With any luck, she’ll team up with Mulan and kick the arses of the rest of them, drilling some self-reliance, confidence and self respect into Ariel, Belle and the rest. Asylum got there first.Ĥ: Hey, this is a Disney movie? With a princess? I demand that Dejah Thoris be added to the list of Disney Princesses.
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Thing is, that would also be misleading, as the movie is broadly based on the first Barsoom book, Princess of Mars.ģ: It’s worth pointing out that this isn’t the first time the book has been adapted. Flat can be fun, if the rest of the world is vivid and interesting.Ģ: Much has been made of the fact that the movie is not called John Carter of Mars. Critics pan the Twilight novels for a rather flat female lead whilst conveniently forgetting the vast army of near-perfect male heroes in all sorts of fiction aimed for boys. The sad fact is that by making a movie that would appeal to a larger market, they’ve cut away the true strangeness of the original work (which is just under a 100-years old), and we are left with a movie that fails to excite the average non-geek and merely teases the truly nerdy amongst it with a vision of what was almost great.ġ: Lot’s of pulp-action heroes are relatively simply drawn.
This is a true fantasy movie, and the books that inspired it have been huge influence on more familar films elements of the Barsoom books can be found in big chunks of American Fantasy and Sci-Fi stories from Superman to Flash Gordon, from Star Trek to Star Wars.ĭoes John Carter does its legacy justice? Yes, just about. He’s eye candy and carries the story forward the way he’s supposed to, by being a proxy for the viewer. Sadly, the actress cast for the role is pretty rather than strange-looking, but the performance is powerful and the character is strong and independent, as it should be.Īs for John Carter himself? Meh. The martian princess 4, who is essentially the central character, is interesting and engaging. The four-armed, green skinned Tharks, on which much of the original story revolves, are interesting and likeable. And I remain cautiously optimistic that it will be.Brought to you by the man who invented Tarzan. But all in all, I'm excited nonetheless, and I can certainly forgive the movie for not being exactly what I want it to be as long as it's good in its own right. And, I'm not sure that the visuals of the characters are really what I was hoping for either. I'm always just a bit hesitant to see some of my favorite literary works converted to film, and clearly the plot has evolved considerably under the influence of the screenwriters from the starting point of the novels. I can't help but to give a hearty "Cheers!" to John Carter to celebrate (slightly belatedly) the 100th anniversary of his first publishing, as well as the also belatedly release of a movie based on the book-after many tries and many years-decades even-of attempts. That said, John Carter was always my favorite, and his influence, although perhaps not as well known and perhaps a bit more subtle, is still extremely pervasive in the fields of swashbuckling fantasy and science fiction alike. His character Tarzan went on to be better known, and to sell many more books (or at least to have many more books published featuring him) as well as giving his name to a town in California, Tarzana.
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