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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Overall, the original novel is one of the most brutal comments on British colonialism at the time. ''Direly'' needed.
->"And before we judge them [the Martians] too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished Bison and the Dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"
— Chapter I, "The Eve of the War"
->"And before we judge them [the Martians] too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished Bison and the Dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"
— Chapter I, "The Eve of the War"
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: It is mentioned that the Martians, on their home planet, fed off pale-skinned, human-like creatures. Depending on in what light you want to paint the Martians, some say those human-like creatures were just as sapient as Earth humans, surviving specimens of the original humanoid species it is speculated the main Martians were mutated from — while others would say the Martians didn't initially mean to be as savage in their takeover as they ended up being, having taken their cattle with them, but were forced to start hunting down Earth humans when their cattle died on the way.
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** The Orson Welles version, which was broadcast in October 1938, took place a year later and noted that "[[WorldWarII the war scare]]" was over...
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** The Martians' "skeleton rays" are eerily reminiscent of [[DoctorWho the Daleks']] blast-guns, especially as they appeared in "Remembrance of the Daleks".
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** The book's references to the use of poison gas by the Martians were scary enough in 1898, but after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI...
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** A similar thing happens in the OrsonWelles version. Their take on the Thunderchild scene involved a bomber performing a HeroicSacrifice by crashing into a Tripod. A tactic the Allied servicemen in the Pacific would become all too familiar with a few years down the line...
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** A similar thing happens in the OrsonWelles Creator/OrsonWelles version. Their take on the Thunderchild scene involved a bomber performing a HeroicSacrifice by crashing into a Tripod. A tactic the Allied servicemen in the Pacific would become all too familiar with a few years down the line...
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* HellIsThatNoise: The aliens' ship noise, one of the most famous.
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** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
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** Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' he wrote.
** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
** The aliens that the invaders take with them as food source neatly fit the description of TheGreys.
** Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' he wrote.
** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
** The aliens that the invaders take with them as food source neatly fit the description of TheGreys.
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** Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' he wrote.
** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
** The aliens that the invaders take with them as food source neatly fit the description of TheGreys.
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** The artillery man in particular is a disturbingly prophetic figure. Even though he does not have the will to follow suit with these plans, the ideas that came up with do sound a lot like the things that thirty years latter by a group of people in Germany with good dress sense and a tenancy to march without bending their knees led by a certain rejected art student.
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** The artillery man in particular is a disturbingly prophetic figure. Even though he does not have the will to follow suit with these plans, the ideas that came up with do sound a lot like the things that thirty years latter by a group of people in Germany with good dress sense and a tenancy tendency to march without bending their knees led by a certain rejected art student.
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** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
** The aliens that the invaders take with them as food source neatly fit the description of TheGreys.
** Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' he wrote.
** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
** The aliens that the invaders take with them as food source neatly fit the description of TheGreys.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Alien attacks are so common in popular culture that this would not stick out to a modern reader/viewer.
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* ValuesDissonance: The overtly Christian tone. American society was much more religious in the 1950s than it is today, so the film's Christian moralizing can feel dated and overbearing to modern viewers; particularly those that aren't religious and and/or are familiar with the original novel, which didn't present religion in a favorable light.
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* ValuesDissonance: The film's overtly Christian tone. American society was much more religious in the 1950s than it is today, so the Christian moralizing scattered throughout the film can feel dated and overbearing to modern viewers- particularly those that aren't religious and are familiar with the source material, which didn't present religion in a favorable light.
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* ValuesDissonance: The film's overtly Christian tone. American society was much more religious in the 1950s than it is today, so the film's Christian moralizing scattered throughout the film can feel dated and overbearing to modern viewers- viewers; particularly those that aren't religious and are familiar with the source material, original novel, which didn't present religion in a favorable light.
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* ValuesDissonance: The film's overtly Christian tone. American society was much more religious in the 1950s than it is today, so the Christian moralizing scattered throughout the film can feel dated and overbearing to modern viewers- particularly those that aren't religious and are familiar with the source material, which didn't present religion in a favorable light.
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* MainstreamObscurity: Famous, but rarely read or watched.
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** For its time, the wires were well hidden. As Home Video got ever more capable of fleshing out fine details, the wires are now unavoidable, and would take CGI erasure to be rid of.
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* GeniusBonus: General Mann says he hasn't seen Dr. Forrester since Oak Ridge, indicating that both worked on the Manhattan Project.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The creators of ''{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'' swiped the name Dr. Clayton Forrester from the film's hero, and their Dr. Forrester is now by far the one more associated with the name. So watching the film in a post-[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] world can be an odd experience.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The creators of ''{{Mystery ''Series/{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'' swiped the name Dr. Clayton Forrester from the film's hero, and their Dr. Forrester is now by far the one more associated with the name. So watching the film in a post-[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] post-[=MST3K=] world can be an odd experience.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The creators of ''{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'' swiped the name Dr. Clayton Forrester from the film's hero, and their Dr. Forrester is now by far the one more associated with the name. So watching the film in a post-MST3k post-[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] world can be an odd experience.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: The movie opens with [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome impressive Chesley Bonestelle paintings]] of the other planets of the Solar System ''except'' for Venus. In 1953, the nature of what lay beneath that world's clouds was unknown – deserts, swamps, and global seas of carbonated water or petroleum were all considered possibilities.
** Ironically, the grossly inaccurate description of Jupiter is far more telling of Venus' surface conditions.
** Interestingly, Venus - forgotten in this film - was the ''first'' planet examined by a probe, in 1962.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Back in the source novel the alien war machines were vulnerable to artillery fire and a torpedo ram, which were the most powerful weapons available at the time. In this film the aliens can survive an atom bomb blast, because otherwise they would be defeated very quickly.
** Reportedly, George Pal asked a Pentagon representative how contemporary armed forces would do against the Martians from the novel. He replied in no uncertain terms it would be a CurbStompBattle for humanity.
** Ironically, the grossly inaccurate description of Jupiter is far more telling of Venus' surface conditions.
** Interestingly, Venus - forgotten in this film - was the ''first'' planet examined by a probe, in 1962.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Back in the source novel the alien war machines were vulnerable to artillery fire and a torpedo ram, which were the most powerful weapons available at the time. In this film the aliens can survive an atom bomb blast, because otherwise they would be defeated very quickly.
** Reportedly, George Pal asked a Pentagon representative how contemporary armed forces would do against the Martians from the novel. He replied in no uncertain terms it would be a CurbStompBattle for humanity.
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* {{Narm}}: The Martian that Dr. Forrester and Sylvia encounter in the farmhouse. Why? Not because of its appearance but because it ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' he wrote.
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** Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' hewrote.wrote.
** The name of the military leader that battles the Martians at Weybridge and Shepperton? Brigadier-General ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin]]''.
** Unbelievably inhuman creatures with plenty of tentacles arriving from outer space, beings so immeasurably alien we don't stand a chance in fighting them, and implications of our own inevitable doom in a universe that at best seems completely indifferent to what happens to us, not to mention a certain degree of insanity that comes from realizing our insignificance. [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Sound familiar]]? Well, good ol' Creator/HPLovecraft would have been a child when this book was published, predating just about ''everything'' he
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