War Of The Worlds Environmental Disaster

This is the first science fiction movie that depicts extraterrestrial life as genuinely good and peaceful and as Earth existing with violence and stupidity. Matthew Etherden explores this idea in “The Day the Earth Stood Still: 1950’s Sci-Fi, Religion, and the Alien Messiah”:

When earth is invaded, what will happen? Great science fiction novels explore many scenarios like this. The likelihood of an Alien invasion is still a highly talked about topic in science fiction today. But none approach the subject of alien invasions like The War of the Worlds. When looking for a science fiction novel a reader has a wide array of books to choose from. One would want to choose a classic science fiction novel that is engaging and believable. H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds is mesmerizing and conceivable literary wise; Wells does this by portraying a believable and captivating plot, clever character development and interesting and creative science to support it.

His adventure begins when his brilliant daughter, Murphy, stumbles upon coordinates to NASA’s secret headquarters. Upon their arrival, the NASA director, Professor Brand, explains that they have been operating in secret for years because of the public’s disapproval of money going towards space exploration instead of a solution to the famine. Professor Brand goes on to inform Cooper that although corn is the last salvageable crop on earth, it too will soon cease to grow. Not to mention, the lack of growing plants on earth would soon result in a lack of oxygen in the atmosphere making earth inhabitable. All of this information boils down to Brand inviting Cooper to rejoin NASA and embark on a journey through space in search of a new home for the human race. Cooper agrees to the mission, knowing he may never see his home planet or family again. Leaving his two children behind, he sets of to save humanity accompanied by three other astronauts.

“Reports of suicides and panic-related deaths.” (Pooley, Socolow 5) These are some of the claims reported after the famous radio broadcast of the book The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells was conducted by Orson Welles on October 30th, 1938. It was set-up and produced to sound like a news broadcast that had sudden “interruptions.” The broadcast included many noises and sounds such as Martians landing and scientists “analyzing” them. While many newspapers claimed that the broadcast “stirred terror through the U.S.” (1) Less than 2% of everyone listening to their radios that evening heard it and even fewer believed it! There are many speculations as to why the broadcast is so famous. The so called “terror inducing” (2) broadcast is famous because people believed that it was real, newspapers made a big hype about it, and it was such a phenomenon that people believed it.

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As you glance out your window you notice the big, bright, yellow ball in the air you see every day but not today. It shined down on the beautiful flower bed mom created. Farther down the road clouds of dust and debrief gather around the land. In a panic you rush down to the basement to grab ma. That’s when you notice you had witnessed a world catastrophe, The Dust Bowl. The dust bowl is a part of history that stunned many lives, shattered dreams, ended careers. It made people starve and stripped people of their homes. The dust in the air was dirt from farmlands. This was America’s worst drought since 1965. Also clouds of grasshoppers’ gathered around with the dust and debrief. The dust Bowl is an event that effected farmlands, homes, and children.

In the near future, mankind’s survival is threatened by a crop blight that brings society back to the days of The Dust Bowl. Food is in short supply, dust storms are a debilitating and frustrating norm, and the advancement of technology and education has been stunted by the need for more farmers to till the ever-eroding soil. It is within this agrarian society that we find our protagonist, Cooper, a frustrated former pilot/engineer that feels caged in by the limitations of this desperate, earth-bound society. Cooper lives on a farm with his two children, Murph and Tom, who couldn’t be more disparate. Tom, the elder son, is stoic and practical with a flare for farming and an appreciation for the status quo. Murph, the younger daughter, is fiery

Despite its location, Dot’s Donut Shop was about to get famous. I mean, being the crash site for the second wave of aliens on earth can earn quite the reputation, and what are the odds I would be working there that very day? Well, to understand my position entirely, we need to go back to the beginning.

The year that the movie The War of the Worlds was released was 2005. That decade was a great time of science, bringing many discoveries and achievements, which made their way into the media as these were issues that were constantly on the minds of the public. The main science topics addressed in The War of the Worlds are extraterrestrial life and microorganisms. To illustrate my point, in the past 20 years, scientists have found the idea of life on other planets to be highly likely. We are supposed to even have proof of extraterrestrial lifeforms by about 2020 or 2025. (Our Prospective Neighbors From the Galaxy Next Door) Scientists are convinced that this could be the case as potential planets for holding life have already been discovered.

Many science-fiction movies often have a common theme either the aliens or turn into a generic overwhelming threat and humanity has to band together to fight against them, like in the films such as Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles, or the aliens are use as a more colorful backdrop to make the universe seem more diverse, such as in the films Star Trek and Star Wars, or they are left entirely out and focus on humanity's endeavors into space and their failings. Arrival, however, is a science-fiction film that uses the premise of an alien invasion to disguise an even deeper meaning. Arrival uses this premise to tackle the issue of xenophobia. Xenophobia is an intense or irrational fear or dislike of people from a foreign country or culture. The film, Arrival, is a testament against xenophobia and shows that if humanity were to overcome their fear of the unknown and work together, they may achieve a great number of things.

Since a disaster is defined as “a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure (Dictionary.com), I would say the sinking of the Vasa was a anthropogenic disaster. The failure of the Vasa can be contributed to more than just its sinking, if we take a look at its inception the Vasa was predestined to fail. The lessons learned from this event can provide insight into the loss of the Vasa and projects of today.

This article will talk about how the entertainment business was before the event better known as “9/11” and how it changed after it. It lists the four main issues that has changed the movies throughout the years: “the representation of the apocalypse; the role of human agency as savior; the role of religion; and socio-political commentary” (Wallis and Aston 54-55). “Doing so will enable analysis of how cinema transcode the socio-political climate post-9/11 into cinematic narratives of environmental disaster, pandemic super-viruses and monster attacks. The article will conclude by suggesting that cinematic representations of the apocalypse have been much more pessimistic post-9/11, demonstrating that Hollywood sci-fi can facilitate wider socio-political

In spite of the Martians opening power, their downfall comes almost as quickly as they take control but it is not due to the British fighting back. The British fought as best they could, nonetheless “in the end the only thing that stops the invaders is yet a force of nature” (Wager 3). Wells is able to comment symbolically on how mankind is best suited for their own land, not the land of others, through the death of the Martians, who are “slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared” (Wells 189). New lands means new diseases that one’s body has never been exposed too, which can lead to epidemic in the invading community. The tripods that caused immense devastation were now “harmless tripod towers of shinning

The “War of The Worlds’ by Orson Welles which was a radio drama the radio drama was produced by Orson Welles which was a fiction novel that aired on a Halloween night on 1938 the setting in the show was in New Jersey. In the radio drama"War of the Worlds' the actors in the show were specialized in making realistic sound effects and using voice impersonator for government officials and they also used real names and locations to they also made frequent weather and breaking news reports. They also used locations that people were familiar with. in the beginning of the radio drama which caused people to believe that the world was ending. The actors in war of the worlds were specialized

The destruction of the Earth’s environment is known by almost every human alive. Our planet is time and again being attacked by the dominant human race. People treat the earth as if it does not have a role in our survival as a species. This assault on the environment has been going on for centuries and has brought about consequences that many of us cannot even fathom. If the world is anything like the environment depicted in the novel He, She, and It, the world we know today will be seen as a haven. The environment in the novel as horrible as it may be, is not far from reality. Deterioration of the earth’s environment, population growth, depletion of our resources and world poverty are all issues that point to the future shown in He, She and It. The possibility that we could annihilate ourselves has never been more real. However, our species is one of the most adaptable creatures on Earth, and with our developing technology we might just be able to salvage the world we have left.