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Someone at work tried to explain it, made little sense !
Anyone want to explain why H G wells wrote the story ?
Person writes story.
story is published
People buy book
Author (and publishers, etc) gets money
Clear? 🙂
H.G. Wells. Orson Welles was an actor.
He had an idea for a story so wrote it to get some cash as that's how he earned a living.
Anyone want to explain why Orseon Welles wrote the story ?
Close.
He took drugs?
If you've been trying to figure out why Orson Wells wrote War of the Worlds, I think I can see why it doesn't make sense.....
Are you taking the piss! 🙂
Don't get [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds ]War of the Worlds novel by HG Wells[/url] mixed up with [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama) ]War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles[/url]
It was first broadcast on radio as a prank, it didnt sound like that origi ally it was a proper news broadcast. People actually evacuated! ! It was bk in the 30's or 50's not sure when but really early on when people only hax radio and would actually believe it
I thought Hg Wells was where Martians got their mercury from.
recap doh
unfitgeezer - Member
Someone at work tried to explain it, made little sense !
Anyone want to explain why [b]H G wells [/b]wrote the story ?
Weird thread 🙂
Do you mean why did Orson Welles do a radio series of War Of The Worlds, dressed up as a documentary/news report ?
Certainly worked and messed with quite a few people's heads, so "for the craic" is probably the answer.
I refer the gentleman to my previous answer 😉
It's another version of the Outside Context Problem - a new unstoppable enemy. With the lovely twist that it's the (recently discovered) tiny bacteria that defeat the aliens. Wells was a futurist, looking at current technology and science (and politics) and extrapolating.
orson wells did the famous radio broadcast that led to folk thinking we were being invaded [ except the reaction bit is largely myth]
Unfiteditor...
To sell books and make money! It's a long shot but I think some geezer called Billy Shaky started making money from stories a while back.
Anyone want to explain why H G wells wrote the story ?
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[b]Do you mean why did Orson Welles do a radio series of War Of The Worlds, dressed up as a documentary/news report ?[/b]
Yes this
The actual reason is the universe knew that it had to happen to ensure this masterpiece was created:
Anyone want to explain why H G wells wrote the story ?
What does this even mean?
He wrote it because he was a brilliantly gifted futurist who could imagine things that was just way ahead of the technology when he lived.
I thought Hg Wells was where Martians got their mercury from.
Very good! Not nearly enough periodic table jokes on here!
ery good! Not nearly enough periodic table jokes on here!
Na.
[i]The actual reason is the universe knew that it had to happen to ensure this masterpiece was created:[/i]
Worst album in history! 🙂
the chances of anything [good] coming from [s]mars[/s] this thread are....
Cougar - ModeratorI thought Hg Wells was where Martians got their mercury from.
Cougar, moderating
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so I got a bit confused with my question big deal punks...
Even though this post wont be read and Ill still be slated and pitch forked etc I know what I meant !
Do you mean why did Orson Welles do a radio series of War Of The Worlds, dressed up as a documentary/news report ?
Doesn't the fact that 50 or 60 years later we're still talking about it give you a clue?
Describe another episode of radio drama from the same time.
Do you mean why did Orson Welles do a radio series of War Of The Worlds, dressed up as a documentary/news report ?
Its your thread why you asking us ?
Is that what you meant then?
he did as he thought it would be entertaining and he was a genius
flip Im outa my own thread enjoy yourselves
(will read and try not to cry to much over my stale cheese sandwich whilst you lot make fun of me...boo hoo )
think I will start a nice thread about something...
Still no idea what question you are attempting to ask.
Try again.
Pretend the embarrassingly sketchy attempt at asking a question hasn't happened....
And start from the beginning below this post.
......... Go.
It's the wrong question, anyway.
If you're trying to ask "why did Orson Welles scare the nation with his radio broadcast?" then the first thing you need to ask is "did Orson Welles scare the nation with his radio broadcast?"
The answer to which, unfortunately, is "no he didn't." It's a myth, largely perpetrated and wildly exaggerated by the press at the time who saw the radio as their competition.
But... But ...
People actually evacuated!
What 😯
People really shat themselves?
Do you mean why did Orson Welles do a radio series of War Of The Worlds, dressed up as a documentary/news report ?
Who me?
Anyway HG Wells was a notorious shagaround and very keen cyclist.
He said "Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live"
Good man.
It's the wrong question, anyway.
Watch out, it's the thought police!
Award for 'hardest work' thread of the year goes to....
flip Im outa my own thread enjoy yourselves
Is that the first flounce of 2014?
i'll refer you back to the bag of cash above.
welles' (orson) reputation was very much enhanced by the production. he did, however, agree to changes as dictated by cbs as the original script was 'too realistic'.
less famous productions of the mercury theatre can be found here
http://www.mercurytheatre.info/
that do you op?
[i]the mercury theatre[/i]
is that where the HG Wells are situated?
is that where the HG Wells are situated?
We really are plumbing new depths.
I imagine the OP, who seems to have turned into the invisible man, wishes he had a time machine to go back and stop this thread.
[i]We really are plumbing new depths. [/i]
I'm hoping for a Pb.
you're swinging that
Because it happened - have you not seen the big dip in Horsell Common where they are supposed to have landed ???
It's a real place? cool. quick google search, love it.
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hypnotized by the unscrewing of the cylinder
Two feet of shining screw projected
when suddenly the lid fell off
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Bored of Woking....it took a while for Paul Weller to come along and jazz it up a bit!!!!
(Damn beaten to it)
Isn't the hole full of dog mess by now????
Award for 'hardest work' thread of the year goes to....
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/does-anybody-actually-believe-crop-circles-are-made-by-ufos ]This one[/url]. Must be something about aliens.
To answer the OP's sort-of-maybe 'not even sure if it was a question' question, I was told at school that there is a phenomena referred to as 'fin de siècle' whereby as the end of the century approaches everybody goes a bit doolally and collectively start to dwell on subjects such as impending doom (eg the millennium bug). War of the Worlds, being written at the end of the 19th century, fits nicely into that.
The answer to which, unfortunately, is "no he didn't." It's a myth, largely perpetrated and wildly exaggerated by the press at the time who saw the radio as their competition.
Are you suggesting some kind of Orsonwellian plot?
HG Wells was a prominent Fabian who believed that significant changes to society needed to be made in order for it to survive. Fabians believed in introducing socialist ideas alibeit gradually. Socialism as we understand it today was a relatively new concept at the end of the 19th century. In Britain the first Socialist 'party' was formed in 1883 and advocated a restructuring society along socialist principles.
HG Wells became frustated with limited change in Britain. Aristocratic domination didn't really weaken until after World War I. HG Wells, like many were frustrated by the huge chasm between the rich and poor. He wrote the novel in 1898.
He was trying to make several points with War of the Worlds. The one that struck me the most was that it a criticism of the imperial conquests of Britain at a time when I said above huge numbers in the UK were starving in industrial slums in the UK. At the same time British forces were destroying indgenous peoples sthroughout the globe and the one example cited is of British troops massacring Tasmanians. He wrote the novel on the eve of the Boer War and HG Wells was criticing the arrogance of so called civilising nations who destroyed innocent civilains at a time when the state in Britain was failing the urban poor. He was trying to highlight the arrogance of the British state, how the empire could be humbled so quickly admittedly not by bacteria! But by the ignorance and arrogance of the ruling elites. By 1906 The Fabians had been absorbed into the Labour Party and unfortunately HG Wells 'warning' hasn't been heeded. THere is still a huge rich/poor divide. Arrogant superpwoers who show no regard for the welfare of peoples in the countries that we've invaded and even though the aristicracy no longer has a hold on the country's affairs. We are being led and governed by a political elite who seemingly don't give a shit!
What a ramble. Apologies for punctuation and syntax, I'm watching Planes with my two young boys!
Matt Lewis
With the lovely twist that it's the (recently discovered) tiny bacteria that defeat the aliens
Virus, wasn't it?
THe OP begs the question: Why do you want to know? I mean, why did Jane Austen write Sense & Sensibility?
This goes out to my bwoy DezB
THe OP begs the question: Why do you want to know? I mean, why did Jane Austen write Sense & Sensibility?
Didn't Ang Lee write Sense & Sensibility?
I STILL don't understand the question...
It's a good question! The novel is an allegory of the arrogance of empires and the message that the mighty can fall quite easily. So, Britain at the turn of the last century be careful. Look to change your own state before going into other seemingly unsophisticated socities and wreaking destruction.
Molgrips, I'm pretty sure that it was bacteria but could be wrong. Why does anyone ever produce anything? There is a message no matter how simple behind any story isn't there?
I like matt lewis he got my question !
I vote for matt lewis
...because a guy had a dream and a guitar?
It's a good question!
The one thing there certainly hasn't been in this thread is a "good question"
Even the OP can't explain what he actually wanted to know, or even who he wanted to know it about.
He was living in Woking when he wrote it.
He hated Woking so much, he decided to write a story about it being destroyed.