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In Reply to: Martians invade because their planet is all dried up. posted by Lord Dot on July 1, 2005 at 11:21:42:
In the movie? I have no remembering of it.
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I guess the movie presumes you kind of know the story, perhaps that is a bad assumption, the movie certainly could have been done better if I had directed it! ;-)--------------
In The War Of The Worlds (1898), Wells conceived just such a species. Forced to flee their own dying world, his Martians attempt to make a home on earth by force of arms, landing in an ill-prepared Victorian England, where they begin a devastating reign of terror. Sweeping aside all resistance in their tripod legged war machines, the Martians lay waste to the snug Victorian way of life. It is in fact the way that Wells creates a feeling of the calm before the storm, describing an idyllic England in the opening chapter, that makes the subsequent carnage so arresting.
So I did not misse it! I mean if you think that the teenage public read the book....
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