Croatian Sensation1 said:

Actually Ogilvy isn't the main Character of the book, also Ogilvy from the movie is a combination of three characters. In the book Ogilvy is a good friend of the protagonist and is an astronimer(sp?). [SPOILER] They built him up as being essential in the movie but he is one of the people killed in the first heat ray shot, very surprising actually. [/SPOILER]. The second guy was an unnamed man [SPOILER] who is stuck with the protagonist in a basement for a couple of days, the guy would try to sneak food as much as he could and eventually went crazy and started shouting after seeing the aliens feed off a man. The protagonist killed him in order to save himself, there was no daughter. [/SPOILER]. Finally the third guy was a soldier who bumped into him near the begining of the book and taught him how to survive(somewhat) but later at the end[SPOILER] they meet again, and at this point the soldier has realised the severity of the situation and tells the protagonist how the aliens want to wipe us out, maybe even breed us like cows and even keep some of us as pets and have them help hunt "wild" humans, since we would have to live underground. The soldier lives, but the last time we see him he's digging a hole in the basement, later that day the protagonist decides he wants to see the flying machine the soldier was talking about and sneaks off and sees the Tripods standing still and some fallen with the crows flying around or eating the exposed aliens, ... yada yada yada [/SPOILER]

So ya, he's the combination of three characters, two were unnamed and Ogilvy[SPOILER] didn't even get past the second or third chapter [/SPOILER] but had a name so thats why he was in the movie.

Crimson-X said:

Btw... fter seeing all the shirts and pants fly around, my dad kept saying, "Hey wait a minute... where are all the shoes." Heh I then reliased, he had a good point.

Emperor Omega said:

Crimson-X said:

Btw... fter seeing all the shirts and pants fly around, my dad kept saying, "Hey wait a minute... where are all the shoes." Heh I then reliased, he had a good point.

Since when do shoes fly? rofl

Giddy said:

Just a quick check-in after giving it more thought, is it possible the fluttering clothes are [SPOILER] Leftovers from people getting consumed by the "vagina" like machine? [/SPOILER]

Also, I visited the public domain War of the Worlds book, and read the WHOLE dang thing yesterday. Yes, my eyes were bugging out after I finished.

And yes, I had a bit of trouble sleeping last night. The book was well-written, and especially if you consider it was written 107 yrs ago, long before us kids grew up on Star Wars movies and the walking tanks, etc.

Giddy said:

But the book said the Martians didn't have a digestive system, so they nourished themselves by injecting their veins with blood directly?

Rostron2 said:

I read an interview with one of the production people, who said that the clothes were [SPOILER] all that was left of people that were harvested. My own theory, and that coincides with the book's theme; is that the Aliens knew they were infected, and were capturing people for use as lab rats. The book even mentions them draining their blood, probably to determine what antibodies were in it, to see if they could come up with an antidote.Obviously it didn't work! [/SPOILER]

Giddy said:

Thanks for your investigative reporting, Cosmo, since you've seen it a few more times than I have. I can't wait to see it again, though. The [SPOILER] falling clothes and the bodies in the river, all very creepy. [/SPOILER]

Giddy said:

But the book said the Martians didn't have a digestive system, so they nourished themselves by injecting their veins with blood directly?

krys said:

Giddy said:

But the book said the Martians didn't have a digestive system, so they nourished themselves by injecting their veins with blood directly?

But in the basement I saw one of the aliens drinking water or something? If they don't have digestion systems why would they drink the water?

Emperor Omega said:

Maybe thier not martians? lol.

krys said:

Yeah, I saw one of them lapping up water like a dog when they were in crazy-shotgun-man's basement.