La Guerre des mondes (2005)

Partager la citation sur facebook [first lines] No one would have believed, in the early years of the 21st century, that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world. Yet, across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes...and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us.

Partager la citation sur facebook [last lines] From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

Partager la citation sur facebook [to Robbie] Okay, hey, enough of the "Ray" shoot, alright! It's Dad, Sir, or, if you want, Mr. Ferrier. It sounds a little weird to me, but you decide.

Partager la citation sur facebook [to Robbie] You can hate me, but I love you!

Partager la citation sur facebook Two for you, two for Robbie, two for me... One for the house.

Partager la citation sur facebook [looking out at the teleporter's bolt of lightning] Where's the thunder...?

Partager la citation sur facebook Robbie, you wanna head in that direction?! There's nothing living in that direction, Robbie!

Partager la citation sur facebook We're gonna leave this house in 60 seconds.

Partager la citation sur facebook Can you think of a plan that doesn't involve your 10-year-old sister joining the army?

Partager la citation sur facebook Get in the car, Manny, or you're gonna die!

Partager la citation sur facebook Look at the birds!

Partager la citation sur facebook [as the family is chased by a tripod] Is it the terrorists?!

Partager la citation sur facebook [just before the tripods appear] The trees are moving...

Partager la citation sur facebook [unseen] Are we still alive?

Partager la citation sur facebook [crying, and softly hitting him] Robbie! What are you trying to do?! Where are you trying to go?! Who's going to take care of me if you go?!

Partager la citation sur facebook Is it them?! Is it them?!

Partager la citation sur facebook This is not a war any more than there's a war between men and maggots... This is an extermination.

Partager la citation sur facebook You and me - I don't think we're on the same page.

Partager la citation sur facebook I'm dead set on living. [laughs, to himself] "Dead set on living".

Partager la citation sur facebook So what are you gonna do? Hide and wait here till they come and get you? Is that your "plan"?

Partager la citation sur facebook Reporter: Once the tripods start to move, no more news comes out of that area.

Partager la citation sur facebook Marine Corps Captain: Our mission Lieutenant, is to delay their advance until those refugees get to safety! Now keep firing!

Partager la citation sur facebook Marine Corps Officer: Guidons, Guidons, Black Six. Attack, attack, attack!

Partager la citation sur facebook National Guard Lieutenant: Load the Gustavs, this is gonna be a tough kill!

Partager la citation sur facebook Tim: (awkwardly) I'm.....uh.....I'm gonna wait outside.

Partager la citation sur facebook Mary Ann: You're out of milk. And everything else.

Partager la citation sur facebook Captured Army Private: Everybody, down!-[when explosion is about to occur]

Partager la citation sur facebook Mary-Anne: Take care of our kids.
Ray: Mary-Anne, you've got nothing to worry about.

Partager la citation sur facebook Ray: [after a lightning flash] It's okay, you're fine.
Rachel: It hit right behind our house!
Ray: Yeah... uh... it's not gonna hit there again, okay? Because lightning doesn't strike twice in the same- [lightning strikes the same place] holy shit!

Partager la citation sur facebook Robbie: Is it the terrorists?
Ray: No... this came from someplace else.
Robbie: What, you mean like Europe?
Ray: No, Robbie! Not like Europe!

Partager la citation sur facebook [Robbie, Ray and Rachel are fleeing the tripods along the highway]
Robbie: Where are we going?!
Ray: We gotta go! We got to be the only working car around here. I'm not stopping until we are clear.
Robbie: Clear of what?!
Ray: We gotta go!
Robbie: What is going on?!
Ray: You saw! We're under attack!!
[Rachel begins to cry and scream hysterically]
Robbie: By who?! Who is attacking us?!
Ray: Rachel... Rachel you've got to keep it down Rachel!
[Rachel, still crying, starts to hyperventilate]
Ray: Rachel! Shut up, Rachael! I can't think!!
Robbie: You are freaking her out!!
Ray: Well, look, I'm driving!! Do something!!
[Robbie turns to Rachel and shows her an arm formation]
Robbie: Okay, put 'em up, Rache. Make the arms. [Rachel copies the formation, still panicking. Robbie holds her arms] This space right here, this is yours. This belongs to you, right?
Rachel: [taking deep breaths, trying to calm herself] Yes...
Robbie: [reassuring her] You're safe in your space.
Rachel: I'm safe in my space...
Robbie: You're safe in your space. Nothing is going to happen to you in your space.
Rachel: I'm really scared...
Robbie: I'm gonna go to the front seat to talk to Dad.
Rachel: No...
Robbie: I will be two feet away, okay. Will you hold my hand?
Rachel: Yes.
Robbie: Are you gonna be okay?
Rachel: Yes.

Partager la citation sur facebook Ray: Ketchup.. mustard.. Tabasco sauce.. vinaigrette.. This is good, Robbie, I told you to pack food. What the hell is this?
Robbie: That's all that was in your kitchen.

Partager la citation sur facebook Rachel: If everything's okay, why do we have to sleep in the basement? We have perfectly good beds.
Ray: It's, like a slumber-party. [looks around] This is a nice basement...
Rachel: I wanna sleep in my bed. I got back problems.
Ray: Uh, well, you know how on the Weather Channel, when they say a tornado's coming and they tell you to go to the basement for safety? It's like that.
Rachel: There's gonna be tornadoes?
Ray: Okay, Rachel, no more talking.
[Robbie puts his cap on Rachel's head.]
Rachel: Could you be a little nicer to me, God?

Partager la citation sur facebook Reporter: Hey, were you on that plane?
[Ray shakes his head]
Reporter: Too bad. Would have made a great story.

Partager la citation sur facebook They're Already Here.

Partager la citation sur facebook This Summer, The Last War On Earth Won't Be Started By Humans.

Partager la citation sur facebook SPIEGEL: Mr. Spielberg, no other film director has done more image-building for aliens than you: in your films "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) and "E.T." (1982) you describe them as loveable creatures. In your latest film, "War of the Worlds," which opens in cinemas on June 29, you have aliens from outer space attacking the world. What's the reason behind your change of heart?

Partager la citation sur facebook Spielberg: I probably became somewhat...
Cruise: ...more daring, am I right?
Spielberg: Yes, there's something in that. I used to be the goodwill ambassador between the aliens civilizations and our own, and did everything I could to prepare the ground for a peaceful encounter. That bored me. I grew up with the science-fiction films of the 1950s and 60s, in which flying saucers attack Earth and people have to resist the aliens with all their might. So I thought: before I retire I should direct a really mean invasion from outer space.
SPIEGEL: Your film "War of the Worlds" is named after the futuristic novel of the same name by H.G. Wells, written in 1898. At the end of the novel it says that Earth is "no longer a fenced-in and safe place to live." Doesn't this sentence exactly describe the feeling that Americans have had about life since September 11?
Cruise: It describes the feeling about life all over the world. We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together. The film is a metaphor for that battle.
Spielberg: We wanted to make a film in which people join forces, across all borders and despite all their differences, in order to fight against an enemy who is not of a human nature.
SPIEGEL: But the film is set almost exclusively in the United States. Does it really describe a global catastrophe?
Spielberg: It describes a global catastrophe from a subjective point of view. The audience experiences the war from the perspective of Tom's character, from the point of view of an American docker. But we leave it in no doubt that the entire Earth is threatened.

Partager la citation sur facebook SPIEGEL: Mr. Spielberg, your plans to make a film of "War of the Worlds" date back to the early 1990s. Would you have made the film if September 11 had not happened?

Partager la citation sur facebook War of the Worlds is a big, clunky movie containing some sensational sights but lacking the zest and joyous energy we expect from Steven Spielberg.

Partager la citation sur facebook The problem may be with the alien invasion itself. It is not very interesting. We learn that countless years ago, invaders presumably but not necessarily from Mars buried huge machines all over the Earth. Now they activate them with lightning bolts, each one containing an alien (in what form, it is hard to say). With the aliens at the controls, these machines crash up out of the Earth, stand on three towering but spindly legs and begin to zap the planet with death rays. Later, their tentacles suck our blood and fill steel baskets with our writhing bodies.
To what purpose? Why zap what you later want to harvest? Why harvest humans? And, for that matter, why balance these towering machines on ill-designed supports? If evolution has taught us anything, it is that limbs of living things, from men to dinosaurs to spiders to centipedes, tend to come in numbers divisible by two. Three legs are inherently not stable, as the movie demonstrates when one leg of a giant tripod is damaged, and it falls helplessly to the ground.
The tripods are indeed faithful to the original illustrations for H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds, and to the machines described in the historic 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast. But the book and radio program depended on our imaginations to make them believable, and the movie came at a time of lower expectations in special effects. You look at Spielberg's machines and you don't get much worked up, because you're seeing not alien menace but clumsy retro design. Perhaps it would have been a good idea to set the movie in 1898, at the time of Wells' novel, when the tripods represented a state-of-the-art alien invasion.

Partager la citation sur facebook The human characters are disappointingly one-dimensional. Cruise's character is given a smidgen of humanity (he's an immature, divorced hotshot who has custody of the kids for the weekend) and then he wanders out with his neighbors to witness strange portents in the sky, and the movie becomes a story about grabbing and running and ducking and hiding and trying to fight back.
There are scenes in which poor Dakota Fanning, as his daughter, has to be lost or menaced, and then scenes in which she is found or saved, all with much desperate shouting. A scene where an alien tentacle explores a ruined basement where they're hiding is a mirror of a better scene in "Jurassic Park" where characters hide from a curious raptor.
The thing is, we never believe the tripods and their invasion are practical. How did these vast metal machines lie undetected for so long beneath the streets of a city honeycombed with subway tunnels, sewers, water and power lines, and foundations?