War of the Worlds (1953) opening monologue (redux) 

That's right when the Martian invasion of earth failed the Martians attempted to colonise Venus and successed

@@aledwalters8977 succeed not successed

@@loloololololol sorry I was trying to spell it.

@@loloololololol so what adaptation of the war of the worlds do you prefer?

I utterly love the original with the Chestley Bonestell art and models. Thanks for the compliments..

That always looked so eerie to me.

I was thinking about a Martian city. I like how you did it. The original movie in 1953 used the spotty science of Mars at the time about Mars and had the painting with Percival Lowell's canals terminating in what must be the capital. Your city is very good, but if you ever feel the urge to do it over i have an idea: A city inspired a bit by Los Angles from blade runner, London from 1984, and the cities from "the phantom menace". Panning From left to right you present a city one the shore of a dried up ocean. Dark short building along the former coastline with much larger structures jutting up out of them. The shorter buildings are dark gray and you can just barely see them a few lights amongst them. The larger ones are shiney metallic with lights on them, however some of the large buildings (some in the foreground and some in back are the same shape as some of the others but the metallic surface is covered in patina, and/or oxidation and look like the burned a long time ago. The structures have fewer lights and seem to have unintelligible writing on them. The panning stops when the building thats depicted in the original and your versions is centered. Then it fades out. The perspective should be like you are 40 miles away, and 1000 feet in the air. Colors should be shifted toward the blue end of the visible spectrum. The martian surface should be a dull red, and the sky a dull reddish gloom.

in recently discovered H.G. Wells archives there were more books in the War of the Worlds series that never got published according to those manuscripts Venus is inhabited by another race of beings when Mars launched it's second invasion the Venusian's came to our aid as the Martian's had developed cures to earthborne diseases that's the reason why

@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 Never heard about those.

@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 Also in the non-Wells ghastly sequel. I read it, but it was so bad that I forgot the name.

They didn't forget Venus--at the time this movie was made, Venus would have been considered a huge plot hole because it was thought to be very Earth-like! A British astronomer named Patrick Moore even said that Venus might be more promising to colonize than Mars because its 100% cloud cover meant we couldn't see its surface, but they meant there was a thick atmosphere like Earth's, so people imagined it was probably a tropical world that was only slightly hotter than Earth. Then we sent probes there in 1962 and found out the surface is 500°C. Whoopsie.

@@Daniel-yy5tx Yup, I couldn't imagine the disappointment from Nasa scientists when they found Venus was the exact opposite of habitable lol. They also thought the gas giants had a solid surface underneath it's massive atmosphere that wasn't the actual core :p

trha2222 I just watched the Criterion Edition and it’s great. Beautiful transfer and the colors and sound are remarkable

mine too i also loved their ships

@@Agent-xn1hr I saw it recently too, and the picture transfer is incredible. Possibly the best remaster of an older movie that I have ever seen.

The Criterion collection blu ray had removed the wires from the war machine sequences. The restoration is truly amazing.

@@topcats78 I actually finally got the Criterion Collection version and yes the restoration was perfect but had one flaw. They changed the Atom Bomb explosion! Total Fail. That really upset me big time!

Thank you very much!

Pass up?

@@SB111058 like to miss out

@@meteroy17 Gotcha!

@@SB111058 Definition of pass up transitive verb : to let go by without accepting or taking advantage ofpass up a chance for promotionalso : DECLINE, REJECT

Don't mind this revised intro--very good, in fact. But I wouldn't want any more of this classic touched by anyone. Look at what Steven Spielberg did with his remake--awful movie!

Vee 10 Yeah, and the Moon!

Tastic1 The moon? “It has no air.”

Vee 10 That’s true, no atmosphere...

@@SB111058 and very low gravity and protection against the sun

trha2222 Why Jaws? Not even close.

Thanks!

This is from the shooting script, by the way - which included the part about Venus that they dropped for some reason.

Hi Joseph, Ive put that in my description as it keeps getting mentioned..Hope thats ok....?

@@SB111058 They dropped the Venus part because in the early 50's they weren't sure whether or not Venus was habitable, it was only until the 60s with Carl Sagan and others that it could said for certain that Venus had a temperature near 900F

@@tbstorm98 Yes, the atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide - the same gas driving the greenhouse effect on Venus and Earth - with clouds composed of sulfuric acid, but mostly they were worried it rymed with 'penis'...???

@@SB111058 Well there was Bananarama I'm Your Venus

Jules Verne?

Its shocking...

He would have said Venus was like 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.

There's actually a good reason for that, and at the time, it would have counted as a huge plothole: in 1953, Venus was thought to be extremely Earth-like! Its 100% cloud cover prevented people from seeing its surface, but the atmosphere was obviously as thick or thicker than Earth's, so people thought it might be a slightly hotter, tropical world. Patrick Moore, a famous British astronomer, even said that Venus might be more promising to colonize than Mars. Then we sent our first probe there in 1962 and it turns out the surface is 500°C. Whoops.

I have always assumed Venus was omitted because, at the end of the novel, there is evidence that the Martians have landed on Venus.

Yep, no problem... I did this for fun. Help yourself..

@@SB111058 cheers, and splendid work!

@@SB111058 What did you use to make this?

@@captainramius5047 A load of NASA photos, some models shot on a Canon 5d and composited on After Effects.. Cheers..

People didn’t know much about Venus in 1953.