There were none, but they found a Terraforming Generator machine (or World Engine) that was salvaged and retrofitted.He belong to Miss Melanie..." BackgroundGiant (1956)is a sprawling, grandiose and iconic western epic and melodrama based on Edna Ferber""s celebrated 1952 novel.His mother is still suffering the traumatic effects of separation from her husband.Elliott unwittingly widens the rifts in the already broken family (his father left for Mexico with another woman) and weakens the bonds that hold hem together during their conversation:Mom: It""s not that we don""t believe you, honey.He fled from the room and locked himself in a hallway closet, where his anger caused him to activate his heat vision.