Do you believe in aliens? The War of the Worlds movie, screenplay by Josh Friedman & David Koepp, is based off of H.G. Wells’s book, War of the Worlds. The book is about a man named Ray who has to take care of his kids, Rachel and Robbie, for a few days while his ex-wife, Mary Ann, and her new husband go to Boston, Massachusetts for a few days, to visit their parents and in-laws. After a fight between Robbie and Ray, there was, what seemed to be, a lightning storm. Lightning strikes the same place more than 10 times. After the lightning stops, Martian tripods appear. The theme of the War of the Worlds is people can change their personalities when a crisis happens. There are three characters that support this theme.
The first character that
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When we first meet him, he seems to be a pretty nice guy because he offers shelter to Ray and Rachel when the Martians attack. Then, Ogilvy and Ray witness the Martians harvesting a living human to fertilise the Red Weed, and he starts to go a little crazy. He starts shoveling into a tunnel, in an attempt to escape, while screaming. He did not even listen as Ray is trying to calm him down so he does not attract any attention from the Martians. Another example is in the book, when, after ten days of staying in the house, he starts to become reckless and starts talking to himself, and on the twelfth day he starts yelling and cannot be hushed.
The theme of War of the Worlds is that people can change their personalities when a crisis happens. Ray went from a person who does not care about others and a bit depressed, to a person who is protective and caring of his family. Robbie went from a rebellious teenager who also does not care for others, and hates his dad, to a young man who tries to save some people and starts to have a better relationship with his dad. Ogilvy seemed to be a nice person at first, but then he became a person who was a bit crazy and only cares about himself. In conclusion, people can mentally or physically change during