Paramount War of the Worlds DVD Scene Selection
Chapter 1
Earth Under Man; the little picture shows microscopic life-forms but if the pictures must represent the title beneath, they must be either pictures of the Earth or pictures of Man
Chapter 2
Eve of the War; the little picture shows Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) climbing out of a car, is he called Eve? or is the car called Eve?
Chapter 3
Coming of the Invaders; the little picture shows Ray Ferrier's son, I know his and his sisters arrival came as a bit of a surprise to Ray but would you call it an Invasion?
Chapter 4
In The Storm; Hey what do you know, there is a storm in the little picture, Well that must prove you right.
Chapter 5
The Machine Emerges; the little picture shows a truck engine, well I suppose you could call it a machine but it's not really emerging is it? it's just lying there not working.
Chapter 6
Heat-Ray; it looks like your right again there is a picture of Ray, he may be heated I don't know, it's difficult to tell.
Should I go on or do you get the picture?, The point I am making is you can twist anything around to mean whatever you want it to mean but as Sigmund Freud once said "Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar"
Alland wrote:
You ought to read a little more Kipling instead of Wells:
I have read Kipling thanks, although I am not familiar with his poems. I do know he was sickened by the atrocities committed by the Brits in India and he wrote about them in his second volume of Plain Tales from the Hills' a book our government tried and failed to suppress.
There's also a nice little story called 'The Man Who Would Be King' about two ex-soldiers who decide to make themselves kings of a little backward country called Kafiristan, just because they had the power to do so, they impose their beliefs, their politics and their laws upon the ignorant people who treat them as Gods. every thing goes alright until the friends fall out and the natives see through their tricks, then one is thrown from a cliff and the other is chased back over the mountains and lives the rest of his life as a demented, broken man. This was as you probably guessed Kipling having a go at Britain for interfering with lesser cultures and the probable consequences of that interference, Britain did it a century ago and now America is doing the same, like having a tiger by it's tail, eventually the Tiger will turn and bite you. Our Governments will do what ever is necessary to keep the oil flowing our way, they'll lie to us, tell us stories about weapons of mass destruction. finance one nation over another, not because it's the right thing to do but because this Nation will sell it's Oil cheaper than the other Nation, And talking about Tigers by the tail, that brings me nicely to another of Kipling story, from his 'Jungle Book' Collection, it's called 'The King's Ankus' it's about a bejewelled Elephant goad, it's stolen from the long forgotten treasury of a long dead King, Mowgli follows the progress of the treasure through the jungle by following the bodies it leaves behind as Men lie, cheat and kills one another to posses the Ankus. Mowgli believes the Ankus must be evil because he doesn't understand Human greed and can't see why a mere thing can be worth so many lives. Nor can I, and if that makes me a Bleeding Hearts Liberal, so be it,
Alland wrote:
We didn't "charge into" either Iraq or Afghanistan until after WE were attacked first on 9/11,
It must have been someone else who did the charging then, because when Iraq attacked Kuwait I thought it was the USA and the UK amongst others. but we only did it to protect those poor innocent people didn't we?? Yeah Right, and because Kuwait was selling us oil and Iraq wasn't and WE didn't want Iraq getting hold of those oil-fields did we? but it was a different story a few years earlier when it was Iran against Iraq, that nice Mr Hussein was happy to sell us oil then just so long as the west helped finance his little war, and guess what? we did.
Anyway this is a WOTW site not a political arena and this discussion could go on forever and get nowhere so this is my last comment on the matter.