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Post by HTT on Mar 8, 2005 10:39:59 GMT
Does anyone know if H.R.Giger has done any War Of The Worlds artwork? I would love to see his interpretation of the martians and their war machines!
I found a rumour that he was attached to a WOTW film project in 1997, but I can't find anything else - did Pendragon approach him back then? After what he did with Alien, I'd've thought he'd be top of the list to come up with a dark, scary design!
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Post by RustiSwordz on Mar 8, 2005 10:49:57 GMT
Yeah i agree, but i feel that he may stray from the initial design somewhat.
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Post by daKlone on Mar 8, 2005 11:56:07 GMT
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Post by Chris on Mar 9, 2005 3:55:39 GMT
I like a lot of gigers work, however the novelty of him giving everything a huge penis soon wears off in my opinion.
Things you could expect giger to turn into a penis:
Martian cylinder Fghting machine/handling machine legs Fighting machine/handling machine tentacles/claws Martian tentacles Martian feeding aparatus Blake Smoke funnel Maxim guns
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Mar 9, 2005 4:01:14 GMT
..the Curate ;D
I agree, he seems to have some serious hang-ups. A magician with the airbrush nonetheless.
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Post by Gerkinman on Mar 9, 2005 13:41:33 GMT
100ft tall penises walking around England spreading the hot steamy seamen onto the people...o.0
sounds like a potential killer condom sequal, that movie was funny, bring him on i say ;D
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Mar 9, 2005 15:28:35 GMT
Now, that's an image I really didn't want in my head.
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Post by HTT on Mar 9, 2005 15:47:34 GMT
To be fair, there wasn't much of the Stiffy in Alien... or did I miss it? Thinking about it, maybe it would be a bad idea to have him on the movie. God only knows how he'd have the tentacles emerging from the opening of the cylinder... Actually, I think we'd all have a fair idea...
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Post by the Donal on Mar 9, 2005 17:38:56 GMT
Well - the images were there. The face-hugger is an obvious and also indirect phallic device- a mobile penis with a 'tube' that impregnates a host via the mouth. Hmmmmm....
Also, the entrance to the derelict spaceship was deliberately like a vag!na.
Sex is EVERYWHERE in Giger's art. He has actually had work confiscated in customs until he could prove that it was a painting, not a photograph....
His work, i feel though, has aged much better than Dali's (though I still admire some of his art).
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Post by Gerkinman on Mar 9, 2005 21:46:18 GMT
Gigar is de awesome, Dali comes close but theres something about the way he paints, not so much the content....he just uses alot of yellows, and i dont like yellow ;D
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Post by Lensman on Mar 9, 2005 22:19:40 GMT
Sex is EVERYWHERE in Giger's art. Yes it is, altho often subliminal. The "alien" monster's head is a phallus, and the "tongue" organ is an obvious reference to a phallus becoming erect.
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Post by Bayne on Mar 10, 2005 22:55:43 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]A long time ago someone posted images on the board that looked like Giger artworks based on WotW! Unfortunatly no-one knows where they came from. Giger did a bunch of designs for a version of Dune that never got made (I heard it was going to include an incestuous relationship between Paul and his mother though so it's probably a very good thing it didn't get made) so it's always possible he might have done some wotw film designs. [/glow]
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Post by McTodd on Mar 10, 2005 23:00:48 GMT
I've read that Giger was approached, but I doubt he did any actual work. I've looked on t'internet, and in all the books about his work I can find, and nothing.
That you might find artwork that looks like it might be by him is unsurprising, as his influence has been so profound. There's such a strong tendency in sf design to make so many alien objects look biomechanical it's not true. To be honest, I think it's a look that's been rather flogged to death.
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Post by krys666 on Mar 11, 2005 17:28:29 GMT
What the hell!!!!! That's all I need! I would rather have those nasty martians in their fighting machines after me all day ala Groundhog Day!
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Post by ArtilleryMan on Mar 13, 2005 12:49:02 GMT
To be fair, there wasn't much of the Stiffy in Alien... or did I miss it?quote] I think Giger decided on a brath of fresh air for that project and concentrate primarily on "fanny" instead. That would be the Alien egg concept by the way.
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Post by ArtilleryMan on Mar 13, 2005 12:50:50 GMT
100ft tall penises walking around England spreading the hot steamy seamen onto the people...o.0 sounds like a potential killer condom sequal, that movie was funny, bring him on i say ;D We could safely assume that Essex would be an inpregable fortress then. What with their girls of low moral fibre. Sorry Essex girls. We love you really.
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Post by the Donal on Mar 13, 2005 19:47:34 GMT
Yes indeed.
As often as we can.
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