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your personal opinion about Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast? Was that a good
adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel? Explain!
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I will post some comments and questions about the topics discussed in class and you have to participate expressing your own points of view. You need to check the blog constantly 'cause depending on your classmates' opinions or ideas, you will answer. It means that you must participate more than once for each comment I post. Make the blog a dynamic window where we can share links, ideas and opinions that can help us learn more about the British and American Literature.
If we want to judge the Owson Welles' adaptation of the War of the Worlds by H.G.wells, we have to look at not only the results but the similarities and diffrences in content. So, we have that the original story tells about the coming of the martians in huge cylinders. It says that they were like octopus with heat rays and poison smoke as weapons. The H.G's story tells that people did not believe in live out of this planet, and it also says that the martians arrived in small areas before getting to the largest city. Finally the original tells about some experts, the first human casualties and the fight againts them, the annihilation of the human being's society and of course the destruction of the martians by bacteria. One point apart is the fact that the story is narrated by someone who is on the field, or in other words, by first hand.
ResponderEliminarAll the aforementioned aspects, which in my opinion are the core of the original story are refered in the adaptation of Orson Welles'. It stuck to the original screenplay but added a new resource: the radio. The mean that gives to the story an appearance and form of a real time event.
Therefore, to say that the Owson Welles's 1938 broadcast is a good adptation of H.G. Wells' novel is wise, as it kept the core elements of the original.
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ResponderEliminarIn my opinion it was a good adaptation, but in relation to the way in which it was presented, I mean the radio broadcast, because it gave another sense of life different from the original novel by H.G Wells. On the other hand, literally is not the same (mood, tone, intonation) from a written text in this case the “novel” to a "vivid" situation that can be heard by so many people; as in the case of the radio broadcast. I addition the audience from the novel is not the same from the radio broadcast and it is relevant when a story needs to be caught, that is way I think that the radio broadcast was a good adaptation from the original one; not only for the content but also for the mass media that was used which involved (background sounds of people´s screams, detonations, and the voices of all the characters, that made it sound so real. Besides, maybe some people did not know all the description about the war of the worlds before, but they could know it on October 30 in 1930 through the radio...
ResponderEliminarWell !, I agree with you Maria when you say about the differences between read a novel and listen to the radio. Certainly the literary figures are more impressive through the airwaves but that is not reason to panic like those listener did on 1938. I have done some research and I found out that the day in october , 1938 was sunday and it was a day before halloween. I also knew that the USA population was a bit scare of the germans on the other side of the atlantic ocean and that the RADIO had been among the americans for over twenty years.
ResponderEliminarSo I believe that the effect produced on some people in some states of USA that day were the result of a constelation of causes; but it does not mean that was a good adaptation, since like I said, the similarities in content between the radio broadcast and the H.G.Wells novel are the ones which might say if it was a good adaptation or a bad one. In conclusion, based on the content I would say one more time and for last time that it was a GOOD ADAPTATION.
So, given the circumstances of the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds," you think some people panicked. Do you think you could have been fooled by that radio broadcast?
ResponderEliminarThat is a tough question, but first let me clear that not all the americans believed that story. I think that most of caught were women, children, seniors, jerks and non christians.
EliminarOf course, I have to recognize and keep in mind that mass media are manipulators in nature. However, no matter the way they present the news or information, or the circuntances; the effect produced on audiences doesn't depend on itself but on THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND PERSONALY OF THE LISTENERS.
If I would have been living in USA at that time but with the same MIND I have today, I wouldn't have been fooled at all. No way.
How do the ways in which mass media present the news affect our perception of the actual news?
ResponderEliminarNO. no at all. Perception is a more complicated process, as it depends on the perceived object or thing, the cognitive abilities and experience of the person and the enviroment where the perception takes place. So, the way in which mass media present the news doesn't determine only my perception.
EliminarThe ways in which mass media present the news, can not affect our perception directly, because we have to be aware about what is around us, I mean the environment. I think mass media can affect some superstitious or weak mind people although not at all, due to there need to be some other factor interfering people´s five senses.
EliminarAccording to the story and some documentary resources, most of people from New York and New Jersey panicked, because they thought that the events from the radio broadcast were real. On the other hand, if I have listened this radio broadcast that day, maybe I could feel surprised; but in my personal opinion, I do not believe in Martians, so it is not the same to say what thing I could do or believed that day, because I do not lived that situation.
ResponderEliminarOn the contrary, actually it is difficult to me to think about the coming of the Martians to the earth, because I have another perception of life. In addition if I were heard the introduction of the radio broadcast, maybe I could not feel scared about that, either knowing that it was not true, maybe I could feel some fear but for the way in which it was presented, I mean the appearance it took in relation to the sounds, characters voice and all the effects, and also for the date in which Halloween was celebrated.
The mass media should not affect our perception of the actual news, because we need to be careful about the veracity of it all the time.
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