This has brought some confusion to fans. It has been proposed the heat-ray only destroys "organic" matter, though this does not fully explain the destruction of the buildings, vehicles, and the untouched cotton and wool of the clothes, both of which are organic.
A possible solution would be that the heat-ray is a high energy coherent emission of microwaves similar to a Maser that causes the water in the human body to superheat into very high temperature steam, which then causes the victim to explode into ash as it instantly expands; this would also account for the metal objects it hits catching fire, as they heat up like metal placed in a microwave oven will.
They also have several searchlights mounted on the front of them. Of particular note, in this film's version the tripod's legs are completely rubber-like in their appearance and movement. They have no visible mechanical joints or pivot-points, and propel themselves by truly "walking" over any terrain; this can be seen as faithful to the original text, where the tripods are described as being more organic in nature than mechanical.
Spielberg's tripods also emit loud, deep bellows, which seem to be a means of calling out to other tripods, similar to how they are described at one point in the novel. The sounds consist of one loud Hz blast between A2 and A 2 on the musical scale for three seconds, followed by a deep Hz blast near C 3 for another three seconds. They are also equipped with numerous tentacles for capturing humans as well as two cages under the head for temporary holding with a point over the cages that opens to suck up captured humans, as well as a retractable probe to search abandoned buildings and locations that the Tripods are unable to reach.
The point over the cage seems to be a weak point, for in one scene, a grenade is able to destroy one Tripod from there. Additionally, the tripods have another tentacle used as a pipette to drain human blood, which is then sprayed from the Tripods' heads as fertilizer to aid the spread of the red weed. The captured humans that get sucked into the Tripods could very well have their blood drained in the machine by a process that is a more "direct" form of blood drain.
Similar to the book, the tripods appear to emit some kind of black-green smoke before arming and firing the Heat-Ray, although this may only be dust and steam from clearing the vents. The tripods are made to look like the aliens themselves, which have three legs and numerous arms attached to the body.
Some people have commented that the heads of the tripods look like cuttlefish. The lethality of the tripods can be summed up in a phrase spoken in the film a paraphrase of a line from the film : "Once the tripods start to move, no more news comes out of that area. This version of the tripods does have some inconsistencies from Wells' description in his novel, such as the Heat-Ray emanates from a proboscis in the cupola rather than shooting from a box or case carried by the tripod [ 1 ] , the cage to hold captured humans being is used by the handling-machines instead of the fighting-machines [ 2 ] , and the "cowl" cockpit of the fighting-machine is static instead of separately rotating.
In Kevin J. Anderson ' The Martian War the Martians use two type of tripods, the ones from The War of the Worlds and a smaller, "overseer" variant. In Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds , the tripods are described as having legs that can telescope down allowing for entry and exit, and as being possibly based upon the original body type of the Martians.
The second volume of the comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen retells the story of The War of the Worlds , and the tripods are prominently featured. These tripods are more organic-looking than in other depictions, with wide, crested heads. They are depicted with details of the tripods from Wells' original novel; they have the Heat-Ray and baskets for captured humans.
The tripods are shown to be destroyed by heavy artillery, launched from Captain Nemo 's submarine. One notable point about this particular adaptation is that it gives voice to an issue which has plagued moviemakers over the years: namely, that a tripodal structure has no analog with bipedal or normal quadrupedal locomotion though kangaroos do sometimes use their thick tails as a third leg.
The character Edward Hyde , whilst attacking a tripod by clinging on to its leg, asks it "I'm no engineer and correct me if I'm mistaken, but don't you have rather a design flaw in these things? Now, don't get me wrong: God created a lot of useless, stupid-looking things on this world too, but he didn't see fit to make any of them three-legged. Why was that, do you think? Alien tripod war machines have appeared in several novels, movies, video games and television series.
The novels provide a type of alternate ending to the H. Wells story, whereby the tripods succeed in their invasion. Christopher's Tripods , however, are very different from those found in the works of H. In the trilogy the tripods do not come from Mars, but another distant world. Also, these tripods do not consume humans or feature weapons, but are used instead to control the human civilization with a "cap" or metallic grid attached to the scalp. Large cities, science and technology are no longer part of the human civilization; humans are forced to live in small rural communities.
The main feature of these tripods is a large arm that is extended from the base of the tripod's head and used to lift humans into the head, predominantly for the purposes of capping. The Tripods was later made into a BBC TV serial, which ran for two series but was cancelled before the three-part story was completed.
In Larry Niven 's Rainbow Mars , time travelers from the 31st century passing through the late 19th century observe the Martian tripods attack a Brazilian city.
In Scary Movie 4 , a spoof of Spielberg's film, the Tripods have only three tentacles, and fire the Heat-Ray from their centre eye. When the first Tripod emerges, it appears as a giant iPod named a triPod , selecting "Destroy humanity" and transforming into how they appear in Spielberg's film. Its other features are given a comical treatment; the cages on their backs feature a V.
P area. Inside the Tripod is the bathroom from Saw, where it is revealed the aliens are commanded by the Saw doll. Alien tripod mecha have appear in many animated movies and series, for example in the three-part pilot of the Justice League ; the Japanese animated film Be Forever Yamato ; in episodes of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy , 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy and Kim Possible , as well as albeit based on automotive spark plugs, and with four legs in a daydream sequence in the film Cars.
Issues 7 and 12 of the Sonic X comic book feature a three-legged alien machine reminiscent of a Tripod. However, the origins of the craft has not yet been explained. The Mechwarrior collectible miniatures game also has its own version of the tripods, called the Ares. After all of the invaders or wiped out by diseases or wounds, the Earth is saved and everything returns to normal. Tripod's version in the film was different compared with the novel incarnation. They do not possess the novel's killing chemical black smoke and are equipped with some type of invisible force shield that only becomes visible when struck by Earth weapons; no conventional human weapons can penetrate them an obvious reference to George Pal's original film.
They are armed with two heat-ray-like weapons that incinerate humans to ash, leaving the victim's clothing behind while destroying and burning everything else; this caused confusion for some viewers and also among critics. It has been suggested that the aliens' heat-ray only destroys "organic" matter, but this does not fully explain the destruction of buildings and vehicles, nor the untouched cotton and wool of clothes, both of which are organic.
Another offered explanation is that the heat-ray is a high energy coherent emission of microwaves similar to a Maser that causes the water in the human body to superheat into very high temperature steam, which then causes the victim to explode into ash as it instantly expands; this would also account for the metal objects it hits catching fire as they heat up, like metal objects placed in an activated microwave oven.
The lethality of the fighting machines can be summed up in a phrase spoken in the film a paraphrase of a line from the Pal film : "Once the tripods start to move, no more news comes out of that area.
The three-legged war machines, ever since their first appearance, have become stamps and mascots of alien invaders, rivaling that of even the Xenomorphs. As such, they have been referenced and parodied in other pieces of media several times, like in Chicken Little.
They were also seen in Scary Movie 4 as they attacked Earth's inhabitants and vaporized everything and everyone with their lasers. The Evil Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. Just because they did not become immediately ill upon leaving their tripods does not mean that they were not exposed.
Also, there's a brief moment in the basement when we see the actual aliens where one of them drinks from a leaking pipe. If a human drinks contaminated water, it takes a while before they start to become sick. The aliens were obviously a biological life form like us, but with superior technology. Even if the aliens found out about bacteria way back when they buried the machines in the first place, bacteria are evolving all the time. The bacteria they may or may not have known about way back then could be very different from the bacteria present today.
Even if they had vaccines against known bacteria, there would be new strains against which they would not be protected. A similar idea is explored in the TV miniseries "V": essentially a big-budget version of War of the Worlds, aliens called "Visitors" come to Earth to plunder our resources, chiefly our water and subjugate the human race for food. They claim to have been monitoring our world and communications for years and also claim they've been inoculated against all Earth-bound diseases.
However, the human resistance movement eventually discovers that a new strain of bacteria can kill the Visitors. The organism, like any bacteria, can multiply rapidly so the resistance releases it into our atmosphere, making Earth uninhabitable to the invaders. They were watching us with telescopes, not microscopes. According to David Koepp, his intention was that the tripods were sent down in capsules as a contingency, ahead of a potential invasion force, although this is not made clear in the film itself.
An important theme in the novel and partly the movie as well is the separation between evolution and technology. The aliens are so arrogant and overdependent on their technological superiority that they never consider their evolutionary inferiority, i. The tripods' protective shields were down, so the birds had no problem perching on them.
Birds will perch on anything, especially something high off the ground as a form of defense or protection. The tripods simply offered them another perch and potentially consumed the red weed off the metal. Besides, that bit of the novel itself is followed by the brother of the main character.
This version of War of the Worlds was specifically written to exclude any other external characters and be a one-person narrative.
However, there is still a boat scene very similar to the Thunderchild scene included in the film. As far as War of the Worlds is concerned, the most well-known of the movie adaptations is The War of the Worlds , but there have been several others, including War of the Worlds , and The War of the Worlds In addition, a TV series, War of the Worlds , ran from to ' Ray and Rachel make it to Boston together on foot.
Boston is covered with the red weeds, some living, some dying. The aliens seem to have been stopped, but no one knows why. They witness a tripod come crashing to the ground after being attacked by a nearby Army detachment and a door opening up to reveal a flood of red liquid followed by a dying alien. Ray and Rachel make their way to Mary Ann's house where they are reunited with Robbie. In the final scene, the camera pans over the destroyed city, focusing on a tree bud, then a water droplet, and finally the multitude of microscopic organisms living in it.
The narrator says in a voiceover: From the moment the invaders arrived and breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God, in His wisdom, put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms, and that right is housed against all challenges.
For neither do men live nor die in vain. The first visual contact with the creatures occurs in Ogilvy's basement, and a dying alien is shown in the final scenes. Sign In. War of the Worlds Jump to: FAQs 37 Spoilers 2.
How many times is the name Rachel spoken in the movie? Did anyone recognize the actors playing the grandparents at the very end of the film? Why did Robbie put his hat on backwards when going inside the house, after playing catch with Ray? What films influenced the casting of Dakota Fanning? What is "War of the Worlds" about? Is "War of the Worlds" based on a book? Why was the setting in the USA? Why don't we see other countries being attacked?
Why did the EMP not affect the camcorder, solenoid on the shelf, military vehicles, etc? When Ray, Rachel, and Robbie are driving down the highway after the initial attack, how are they able to drive at a steady speed even though all the other cars are stalled? The basement sequence just slowed things down! Why was it there? Why were there no bodies at the plane crash? What were the TV journalists doing rummaging around in the plane crash? Why wasn't the van Ray was driving destroyed by the airplane?
Didn't they magically change clothes at the hour mark? How were those tripods underground for so long and no one noticed? What's with those bodies in the river? How did they die? This steam is capable of breaking glass, and would surely cause a nasty burn, but is not shown in use as a weapon.
There are also three legs. The novel never shows tripod legs being used to injure anyone directly, although this is a common occurrence in later works. On the back of each tripod is what looks like a metal fishing basket, which it uses to hold humans that it captures with its tentacles. The tripods in the original book could be destroyed by human weapons, usually artillery, although losses were usually heavier for the humans than the Martians.
A number of later works assert that this is impossible. A ccording to one instance in the book, the machine gives off a howl that is given as "Aloo! The assembly process of the fighting machines is somewhat uncertain. When the Martians first arrive at earth, they erect a device which functions like a heat ray to defend themselves. Later on, they are said to have moved in something like a large covered dish, which is probably the hood of a fighting machine, and some components of the vehicle itself not yet set up in a fully erect form.
The Narrator discusses the fighting machines emitting a luminous green smoke from joints. A mechanical system which mimics the motions of muscles, and a number of sliding bearings are also mentioned as being integral to fighting machine technology.
The devices also apparently contain large quantities of some brown fluid, which is seen to leak out when one is destroyed at Weybridge. This brown substance may turn a more reddish colour, and clump up while in water, but this is uncertain, as so many details in the novel are left slightly ambiguous.
The Narrator describes the machine like a giant cow milking bench, rocking back and forth in its walk. London newspapers say the fighting machines were like ovens or stoves depending on the translation mounted on three legs, however, the narrator denies this by stating that no one has been as close to the Martians as he was, calling later illustrations of the Martians "not very precise".
Appropriately, these machines also hovered in the air like a spaceship. There were originally three electromagnetic legs, which can be seen early in the film and in the climax, but were discontinued during production, most likely because the producers deemed the one million volts needed to create the effect was too dangerous.
Because of this it makes its legs invisible for most of the film proving it does not hover. George Pal's machine had two different weapons, including two wingtip mounted " skeleton beams " which replaced the black smoke from the novel and a swan neck heat-ray.
It also has a magnetic energy shield to protect the machine from enemy fire. This shield was powerful enough to withstand the effect of the atomic bomb.
Like Steven Spielberg's tripod design, George Pal's so-called manta-machine had a remotely operated "electronic eye" which was used to scout inside derelict buildings. The sequel to the film rarely uses war machines, but in respect to continuity, those seen are based on Albert Nozaki's design.
One episode " Dust to Dust " does show a centuries-old variant of the manta-machine that does have physical legs for locomotion. For this design, it has two windshields that are on both sides of the dome like head, a dozen or more tentacles that can be.
In the movie itself, there has shown to be three different types of tripods, one of which lacks tentacles and instead only has heat rays, while the other has their tentacles deployed and visible cages on the under-behind of their hood, but with the third model shown later in the film as it has Four headlights along with the central massive headlight leading to the design of it more Heavy-duty as it used both tentacles and heat-rays.
For each tentacle, it has at least one camera probe. Their horn is a deep-foghorn noise, similar to the "aloo!
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