high pressure acetylene torches shot from on ladders on a black sound stage. They composited the torch blasts over the footage from the models. There one scene where the torch and war machine didn't composite perfectly and you can see it's placement is off in that shot, but the effect still stands up to this day.
I like the 1953 movie. I have watched both series of the 1980's show. The first series is pretty good but gory while season 2 may as well be a different show; rather like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Season 1 is really good and season 2....
… was “The Love Boat” on a spaceship. Totally agree on both counts.
Yeah I see what you mean, season 2 of Buck Rogers sucked.
This was always my favorite to be honest! I loved their more campy 60's look, but even campy as they may be I think they are just so eerie and I would be deathly afraid of the arsenal they posses. That sound they make is like a rattlesnake in a way and if i heard it while walking down an abandoned street I would pray for my life since i saw this movie. Thanks for being the Number 1 The War Of The Worlds content creator!
Thank you so much! :) Yeah I love the way they maintain the snake resemblance not just in their appearance but also in the sound they emit. It's so cool. I feel like they instill a sense of hopelessness more than any other interpretation.
@@pupbenny Yes omg king replied to me again!~
It was early '50's.
They are more alien, and more threatening than anything done on Star Trek or BG.
In spite of the many deviations, the 1953 film is still by far the best adaptation and a true classic. In my personal opinion it's the only good adaptation. Other than Independence Day, of course.
great film a classic the series or season was great too a bit gory in parts but I liked that America has always made great sc fi
If memory serves, the legs were invisible, but were projected out of the three green lights on the bottom like a magnetic beam.
The sound effect before the first heat ray fires is the best thing ever.
Yeah. Like the crystal lasers in the old days. You had to use neon tubes around the crystal to excite, or " pump" the electrons in the crystal to produce " magnetized" light waves. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. That's what the term LASER means. So, you heard the stalk weapon pumping itself to fire. Cool.
I used to watch that series. It was corny but as a teen I didn’t date much so I loved it. Always loved the warships.
One thing to say: the heat-ray may actually be invisible and the red things spitting out are the sparks
particles in the air being ignited by the heat of the beam that would make logical sense
I always felt that the Heat Ray was so hot that it was igniting the air around the beam hence the screaming sound it gave off was it literally vaporizing the air and moisture around it.
Ooh, that's a really fantastic point!
I loved the 1988 TV series. It was one of my favorite shows, even eclipsing Star Trek The Next Generation. The first season was truly horrific, showcasing the Mor-Taxian desire to eliminate humanity. There was even a scene where a captive of vivisected, showing not only their distain for humans, but their curiosity about their enemy.
I definitely would like to see a vid on the TV series.
I vaguely remember watching it and liking it back in... must have been the early to mid 90s. (Since I was 5 when it first came out).
I too enjoyed the first season but the second season went off the rails and young me lost interest.
İ really love these videos that explain tripods from different adaptations and would love to see more,perhaps the next episode can be about handling machines?
Thank you! I'm glad you like them. :) I'm intending to do one of the handling machines eventually (as well as the flying machines). Not sure when though, they're such an interesting and unique thing, I want to make sure I fully get my mind around them lol.
@@pupbennywhat I didn't understand from you is, why did you first think that both weapons were in Overkill, I have always liked the fact that there were two weapons an even at a very young age
When I first saw the war of the worlds, I understood the reason for two kinds of weapons. By the way I am 70 years old now I like how you broke everything down and explained the war machines ❤
I love the wotw tv series, became obsessed with it after catching it on itv late one night in the mid 90's, hate that there is practically zero merch about for it :(
Yeah it's a shame it doesn't seem to be that well known. I only found out about it myself a few years ago.
shame, shame!@@pupbenny
Beautiful looking craft they are. I'm always impressed by the effects used for the bombing scene, the mushroom cloud still stands up to today's standards imo.
I believe the secondary skeleton beams may reflect what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs were dropped. People near ground zero were vaporized, leaving shadows on concrete walls. Don't forget who designed the ships.
@@charlesyoung7436 Good point.
Definatly one of the scariest movies I ever saw as a child!
I can vividly remember watching this movie on television in the sixties, and getting freaked out afterwards by some of the streetlights along the highways, which were shaped very much like the "heads" of the war machines, including the weird shape of the "lens" on the end. The difference was they cast light from the bottom of the head, but the design was so similar, I figured that either they used street lamps for the movie prop, or the prop inspired the street lamps.
Gave me the *willies* when I was a kid, though.
Absolutely iconic design, and they were still technically "tripods" since the three green dots on the bottom were what held them up.
Good point, very good point.
I grew up watching the original movie over and over again (my father found it funny that it freaked me out so much). I had your same fear from childhood well into my late adolescent years, and even today when I look at street lamps there's always that thought lingering that it resembles a martian head. Even some table and floor lamps shaped similarly make me feel uneasy...
I still can't watch this movie as an adult without feeling anxious 😅😅 But it's a great science-fiction masterpiece for its time!
My dear mom watched this film back in the 50s and it terrified the hell out of her! Especially the eerie metallic sussitation the war machines gave off!
i love these pods ,the brass and green,the story they're so easy to draw, the 1988 ones are so cool especially the blue lights i have the complete series of the war of the worlds 1988 on dvd, . i love your vids
Of all of the alien craft designed for every sci-fi show and movie, this is one of the coolest. They were sleek and simple, yet menacing. In the 2020’s, the design still holds up. It feels retro but also still futuristic. It is a timeless masterpiece.
I first saw the '53 movie as a kid in the '70s. When the army opens fire on the war machines, the Martians pause for a moment, as if assessing their opponent's capabilities, and then proceed to wipe them out. I still get excited watching that scene at how op the Martian vehicles are! Conveying the sense of them being an unstoppable force! I made my daughter watch it. She asked, "When was this done?" I said, "1953."
Her response was a silent, "Wooow!" Impressed, not sarcastic.
This is one of my favorite movies. I probably saw it first on late night TV in the mid 1970s. It was a tense and amazing film. And this scene stands out as one of the best.
Fun fact, the reason for those three glowing circles under the machine is where the machine's tripod propulsion system is located.
In the movie it's referred as electro magnetic energy beams.
The special effects that were used in "War of The Worlds (1953) was awesome. In 1954 "War of the Worlds" won the Academy Award for the best special effects. Also, it won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing.
The show was a weirdly captivating thing. I remember it vividly.
I've started watching it and I initially only intended to watch a couple of episodes but, same as you, I'm finding it quite captivating and now I'm intending to watch at least the entire first season.
@@pupbenny it's the most serious with the low funding they had. But short after the show ended they started "above and beyond" and I kinda forgot about the show. But you can actually see they worked hard to get that second season..
You need to also look at the movie a little bit closer it does show legs out of the bottom of the saucers not all the time but it does show it like their electric fields of energy going down to the ground three of them actually okay my name is Bob and I watch The War of the Worlds I'm 71 years old so I've watched it for many many years all right I live in Vero Beach Florida God bless and stay safe
It's almost as if the "Skeleton Beam" is the basis for the Disruptor weapons that Klingons have, when the production team later on produces Star Trek in the 60s.
I have to say for a 1953 movie to this day when the priest approached the Martian's they kill him with the heat ray then the US military opens up on them its fantastic even today 👍
One cool thing to note is the green "skeleton" beam sound effect went on to be used as the Proton Torpedo in Star Trek over a decade later.
I cut out a part where I mention that as being a possible reason why their weapons remind me of playing a video game. I remember playing Star Trek: Legacy on the Xbox 360 when I was younger and so it makes me wonder if firing Photon Torpedoes with the controller is why I think that lol.
And the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za's fusion blaster in Star Control.
They definitely used the same means to create the sound; possibly hitting a high-tension wire in an echo chamber.
Great video...On _War_ Machines vs _Fighting_ Machines, remember that this was made in 1952-1953. In the aftermath of WW2, and to a lesser extent Korea, there were a LOT of people in Hollywood with real battlefield experience, unlike HGW, who had none. Where Wells could describe the horror from a civilian's perspective, he only had a tentative grasp of strategy and tactics. In 1953, Pal could draw on professional military people to role-play and theorize as Martian invaders -- I can't prove that's what happened, but given the Martian operations as portrayed on film, I am virtually certain it did......Also - the TV show wasn't that good, but it wasn't nearly as bad as its reputation.
My favorite version of war of the world
this was the version I grew up with as a child and have loved. I used to draw posters of the war machines vs the military, invading cities, even made modeling clay versions of them!
This is Maybe your best edited video to date ! I would of really liked it if they adapted on the idea of other models of the war machines like the mor taxan war ship in the series. Great videos as always.
Ha thank you very much! Out of curiosity, what was it that makes you consider this my best edited video? Doesn't matter if there was nothing specific, I'm just asking to see if there's anything specific I can learn and know what to keep in mind and improve on, etc. :) And absolutely, I intend to do one of the mor taxan war ship, I watched that episode a few days ago. :) Thank you again Omori! :)
@@pupbenny well I can not really describe it as one thing but as the whole video feels very vibrant and lots of effort put into it from the very start of the making. I would hyped to see a mor taxan war ship video The series’s is really underrated in my opinion ! Keep up the amazing effort.
"The War of the Wirlds?" "Nineteen Fifty-Free?"
I'd also like to point out how lazy the TV show is just a bunch of humans and the mechines are barly seen at all only in 1 episode after that they're never seen again.
the aliens them selve are also rarly seen only in flash backs. having the aliens appear as a body snatcher rip off is lazy and cheep I could forgive this if the mechines are used more but in the short scenes I've seen I only saw the aliens in flash backs and the machines are never seen at all.
Over all the TV show is terrable and an imbarresment to the movie it follows from.
The simplicity of the design was a masterpiece that I still put in the top 10 of my favorite alien space ships from movies or shows..
Thank you for this great video. This movie is one of my favorites of all time. The Martian Swan ships are the most gracefully deadly machines ever created.
The first season of the series was awesome
Wow, what a great description and analysis, I've been wondering when these manta Ray guys were gonna show up. I recently watched the movie and it was pretty good, you did a good job explaining things like the shield and their weapons etc. Hope you keep doing this series as I do enjoy it, keep it up your doing great.
Thank you very much Greedo! :) I appreciate your encouragement, I will certainly keep working on them! :)
Honestly imo, the Martian design for this is more creative than the standard octopus designs. I mean, it’s not like evolution on Mars could have its master race looking like an octopus. Honestly it’s creative and it might fit Harryhousans design of an alien race able to create war machines or achieve space flight.
Yeah, I agree tbh. It's one of the most unique and distinct looking aliens in film history, probably. Ironically this iconic monster was actually hurriedly put together in the 20 hours before filming, there's an interesting story about it I'm currently researching. :) Good point about it looking like it'd be able to actually make the machines too.
17:58 Nice alliteration, though "Protective *Pavis*" would have been a better fit (a "Pavis" being a type of shield used to protect Archers & Crossbowmen - which, given the long range weaponry fitted to the War Machines, would be thematically 'on point').
Ha, thank you! I hadn't heard of that word before, which is a shame because, as you said, that really would've fit so much better. Good to know, I'll have to keep it in mind. :)
Loved this movie for years, easily better than Spielberg's version. But what I want to know is why do NONE of the movie/TV adaptation show the scene in the original book when two tripods were destroyed by HMS Thunderchild?
It would be really fantastic to see that scene realised faithfully some day. It is pretty crazy that literally none (that I'm aware of anyway) have fully tried to do it in the original manner.
I like the tripods better, but given that the 1953 movie is my introduction to WOTW and having little spaceships is a bit more realistic, the war machines hold a special place in my heart.
Yeah, I suppose with the technology or filming techniques they had at the time, they probably wouldn't have been able to realise them as having physical legs without it not looking as good. So I guess they just did the best they could with what they had and the result worked out very well I think. :)
I read an article years ago that had that same photo with the heat ray mounted at the rear. They moved it to the center position simply to accommodate the mechanism better. To make it seem mobile from that rear location would have meant adding a bulge to the bottom of the craft. Moving it forward a little solved it he problem.
Interesting note: Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author of Tarzan) was a contemporary of HG Wells.
Wells was British, Burroughs was American.
Had the two authors collaborated with each other on The War of the Worlds, in the scene of the three approached the cylinder proclaiming friendship, a second door would open as the heat ray rose from the first.
A platform would rise from the second door with a man who would say...
"Greetings. I am John Carter III, Supreme Jeddak of the city states of Helium and Zodanga, and Dotar Sojat III, ruler of the Thark.
"While I admire and respect your gesture of welcome to my people and myself, I must point out my mission is not of friendship but of conquest!".
"Kill them!!" The heat ray then fires, taking down the trio.
Jack Hawkins who played Quintus Arrius in Ben Hur would be the ideal man to play John Carter III.
In the war room scene where they're studying the Martians, enter Ned Burroughs Jr., the CEO of the Two Moons trading company.
He hands the brass a book of the aforementioned ruler's grandfather John Carter Sr., containing his notes, this gives the military an insight into who and what they're dealing with.
Thank you for your video. Well done!
The sounds of the weapons always freaked me out when I was young (born in 1959). This movie was some scary stuff to children and even some adults.
The ship design has the three critical elements of quality: Simple, Elegant, and Efficient.
For fans of all things War of the Worlds, track down a copy of the book: Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds. It was published in 1975 and makes for a great read.
can you do a video on the things with the green, blue and red eyes? i think theyre called mor-taxans, i dont know if they have humanoid legs, how theyre born, how they eat etcetra
Absolutely! I'm researching them currently and they're really interesting. :)
The shielding or "protective blister" may be most effective against kinetic energy therefore allowing energy based weapons to pass through
But nuclear weapons have a lot of energy in the form heat and radiation at 100 million degrees Celsius a thermonuclear weapon is 6 times hotter than the core of the sun which is 15 million degrees Celsius.
Maybe it's just "fast" kinetic energy (light, heat, radiation) that doesn't pass through. Like in "Dune"; "the slow blade passes the shield...". If someone had thrown a rock against the Martian machines, would it pass through? Or could they walk right through? (It seems that, as they advance over terrain.) I would imagine that if you could develop a "force field" that you could control the parameters of what would penetrate it, from either side. According to the TV series the force inside the bubble was enough to destroy to destroy the ship, so brute force would not be effective against the bubble because the forces work both ways.
Always a great thought experiment!
i always wonder if in a city hide a anti tank team under the street man hole your inside the shield blister and fire the anti tank rocket into it from below the blister does not seem to cove the ground under it probably so it can walk or move
That isn't a bad explanation.@@themagus5906
@@Eodasa05 Hollywood always tries to show how advanced the aliens are by making them immune to the power of the stars themselves. Realistically such a small craft could never be immune from a nuke detonating on top of it.
my fighting machines that are gonna be in my war of the worlds movie are gonna be even more powerfull
Technically they are not flying. They are "walking" on three force fields ,or more precisely, by quantum pinning three spots over and over. That is why they are so slow. You can see the projectors under the ships.
Not even just an Echo of death, It's like they've never existed to begin with, which gives me the idea theyre not just erasing the bodies, but their souls as well. That's a pretty terrifying thought actually.
Can’t wait for the review of the review of the 1953 the war of the worlds.
There were tripods on these machines. They were depicted as light rays and were only visible when they were under attack.
An outside treat from out of space might bring the world together so I war of the world might just be what the world needs
Idk if im right or wrong only the makers of the movie know
I used to hate these because they weren't tripods but now I'm fine with it👍
honestly this movie is so much better than the one from 2008
Little fun fact the sounds used in the 1953 WotW would later be used in the original star trek series
I was going to mention that in a bit I cut out as being a potential reason for why their firing pattern reminds me of game controllers. I remember playing a game called Star Trek: Legacy when I was younger and wonder if firing the weapons in that with a controller is what reminds me of it lol.
torpedoes sound a lot like it all so a ship in star control 2 game ur con dreadnought main cannon
I always liked this version of war of the world. I even watched the series. It was good.
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The heat ray sound is so 50,s
There was a short lived TV series of War of the Worlds using this version of the aliens. The plot was that they hadn't actually died, but had gone into suspended animation, and are revived when radiation kills the bacteria in their bodies. In one episode, they manage to get their hands on a war machine.
Ironic that the book has 3 types of marsian machine and this movie went with the flying machine raver than a walking one.
Yeah lucky for them they had that choice to do something without legs that would be easier.
By the way I found some one whos working on another WOTW rendician featuring all 3 marcian machines its not complete but I can send you a link to his work so far.@@pupbenny
the tv sequels were great!
I always thought of the blinking getting faster as the heat ray charging.
What bugs me are the technical oversights in regard to the " magnetic blisters", or force fields. Things they didn't understand in the early 50's. On one side, electromagnetic light waves were said in the old days as not being able to interfere with each other. That was to say, one can't stop another. Then dropping an atomic bomb of maybe 1 megaton or so nominal yield at that point in time. They didn't stop to think that the force field generator itself could be over-loaded and destroyed in it's attempt to maintain power to the shields. Like Star Trek, etc, powered by our ever-advancing knowledge of such things. Technology is not completely infallible. That is the error of thought in those days. But it's still so bloody awesome! I also remember the TV series, where the craft were powered by these elongated green crystals, not unlike Superman used to power things in his Fortress of Solitude. In the first Superman movie. But the TV show also goes on to explain, albeit briefly, that the Martian's mental abilities were focused by the crystals to run things in the war machines? I always thought of the stalk weapons as particle beams that were heat rays of a sort. But could neutralize Masons like the wing tip weapons. Those green pulses were most like what we now know as " energized plasma". We now understand that lightening, for example, is energized plasma. So, in light of these things, we truly had to beat THEM...
Can’t wait for you to watch the 1988-1990 series and do a video on that! The show was my favourite growing up, and although it’s 80s (and the second series jumps the shark a little) it’s still worth a watch as the War Machines make appearances at the start of series one and the end of series two where they travel back to the original 1953 invasion! 😊
The 1953 Martian Hover tanks are actually really practical designs. Small compact, with a powerful turret/tentacle mounted main weapon and a pair of forward rapid fire weapons they feel very much like what a MBT would look like if it was designed by another species.
Excellent breakdown and analysis of these iconic space craft. Also thanks for the heads up on the vintage BBC tv series. I will check it out. Cool vid!
One thing that probably should have been mentioned in your great video was the sound of that heat ray cobrahead as it surveyed that rattlesnake rattle. I don't know if there is anything more iconic audio wise from that movie than that sound. Even as a child watching this movie in the 70s it mesmerized me. George pells 1953 war of the world's in my opinion is one of the best movies ever made it is amazing. It's not perfect but the quality of effects and the quality of execution of the world is amazing. Great video though I really enjoyed it you have a great grasp on this wonderful story. HG wells was a heck of a writer and there have been so many interpretations of that story over the years I really enjoyed your video thank you
My biggest question about the 1953 movie, is why the martians are not wearing some kind of survival suit? They are essentially naked, and even an advanced civiliization would realize that the enviroment of earth would be radically different from their own. I realize the entire premise relies on a 19th century understanding of Mars. (Very little actually) and the theories of Percival Lowell would no doubt have influenced Well's novel.
I always had my brain divided on thinking how I felt about this design, these war machines have invisible legs? And are just not that very accurate.
Or I like this design of them with slow hovering.
Yet I have a 1953 version poster in my room.
(Edit: Can you do a review on the purple windowed tripod? The one in a copy of the novel and has a long funnel projecting the heat ray? Very nice review.)
Thank you! And yes absolutely! :) I'm assuming it's the Lou Cameron tripods you're talking about and they've been on my list for a long while, so I'll get around to them eventually hopefully. :)
@@pupbennyThanks, great review as always. And yes the Lou Cameron Tripod! The one in the classics illustrated. Always loved that design after seeing it.
Very good series. Needless to say I am also one of millions who love the 1953 version. I am not however, a fan of the TV series. Honestly, I tried to get into it, but it just couldn't hold my interest The whole idea that earth suffered from mass amnesia erasing their memories of the invasion, was just stupid. One point you made was the fearful sound the heat rays made when firing reminded of the sirens used bythe Stuka dive bombers of world war 2. A psychological weapon, as well as practical.
Could you make a video about the great martian war
Absolutely! I started rewatching it not too long ago, so hopefully that should be some time soon. :)
- For a pre *Sputnik* young kid who was alwys reminded in grade school science class, that space flight was impossible (there was no air for rockets exhaust to push against. __ like todays fake moon landings belief). I owe my youthful allegiance to SciFy from the triad of;
_*WAR OF THE WORLDS,*
_*FORBIDDEN PLANET,* &
_*WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE,*
movies.
- They were never equaled by contemporary & future presentations on their impact on me.
Now these are wat machines.I am sorry but the 2005 movie.Machines didn't look like from another world to me.
The 1953 war machine look slick smooth and other worldly..I even liked the sound of the heat ray.In 1989 a TV show picked ip from the 1953 movie left off..For a bit we got to see them break out of an under ground bunker.
Always the best 1953 THE REAL AND THE ONLY EAR MACHINES!!!!!!
What game is that in the tank clips
War thunder
The 50's produced many 'B' movies, some horror some science fiction....
Some where good, some were atrocious like 'Them' where gigantic Ants roamed the Earth. One film included a giant Scorpion and one even had an enemy like a Brain with a Spine (The Face) which initially was invisible until a dose from a nearby Nuclear power plant made them visible...🙄
This film in 1953 must have been as frightening as Jaws was in 1977 or Alien in 1979.
This was truly a well thought out adaptation and the alien ship was something to be feared and later admired for its futuristic design. It frightened the f*&k out of me when I saw it in the mid 70's
One of, maybe the best Sci-Fi film of the 50's and 60's and maybe 70's too....
It was really up to date too, with Nuclear weapons and using the 'Flying Wing' which looked really futuristic.
A great film well worthy of its awards...👍
You should make a video about the Xbla game
I hope to, I've done a bit of research into it. Need to see if I'm able to get a copy first. :)
What I always found funny about WOTW is that the Martians aren't that advanced. They are kind of advanced. They're a little bit advanced. But, if you look at it objectively, their technology really isn't that much higher than ours. In the original novel the Martian's "fighting machines" are described as being powered by gears and pistons. In the 1953 film the Martian's "war machines" are really just like hovering tanks. They're slow and their weapons don't reach very far. And, obviously, their knowledge of medicine isn't much more advanced than ours.
Yes, I remember the 80s War of the Worlds TV show. The 80s was really into retro stuff from the 50s. The Ghostbusters car had the tail fins over the brake lights. Back to the Future took place in 1955, even the music in some cases tried to incorporate 50s style rock (stray cat strut).
I'm not that shocked that the 80s resurfaced during the 20ks; retro typically has 30 year gaps. Driving by schools made me feel like I was in the Twighlight Zone... another piece of retro media that was popular in the 80s. Maybe William Shatner and John Lithgow can swap stories about their experiences.
They are just plain bad A** !!! And wicked awesome !! Maybe their weapons could pass through their forcefield the same way machine guns could pass through propellers in WW 1 .
We don't speak of the 1980s TV series It was a disgrace at best (sorry, Ann Robinson).
The war machines defensive shields presumably operate similar to those in the Star Trek Universe,; where ships evidently fire through shields via micro-openings as the weapons fire.
The war machines are NOT flying machines as-such in some scenes, one can see energy beams supporting the vehicles, in-effect tripod-legs of energy.
Awesome observations as always. Everytime I watch the movie, which I love, I want to shout out to the 3 daft deputies.... It's going to vaporise you! Take cover!I think I'm bonkers😅. The TV series was crap and the saddest thing is that I managed to get through both seasons. Definitely don't watch if you think it's going to be a true continuation 😅😅. Keep up with the awesome WOTW content 🙂🙂🙂
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That's funny. The Martian war machine uses Necron gauss beam technology from.warhammer 40k to destroy stuff at the molecular level. Lol
We've come a bit closer to the Martian's heat ray, I think, because the British have announced just a few days ago (as of 23/01/24) their "DragonFire" laser weapon that can be used to destroy drones and other military hardware like missiles. So far, there's just one photograph of this thing in action, and if genuine it's quite impressive because it looks exactly like the laser weapons depicted in a lot of SciFi movies and TV shows: a straight coherent crimson beam (not like the sparks of the heat ray).
Old enough to remember that cheesy "War of the Worlds" series.
Their 'explanation' for why the world didn't seem to recall the invasion was something like Global PTSD (it was so horrible that after the recovery we simply 'forgot' about it 😂)
Still, it was a fun show, although it had a strange transition between seasons, where it went from 'modern day' to 'Dark Future/Post Apocalypse' with little explanation (or at least none I can recall without hitting a wiki at this moment).
I am so glad that I came across your video. Having long been a fan of Pal's version of the story visually, I always thought the war machines looked terrifying, even more so than any version that has appeared in later film adaptations, although I'd give the 2019 BBC series' tripods would come in at a close second (as a favorite). They were sleek, beautiful, and indeed deadly, and while obviously alien, I think the decision to give this version of the war machines energy beams instead of legs truly makes them unrelatable to anything humans had come up with technologically at the time. As for the "blister" shield, I always considered it not unlike how energy weapons work in Star Trek, where a ship with its shields up can fire through their shields. In Star Trek Generations, it was pointed out that the frequency of the weapon had to exactly match that of the shield frequency. The war machines' weapons are set on the same frequency as their protective shielding, which only activates when something not on the same frequency, both internally and externally, makes contact with the programmed parameter. As for why the shields went up at the moment of Ironhorse's bombs aboard the vessels, which they activated before the explosion reached the parameter of the shield, I speculate that the craft's external skin could have the same trigger effect as a Venus flytrap, except instead of trigger hairs, it could be perhaps vibrations sensors. When the bombs detonate, the vibration sensors detected the internal explosion, thereby automatically activating the shields, thus once the explosion breaks through the exterior, the war machines have no way to disperse the explosive energy until the vehicle is completely destroy, resulting in the deactivation of the shield (which is why, after the shields vanish, the debris is expelled). If I may suggest, I would like to see you cover the tripod version that appeared in the 1988-1989 series episode, "Dust to Dust", as it appeared to be an early proto-version of the 1953 craft, perhaps even a scout from the time of H. G. Wells' original story..
The in-depth perspective of details I didn't know or catch in the '53 movie is appreciated. It helps me understand the film better, decades after I first saw it. I think the movie holds up really well, and it's my favorite representation of these aliens, though that may be my American cultural upbringing showing. That said, I think the Cephalopodian depictions of Henrique Alvim Correa are a close second.
Say what you will about the 2005 Spielberg version, but because of the advancements in CGI it was the first one to accurately portray the war machines as actual, photorealistic, walking tripod machines.
Even George Pal, who all but invented modern stop-motion animation, saw that trying to animate walking war machines was just asking too much, and didn’t even try it.
What a great movie and thanks for doing a video on it! In terms of the one-way shielding, since we are speculating on fiction here, it could also be possible that powerful computers on board the Martian War Machines were linked to the weapon systems that turned the shields off temporarily (for a incredibly small fraction of a second) every time one of their weapons was discharged. Leaving them temporarily vulnerable in theory but not in practice. (Your shot would have to have been timed perfectly, and even then the Martian computer system could temporarily disable their own weapons as it detected incoming threats).
In the original classic and in Spielberg's version, they weren't just CONTANTLY discharging their death rays/heat rays, despite seeming to have an infinite amount of energy. They did in in an irregular fashion. The above theory might be why.
When I was a child, I always noticed one thing about the Martian War Machines - if you noticed, their shield allowed objects to pass through it. Grass. Bushes. Trees. Fences. It just absorbed it and allowed it through. Is it possible then that the shields are configured for fast moving projectiles? I always wondered, what if they had a man hiding beneath them in a trench or a dug out that they couldn't see, a trap door with a bazooka - wait to be within the shield, come up beneath, and fire directly upwards.
Something else I noticed was during the Atomic Bomb scene. It wasn't just two, or three, but a an entire host of Marchine War Machines. Their shields had, seemingly from the perspective of the movie, fued together. Is it possible that the strenght of an atomic bomb _could_ have destroyed a few of those ships by itseslf, and thus, they had to combine their shields in order to witstand the force of an atomic explosion?
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There was an episode of the TV series which showed one of the cobra machines with three legs. I think it was described as an "early model" or something, I don't remember as I saw it years ago. Also, I always thought the Martian that comes into the farmhouse in the 1953 film was their equivalent of an entomologist. "Hey guys, you checked with the camera, and it's safe down there, right? Mind if I see if can get some specimens?" When he showed up later with a bruise on his head they all laughed at him, but the commander said "Okay, fun's fun, but we've gotta blast that place now. Rules are rules." He then turned to the entomologist. "Billy, we keep telling you to be more careful."
Meson Neutralizer (per Dr. Clayton Forester) is a more accurate description than "skeleton beam". Skeleton beam is just what the General called it. The neutralizer seems to be a more precision weapon whilst the heat ray as an area effect weapon. It's quite common for (Earth)combat vehicles of all sorts to have multiple weapons systems. Tanks will have cannon and mgs, planes have missiles and mgs and so on and so forth.