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War of the Worlds: Orson Welles
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Well not only is there a new version of the movie, the 1978 classic recording Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is available in a stunning 2 CD SACD set. The sound is spellbinding on a surround sound system.
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Not unsurprisingly, when in 1939, Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood fresh from his triumph with his War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, there were those at the RKO studio who felt that he should immediately start work on a film version. Welles was not adverse to the idea, but was adamant that this should not be his first picture. This of course was to be Citizen Kane, but it is a heady thought to imagine what he might have engineered had he thought differently. Citizen Kane was a stupendous special effects movie, pioneering numerous new techniques, so Welles certainly had the visual flair and imagination to pull off an incredible science fiction film. Of course, RKO would have first had to have levered the property away from Paramount, so perhaps it was just not to be.
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Jeff Wayne was already a wellknown figure in British rock circles when he created The War of the Worlds, the piece for which he would remain known to the public for more than a quarter century after. He was born in New York, the son of actor Jerry Wa
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With the incredible powers of both Earth and Mars to fight against the Axis of Evil, the war was bound to end soon. Earth employed their very first prototype spacecraft to invade Uranus with armies led by Orson Welles and a very young Tom Cruise. Uranus struggled to mobilize its troops to defend themselves against the oncoming attack while continuing to support its struggling armies in Jupiter.
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All of these "Wars" have had the advantage of appearing at uncannily fraught moments in world history, striking a chord with a citizenry already primed to be unnerved. The original novel appeared when Britain feared an invasion from Germany, the Welles broadcast on the cusp of World War II, the Pal film during the Cold War. More than that, each version has had the additional plus of complete plausibility, of seeming like something that could be actually happening. that from first to last there is nothing in it that is impossible."
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After Welles, the War of the Worlds came to film in August, 1953, scant weeks after the settlement of the Korean conflict. While the cinematic version kept the basic theme of humans versus the aliens intact, careful -- or nervous -- viewers could ... have seen the proceedings as relating to a possible conflict with the implacable powers of Communism.
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