Commodore Remix

exoskeleton wrote:Its not too late for that to happen in our lifetime though, its just not going to happen this time 'round.

Well, Jeff Wayne's version is set in the 1890s, in England...

Matrix wrote:Dude, im talking about the back and white one from the 50's - the one set in America.... was there a film b4 this one ?

My point being that showing the "US side of the story" is rather irrelevant, seeing as the original novel made no reference to the USA, and the 1950s movie wasn't set in the 1890s. To all extents and purposes, it was a totally different story. It's rather like the British doing a production of Blade Runner, set in London, in the 1990s, and saying it shows the British side of the story, despite the location and time having nothing to do with the original story (both film and novel).

Fraid i cant, never read it in the first place lol .... Just seen the 50's film, Jeff Waynes musical, and the attrocious tv show...... lol

Read the book—it's very good.

Thx but i dont read books, never have time... thats why tv is so important to me lol.....

Matrix wrote:Thx but i dont read books, never have time... thats why tv is so important to me lol.....

But it's a very short book!

Richard Burton's narration (used in the musical) is very dramatic, almost perfect infact.
I've never heard a banjo sound so good DUM DUM DUMMM, while being mixing in with eerie noises from the other instruments.

And it's funny to think that the 1938 radio narration caused mass hysteria
"Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact"

Also I happenned to notice the many narrational differences between 1938 radio broadcast and Jeff Wayne's 1976 Musical Version, for example.

1938 radio broadcast
We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's, and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

With infinite complacence people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small, spinning fragment of solar driftwood which, by chance or design, man has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space.

Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

Jeff Wayne's musical 1976 version
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.

No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.

Matrix wrote:Thx but i dont read books, never have time... thats why tv is so important to me lol.....

Watch less TV. Leaves more time for reading.

tony.rc wrote:Also I happenned to notice the many narrational differences between 1938 radio broadcast and Jeff Wayne's 1976 Musical Version

There's also a few differences in the introduction to U96's unz-unz-unz-yet-quite-good take on it:

"Niemand hätte in den letzen Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts geglaubt, das unser menschliches tun und lassen, beobachtet werden könnte. aber jenseits des gähnenden weltraums, beobachteten geister, uns überlegen wie wir den tieren, ungeheure, kalte und unheimliche geister, mit neidischen augen, auf unsre erde, bedächtig und sicher, schmiedeten sie ihre pläne gegen uns. Sind wir, oder sie, die herren des alls?"

As I only get around 90% of it, I'll leave it to a native german to translate it. But trust me, it's different.

Jan Lund Thomsen wrote: As I only get around 90% of it, I'll leave it to a native german to translate it. But trust me, it's different.

Don't worry, the last 10% are the 600 commas that are too much in there.

Romeo Knight wrote:

Jan Lund Thomsen wrote: As I only get around 90% of it, I'll leave it to a native german to translate it. But trust me, it's different.

Don't worry, the last 10% are the 600 commas that are too much in there.

Oh well. That's what I get for cut'n'pasting it from some lyrics page.

"Nobody would have thought, at the final days of the 20th century, that our human affairs on earth could be watched. But beyond the void of space, minds, who were superior to us like we are superior to animals, monstrous, cold, and fearsome minds, were watching our earth with envious eyes - patient and steadily they forged their plans against us. Are they, or are we the lords of the universe?"

Okay I'm not Shakespeare, but that's about what it says.

[Edit: made some adjustments]

I have to say, of all of them, I actually prefer Jeff Wayne's version (which is similar to the original novel's intro, but more succinct). Here's hoping Burton's voice survives to the Wayne movie, because it's a perfect reading. (I'm sure they could clean up the original audio, especially seeing as they're remixing Wayne's album anyway.)