{"id":2823,"date":"2005-05-06T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T17:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/05\/06\/2823.html"},"modified":"2005-05-06T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T17:52:32","slug":"intellects-vast-and-cool-and-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/05\/06\/intellects-vast-and-cool-and-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I happened across the first teaser trailer for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/paramount\/waroftheworlds\/\">War of the Worlds<\/a> movie (directed by Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise), and was delighted to see that the voiceover narration consists entirely of a slightly abridged and slightly modified version of the first paragraph of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/etexts\/www\/warworlds\/b1c1.html\">original book<\/a>, up to and including my favorite line, slightly modified to: \"Yet across the gulf of space [.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.] intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded [our planet] with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.\"  Late-nineteenth-century prose, almost unchanged, being used to advertise a twenty-first-century action movie&#8212;cool beans.<\/p>\n<p>The second teaser trailer suggests that this'll be a fairly standard-issue action movie: Tom Cruise as the (divorced?) blue-collar worker who must save his young daughter from the marauding aliens.  Oh, well.<\/p>\n<p>For a different sort of adaptation, see what appears to be the complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifiklub.hu\/orsonwelles.htm\">radio script<\/a> from the 1939 Orson Welles production.  It's a fair bit shorter than I would have expected&#8212;under 9000 words total.  But I guess it was only a one-hour production, and there were sound effects and music and such mixed in.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across the first teaser trailer for the upcoming War of the Worlds movie (directed by Spielberg, starring Tom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}