Machines To Go 'Aloo' ?

[jeffwaynefan]

If correct, could we be seeing Speilbergs WOTW Fighting Machines howling in the film (Aloo) like in the book.

www.upcomingepics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=288

The report (seen elsewhere on the site) is from a film set extra.

'Just worked 2 days in the Los Angeles area-- 1 day on the Universal lot and 1 day on L.A. streets (subbing for Boston). Friday/February 25... We were ash-covered survivors crowding in on the wrecked/downed Tripod, being held at bay by Marine/National Guard types. The hatch door opens...Oh, my God! What's that coming out of the alien craft?..... Later in the evening some of us were re-wardrobed to portray a crowd trying to muscle its way onto a ferry(under the falling fake snow-- probably to match footage from back east) and (once again) being held back by the military. Ray and Rachel (Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning) were present in both sequences........Monday/February 28... The set was an intersection, with one corner being a park/playground with a statue of a early patriot with a tri-cornered hat...statue crawling with red vines. Red vines on fire escapes, overturned cars, a UPS van, and up the sides of buildings. More guardsmen, Humvees, automatic weapons, and us as weary, dirty, overwrought survivors dragging our luggage and belongings with us. Tripods calling in the distance. At one point as we walked across an intersection, we were directed to look down the block in the direction of a hotel as if a crashed Tripod could be seen (at about the 10-story level). Lots of various tracking shots with a very hard-working Cruise and Fanning. The sequence should look pretty impressive once the SFX are dropped into place. As far as I am aware there are only a few more shooting days here in the L.A. area, so I'm lucky to have been booked to work in the last week or so.

[Necronmaniac]

Well,

If that post is to be believed then i guess yeah we can expect the tri pods to call to each other which should be great and add a nice chilling edge to the aliens it certainly did in the musical

[Anthony]

Great news. When i read the book i thought the tripods calling to each other by going aloo was very spooky

[maximus]

Isn't is "ULLA"?

[themotile]

The narrator explains that the hooting is a prelude to feeding as its the sound of air being expelled before the suction begins, the sound of ulla ulla was never explained but its a paradox that the martians were basicaly deaf in our atmosphere (as explained by the narrator).

I think ulla ulla is used to greater effect in 'dead london', however the idea of the aliens having a 'call' in the SS movie is bloody fantastic and im sure it will add to the cinema experiance.

[jeffwaynefan]

maximus said:

Isn't is "ULLA"?

H.G. Wells book is 'Aloo' during the invasion then turning to 'Ulla' when the invaders are ready to shuffle off this mortle coil.

Jeff Waynes album is 'Ulla' from start to finish

H_C

[jeffwaynefan]

the said:

The narrator explains that the hooting is a prelude to feeding as its the sound of air being expelled before the suction begins, the sound of ulla ulla was never explained but its a paradox that the martians were basicaly deaf in our atmosphere (as explained by the narrator).

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So during the attack on Weybridge and Sheperton, the Martians were tucking into a KFC bargain bucket while on the move. ;D

The 'hooting' I beleive was with referance to what the Martians themselves made when not inside there machinary as observed by the Narrator while trapped in the ruined house and not the sounds coming from the Fighting Machines which were 'Aloo' and 'Ulla'. . . But I will double check.

H_C

[Winky]

When I was filming in Athens they said we hear a noise from the tripods as it is coming. They said they communicate with each other just like in the book. So I took it as "Aloo" or the famous "Ulla." An extra who had been there a bit longer than me said it will sound like a "Alla" sound.

But thats what she said.

[jeffwaynefan]

Its the sound the Martian itself makes and not the sounds (Aloo/Ulla) heard coming from the Machines. Here it is from HGs book for those that are not familiar with it.

quote - 'And I assert that I watched them closely time after time, and that I have seen four, five, and (once) six of them sluggishly performing the most elaborately complicated operations together without either sound or gesture. Their peculiar hooting invariably preceded feeding; it had no modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation.' - unquote

[EvilNerfherder]

There's only one 'Aloo' in the book.. their first call.. then it's 'Ulla' all the way.
I've always wondered why that is, actually.

[Anthony]

ok, maybe this could be another thread. What do you prefer , aloo or ulla? ;D ;D

[jeffwaynefan]

Personally I like 'Ulla' because of recognising it from Jeff's album. But I always heard it with more of a 'breathy' feel to it. . . Say it while breathing out deeply.

But I think I would pick the 'Aloo' sound for the film because its not been heard/done yet.

Good idea about about a thread - you want to do it or shall I. . . . Opinion Poll would be good.

H_C