@@ProjectACHERON The thing we see get sprayed out of the tripod when it rises out of the ground completely is actually dirt. Later in the movie the red stuff being sprayed out is either fertilizer, the red weed, or a combination of both.
especially if the humans could have figured out what energy source the tripods used to move and make those beams, and also more importantly how it made the protection shield
I’ve been obsessed with everything about the tripods in this movie since I was a kid. Literally my second favorite movie, and watching this was just great!
Lol yes that would be great haha, but you fail to remeber they have a second type of laser than destroys all kind of matter so they could just switch top that.
@@constantine4331 there’s another type of heat ray, it’s not violet colored instead it’s green colored, u can see the other second type of laser where ray gets his kids on his friend’s car
One thing that always struck me about the tripods was the one huge "eye" on the front. With the way the part above it slightly overhangs it, when seen from certain angles it looks like a half-lidded stare. The look of boredom, or indifference, which reflects how the invaders regarded humans when they began their invasion. They weren't angry with us, they didn't hate us, we just registered to them as pests to be exterminated. "War between men and maggots" indeed.
I'm not sure if you're literally proposing it was where they looked out from but I always thought that odd thing on the top of the shell was the cockpit
@@easypeezy03 Nah, I don't think it was literally their viewport, if anything it looked kind of like... Well, a big turbine. As there's no visible windows on the tripods, my guess is they navigate by RADAR/Sonar, like a submarine. Windows may be seen as a weak point for anything that happened to make it through their shields.
@@allenharper2928 idk, the way the top is shaped looks very much like a cockpit perhaps reinforced? Besides they didn't have to worry about it being vulnerable because they weren't planning for their shields, which could protect it from any modern weaponry, to go out. The lights perfectly turning to shin on humans in front of it definitely proves they have some way of viewing the outside of their machines
War of The Worlds was written in 1897. Cars were a rare sight in some parts of the world and the most advanced machines we had were powered by steam engines. Now picture yourself in that time frame and you pick up this book that talks about metal objects falling from the sky with aliens moving around inside of them. The Aliens bring weapons that walk on 3 legs and shoots a beam of heat that melts or vaporises what ever it hits. H. G. Wells was so far ahead of his time,
I like the theory that the ships are like exo suits for the aliens. The way they move and also the way they look like larger versions of the aliens themselves makes me think they are controlled through neural inputs rather than through analog controls. What’s strangest about the ships is the fact that they do appear to have some biological characteristics, such as the fleshy tongue-like “grabber” that it uses to pull human captives into the ships interior. This indicates that the ships are not 100% machinery, but rather some combination of technology and sentience that is completely beyond the limits of human understanding.
After watching this video (Which I loved, one of a kind), and some comments from below, I started thinking... If the horn that the Tripods make are some kind of communication, like alert other Tripods of human activity, tactical alerts, like for retreating and that kind of stuff, and even for orders (When the first Tripod rises, giving a first horn to the others Tripods that are underground), then, in the final battle with the Tripod, when Ray was trying to tell to the soldier that the Tripod didn't have his shield, the Tripod was actually calling desperately for help, but, as the other Tripod has fallen down, that ONE Tripod didn't have a chance, and only screamed in vain. It isn't sad, 'cause his malicious intentions, but it feels, somehow, horrible, a giant bio-mechanical machine calling for help, just for nothing.
Wow never saw it this way before. Thats actually very cool to think about and makes a dark film ever so slightly more darker when your realise the fear these sirens generated we also sometimes directly connected to the fear of the invades themselves.
The "hooting" as HG described in the original book was spot on. He described the song of the tripods as a deep bass "AAAHHHLOOOOOOOOO" sound. What didn't make sense to me is why the tripod lost its shield. Unless it required some operator attention, it should have remained, even as the crew took ill. Now, others have said that there was possibly some biological symbiotic relationship between the aliens and their machines. If the aliens got sick, the tripods went as well.
@@HighAltitudesCO Since there's totally more than two martians inside the Tripods, it's more plausible the operator theory. I was going to say "Maybe they simply ran out of power for the shields", but that couldn't be it. They made it so far with that technology to be that stupid. And since the Tripods moves so smoothly, the movements are probably made by motion capture, so that would mean that every martian inside has a role. Maybe the vital signs of the martian that was operating the shields detected a flatline, and that made the shields went down automatically, and with no one else to take care of it. Idk.
Just imagine your at a train station and while your waiting for the train you see a flock of birds all flying away in one direction and then you turn around and see a giant 3 legged tripod appear behind you.
It is implied in the book that the Martians already conquered a past civilisation on Mars. H.G Wells invented the red weed because it mimicked the red surface of Mars, since back in the time no one knew why it was red. I can assume that the Martians jumped from planet to planet until their resources (any organic being) had been drained dry, leaving it covered in red weed that terraformed whatever world it occupied into an environment suitable to them.
11:49 You actually see the blood draining process a man is brought down and a tube with a needle is jabbed into him and you see the blood going up the tube
I wish they make another WOTW film. I have so many questions about these aliens. If their tripods are just harvesters, could there be an even tougher battle tripod? Could there be cave drawings, symbols in pyramid or centuries old scriptures that links to the martians to determine how long they are on Earth. What are they planning now after the failed attempt to terraform the earth in 2005? They might be finding a way to be immune to us before they reattempt to invade Earth!
Thank you for doing a video on the tripods from War of the worlds I've always loved the tripods ever since I read about them, I'm glad that you used the design of the tripod from 2005 film adaptation because to me that design is more faithful to the book's description in which they're described how you did in this video (also this is my favorite design of the tripod everything about this design I love to me its an excellent example of fusion between organics and non-organics). In an interview, Speilberg did state the aliens in his film don't originate from mars but from a much farther and darker side of the galaxy, as far away as E.T. comes from, anyway thank you for doing this video I loved it. 😁❤❤❤✔✔💖💖😊😊
Yes its no problem im glad so many people have enjoyed it, the tripods scared the shit out of me when i was little and i find the whole concept of the film and other media so terrifying and interesting! my favorite design by far is the 2005 movie, so superior! And yes in my next video surronding the "Martians" im going to be deeply exploring their possible origins and why they do what they do!!
@@ProjectACHERON Awesome thanks for the reply I can't wait to see that video. I'm glad that you liked the tribute I made really appreciate it thanks. :)
In the 2005 film there were actually 3 distinct kinds of tripod. The first tripod is the traditional fighting machine. This tripod is the first tripod we see. It is present at the intersection, fairy scene on the hill, and the end fight in Boston. It is characterized by its apparent lack of tentacles and cages. This tripod is equipped with the standard dual heat ray configuration, has a slender hood (top cockpit area), stands 100ft high, and has 3 flood lights. The second tripod we see is somewhat of a heavy weapons variant of the fighting machine. It is first scene in the water during the fairy scene and is also present during the hill battle. As with the fighting machine it has dual heat rays and stands 100ft high. However, unlike the fighting machine, this tripod class sports an array of tentacles, two cages, and 5 flood lights as opposed to 3. This tripod also has a noticeably wider hood. The third tripod we see is the handling machine. This tripod class is the one that snatches Tom Cruise and ultimately pays for it. It is also seen in the very last shot of the film, dead in the streets of Boston. The most striking difference between the handling machine and the other two classes is size, standing likely no more than 50 to 75ft high. This is very clearly demonstrated in the final shot of the film, as a handling tripod is laying next to a much larger fighting tripod. This tripod has tentacles and cages, but an apparent lack of heat rays. It has 3 flood lights as well and a hood nearly identical to the traditional fighting machine.
Thank you for this insight, if i ever make another video or update this one ill be sure to address some of these important facts that i hadent realised before!
the horn sound was a way for the aliens hips to communicate to each other to transport hidden messages or secrets that the humans cannot understand. Also it is used to alert the other tripods that there are humans near by as when you re watch the scene were ray and his kids are travelling to the boat, one tripod appeaars and signals the horn, then not long after, two more tripods then appear then loads more clearly showing that the sound signals there are humans and it is to transport messages to each other
The tripod call seems to definitely be some kind of communication device between the tripods/aliens. During the ferry scene, a single tripod stands outside the town and sounds its call, then a few seconds later more tripods show up. Also later on when the aliens are exploring the cellar, a tripod outside the house sounds its call, and the aliens leave the cellar all at once.
These were indeed one of the best,nope infact the 2nd best fighting giant mecha units ( after my top favourite, Pacific Rim Jaegers ) coz they have excellent protection ( their force shields don't even exhibit weakness even during firing), and good speed.
same i love both of those to. all so Goliath from war of the words Goliath is a good one to. i all so love the metal gear's from the metal gear solid game series those are war machine's to.
I am very amazed about this machine technology because after thousands of years or more buried underground, they just start up instantly with no errors not like our machines on earth like a car after a few decades it had a hard time to start
their home planet would probably look extremely similar to Mars. in one of the older movie adaptations, it's said that they originated from the constellation of Tauri from a planet named "Mor'tax". the planet was pretty much just a garden planet that looked near identical to Mars, just with large bodies of water.
*Wait so what are we? Are we like crops? Are they Attempting to harvest us? They have been growing us for millions of years and now it’s time .. to feast...* (sorry for writing the end like a 14 year old girl)
The Martian body has no internal organs except the heart as they extract the fresh living blood of human beings and inject it into their own bloodstream meaning the martians could not process foods themselves.
Exactly. The resource is us. That's why the aliens could show up thousands or even millions of years ago on Earth, identify a promising sentient species and allow it to develop and dominate the planet after hiding their machines. This alien civilization could have adapted to where it now preys on other intelligent species by letting them develop a civilization and grow to billions of individuals. The aliens could see themselves as the machines in the Matrix. By harvesting a dominant species that doesn't exist in balance with its environment, they might see themselves as "curing" the target planet of a "virus"
If you listen REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY closely the horn almost sounds like the word *hello* just slowed down and stretched out, especially the 2nd version 8:07 i also noticed in some scenes in the movie especially the scene where the main character gets capture by a tripod and put in the back cages, the tripods have weird markings on them (Possibly the Martians language i guess?)
A point that almost no one seems to talk about or notice is how similar they look to the aliens themselves. To me they are like giant exo suits for the aliens. In the original the aliens were a squid like creature. Which could explain the orange liquid inside the tripod. They swim in it and live in it, which is also why you see a fleshly looking hole at the back of the cage where the tentacles come out from to take humans. Both aliens and tripods have 3 legs and a very similar head shape. Towards the end you see the tripod stumble around as if it was sick, why would a machine move as if it was sick? Probably because the alien inside is making those movements.
My vision of these tripod machines is that they are not actual mechs, but rather an anti-gravity-propelled saucers that use legs to push themselves in a set direction. This would explain why, despite the unimaginable heavines of their disproportionately large cabin, tripods apper fo have some sort of flowy motion when 'walking'
the bad thing is that these were buried years ago, probably thousands of years ago, so the aliens probably have way more advanced stuff than even these tripods.
The background music used in this video is "Time part 1 (Firey The Angels Fell) - Background Music" By CO.AG Music My original comment was deleted due to an error, it was posted a week ago at the time of writing this, in which I I asked if anyone knew what the background track was.
I’m not sure, I don’t know of any kind of hydraulics that spray gas. But from what i can speculate is that is has to have something to do with the grow the of their terraforming weed. However I could be wrong and it may simply be the by product of one of their biomechanical systems!
@@ProjectACHERON I always thought it was just blowing out the dust and dirt that made its way in over the thousands of years it was buried. Like a guy crawling out of the sand and blowing a bunch out of his mouth & nose.
I think the continued popularity of WOTW owes a great deal to the iconic tripods. For reasons not entirely clear to me, their physical appearance is in itself thoroughly menacing and conveys emotionless slaughter. The aliens that piloted them are not the antagonist. The tripods are. Spielberg’s rendition of the fighting machines is perhaps the most frightening.
I think a weapon with as much force as a hydrogen bomb would instantly destroy a tripod as in the film the people say the standard weapons detonate to far away to do any damage if this truly is the case then a hydrogen bomb would simply not stop for any shield and destroy the machine.
I suppose it’s how you take that statement because that was people explanation for something far beyond them. Maybe that’s not how the shield work at all!
@@ProjectACHERON that certainly is another way of seeing it, these aliens we're far superior in their intelligence so it is likely we won't ever know, always fun theorizing however
It would. Physics is physics, I don't care how advance someone is, no material can withstand the energy release density of a star at point blank. Theirs a reason why nukes leave perfect circular holes in the ground, the dirt is litterly vaporized. If a tactical like was dropped right on one, it'll rip it three a*seholes.
one thing i dont know is, why they didnt try chemicals or other stuff once they realized explosives didnt work, or set up traps to try and trip the tripods like starwars.
I wish this movie will turnout like many Movie universes, as you can see the title "War of the Worlds" Which absolutely indicates other worlds is engage in this concept
Something I always thought about during the time when the first tripod came out of the ground was that the first horn that was played wasn’t a sound to scare humans. It was to tell the rest “ I’ve made it “
That foghorn is a communication they share to signal when they go online and begin their operations. It sounds like a foghorn due to earth's dense atmosphere. However, on their homeworld the atmosphere is very thin like Mars and to our ears the signal would be as silent as a dog whistle.
Still waiting for an actual adaptation of the book. The director that manages to capture that story in earnest strikes gold but it's not for the masses. The movies/series focus on the big boom boom and explosions and each captures something from the book but never the whole. The book is a rollercoaster that starts safe and familiar, with a sudden disruption of human normalcy that lingers in disbelief and assurance that it's not an issue and even a belief that the aliens are weak and dying because they are physically weak. Before slowly but steadily crashing into horror, sheer mortal terror and extremely dark human moments when he and others realise the truth of what is happening when the Martians reveal their true forms. Eventually it's an almost slow and serene departure from sanity as the protagonist's world unravels around him and he turns from a human on the run from aliens into a forlorn soul in a world that belongs to a race of unknowable strangers. I can't word it better than that. It's mesmerising.
i feel like the book is a piece of its era and should lagerly be left on its own. trying to repilcate it has always proved problimatic, i think they should do what this film did and take the story in differnt directions, drawing inspiration from the reference material.
@@ProjectACHERON Essentially, WotW has been adapted over and over. But the more tasteful adaptations of the alien invasion story that went in different directions and just drew inspiration from the novel didn't carry its namesake and deviated enough to be their own thing. There's hundreds, some good, some bad. And that's fine. But when you slap 'The War of the Worlds' on your movie and you go to lenghts to follow the events of the book (such as the 2005 movie and the BBC series) but then deviate in such a way that your own interpretation of that specific story is just a worse version of that story, then your movie is bad plagiarism. I'm not saying don't make alien invasion movies, I'm not even saying try to re-create a cool spin on WotW. I'm only saying that when you use the name, the string of events of the book and then make your own trashy version of it, I'm going to be mad at you. :P
5:26 yes! Teleportation! That's exactly what I think the lightening storm is, too! I think the lightening storm is more like what it was in the star trek movie! It's like a passage from one end of the universe to another and manifests as a lightening storm! At first I thought that the lightening may have been coming from their mother-ship hovering right over earth but humans would have detected that long before they could've even gotten that close...
Now if it weren’t for the shields this war would’ve been over. You saw how easily a few grenades took one down. Not only that but a few rockets from a shoulder mounted launcher idk what it’s called but yeah we need a prequel
Project: ACHERON a prequel with a different perspective of someone else but in this movie you get a glimpse of the inside the tripod and answers about the aliens that attacked
At the beginning there was that stuff that came out of the tripod as it made that sound at the beginning of the 2004 movie (or was it 2008 when it came out)?
There are actually 3 types of tripod, 1 is the warrior which has just lasers which we see at the start of the film, the 2nd is the harvester which has the long tentacles and cages, and the third is the massive heavy tank tripods which we see when robbie goes with the military and these have tentacles and lasers, a way of telling the difference is visual, warriors have no tentacles whilst harvesters do and also these 2 tripods have 3 spotlights whilst the 3rd tank tripods have 4 spotlights
I'm assuming you are Australian? I love the way you say "Maaahhs". It sounds so sweet. In North America we say 'Marrhsz' with the 'a' as hard as nails.
I need more info for my short novel. I'm writing a story about a campaign set in Alien universe, but the enemy are the Covenant from Halo. I still have to understand or find info about some points. UAAC don't have nor an intelligence service nor special forces. Plus their ships are mostly primitives, unable to pose a serious threat to the Covenant counterparts. Their naval guns are pretty much made by lasers and plasma, as like the Covenant, but without shields, UAAC are just slow targets. I need to know more about their ships if I want to find out if it's possible counteracting the Covenant.
@@ProjectACHERON yeah, I'm figure out a way to repurpose the CM 88B "Bison" M-class and also the CM 90S "Corvus" G-class as small corvettes for the UAAC fleet. Small targets could be useful to create screens against enemy fighters etc. The most reasonable point I can use to help the UAAC in this scenario is make the Covenant weaker. There's no other chances.
The one thing that makes me cringe a lot is the blood looking stuff the try pods drop at the beginning o man that just made me cringe so bad cuz I feel bad for those people's blood cuz the aliens are basically crapin on the statues and the roads. Plz say this isn't just me that the blood makes me cringe like that.
this might not get noticed by you but to clarify and help give you more info steven spielberg had said that his aliens from the movie dont i fact come from mars but instead from a different galaxy or a different part of the galaxy just thought i wanted to let you know :)
Yeah I am actually going to cover this in a future video because Mars was likely a pit stop, this species is said to travel across the galaxy bleeding planets of their resources and moving on, like a plague, mars may have been fillled with life at one point which is why they went there in the first place or it could have been a staging ground !
Everyone seems to ignore, bypass, neglect, whatever fits, the fact that the tripod’s could have easily been stopped by simply tripping up any one of the three legs letting them fall flat on their faces ! This is evident from Star Wars on planet Hoth tripping up the At-Ats.
Good idea, but easier said than getting it done. You wouldn't have a chance to even get close enough without getting blasted into pieces and vaporized. let alone have the equipment ready to even try.
@@theimperfectgod7140 Ambush them. Set up the tripwire traps and hide under the surface before they arrive. Or, plant Anti-Tank minefields where tripods will move through so the mines explode and take out the legs.
Movie needed the classic injection of scientist who explored and explained. Makes it much easier to connect with the movie. The dysfunctional family approach did not click with most people either. Same type of problems as DUNE. I liked the movie overall, but it was not great.
Actually this isn’t the accumulation of the races most advanced technologies… in the film it’s postulated that the tripods were here for a long time with the pilots being launched into them so these must have been pretty old by Martian terms.
I really enjoyed this movie. The effects were AMAZING! ....but...it is mentioned that the aliens came to Earth and buried the tripods thousand...maybe even million of years ago, then leave. How is this possible? I mean, when cities were being built, the ground had to be dug up to build buildings, underground parking lots, underground pipes. etc and it did not appear the tripods were buried that deep. With all these buried ships, how could no one come across them or detect them? I'm sorry, this is what really bugged me about the movie and it still does. As well, when the aliens finally return to Earth, transporting with lightening strikes, the ships they used, appeared to be a good size but only left small holes in the ground. Anyone have any ideas on these subjects? PS... although the tripods were realy cool, I loved the war machines in the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds!
I always thought that the Red Weed in the 2005 film was the alien food supply and that they were trying to turn the earth into a farming world, which causes the ending of the film to make more sense than it did with the Red Weed dying off because of parasites and diseases that affect plants thus causing the aliens to starve
They didn’t starve the suffered a massive pathogenic plague that they were very unprepared for however aside from just being used for terraforming I think you have something when you say they used it for food too!
@@ProjectACHERON Starvation would also make the aliens' bodies weaker which would also weaken their immune systems (if they had one) resulting in an indirect death from starvation. In the BBC war of the worlds the aliens died because they ate humans who were infected with various diseases which caused them to rot from the inside.
@@ProjectACHERON An idea I just had after watching the War of the Worlds tv show from the 1980s since the aliens may have invaded other planets it wouldn't be too far fetched to assume that not all of those invasions were successful. If one of the civilizations the Martians failed to conquer were advanced enough to find Earth prior to the arrival of the Martians, then they could have altered the biology of Earth to make us a planet sized Trojan horse and doom the invaders.
Once the tripods start to move, no more news comes out of that area.... is a homage to the 1953 film which has almost exactly the same line of dialogue.
People give this movie shit for bad story and character writing, which I agree with somewhat. I'll tell you what though. Animation: on point! Sound design: hauntingly amazing! This movie legit terrified me as kid and it still does, that doesn't stop me from watching though.
Image if mankind had these in "Pacific Rim". We would need to bother with jaegers. I have a vision of a Kaiju rampaging through a city and all of a sudden, we hear the Tripod foghorn sound. It turns around and there are 3 tripods standing behind it. It attacks the closest tripod and is thrown back when it hits the force field. All 3 tripods vaporize the kaiju with their heat rays. end of fight and no mess t clean up.
I think the tripods are probably similar to the scarabs from halo. A mechanical vehicle, grafted onto a biological creature. At the very least, the tentacles have to be organic & whatever is pulling humans inside for processing has a major organic factor. It’s probably some blobby mass of tentacles and digestive tract shoved into a massive metal carapace with legs, so it’s movement can be controlled by an operator who points at humans and says “get ‘em boy!”. Lowkey the fertilizer they spray is probably what’s left over after the organic side of the machine “feeds”(pulls humans in from the cage for direct digestion)
Crazy theory but could the blood be some kind of mixture of genetically modified bacteria spliced with the blood to create some form of ridding the Earth's own natural bacteria since that's what killed them? If I'm not mistaken that is, I haven't seen the film in some time.
