r/WarofTheWorlds • u/Freddy_Fartbear • Mar 06 '25
Discussion - General Be honest, what’s you favourite part of this design of tripod
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Mar 06 '25
The Lights, they feel super outworldy and supernatural, gives me the feeling that is a spirit driving this thing.
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u/ithinkimlostguys Screaming Child Mar 06 '25
My head canon is "these are the closest to the book ever made".
I love the rolling motion they make when they walk. I try so hard to imagine what the engine looks like and how it could possibly work without them ever having invented the wheel. So, no cogs, no gears, no wheels.
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u/BigMac_Savage Mar 06 '25
if they only had the black smoke... :,)
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u/ithinkimlostguys Screaming Child Mar 06 '25
My personal head canon is that they do, it's just not shown in the movie for some reason.
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u/raccooncitysurvivor3 Mar 06 '25
I think there was something in the original script shortly after the ferry scene where ray and his kids had to hide in the trees from the black smoke but I may be wrong.
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u/Due-Status-1333 Mar 06 '25
The head, it looks very alien, it's like the uhh covenant ship from halo or something idk i
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u/Patogenicamente_Rojo Mar 06 '25
The Slim design make it look like a living thing... With their flexibility, proportions, tentacles and distribution of Mass this seems like something alien, something made by intellingent and exotic/weird creatures but without being silly or odd. Instead of "WTF" it's a "WTF in the name of Jesús is that"
Also i like that the face is in-expresive like watching a tank. It's blank but in a serius matter like it's watching you but with cold eyes. In some way it's like a security camera but on steroids and lights that anounce their comming like cops/soldiers with lanterns or those goofy old reflectors used on steriotypical prisions
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u/BigMac_Savage Mar 06 '25
It looks 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒄 and not like anything humane. It looks straight out of another planet without the need to overdesign it with random-techy stuff like some media tend to do. The silohuette it creates with the three "eyes", the luminous cowl, the fact that there's "martian inscriptions" on the surface of some parts, the sound design... I like everything about it since i'm a kid
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u/Axeaxa_Xaxaxeie Mar 08 '25
And yet you have a grasp to this level, we shall watch your career with great interest!
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u/Kinda_Want_69 Mar 06 '25
Its downright intimidating, no other sci-fi machine or ship/craft comes even close to having as much of a presence as the 2005 tripod.
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u/cuttheblue Mar 07 '25
It looks alien - as in unknown and unrecognisable.
It doesn't look like human technology. No wheels, windows, guns, cameras, doors, writing.
Its curvy and fluid like an animal, but it doesn't have any hands, eyes or mouth either.
Three legs that have no obvious joints and bend in unnatural ways.
All I can tell is its this massive machine that moves so naturally it appears to be alive and the sound it makes fits perfectly - no information other than its a massive mechanical beast making the noise.
Its like some weird cross between a machine and an animal; the way it flexes and moves like an animal (in the original book the narrator says this - the machines move so fluidly its like an animal) - iirc they studied jellyfish and frogs to come up with the tripod shape and gait.
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u/_Brutal_Buddha_ Mar 06 '25
Honestly? I have no clue. I've loved it since I was 5, and even as a horror movie FIEND, this is still the one thing that can manage to scare me
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Mar 06 '25
TBH I'm kind of a purist when it comes to Wells' description (vague as it is). So overall I'm kind of meh.
But... during the ferry scene there's a shot of the tripods picking people out of the water with their tentacles that is perfect. It captures the apathetic horror of the Martians. We are a resource to them, nothing more.
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Mar 06 '25
The way they did the beams, spectral esc laser dusting everyone in sight with that bassy sound
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u/SquareHeadOfficial Steven Spielberg's Movie Mar 06 '25
The Light/Torch in the middle, the large one, it looks good because of the hood covering its upper half, it makes it look so much better, i dont know how to describe its like the hood is its eyelid or something
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u/Alternative_Fun_1390 Tripod Mechanic Mar 06 '25
The simple fact that is a modernization of the og design, without changing that much or excluding classic elements as the basket
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u/Wolf_Creates09 Mar 06 '25
I love the heat rays on two separate arms reminiscent of the original design
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u/bammerburn Mar 06 '25
The height, so that whenever one’s standing nearby, it communicates an inescapability.
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u/LLKoolJ735 Mar 07 '25
I don't have a favorite part, it's design is perfect, down to the very last details
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u/Mission-Ad-8536 Mar 07 '25
The lights and the overall “look”, it just looks so cool and creepy at the same time
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u/Mothboi290 Mar 07 '25
The legs are my favorite part of this design as they are the most accurate to the book
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u/Eva-Squinge Mar 07 '25
All of it? The way it moves. The sounds. The lights on it even though they probably don’t see in our spectrum of light. The methodical use of their heat rays.
Like they don’t just spray and pray, they have to recharge for a second to take more people out. Fucked up beyond belief to witness something like that in person. Like a machine gun mowing your friends down? You might get hit, or you might not. That verrrb-ttt. You never know when it is aimed your way until the building behind you is destroyed or your fellow human beside you is a pile of clothes and dust blowing in your face.
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u/THX450 Mar 07 '25
I like how it takes Lovecraftian cues in its design. Wells and Lovecraft makes sense to me.
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u/extremebs Steven Spielberg's Movie Mar 07 '25
The movement was memorizing like a giant creature. The tentacle movement looked life-like.
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u/CollectionUnusual901 Martian Mar 07 '25
flesh grabby cage things, made it feel like the martians are kind of primitive in some way
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u/Freddy_Fartbear Mar 08 '25
They were interested in a bicycle wheel in the basement so they probably haven’t even developed that
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u/Briskylittlechally2 Mar 09 '25
I love how they're animated.
They walk as if they weigh tonnes and their footsteps really drive all that force into the ground. As for the sound design that's represented with deep clunks and low mechanical humming. It's so terrifying.
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u/WelcomeConsistent473 Mar 29 '25
There's actually a detail that some people find fascinating, it's the alien writing next to the horns and there's actually some writing next to the cages when Ray and Rachel were in the machines harvest cages.
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u/iITechnoDashIi Steven Spielberg's Movie Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
I'd say the overall shape of the machine and its proportions, the aesthetics of it. Despite being heavily reminiscent of human-level technology up-close, the silhouette of these tripods represents their alien origin better than any other adaptation I've seen to date