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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. It was IMMENSELY popular around the world, selling millions of records (and still doing so today) and spawned multiple versions of the album, a computer game, a DVD, a 30th anniversary live tour including Alexis James, Rhydian from The X Factor, Jason Donovan, and Jennifer Ellison in the cast, and a 40th anniversary tour with Adam Garcia, Nathan James and Jason Donovan reprising his role as Nathaniel. There's also a large amount of merchandise available at the website.The latest addition is the 2012 Updated Re-release subtitled "The New Generation", with new versions of the songs, some new dialogue, and a new All-Star Cast. This too was accompanied by a live tour.TracklistThe Coming of the MartiansSide One "The Eve of the War" (9:06) "Horsell Common and The Heat Ray" (11:36)Side Two "The Artilleryman and The Fighting Machine" (10:36) "Forever Autumn" (7:43) "Thunder Child" (6:10)The Earth Under the MartiansSide Three "The Red Weed (Part 1)" (5:55) "Parson Nathaniel" (1:45) "The Spirit of Man" (9:52) "The Red Weed (Part 2)" (6:51)Side Four "Brave New World" (12:13) "Dead London" (8:37) "Epilogue (Part 1)" (2:42) "Epilogue (Part 2)" (2:02) |
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Canon Foreigner |
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Canon Foreigner: Two additional ones in The New Generation — the stargazers Vera and Will, who discuss the likelihood of life on Mars in a brief prologue. Vera makes some fairly accurate predictions about the impending extinction that leads to the invasion in the first place, which Will dismisses as "feminine fancy" right before the first cylinder lands. |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The narrator describes the Martians as being composed entirely of brain without any actual body. They'd build mechanical bodies according to the needs of the moment instead. This doesn't gel with his earlier description of them when they first emerge from the Horsall Common cylinder, which includes luminous eyes and tentacles. Though it's quite probable he was being metaphorical when he described the Martians as being composed entirely of brain. He's essentially musing on the fact that they appear to be infinitely more intelligent and logical than humanity without seeming to be driven by things like hunger or sexual desire, which he settles on as a reason for their ease of taking over. |
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Trampled Underfoot: Fighting machines in the background film occasionally do this to trees, buildings and people. |
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Death from Above |
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Death from Above: On cue, a 40 ft tall fighting machine descends onto the stage, remaining there for the rest of the first act. It returns for the end of the second act, before slowly collapsing. Also in-universe — flying machines are added to the Fighting Machine battle sequence (but, oddly, not to Thunderchild, where they did appear in the book). |
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The Stoic |
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The Stoic: Carrie's father. He never speaks, and doesn't deviate much from a stern / concerned frown throughout the musical. |
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Mutual Kill |
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Also in the novel, the narrator's vision is cut off by the smoke produced during the battle, and cannot see the fate of the third tripod; when the smoke clears, the third tripod is nowhere to be seen. One can infer that either the Thunder Child managed to take down the third tripod, ensuring a total victory over the three tripods with its sacrifice, or that the third tripod fled very quickly, possibly due to injuries. |
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Take Our Word for It |
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Take Our Word for It: How the Martians suck the blood of their victims is kept intentionally vague. |
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Take My Hand! |
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Take My Hand!: Carrie's father, when she gets knocked down by a panicking crowd. |
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Sword Pointing |
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Sword Pointing: The artillery officer (complete with dramatic zoom in) when shouting at his men to open fire during The Fighting Machine. |
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Adaptation Expansion |
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Adaptation Expansion: Carrie gets more screen time, and a few lines (and, in the Final Arena Tour, a part in the finishing ensemble song). |
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Ironic Echo |
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The song The Spirit Of Man combines this with the Ironic Echo — whilst the embittered, broken and deranged Parson Nathaniel's verses deal with his disillusionment with the sins of those around him, and his delusional belief that the invading Martians are 'demons' sent by Satan to wipe out humanity, his wife Beth's chorus is an optimistic, hopeful exhortation to the finest and noblest elements of human nature. Then a Martian craft crash-lands on the house in which the characters are sheltering, Beth is crushed under the rubble and Nathaniel takes over her chorus, the lyrics now altered to reflect his bitter, defeatist worldview. |
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Mythology Gag |
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Mythology Gag: Quite a few... Naturally, during Thunder Child, there is a shot in the background film that almost perfectly emulates the album cover. Still shots emulating the album artwork (with Beth photoshopped into the Spirit of Man piece) also feature. The journalist gets named in the stage show as George Herbert, which is a reversal of H.G Wells' first names. Right before the heat-ray fires in Horsell Common, there is a Reflective Glasses shot almost identical to the one used in an equivalent cutscene from the PC game. H.G. Wells briefly references the Constrictor, Bombarding Machine and Xeno Telepath (also from the PC game) in one of the interludes. Outside Carrie's house, there is a sign for "Jeff's Music Emporium". |
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Bizarre Alien Psychology |
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Bizarre Alien Psychology: In the expanded narration of The New Generation, the Journalist notes that among their many inhuman characteristics the Martians have no gender and so do not experience love. |
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Autobots, Rock Out! |
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Autobots, Rock Out!: Martian attacks are usually accompanied by The Fighting Machine, which includes the best guitar solo on the album. The Heat Ray, in which the Martians first show that they mean business, is also an example. The New Generation takes this even further, adding a rather cool distortion riff to the Fighting Machine chorus. |
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Giant Enemy Crab |
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Giant Enemy Crab: The Martian Handling machine is described as "a squat, metallic spider with huge, articulated claws", and is large enough to carry an unspecified number of humans in a giant basket upon its back. |
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Ramming Always Works |
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Ramming Always Works: The Thunderchild is shown mowing down one of the fighting machines in its eponymous song (as well as destroying another with gunfire in the second verse). |
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Stuff Blowing Up |
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Stuff Blowing Up: The Martians' opening shot in The Fighting Machine is to annihilate Weybridge in an absolutely massive explosion. |
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Rule of Cool |
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Rule of Cool: When "the ghostly, terrible heat-ray (strikes) the town", the background film shows it doing so with the force of a small nuke. The background film also adds extra drama to the battle scenes in both The Fighting Machine and Thunderchild with flying machines, additional human Red Shirts and (occasionally) whole ranks of fighting machines. |
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Uncommon Time |
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Uncommon Time: The verses to "Thunder Child" are in 7/4, and the motifs spawning from "The Eve of the War" contain some 6/4 and 5/4 (the latter can be found the easiest with the line "but still...they come"). The two parts of "The Red Weed" are also built around a phrase in 10/4. |
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Aliens Are Bastards |
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Aliens Are Bastards: Made more ambiguous by the CGI Martian prologue (which, incidentally, also brings back some of Wells' colonial allegory that gets lost in most other adaptations). It is made clear that the invasion is a tactic of last resort in the face of imminent extinction. |
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You Shall Not Pass! |
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You Shall Not Pass!: The Thunder Child holding off the fighting machines while the civilian ships escaped. Albeit they do escape safely, and the Thunder Child manages to take down one of the tripods, the poor ironclad is completely obliterated, leaving mankind completely defenseless. Cue "The Earth Under The Martians". Note that in the novel, the battle goes a bit better in that what is stated in the musical. The heat rays set off the Thunder Child's boilers, bringing down a second of the three attacking Martian machines. Also in the novel, the narrator's vision is cut off by the smoke produced during the battle, and cannot see the fate of the third tripod; when the smoke clears, the third tripod is nowhere to be seen. One can infer that either the Thunder Child managed to take down the third tripod, ensuring a total victory over the three tripods with its sacrifice, or that the third tripod fled very quickly, possibly due to injuries. |
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Deadly Distant Finale |
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Deadly Distant Finale: The Epilogue. See The End... Or Is It? below. |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him |
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Dropped A Bridge On Her: Poor Beth. |
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Giving Someone the Pointer Finger |
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Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: The captain of the Thunderchild in its eponymous song does this to mark his targets, which is probably more dramatic than technically necessary, but fits the heroic tone of the song. |
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Scenery Gorn |
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Scenery Gorn: Mostly during Dead London. |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When the fighting machines appear in their eponymous song, the Artilleryman runs down off the stage and takes cover in the audience, shouting "Quick, down here! They'll never find us!" |
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Narrator |
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Narrator: The Journalist, in two parts. The spoken half played by Richard Burton no less. |
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Bookends |
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Book Ends: The Final Arena Tour features H.G. Wells appearing at the start and end of the piece to expand on the book's anti-war / Humans Are the Real Monsters theme. Arc Words: He ends each narration with "Listen! Can you hear it drawing near?" |
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Death Song |
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Death Song: "Thunder Child", in which "the voice of humanity" sings the praises of the eponymous ship as it takes down a fighting machine and gets very thoroughly melted and sunk for its efforts. |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The poisonous Black Smoke is mentioned once or twice, but the part where its nature and threat is explained was cut for time. This probably created some confusion for any listener unfamiliar with the original novel. In the novel humans are drained of their blood in the open pit. In the musical, they're drained inside the Handling Machine. So how is it possible for the Journalist and the Parson to witness this? |
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Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech |
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Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech: Averted, sort of. During Horsell Common the camera in the background film zooms in to look down the barrel of the heat ray as it tracks around. |
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Million to One Chance |
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Million to One Chance: The Journalist quotes Ogilvy the astronomer as saying exactly this in The Eve Of The War, both in the narration and the sung thoughts. The latter is probably the best-known line on the album. And the motif comes back at the end of "Dead London" once the journalist realises that the Martians have been killed. While this reprise is without vocal accompaniment, it can represent the million to one chance that the Martians lost. |
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Religion Rant Song |
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Religion Rant Song: "The Spirit of Man", though it's the spoken parts of the Parson's performance that are most heavily religious (and ranting): |
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The Power of Rock |
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The Power of Rock: One of the transitions on the 2006 tour's DVD menu involves a fighting machine firing its heat ray, with the sound of a guitar screech, as per the leitmotif of the album. |
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Nominal Importance |
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The journalist gets named in the stage show as George Herbert, which is a reversal of H.G Wells' first names. |
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Here We Go Again! |
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Here We Go Again!: The second epilogue, in which NASA lose contact with a craft landing on Mars...and see an eerie green mist emanating from Mars... |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: Most of the tracks are between six and 12 minutes long. |
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Arc Words |
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Arc Words: He ends each narration with "Listen! Can you hear it drawing near?" |
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Cultural Translation |
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Cultural Translation: The Parson is definitely based on more recent American Evangelical variants of Christianity, rather than the kind of stern Evangelical Christianity you'd expect to find in Victorian England, though it's hard to see his fire-and-brimstone proclamations working as hammishly well with an English character. Further justified in the fact that he's, well, been driven completely insane by the Martian invasion, and his fire-and-brimstone ravings are intended as a symptom of his madness; his wife notes with despair at one point that he was once a kindly, well-loved man more in keeping with the typically Victorian stern-but-fair image of the clergyman. |
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Animation Bump |
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Animation Bump: Parts of the CGI film that runs on the background screen were refined for The New Generation. Most notably, they managed to make the Martians look even creepier. Yet again for the Final Arena Tour, where they refined some existing scenes such as adding crew to the Thunder Child and having the ship trade more shots with the Martians (notably it now takes down two machines, as per the original book). They also added additional scenes for Carrie and "H.G. Wells". |
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Large Ham |
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Large Ham: Phil Lynott as Parson Nathaniel spends most of his time eating any scenery which isn't nailed down ("A SIGN! I have been given a SIGN!") and is easily the biggest ham in the entire piece — impressive, when considering he's up against Richard Burton (no slouch in the hamminess stakes himself when he felt like it), and doubly so considering the lack of scenery to begin with. David Essex as The Artilleryman deserves a mention too; he may be relatively tame in his first appearance, but becomes deliciously unhinged in the Sanity Slippage Song "Brave New World" ("YES, AND WE! WILL HAVE TO BE! THE CHOSEN FEEEEEEEEEEW!") |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It's a musical interpretation of The War of the Worlds. By Jeff Wayne. |
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What Happened to the Mouse? |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Unlike the novel (in which he is killed by the Martians early on), Ogilvy disappears from the story completely after "Eve of the War", leaving his fate ambiguous. |
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Reflective Eyes |
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Right before the heat-ray fires in Horsell Common, there is a Reflective Glasses shot almost identical to the one used in an equivalent cutscene from the PC game. |
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Stiff Upper Lip |
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Stiff Upper Lip: The artillery officer in The Fighting Machine, who reacts to all his men getting blown away by calmly pulling out a pistol and firing up at the nearest tripod until he too is unceremoniously stepped on. |
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Spoken Word in Music |
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Spoken Word in Music: The album has narration read by actor Richard Burton. The re-recording features Liam Neeson in place of the late Burton. |
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War Was Beginning |
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War Was Beginning: Eve of The War. |
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Rule of Symbolism |
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Rule of Symbolism: In The Red Weed, with the titular weed slowly enveloping dead bodies, and growing over a church window so that the stained glass figure appears to be crying Tears of Blood. |
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As You Know |
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As You Know: Justified as it's a radio play, but would be a strange thing to say in real life: |
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No Range Like Point-Blank Range |
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No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Both the soldiers in The Fighting Machine and the Thunderchild in its titular song wait for the Martians to get ridiculously close before opening fire (although, to be fair, the Thunderchild deliberately held its fire in the book as well). Funnily enough this comes back to bite them, as the machine that gets blown apart in The Fighting Machine actually crashes on top of one of the gun teams. |
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The End... Or Is It? |
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The End... Or Is It?: The Epilogue. A NASA observer watching a probe to Mars notices some odd flares and dust clouds coming from the planet, shortly before contact with the probe is lost. And then, one by one, much to his confusion and frustration he loses contact with the other observers around the globe... The "New Generation" tour ends the same way, with the added bonus of a NASA scientist on stage losing contact. The martian fighting machine on stage suddenly starts up again, an ominous voice says, "The problem is, of course, the humans…", and the scientist disappears behind the heat ray. |
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Leitmotif |
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Leitmotif: Quite a few: "The Fighting Machine" for when the Tripods attack. "The Artilleryman", a relatively mellow loop, for well... The Artilleryman. "The Heat Ray", a high, distorted guitar riff, is, of course, the heat ray. |
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Award-Bait Song |
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Award-Bait Song: The bittersweet "Forever Autumn", sung by Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, made it into the top 40. |
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Christianity Is Catholic |
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Christianity is Catholic: Jason Donovan (as parson Nathaniel) spends a lot of time furiously crossing himself. |
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Oh, Crap! |
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Oh, Crap!: "Look! There they are! What did I tell you!?" |
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Sidekick Song |
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Sidekick Song: Arguably "Brave New World" for the Artilleryman. |
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Truer to the Text |
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Truer to the Text: This is one of only two adaptations to retain the Victorian setting, and so far the only one to contain the signature Last Stand of the Thunderchild. It's also the only adaptation to showcase the novel's Handling Machine, a crab-like mech used to process humans before they are harvested for blood. |
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Melancholy Musical Number |
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Melancholy Musical Number: The Journalist fights his way to the home of his love, Carrie, taking three days only to find her and her father have left the house to escape the Martian attack, this segues into the song "Forever Autumn". The song itself contrasts two Autumn seasons, the previous when the singer and his love were together and the current where they are apart, and how his life will be "forever autumn" as he can't move on from the memory. |
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Ethereal White Dress |
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Ethereal White Dress: Beth, briefly reappearing as a ghost at the end of Spirit Of Man. |
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Hope Spot |
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Hope Spot: Standing firm between them...there lay Thunder Child! There's also a very brief moment where it seems like the shock of his wife's death has managed to snap Parson Nathaniel out of his madness — unfortunately, he ends up spiralling further into derangement as a result of it. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The "Parson Nathaniel◊" painting in the CD booklet is a (mirror-flipped) visual reference to Salvador Dalí's painting The Temptation of St. Anthony◊ (probably NSFW), with Parson Nathaniel taking the role of St. Anthony and the tripods standing in for the monstrous horse and elephants. |
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Taking You with Me |
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Note that in the novel, the battle goes a bit better in that what is stated in the musical. The heat rays set off the Thunder Child's boilers, bringing down a second of the three attacking Martian machines. |
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Minor Character, Major Song |
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Minor Character, Major Song: Nathaniel and Beth, who get the epic duet "The Spirit of Man". |
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Nothing Is Scarier |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Despite there being several pieces of artwork based on the musical, several of which depict the machines, not one provides a clear image of the Martians (the closest we get is one image depicting the fall of the Martians, in which birds can be seen tearing what appears to be flesh out of the cockpits of the machines). Their strange and otherworldly appearance is left entirely up to the listener's imagination, which might be for the better considering the films had a tendency to turn them into Humanoid Aliens. There is a sparse description (below) of their physical characteristics when they first emerge from the Horsell Common cylinder, and the narrator notes later that they are "composed entirely of brain", making bodies as they need. The Journalist finds the sudden silence that descends when the Martians start to die off so unsettling that it's the thing that pushes him over the brink of insanity. |
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Gun Twirling |
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Gun Twirling: The heat ray. |
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Incendiary Exponent |
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Incendiary Exponent: The animatronic fighting machine in the "New Generation" stage show sports a fully-functional flamethrower (the most notable use of which is coming back to life during the epilogue and blowing up the NASA control station), and various bits of the stage "catch fire" during the performance. |
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Adaptational Wimp |
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Adaptational Wimp: In the book, the British artillery batteries constantly harass the Martians as they advance on London, and although hopelessly outgunned they are effective enough to force the Martians to use their black smoke against them. Here it seems like 6 guns is all England has to defend itself. |
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Memento MacGuffin |
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Memento MacGuffin: During The Fighting Machine, Carrie and her father step outside to see the Martian attack in progress, and promptly decide to leave. Carrie drops a locket in the ensuing Crowd Panic, which is found by the Journalist in the next scene. |
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Monumental Damage |
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Monumental Damage: When the Journalist describes a fighting machine appearing above Big Ben, the tripod in the accompanying film knocks a chunk out of the clocktower. |
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Composite Character |
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Composite Character: The experiences of the protagonist and his brother are combined in the character of "the Journalist". |
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Five Rounds Rapid |
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Five Rounds Rapid: During The Fighting Machine, some of the soldiers in the background film try shooting at the Martians with their rifles. Most get vapourised, and one suffers Vertical Kidnapping. |
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Pokémon Speak |
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Pokémon Speak: The Martians communicate exclusively with "ULLAAAA!" |
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Grief Song |
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Grief Song: "Forever Autumn". |
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Sanity Slippage Song |
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Sanity Slippage Song / BSoD Song: All the big songs in the second half of the musical — "Earth Under The Martians" — are this to an extent: "Spirit of Man": Parson Nathaniel believes the Martians are demons, and is so far gone that he even believes his own wife Beth is a devil. "Brave New World": The Artilleryman has a plan! It's a shame he's so deluded that he thinks the tiny tunnel it took him a week to dig will be enough to save humanity, and his prophetic shouts about being "the chosen few" don't help either. Adam Garcia's rendition in the 40th anniversary tour gets increasingly manic as the song goes on, until he's screaming the word 'again' with every repetition of "We'll start all over again!" "Dead London": The narrator wanders around the deserted streets of London, driven mad by the solitude and the distorted "ULLA"s of the dying Martians, and decides to kill himself by running out in plain sight of a fighting machine. Luckily for him, the Martians inside are dead. |
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Dark Reprise |
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Dark Reprise: Brave New World relates the utopian dreams of The Artilleryman, who thinks the alien invasion is a opportunity to throw away everything that's wrong with the modern world and start over, building an underground utopia. The music is a heart-rousing soundtrack to revolution. The Journalist punctures this in deadpan narration: The Artilleryman has a tunnel all of ten feet long, and outside tripods are moving. The song is reprised, with a maudlin tone that now belies the words, and the discordant interpretation of the music gives the impression of a drunken, foolish dreamer, sitting in a cellar singing to himself as the world goes to hell outside. The song The Spirit Of Man combines this with the Ironic Echo — whilst the embittered, broken and deranged Parson Nathaniel's verses deal with his disillusionment with the sins of those around him, and his delusional belief that the invading Martians are 'demons' sent by Satan to wipe out humanity, his wife Beth's chorus is an optimistic, hopeful exhortation to the finest and noblest elements of human nature. Then a Martian craft crash-lands on the house in which the characters are sheltering, Beth is crushed under the rubble and Nathaniel takes over her chorus, the lyrics now altered to reflect his bitter, defeatist worldview. The Eve of the War and The Fighting Machine are also reprised on several occasions (usually to accompany situations of impending doom), but the example that fits this trope best is the start of Dead London, which features a slow, sombre repeat of the Fighting Machine main riff. Essentially, Jeff Wayne likes this trope. |
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Darkest Hour |
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Darkest Hour: The first disc is "The Coming Of The Martians", the second is "The Earth Under The Martians" (which was also how Wells divided his novel). The break comes when the battleship Thunder Child, the mightiest weapon humans have created, is destroyed in battle by the Martians. |
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Canon Immigrant |
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Canon Immigrant: The Martian campaign intro from the game is integrated into the prologue (verbatim in the original, re-recorded with new lines in The New Generation), and the game's model of the Flying Machine appears at several points. |
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The Song Before the Storm |
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The Song Before the Storm: The Eve of War, obviously, and arguably the Horsell Common section of Horsell Common and the Heat Ray. |
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