Thursday, September 01, 2005

war of da worlds

here's my take on the movie "War of the Worlds". I'm dividing it into a number of parts. I'll write the subsequent ones only if everyone who reads this puts in a comment saying what a great writer i really am. That said, i've borrowed a couple of ideas from a standup comic called Eddie Izzard and some from the movie itself. I mention it just so u dont call me a plagiarist.




No one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twenty first century came the great disillusionment.


The prelude to the attack...


The plans for the attack had been under preparation for a long time now. In fact the seeds of the attack had already been planted far before the apes, the homo erectus or the homo sapiens had made their appearance on the face of the planet. The people of the planet Mars resemble greatly in appearance a cross between the ugliest of pygmies from the jungles of Congo and Mithun Chakraborty. One martian is identifiable from the other only by closely identifying the colour and size of a protruding muscle from below the navel, in case of women and the colour of the bollocks in case of men. A choice of 2658894977397584784798734643877 colours identifiable by the Martian eye prevents any confusion. Contrary to planet earth, the female of the Martian is the more dominant of the species and the male has forever been a pawn in the women’s hands (slimy, ugly and fluorescent green).
The male martian is one of the geekiest creatures of the galaxy ( surpassed in geekiness only by the female students of COEP). However, tired of the torment and torture of the she-males of mars, all the males decided to leave the planet and colonize the newly cooled planet earth ( life on Mars began even before the earth had cooled down), far from the reach of their tormenters.

Now, the growth and development of the planet earth was being regulated by a strange little guy called God who called the whole process “genesis”. This guy was a really smart chappie and had created some great forests( mainly marijuana and opium) and large water bodies that he called oceans consisting mainly of fermented barley and ferments of various other fruits and grains. So far so good, said the slimy little martian males, but this guy soon planned on creating a stupid little creature called man, in his own image. Now god was a really smart ( and horny) guy by himself and if he created this “man” in his own image, it was obviously detrimental to Martian interests for this little species would multiply thousandfold before you can say “chakraborty”.

So the martians quietly sneaked into Gods harem while he was with one of the muses and kidnapped him in his sleep. They brought him back to Mars and updated him with the position. Now god was an understanding and sympathetic guy and instead of creating man he created 500 really big, ugly and slimy dinosaurs in the image of his cousin Spielberg.

This made the martians extremely happy, for these slimy monsters gobbled up all the earth’s opium and marijuana and through matter transportation fart-rays sent it all to mars where they all smoked pot, listened to pink floyd and got high. But soon the dinosaurs realized they were being used and started black-marketing some of the dope to various creatures around. This greatly annoyed the martians and god alike. So, one fine day they packed all the dinosaurs, all 5000 of them ( yeah, they had lots of sex), into little stones and went to sleep.

Thanks to all the opium they had been consuming, they slept for 65 million years….




to be continued...

4 Comments:

Blogger shruti said...

good imagination....a very humorous peice ...loved the metaphors....m looking forward to the sequels...n "ur a gr8 riter"...

11:31 pm  
Blogger Abhishek said...

very very nice . . .

dunno the parts u clipped off Izzard but do try and not be influenced. This happenes to me too sometimes (with DNA) but ya,.. its better if ure original.

And yes this piece is way nicer that the other one on ur blog.

9:49 pm  
Blogger kapeesh saraf said...

thanks dude...no more plagiarising from now on....except mebbe once in a while

11:22 am  
Blogger Abhishek said...

ya - just saying u plagiarized does make the thing less heinous but no more original.

2:42 pm  

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