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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 2, 2005 15:11:38 GMT
If the ending of the film is going to be like the ending of the album, bringing the story up to date (like the album was NASA), how would you like to see it.
Im not in favour of a NASA ending but this is my idea.
After the closing part of the war (1900) the film blends into a modern day setting showing Londons skyline of today and all the famous landmark features, Warf Tower, Big Ben, London Eye. The camera moves across London as people continue with there lives, moving closer to Nelsons Column. It starts from the Columns base moving slowly up, past the statue of Nelson, continuing up and pulling away. A bright camera flare as the sun bounces off the lens to reveal the tarneshed remains of a single Martian Fighting Machine standing over the Column - a reminder of that great war.
Any more ideas.
H_C
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Post by HTT on Feb 2, 2005 16:35:45 GMT
I think your ending would be good. I think we could also see the "current" London with a semi-martian feel. For example, instead of planes in the sky, we could have some form of Flying Machtine that we've adapted. Instead of council bin-men, mini-handling machines in the streets, and London given a whole new look.
I think what could be interesting, is an ending where Man (as usual) doesn't lean his lesson. After the end of the war, we flash forward in decades to "today". Along the way, we see how Martian technology is back-engineered, and the world becomes a better place, but as time passed, more lethal weaponry is developed, and we go through ever more violent wars, until Earth is a scorched battlefield and Man decides to leave Earth and conquer the stars... A bit depressing, but more like what would really happen if there had been a real invasion. Although, you could sugar coat the ending so that after the mistake of wars, man is redeemed, etc...
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Post by Thorgrimm on Feb 2, 2005 16:46:38 GMT
I would like to see the NASA ending. You see the NASA control room, just as the probe sets down then all of a sudden things start winking out around the planet. Then the green flares on Mars. Can we say sequel? ;D Cheers Thorgrimm
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Post by paco417 on Feb 2, 2005 16:50:33 GMT
I would like to see the NASA ending. You see the NASA control room, just as the probe sets down then all of a sudden things start winking out around the planet. Then the green flares on Mars. Can we say sequel? ;D Cheers Thorgrimm This is the idea i was also thinking about! oh well great minds think alike as the old saying goes! also another ending could see an up to date setting of a scene on mars with cylinders end to end on a conveyor heading to a massive gun... pointing again at Us!
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Post by the Donal on Feb 2, 2005 17:56:19 GMT
I agree with keeping the NASA part and the voices only (this worked great in Alien when Lambert is killed) but with more of a reference to the rest of the story - ie "It's started again'- something that ties it in. Aside from that, fading then rolling credits!! How about some 'bloopers', PIXAR style? The bird breaking down in "A Bug's Life' springs to mind.
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Post by Curate on Feb 3, 2005 0:18:11 GMT
According to the book, a fighting machine was left standing on Primrose Hill near the London pit. I'm assuming it's legs were fixed to the ground to stop it falling over and that the heat ray and black smoke generator were both removed. That said, I imagine people who lost family to the Martians would try to knock it over and smash it to pieces in rage. Leaving a fighting machine standing could be akin to putting a statue of Hitler in London... people aren't going to want to be constantly reminded of bad times.
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Post by timeship2 on Feb 3, 2005 3:26:38 GMT
I'm pretty sure they would have a few in some aircraft hangars around the world for 'study' though.
I could just imagine a scene like in that in the movie Hangar 18 where the scientists enter a captured martian fighting machine and start playing with the controls accidently turning on the heat ray instantly vaporising a portion of their labs ;D ;D
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 3, 2005 4:15:20 GMT
I'm pretty sure they would have a few in some aircraft hangars around the world for 'study' though. I could just imagine a scene like in that in the movie Hangar 18 where the scientists enter a captured martian fighting machine and start playing with the controls accidently turning on the heat ray instantly vaporising a portion of their labs ;D ;D I'm sorry, but due to strict and secret government regulations, Timeship will not return to these boards again... ever... ;-) Anywho, I hope they keep the Nasa ending, allthough it is a bit cheesy, it is also part of the album, and thus has to be a part of the movie. And as said before in another thread, it has to be the 70s landings! -Gnorn
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 3, 2005 9:53:45 GMT
I think your ending would be good. I think we could also see the "current" London with a semi-martian feel. For example, instead of planes in the sky, we could have some form of Flying Machtine that we've adapted. Instead of council bin-men, mini-handling machines in the streets, and London given a whole new look. I think what could be interesting, is an ending where Man (as usual) doesn't lean his lesson. After the end of the war, we flash forward in decades to "today". Along the way, we see how Martian technology is back-engineered, and the world becomes a better place, but as time passed, more lethal weaponry is developed, and we go through ever more violent wars, until Earth is a scorched battlefield and Man decides to leave Earth and conquer the stars... A bit depressing, but more like what would really happen if there had been a real invasion. Although, you could sugar coat the ending so that after the mistake of wars, man is redeemed, etc... I like the idea that we could become like the Martians. Over the decades after the war, humans have taken Martian science, adapted it to our own needs and with some cases of disasterous effects that have changed the way of living on Earth OR changed the wat Earth survives making us turn to new worlds for colinizing. Maybe like we wiped out the Martians with bacteria, the Martians during their fatel conquest left a more sinister deadly germ here on Earth that is wiping us out. H_C
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Post by flynnsixtysix on Feb 3, 2005 11:43:45 GMT
No...'m sorry but if the ending IS going to stray from the book to such an extent then at the VERY LEAST it should serve to show that MANKIND did learn HIS LESSON.
We should skip through the pages of a history book, thumbing the years page by page, skipping a decade here and there to key years, and show that there
WAS NO WORLD WAR ONE OR TWO
That countries become unified and peaceful.
that the arms race was abandoned in favour of feeding and educating starving people.
That the earth was respected and treated with love and a degree os self-control
That man colonised SPACE in PEACE and not with space lasers
It should not be a poxy statue to a victory we humans had NO PART IN WINNING.
And it should certainly not reflect our current selfish greedy and crashing world society..
If we can't use this story to learn that ALL WAR IS EVIL then were SCR*WED as a SPECIES quite frankly.
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Post by HTT on Feb 3, 2005 13:13:40 GMT
Interesting point of view Flynn! It would be interesting to discuss how the world would have been affected if the war had happened. I'll raise a thread in General Discussions.
Back on topic: Regarding a NASA ending, I personally can't see it happening, as it isn't entirely logical (how come the operator doesn't know what the green flashes signify, or why communications are shut out)... UNLESS, London kept quiet about the invasion and didn't let the rest of the world know (Oh those eccentric Englishmen! What will they think of next!).
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Post by McTodd on Feb 3, 2005 13:47:27 GMT
I'd like to see a shot of a modern day transit camp at Dover with a load of disconsolate looking Martians inside being pelted with eggs thrown by protesters holding 'P*SS OFF BACK TO MARS YOU SCROUNGING MARTIAN GITS!' placards, and Robert Kilroy-Silk demanding to know why Martians are being given council flats and food vouchers.
Or a clip from 'Fawlty Towers' with a concussed Basil Fawlty shrieking 'Don't mention the war!' while a group of bemused Martians sit/perch/lurk* at a table waiting for a bowl of blood...
Basil: 'You started it!'
Martians: 'Ulla ulla ulla!' (Translation: 'No we didn't!')
Basil: 'Yes you did, you invaded Surrey!'
*You tell me how a suspiciously mollusc-like creature sits at a table, eh?
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 3, 2005 13:52:22 GMT
A big black screen with the words...
THE END
Yep that'll do.
D.F.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 3, 2005 14:11:49 GMT
Thats original, bet the film world never thought of that ;D
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Post by HTT on Feb 3, 2005 15:07:15 GMT
On a similar line, the french end a film with the words FIN, so how about a black screen reading TENTACLE... ;D ;D
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Post by DvB on Feb 3, 2005 16:19:24 GMT
I personally like the idea that the martians know the conquering of earth is their only chance of survival and following the defeat in the war at what is for them the best moment in time due to the earths location they are left devestated and must start work all over again on a new campaign...but time runs out
A final scene showing an image of an earth mission discovering a decrepit martian landscape with desicated martians corpses draped over their machines making ready for a second assault but dying before the attack could begin! Something ala the first men in the moon final scene when the astronauts discover there had been life on the moon but succumbed to earthly bacteria!
I can just see it n all!
DvB
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Post by twistedrabbit on Feb 3, 2005 16:29:42 GMT
How about a fade to the not-too-distant future from the present...where a cockney man lands on Mars. Astronaut: "Wunce again dats wun small step fo' mahn...wun gy-ant leap fo'-" (Something big shadows over him) "-Aw *@#% me!"
BLACK
THE END!
And then the Martian makes a bet that it can make the astronaut act more lady like...and sings in question "why can't the British teach their children to speak?" and "why can't humans be more like Martians." Just you wait 'Enry 'Iggins.
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Post by Bayne on Feb 4, 2005 0:29:45 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I'd rather the Martian prologue we've heard about be cut and instead see it at the end with the Martians preparing to invade Venus.. and the Earth will follow.
That or just leave it with the musing that the future may one day belong to the martians.
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Post by twistedrabbit on Feb 4, 2005 15:58:02 GMT
Venus, eh? Not much on Venus worth conquering. Lots of...gas...If I were a martian I'd go straight to Earth...or at least the moon...then I could build up forces and have an easy drop down to attack Earth.
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Post by Bayne on Feb 4, 2005 23:47:12 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Of course it'd be Victorian Venus... lots of swamps, dinosaurs, lizard people and scantilly clad princesses [/glow]
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