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Although the movie is made after such a long period of time, it’s still quit similar to radio play at certain points. Of course you feel much more entertained in the movie, and – I wouldn’t use the word “Scared” but something like that, because when you see it on a screen you have a greater empathy. In the movie it’s of course more dramatized - with the ability to exaggerate, because of the time different. The reason why there are so many similarities is that the play is based on the same novel written by H. G. Welles.
The different between the movie and the radio play, is that you immediately could figure out that it was fake (and because it’s a movie and don’t a documentary, you can also tell that the movie is fake, of anybody would think differently) since they started the play out by saying: “The Columbia Broadcasting system and its affiliated stations presents Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. (Music: Mercury theatre musical theme)
so.. Why would a Theatre present it, and why would there be musical breaks, if it was a real scandal. Today we could never pull a trick like that, because of the many facts you get from so many different sources.
The different between the alien machines:
in the radio play they are described as gray tentacles (many of them) that comes out from the large, large body (large as a bear) and glistens like wet leather. The faces eyes are black and gleam like a serpent, the mouth is V-shaped with saliva dripping from its lips that seem to quiver and pulsate. The “Thing can hardly move”. It can make fire too.
In the film, it looks the same as just described, but of course mere detailed. It much taller than a bear in the movie, it’s as high as a skyscraper, of not higher. It has a lot of those “tentacles” that catches the humans, and put them into some kind of cage, and then suck the humans up one by one, eat them and then spit the blood out again. Inside of the aliens there are small “baby aliens” who doesn’t look like the big ones, they are as high as humans and have legs and arms and seems much more “alive” meaning; more like living creatures and not a machine. In the movie they also have the ability to “shoot” fire.
I think that the reasons why there are differences between the descriptions are because of the age different. In the radio play, it’s enough for the listeners to be scared by hearing that there are a robot alien on the size of a bear, and just a little bit of details. In the movie they do everything to exaggerate to make it seems scary and invincible, because, if they just made them as big as a bear, it wouldn’t seem that scary, and people would think, that it might be much easier to overcome.
The movie and the radio play have the same plot; human can’t save the world, but god can. He can overcome the most scary and … thing, which was an important thing in those years the novel was written.
(1938 Hitler marches into Austria; political and geographical union of Germany and Austria proclaimed. Munich Pact > Britain, France, and Italy agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia. Douglas “Wrong-Way” Corrigan flies from New York to Dublin. Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage. Orson Welles's radio broadcast War of the Worlds.
Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005248.html#ixzz1eH6mNkoi) I don’t know if the one of the reasons why the novel was written/ Orson Welles radio play was because of the upcoming war, and the meaning of it was that you still had to believe in god.
Wells was to become famous as a socialist and a utopian, but his science fiction novels are almost uniformly pessimistic about human nature and the future.
The different between the movie and the radio play, is that you immediately could figure out that it was fake (and because it’s a movie and don’t a documentary, you can also tell that the movie is fake, of anybody would think differently) since they started the play out by saying: “The Columbia Broadcasting system and its affiliated stations presents Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. (Music: Mercury theatre musical theme)
so.. Why would a Theatre present it, and why would there be musical breaks, if it was a real scandal. Today we could never pull a trick like that, because of the many facts you get from so many different sources.
The different between the alien machines:
in the radio play they are described as gray tentacles (many of them) that comes out from the large, large body (large as a bear) and glistens like wet leather. The faces eyes are black and gleam like a serpent, the mouth is V-shaped with saliva dripping from its lips that seem to quiver and pulsate. The “Thing can hardly move”. It can make fire too.
In the film, it looks the same as just described, but of course mere detailed. It much taller than a bear in the movie, it’s as high as a skyscraper, of not higher. It has a lot of those “tentacles” that catches the humans, and put them into some kind of cage, and then suck the humans up one by one, eat them and then spit the blood out again. Inside of the aliens there are small “baby aliens” who doesn’t look like the big ones, they are as high as humans and have legs and arms and seems much more “alive” meaning; more like living creatures and not a machine. In the movie they also have the ability to “shoot” fire.
I think that the reasons why there are differences between the descriptions are because of the age different. In the radio play, it’s enough for the listeners to be scared by hearing that there are a robot alien on the size of a bear, and just a little bit of details. In the movie they do everything to exaggerate to make it seems scary and invincible, because, if they just made them as big as a bear, it wouldn’t seem that scary, and people would think, that it might be much easier to overcome.
The movie and the radio play have the same plot; human can’t save the world, but god can. He can overcome the most scary and … thing, which was an important thing in those years the novel was written.
(1938 Hitler marches into Austria; political and geographical union of Germany and Austria proclaimed. Munich Pact > Britain, France, and Italy agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia. Douglas “Wrong-Way” Corrigan flies from New York to Dublin. Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage. Orson Welles's radio broadcast War of the Worlds.
Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005248.html#ixzz1eH6mNkoi) I don’t know if the one of the reasons why the novel was written/ Orson Welles radio play was because of the upcoming war, and the meaning of it was that you still had to believe in god.
Wells was to become famous as a socialist and a utopian, but his science fiction novels are almost uniformly pessimistic about human nature and the future.
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- We can name abundant big names who actually are “big” dreamers, but nothing has been achieved by those “realists” who settling themselves way below their potential because of what someone would think or say.
- While attending in Yale University, Frederick Wallace Smith wrote a research paper for his economics class, outlining the need for reliable overnight delivery service in a computer information age.
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I have always preferred pursuing my ambitious dreams, no matter who would say “that’s unrealistic…”
Firstly, there’s a saying “Fortune favors the bold”, which means triumphs belong to those who possess “big” dreams and persist in it, in spite of all the harassment and naysayers. We can name abundant big names who actually are “big” dreamers, but nothing has been achieved by those “realis
Firstly, there’s a saying “Fortune favors the bold”, which means triumphs belong to those who possess “big” dreams and persist in it, in spite of all the harassment and naysayers. We can name abundant big names who actually are “big” dreamers, but nothing has been achieved by those “realis
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