“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.” ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
@@somethingtojenga I think the reference to God is the line right before the above excerpt. "...slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth." So, it is still there.
Well, technically it is bacteria that is our savior in War of the Worlds. Viruses would only work if the aliens had DNA like we do, that viruses could thrive off of. Bacteria on the other hand only need something that they can feed and breed upon.
@@adarsh4764 The Covid vaccines are actually a tiny strain of covid itself. So the aim is to inject this tiny strain into the human body so it’s immune cells can get use to it and be prepared to fight the actual thing. Meanwhile the aliens are vulnerable to ALL bacteria. So even a tiny strain of covid can kill it. No, they cannot take the vaccine.
You’d think an alien race that managed to hide those tripods for so long, ride lightning INTO them and destroy so many things knew how to protect themselves against the common cold
It's simply another case of not anticipating every detail. Their engineering might have been advanced, but perhaps their knowledge of biology less so. In the 50s people thought Venus was a tropical planet and that there were huge artificial canals on Mars. Imagine if we had had the technology to reach Mars or Venus at the time, it would have been a one way ticket to hell in either case.
Even if they knew, what could they really do against it? The immune system of every animal on Earth has adapted over millions of years of evolution to survive the non-stop onslaught presented by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Our own bodies are host to innumerable bacteria, in our gut, on our skin, in our blood from previous infections.
I guessed that they were such an advanced species that they abolished all forms of bacterium on their own world, no immunizations, a weak immune system that by the time they come to earth the smallest microbes compromise them, compromise their health and eventual leads to their deaths. Best thing for us as humans in this scenario is all the tech and tripods they left behind in their wake for use to progress technologically.
No matter what you believe in. I think we can all say that we earned the right to live on earth, the countless wars, death, and famine humans went through is astounding. By sheer will and faith we were able to survive and actually make something of it. But now it’s up to us to fight against what is currently going to destroy us, humans.
@@somethingtojenga not even replace us, the newer generations (us) we are hating violence more and more we are already cutting back on plastics Gen Alpha and Z will hopefully save us
Yeah but the problem is, and therein lies the message movies like this try to convey, is just how cruel we can be to other organisms. An alien invasion like this would knock humanity's ego down a peg and humble us enough to realize that we aren't the only lifeforms that deserve a place on this planet, let alone the entire universe.
Guess it depends on the Aliens ego. Do they feel they are the mightiest life form and need no protection or are they just oblivious to the tiny dangers and pay them no mind cause they can not see the deadly dangers that wait them here.
It’s probably a mix of both. Consider the state of Mars, it’s likely that Martians are used to living in near sterile environments. How long they’ve done this for, and whether it’s been a fact of life for them from their earliest days, we don’t know. It’s possible that it has been this way so long, Martians forgot about germ theory, as they never had to deal with it, or the flip side, they were over reliant on things like Antibiotics. We’re actually experiencing the downsides of Antibiotics right now. Back when they first arrived on the scene, they were the miracle drug, drastically reducing the number of deaths from common diseases. Unfortunately, today we’ve started taking them for granted, and have been for a while, as a result, many people don’t finish antibiotic courses, this allows some of the pathogen that the antibiotic was meant to kill, to survive, and adapt. Ultimately, this makes that antibiotic less effective at killing that pathogen the next time, meaning we need stronger and stronger antibiotics. Taking this into account, the Martians probably had some kind of super drug, a one solution for all kinda thing. It however, was tailored to Martian diseases, not Earth diseases. So it would have succeeded partly in its job at first, as Earth pathogens had never encountered it before either, but unlike the Martian super drug, the pathogens could adapt. Slowly the seeds of the Martian’s doom were sown, and by the time they realised their mistake, it was too late.
they wouldn't even send tripods or anything on earth, if they really wanted us gone, they should've just bombarded our planet from space, literally all it takes is on meteor that is big enough to destroy humanity.
Also it’s possible that whatever protections they had, the organisms still got through. Much like antibiotic resistance, and there are organisms now that can digest plastic. Bacteria and viruses have short life cycles so they can evolve very quickly. The truth is, we don’t know how they got infected, or with what, but that is probably how it would play out in real life too.
@@stolasgoetia93 I think he is saying that an advanced civilization with such technological advancement not taking into consideration the potential for biological contamination and infection doesn't make sense. For example, when we went to the moon, the astronauts were quarantined when they returned to make sure they didn't accidentally bring back some foreign contaminate or disease.
"By the toll of a billion deaths." The population of the world in 2005 was roughly 6.5 billion. Roughly 16% of humanity was exterminated. To put that into context, every 1 in 6 people were killed. That's still horrific.
In the novel Wells also wrote of a billion deaths. Tgese might be a reference to the people who died of diseases before we developed the necessary antiviruses.
The whole crack pot scene was unnecessary, and Spielberg making a point about young men serving in the army (when they have no training what so ever). And then the son getting back miraculously. And then the final explanation could’ve been clearer. And god knows why the daughter ran off right before they got caught. Stuff like that fault what is mostly an amazingly made movie imo.
I can just imagine the Martians fucking ragequitting after figuring out their whole brainchild earth invasion masterplan didnt work out because someone coughed in their general direction.
Humans: "The aliens are attacking , were doomed" Aliens: "LOL we have the superior technology and the scary horns, were gonna dominate you" Covid 19: *RIP AND TEAR UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!*
You hear that Coronavirus?? "Man had earned his inmunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms, and that right is ours against all challenges"...
Aliens from a barren, thin-aired planet really thought "hey, let's invade a planet that has life in every single orifice and drink their blood" was a good idea.
I mean, if you grew up in a completely sterile environment for your entire life, I could imagine that your knowledge on diseases and shit would be pretty limited.
from the moment the invaders arrived 0:02 breathed out 0:03 air ate and drank they were doomed 0:09 they were undone destroyed 0:12 after all of man's weapons and devices 0:14 had failed by the tiniest creatures that 0:17 god and his wisdom put upon this earth 0:21 by the toll of a billion deaths man had 0:24 earned his immunity 0:25 his right to survive among this planet's 0:28 infinite organisms 0:31 and that right is ours against all 0:33 challenges 0:35 for neither do men live nor die 0:39 in vain
That would be a spacesuit in this case. These guys come from a dead world where no microbes exist. But I also shoe-in my beliefs that got hundreds of thousands of people killed into my posts. You on the alien's side?
Even though, a lot of people consider this ending to be "anti-climatic" or a "Deus ex Machina". But to me, this is quite realistic in terms of how the alien invaders have boasted their advanced technology and superior fighting machines. Yet the aliens themselves were just as mortal as mankind when they were exposed to Earth's bacteria.
H. G Wells was a Darwinist and with his novel he wanted to show that in nature it is not the strongest but the fittest that survive, I loved this ending and it was scientifically one of the most accurate that Hollywood ever did, the microorganisms that live here as in other planets are a great blessing or threat, neither side will be ready in an eventual alien invasion
This movie was moreso good on the humanity side of its scenes. All scenes without the aliens or tripods are great. The family dynamic, dialogue more than the aliens and tripods themselves. I didn't care much for the scenes showing the tripods or aliens ironically. The dialogue scenes are so good in this movie. Also good are the scenes showing the HUMANS/people.
This is exactly what happened to many Europeans in the Scramble for Africa. They were technologically superior to the local tribes and kingdoms, but it took until the advent of modern medicine to penetrate the interior. Before then Africa was known as the White Man's Grave because of all the pathogens that they weren't used to.
The whole point of this ending is to not only learn there are dangerous microbes on habitable planets, but no matter how or what you're using against it, it was meant to tell us to never ever colonize or attack habitable worlds as the biosphere, atmosphere and gravity are too much for aliens' evolution from their home planet, even when they have their own recourses they wasted.
I think the bigger message was simply humans were so sure of themselves they saw themselves as the main defense for Earth, not just one of many defenses
We have enough issues with bacterias and we've been dealing with them forever, with the rise of drug resistance and industrialization granting some bacterias a lot of resistance, the Martians probably didn't stand a chance
previously they had an active shield that was immune to physical attacks, one of which was javeline rocket attacks and guided missiles, after they were infected with viruses, germs and bacteria from within, their immunity decreased like they had the flu, and their shield slowly weakened and finally they were able to be executed with rockets javeline.. Urraaa 🗿💀
"god and his wisdom put on this earth" a change to the original literature which named natural selection. Thank you Neil degrass Tyson for pointing that out
Yeah, but in the movie and in the books the aliens would leave their ships to drink water on the earth’s surface and would harvest human blood to drink
The book explicitly mentions God "In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians-dead!-slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth." - The War of the Worlds Chapter Eight Dead London
previously they had an active shield that was immune to physical attacks, one of which was javeline rocket attacks and guided missiles, after they were infected with viruses, germs and bacteria from within, their immunity decreased like they had the flu, and their shield slowly weakened and finally they were able to be executed with rockets javeline 🗿💀
The worlds current population is only possible due to a very indicate and fragile system of trade and specialization. If that system is interrupted for only a few days then thousands will be condemned to death via starvation. Losing a billion people so quickly would cause that system to collapse entirely dooming billions more to death, and those people would drag the rest with them in their desperation. In short. Everyone died. The end.
Maybe hundreds of thousands more would have died worldwide indeed but considering the rather short time span the invasion lasted as you pointed out, that fragile system meant for 6 billion people would have been back on tracks in to time. Mankind is resilient.
This was my one issue with the movie. Yes aliens have complicated technology to cross the VASTNESS of space to come to earth. Yes aliens have the technology to build force fields that defy physics and repell projectiles of doom. Yes aliens are so complicated and advanced and intelligent. Somehow (in this movie), they were stupid enough to come to earth and NOT prepare to deal with the tiny micro organisms that were to be found here. Like wuuuuuuuut? I was EXTREMELY disappointed to find out that something even WE as humans know, would destroy aliens in this movie. Its kinda ironic because if aliens wanted to come to this earth and take it over, they would EASILY engineer lethal viruses that would do their killing for them. As soon as the last human ends up dead, they'd come unchallenged to this earth and claim it without having to lift ONE alien finger. Or, hell even easier... if aliens wanted to conquer the earth for whatever reason, they'd just build a dyson sphere on the sun, absorb all its energy for themselves, and when everything on this planet has turned to ice, they could just come and acquire anything they need unchallenged. IF you REALLY wanted to get fancy with it... you COULD just wait until humans become dependent on robotics with artificial intelligence, HACK the robots and make them annihilate all humans again, without lifting ONE finger... I still wait for a movie that ACCURATELY shows exactly how it would go down if an alien species decided to invade this earth. Ofcourse it wouldn't end well for humans, but it IS a movie afterall.
It's sorta like Jurassic Park. Humans, with all their engineering genius and intelligence ressurected dinosaurs, but life still found a way. The same concept applies here. No matter how powerful you are, you cannot be omnipotent.
@@maxwelldillon4805 I think I was maybe expecting a better explanation or something Like to me it came across like "God in his wisdom decided humans suffered enough, you've earned your immunity to the aliens" Or maybe it's that the foreshadowing of them being sick could have been done better It just didn't seem to explain what happened without being too philosophical or whatever so it felt super out of place It's hard to fully explain why I hated it it's a little bit of several reasons
Yet you underestimated the aliens’ advanced technology as they had ENERGY SHIELDS! Quit going America on your butts by overestimating the power of nuclear weapons that could also kill millions of innocent people!
and don't forget. The tripods used were millions of years old and they were used for farming back in the alien world. Just imagine their war machines now...yeah
