I think this VERY talented chap is as mad as a box of frogs, working in miniature gets you that way I reckon, its the old thin line between madness and enthusiasm, I speak as a man who is currently sailing across that very line having just spent the last 7 months looking at his left thumb! BRAVO Mr Wagner, your work is beautiful. Best wishes from me and all the mice in here in the Asylum. 🏆
I've read War of the Worlds several times over my lifetime and know in a few years I'll read it again. The Tripods in this movie come the closest to matching what I always imagined in my head reading the book. My only minor complaint would be they seemed taller in this movie than described in the book. I always pictured them towering a bit over a church steeple, but not skyscrapers like in this movie. I'm begging the world to make a movie of WOTW that is completely faithful to the book, with tripods similar to these. You would have expected the recent BBC miniseries to have done it, but I was sorely disappointed.
This movie gets the look of them right, but in the book so many things were different. One thing that bothers me in most of the film versions is the invincible shields the tripods have. In the book they were really tough, but you could bring one down if you hit it with a big enough artillery shell. This movie does what the 1950s movie does, giving them invincible force fields that make invulnerable even to nuclear weapons.
@@RCAvhstape I think the movie versions had shields because they show them fighting modern weapons and frankly both of the "tripods" look too frail to hold up to modern weapons even with their superior firepower. I think the book was the first to have giant walking machines so Wells just decided they moved too fast to be hit by the weapons of the time. In the book I know they brought a few down with cannons or ramming it with a ship. As I was writing this I started to wonder if the concept of a force field had showed up in any movies before WOW 1953.
I remember my first job in the 80's when we got like a 10MB hard drive (that cost some ridiculous amount of money, like $50K) as a sample from the vendor. The box got put outside our lab, and someone wrote in bold letters "NOT TRASH". Apparently over the weekend, the cleaning people only managed to read the last word and took the box and tossed it in the dumpster. Just for the Chef's kiss, our security guards found the box and said computer equipment needed to be destroyed before it left the property as trash and proceeded to smash the hard drive before it went to the dump.
@@FrenchFryCheese04 I’ll link photos in a different reply but basically after the ferry scene and a transition to the battle field a scene was supposed to be in the movie but cut at the last weeks it includes Robbie ray and Rachel walk towards the battle field they encounter a group of tripods they look as the tripods look around then they go towards a neighborhood and one of the tripods is in front of them and they run behind a suv before the tripod looks down the tripod gets low and look directly where the 3 are luckily the tripod turns and faces a house then the tentacles break through the windows and grab humans the tripod stands up and returns to the crowd after the tripod is turned around they stand up and run i will now link photos remaining of this scene
There’s only been two out so far apart from the anime war of the worlds movie. There is a bbc one coming out soon and then a fox one aswel apparently both a series
I really liked this war of the worlds movie, with modern effects and modern human weapons. I'd still like a movie where our weapons (based on science, physics) do actual damage. I mean, if these aliens are typically fighting other advanced species with energy weapons (and shields), are they really setup to defend against projectiles, explosives, nukes?
@@piercefilm I'm just blown away. And you showed the work done on Brainstorm! Always wanted to see the props for that unused Condo Hell afterlife scene as well as the Cancer Hell they chose to keep in. This is such a priceless treasure trove. ❤️
Hello, how are you? I have a question at part 2:27 of the video. Do you have a video showing the complete scene? If so, could you share this scene with everyone? In the original film there is no such scene, everyone is dying to look for this scene.
imagine a cockroach on the set and it sees one of these tripods, I can imagine the cockroach yelling: *"mom!?!?!?! is that you?!?!?! why do you have three legs instead of six!?!?!? and why do you have like ten plus antennas? we only need two antennas to live!"*
Tripods more agile and can move around the AT AT that's if the Martians think of moving around it's line of site plus I'm pretty sure the AT AT can withstand a serious beating even with heat weapons but also the tripod has an energy shield to protect itself from retaliation so it's a tricky one to figure out
AT-AT armor is too strong for heat weapons and tripod shields are resistant to anything. The AT-AT would lose though because it’s weak point is the neck since their neck isn’t armored but the tripods are completely shielded from head to toe
I had no problem with the daughter but I absolutely hated the son -he was a really irritating and annoying badly acted and written teenager cliche that constantly did stupid things for no bloody reason and he was a big piece of lead that prevented the story from lifting. When he finally made his last stupid thing and disappeared (probably because Spielberg got sick and tired of the character) to save the universe or something, the movie finally completely left the ground after before that constantly crashlanding every time that kid started to act stupid.
The model work that you glimpse here is phenomenal, which is why the finished effects looked so seamless on the big screen.
I had no idea that this WASNT cgi. And to be fair, i was impressed with the CGI...which, now i know they used models, makes sense!
Love Danny Wagner's relentless enthusiasm. Sounds like he is on a constant caffeine high.
Definitely on something. Lol
Ah the good ol days!!!!
I am wondering if he's actually speaking english at some points. He sounds like he's speaking in tongues, lol.
I can only watch him if I set the playback speed to 0.75....
@@Papa-fv1rn Dude's a genius.
Had no idea miniatures were used...amazing movie!
i love how a lot of the folks that work in practical effects are just a little off kilter. just a little bit eccentric
My brother is amazing and one of the kindest men ever. Including funny and eccentric but very down to earth:)
Welcome to Fight Club! 😂
At the end, after watching Danny, I was grinning like fuck, not just any fuck, but grinning Like FUCK!
Thank the Maker!
I think this VERY talented chap is as mad as a box of frogs, working in miniature gets you that way I reckon, its the old thin line between madness and enthusiasm, I speak as a man who is currently sailing across that very line having just spent the last 7 months looking at his left thumb! BRAVO Mr Wagner, your work is beautiful. Best wishes from me and all the mice in here in the Asylum. 🏆
You know he just loves what he does
@@46chambersoflife 🙈😂😂🏆 Happy New Year mate, one giant yet miniature high five! ✋
@@nigelcarren 🤚👊💪
Now that's a Nerd. Love it.
A wonderfully enthusiastic and talented Nerd...Yep I love it too!.
i love this guy - still has the kid inside of him! lol
Brilliant enthusiasms and enjoyment.
I've read War of the Worlds several times over my lifetime and know in a few years I'll read it again. The Tripods in this movie come the closest to matching what I always imagined in my head reading the book. My only minor complaint would be they seemed taller in this movie than described in the book. I always pictured them towering a bit over a church steeple, but not skyscrapers like in this movie.
I'm begging the world to make a movie of WOTW that is completely faithful to the book, with tripods similar to these. You would have expected the recent BBC miniseries to have done it, but I was sorely disappointed.
This movie gets the look of them right, but in the book so many things were different. One thing that bothers me in most of the film versions is the invincible shields the tripods have. In the book they were really tough, but you could bring one down if you hit it with a big enough artillery shell. This movie does what the 1950s movie does, giving them invincible force fields that make invulnerable even to nuclear weapons.
@@RCAvhstape I think the movie versions had shields because they show them fighting modern weapons and frankly both of the "tripods" look too frail to hold up to modern weapons even with their superior firepower. I think the book was the first to have giant walking machines so Wells just decided they moved too fast to be hit by the weapons of the time. In the book I know they brought a few down with cannons or ramming it with a ship. As I was writing this I started to wonder if the concept of a force field had showed up in any movies before WOW 1953.
@@pschroeter1 Might have to check with TVtropes about that. I'm sure it did.
I remember my first job in the 80's when we got like a 10MB hard drive (that cost some ridiculous amount of money, like $50K) as a sample from the vendor. The box got put outside our lab, and someone wrote in bold letters "NOT TRASH". Apparently over the weekend, the cleaning people only managed to read the last word and took the box and tossed it in the dumpster. Just for the Chef's kiss, our security guards found the box and said computer equipment needed to be destroyed before it left the property as trash and proceeded to smash the hard drive before it went to the dump.
Wish we got to see the deleted scenes that the miniatures at 2:26 were used for. Some amazing work seen there.
@@FrenchFryCheese04 there's something like camelot scene
@@FrenchFryCheese04 I’ll link photos in a different reply but basically after the ferry scene and a transition to the battle field a scene was supposed to be in the movie but cut at the last weeks it includes Robbie ray and Rachel walk towards the battle field they encounter a group of tripods they look as the tripods look around then they go towards a neighborhood and one of the tripods is in front of them and they run behind a suv before the tripod looks down the tripod gets low and look directly where the 3 are luckily the tripod turns and faces a house then the tentacles break through the windows and grab humans the tripod stands up and returns to the crowd after the tripod is turned around they stand up and run i will now link photos remaining of this scene
'The melted head from The Thing .. You have them right ?' ....Yes, we have three in stock.. How many do you need ?' 'Three..'.
It's not the greatest War Of The Worlds movie, but I love the tripod design!
GeneralTantzu What is the greatest War of the Worlds movie though? There’s really not that many great ones.
There’s only been two out so far apart from the anime war of the worlds movie. There is a bbc one coming out soon and then a fox one aswel apparently both a series
@@DangerVille 1953.
It's my favourite 😊
True to the original
I really liked this war of the worlds movie, with modern effects and modern human weapons. I'd still like a movie where our weapons (based on science, physics) do actual damage. I mean, if these aliens are typically fighting other advanced species with energy weapons (and shields), are they really setup to defend against projectiles, explosives, nukes?
I LOVE TRIPOD HOW ITS MOVE
Really enjoy this guy's happiness 😁
I like the movie and all... but they should add more scenes with the tripods.
Wow, he's more exciting than the movie! 😅
I remember him from the Behind the Scenes of a Star Wars Movie, where he was also interviewed...Isn't he called Danny or something ?
2:28 THIS is camelot scene. You see the bike on this photo? It's the same bike from the only finished footage photo from original scene.
I had NO idea some of these were practical effects
*Everybody gangsta till the tripods start walking*
I wish we could see the original miniature shot of the tripod falling through the building! 0:24
It's all here in TH-cam! th-cam.com/video/KxpjdytEPdo/w-d-xo.html
@@piercefilm Thank you! I thought that was the CGI version they decided to use instead.
@@piercefilm what about the Camelot scene we need that released
I want one of those tripod models
I loved the movie my mom and dad all of us watchd it, it was amazing also so scary to
Good tripod 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
My kind o' channel right here! Subbed. Where can I find the sense of scale documentary?
Thanks! Amazon in America still has some DVD copies. I post deleted or extended scenes here on TH-cam occasionally.
@@piercefilm Yeah, Ive been checkin them out. All great stuff. Always had a thing for miniatures thanks to the Thunderbirds! Cheers.
@@piercefilm I'm just blown away. And you showed the work done on Brainstorm! Always wanted to see the props for that unused Condo Hell afterlife scene as well as the Cancer Hell they chose to keep in. This is such a priceless treasure trove. ❤️
Tripod:leave me alone human!
Him:no (still holds the tripod)
Are those 3 "Incredible Melting Man" masks to his right? That movie gave me more nightmares than any other. Yikes!
Yes. Danny likes makeup effects by Rick Baker and Rob Bottin.
i want to know how they made the tripods horn im thinking they used fog horns or something
honestly after the filming i would have overhauled that model and given it legs and heat ray arms
So the first ones got thrown away, they needed him to redo them. Took him 20 minutes...
Once you have spent days making the patterns and molds, it's faster to cast new ones.
Really enjoy the insights into the work but could you please put cards up that identify who is talking, title, role, etc?
I list all the names in the blurb above. They are all model makers.
Hello, how are you? I have a question at part 2:27 of the video. Do you have a video showing the complete scene?
If so, could you share this scene with everyone?
In the original film there is no such scene, everyone is dying to look for this scene.
I just have a few photos of the miniature street from that scene.
imagine a cockroach on the set and it sees one of these tripods, I can imagine the cockroach yelling: *"mom!?!?!?! is that you?!?!?! why do you have three legs instead of six!?!?!? and why do you have like ten plus antennas? we only need two antennas to live!"*
Imagine if this Alien ship vs the Imperial At At walker
Tripods more agile and can move around the AT AT that's if the Martians think of moving around it's line of site plus I'm pretty sure the AT AT can withstand a serious beating even with heat weapons but also the tripod has an energy shield to protect itself from retaliation so it's a tricky one to figure out
AT-AT armor is too strong for heat weapons and tripod shields are resistant to anything. The AT-AT would lose though because it’s weak point is the neck since their neck isn’t armored but the tripods are completely shielded from head to toe
Im just sad we don’t have figures
We do
I see it was hard to film
How many split face thing heads does one man need?
Danny makes them and sells them. He also does creature makeup effects.
You should do another 2005 war of the worlds video
I didn't interview anyone else about that film. It's not very popular, but ILM´s miniature work was great.
@@piercefilm I'm surprised its not that popular, I Loved it!the work put into this movie is awesome
War of the worlds 2 in this lifetime????
How do you find it or are you made it ?
Not sure what you mean? Find what?
let me buy it
I would love to work with him,
Danny is pure excitement and passion. He loves what he does. He loves practical effects!
Yeah, you can laugh now about the cleaning lady...wonder how you felt that day?
Tragedy plus time equals comedy...
Meh movie, awesome effects. I don't even like Tom Cruise, but i find myself drawn into this movie whenever i catch it on cable.
😳
Instead of focusing on Danny just use his voice over video/photographs of the models that he made.
That's not the point of the documentary. It's about the people, the model makers, and their work/stories.
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@@piercefilm A
@@JessieorQuinn Not B?
Not much of a movie. Pretty much just some typical Tom worship. The miniatures were too obvious. The 1953 film was much better, and still is.
Awful film, brilliant miniatures. The two kids ruined this version of the classic story for me.
But, the effects including miniatures were too notch.
Tom Cruise was even worse than the kids for me. But a decent story and brilliant effects get me to rewatch this again every once in a while.
I had no problem with the daughter but I absolutely hated the son -he was a really irritating and annoying badly acted and written teenager cliche that constantly did stupid things for no bloody reason and he was a big piece of lead that prevented the story from lifting. When he finally made his last stupid thing and disappeared (probably because Spielberg got sick and tired of the character) to save the universe or something, the movie finally completely left the ground after before that constantly crashlanding every time that kid started to act stupid.