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Post by theheatray on Feb 16, 2005 21:44:31 GMT
I wonder why they cut out any reference to the martians wanting us as food? Im sure the 50's mind set could have handled it, one of the greatest twighlight zone episodes was 'to serve man' about a race of beings that wanted us as food and we loose, big time! So why oh why did they choose not to include one of the best and most chilling aspects of the book?
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 16, 2005 22:44:51 GMT
Prolly because they left everything else out?
-Gnorn
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Post by Topaz on Feb 16, 2005 22:50:42 GMT
I wonder why they cut out any reference to the martians wanting us as food? Im sure the 50's mind set could have handled it, one of the greatest twighlight zone episodes was 'to serve man' about a race of beings that wanted us as food and we loose, big time! So why oh why did they choose not to include one of the best and most chilling aspects of the book? I suppose the real question is if they thought the '50's censors could have handled it!  Since the Martians in that movie don't talk, I think it would have been difficult to include that plot-point without showing it. As far as I know for the period, while you could talk about people getting eaten, it was really, really hard to show people getting eaten. The other factor may have been cost - they'd probably have had to make more than one Martian to do those scenes and their budget was stretched pretty thin already on 'machine' effects. Just my two cents. |
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Post by theheatray on Feb 17, 2005 0:10:40 GMT
Oh yeah, didnt think of it like that, thanks!  |
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Post by dudalb on Feb 18, 2005 1:26:54 GMT
You would have a hard time with the censors with that one. Even the 1938 Radio broadcast only had a brief reference to that with the Narrator saying when he listed a whole bunch of things he had seen from the ruined house "i saw how the Martians feed".
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Post by theheatray on Feb 18, 2005 12:46:17 GMT
The original The Thing from another world had a bloke upside down with his throat slit having his blood drained, so the alien Thing could propagate its spawn with human blood.
Why couldnt we have Gene Barry see the martian drag a limp human form into view only to see the horror on Barrys face as he watches (we dont get to see it happen) and later when hes with the other Cal Tech boffins he tells of the horror, the martians want our blood!
Its wouldnt exactly be graphic.
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Post by Bayne on Feb 18, 2005 20:28:23 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Maybe it was because of the rating? It's amusing seeing the old ratings of films like THEM and to see them now as PG or G
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Post by themotile on Feb 19, 2005 23:19:43 GMT
The original The Thing from another world had a bloke upside down with his throat slit having his blood drained, so the alien Thing could propagate its spawn with human blood. Why couldnt we have Gene Barry see the martian drag a limp human form into view only to see the horror on Barrys face as he watches (we dont get to see it happen) and later when hes with the other Cal Tech boffins he tells of the horror, the martians want our blood! Its wouldnt exactly be graphic. Thats right but Bayne is quite right and also it wasnt George Pals scene, he didnt like horror. |
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Post by maniacs on Feb 19, 2005 23:21:08 GMT
Thats right but Bayne is quite right and also it wasnt George Pals scene, he didnt like horror. GODDAM MUTHER***kIN PANSY! |
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Post by themotile on Feb 20, 2005 13:53:31 GMT
LOL ;D
It was the 50's remember, when boobs were classed as porno.
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Post by twistedrabbit on Feb 21, 2005 2:02:46 GMT
When poodle skirts were the equivelant of short shorts.
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