The War of the Worlds, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom

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  @Dominic-Noble · 7 years ago · pinned

  DEFINITELY should have acknowledged Mary Shelley as the true founder of science fiction. That was a sexist omission I will fully own.

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• MR

  @mr_lrb6879 · 1 year ago

  Wow, can't imagine why this is being recommended to me now...

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• ST

  @starryskies113 · 1 year ago

  6 years later

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• JO

  @jordandehart6905 · 7 years ago

  "In the end, it was not guns or bombs that defeated the aliens, but that of God's most humblest of creatures. The tyrannosaurus rex"

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• TO

  @torytellstales · 1 year ago

  Imagine H.G. Wells going in the Time Machine to go forward in our current time to see the 2025 "adaptation" of his novel.

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• FU

  @FuugaNatsu · 7 years ago

  &quot;You can&apos;t be partially dead&quot; - well, you can be MOSTLY dead. And mostly dead is slightly alive.<br><br><br>... someone had to.

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• IA

  @iain9757 · 7 years ago

  I like to think the Brother from WOTW &amp; the Persian from Phantom of the Opera hang out in the “we are always cut from adaptations” bar

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  @k1tkat-kate · 7 years ago

  &quot;Why am I saying &apos;completely&apos;? You can&apos;t be partially dead...&quot;<br>Oh, but dear Dominic you are forgetting that you can be.... m o s t l y dead. And as we all know, mostly dead is a little bit alive.

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• DA

  @danieltobin4498 · 1 year ago

  “No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s yet as mortal as his own” War of the Worlds-1898<br><br>“THEY’RE EATING OUR DATA” Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds-2025

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• JO

  @jotalhoverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 1 year ago

  bro you have no idea what they did this time

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• PA

  @patrickmedland7473 · 7 years ago

  Actually really like the inclusion of other adaptations, it really helps contextualize the adaptation in question. I also notice you seem to be putting more focus on thematic accuracy now as well, which is great too!

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  @MysteryMiles · 6 years ago

  What I found really interesting about the Spielberg adaptation was that the sequence with people getting caught by tripods, put in nets, and then sucked into the body of the tripods (and stopping it by sending a grenade through the aperture) seemed to come from a whole different sci-fi novel--The White Mountains by John Christopher.

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