![]() ![]() The writing is at best lacklustre, at worse clumsy and insulting. There are good examples of this sub-genre of course, not the least the progenitor War of the Worlds, but Footfall is not one. The threat of earth’s destruction, enslavement, or subjugation, is supposed to drive the drama as Niven and Purnelle’s host of human characters seek to survive the onslaught of the elephant-like aliens.įootfall has it all: unknown aliens emerging from the depth of space, mass destruction of earth, and plucky American heroes. ![]() Footfall has it all: unknown aliens emerging from the depth of space, mass destruction of earth, and plucky American heroes. The invasion of earth has become such a trope in science fiction that it can almost be considered its own sub-genre. I recalled this within the first few minutes of starting Larry Niven and Jerry Purnelle’s Footfall,because it so clearly typifies a point in the history of popular science fiction in this case the troubled years of the mid-1980s. How a film was made can tell an observer as much, if not more, than what it is about. ![]() The lecturers encouraged us to consider what films could tell us about the period in which they were created, taking films not as historical records, but as historical relics. One of the most interesting courses I took while at university was history through film. ![]()
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