Great martian war from PLAZMA on Vimeo.
The clips are from a false documentary presented at the 100th anniversary of WWI.
The uploader combined clips of the documentary with music. The various threads I've read, three so far, all dish grief for the choice of music. I like the combination a lot. What do you think?
The idea is combine archival material with special effects. Just as H.G. Wells warned about the horror of mechanized war through his science fiction, The War of The Worlds, the producers wanted to use science fiction to convey the reality WW1. Or something. I read that on their producer's q/a page where we also read:
Whether it is ‘Invasion of The Body Snatchers’ looking at McCarthyite witch hunts and Communist infiltration, ‘Cloverfield’ looking at the events of 9/11 or HG Wells himself using ‘War of The Worlds’ pre WW1 to express his deep and well founded fears of what a great war would be like in the industrial age, sci-fi has always been a powerful means to hold up a mirror to the real world. Even ‘Lord of The Rings’ can be seen as an attempt to fantastically fictionalise the epic, bloody war Tolkien witnessed first hand as an officer on the Western Front.No wait, what? Invasion of The Body Snatchers was about McCarthyism? I did not know that.
In the documentary they caught one of the Martian machines. The Martian machines come in three types, 300' Herons, 20'spiders, and lice.
This must be a spider. The humans also encounter a highly responsive liquid metal that powers all the machines. The substance appears to be intuitive. Once it is in the possession of humans they realize the tide of the war had changed.
Obviously the humans survived.
