Barsoom, Barsoom, Barsoom! YAY!
Feb. 14th, 2012 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stEpic and prolonged SQUEE! John Carter is coming out, just in time for my birthday. HOORAY!
Now, please God, let them do a good job with it. The first trailer I saw didn't look promising, at all. But I've just seen a much better one. And I started to think about how young John Carter looks and how different it is for me reading the books at 12 and thinking of him as a man suffering in the wars. To me at that time, 30 was pretty old. Now, he looks way too young, but maybe he's not.
For those of you who don't know, John Carter is from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Stories. He is a Warlord of Mars. And the story is fantastic. All of the tropes that people take credit for today...UST and amazing cliffhangers and mind-boggling beasts and evil priests...all of those things were actually invented by E.R.B. And time after time the idiots in Hollywood screw up his Tarzan stories. Tarzan has never been done properly. And until now, the technology to do John Carter's tales proud didn't exist. John Carter's best friends is a seven foot tall green monster with six limbs and huge curling tusks...so you can imagine how hard that would be to do without CGI.
Here are the trailers...http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/john-carter/trailers/
Basically, the story is about a war ravaged man who succumbs in the desert, seeks shelter in a cave and wakes up on a dying Mars. It does suppose that Mars once had life as we know it. And I was thrilled to see that the movie doesn't appear to back off from that premise. I am not going to REALLY spoil you now...but I am going to give you a taste of how great this story is by telling you the set up for it...
...John Carter wakes up on Mars in this valley where the Martian people go to die. It is their version of paradise. They go there at the end of their long lives and supposedly find those who have died before them and live in peace and love forever. That's what their priests tell them in the one religion of Mars. And anyone who returns from the valley is immediately put to death as a heretic. However, all that really happens to you in the valley is that the priests kill you for sport and then eat you.
John doesn't die easy. Not only because he's a warrior on Earth, a swordsman, but also because he's used to Earth gravity. So he takes on the wild tribes of Mars and their religious zealots and, due to the extremely low gravity of Mars, he manages to impress even the most cynical of warriors on Mars. It is non-stop nail-biting, cliffhanging butt-kicking fun from there on out as John tries to make sense of a world inhabited by people who are only impressed by how big a badass you are. Oh, and the woman are equally deadly on Mars...more so in some cases.
As you can tell, I'm a major fan of E.R.B.
Rae
Now, please God, let them do a good job with it. The first trailer I saw didn't look promising, at all. But I've just seen a much better one. And I started to think about how young John Carter looks and how different it is for me reading the books at 12 and thinking of him as a man suffering in the wars. To me at that time, 30 was pretty old. Now, he looks way too young, but maybe he's not.
For those of you who don't know, John Carter is from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Stories. He is a Warlord of Mars. And the story is fantastic. All of the tropes that people take credit for today...UST and amazing cliffhangers and mind-boggling beasts and evil priests...all of those things were actually invented by E.R.B. And time after time the idiots in Hollywood screw up his Tarzan stories. Tarzan has never been done properly. And until now, the technology to do John Carter's tales proud didn't exist. John Carter's best friends is a seven foot tall green monster with six limbs and huge curling tusks...so you can imagine how hard that would be to do without CGI.
Here are the trailers...http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/john-carter/trailers/
Basically, the story is about a war ravaged man who succumbs in the desert, seeks shelter in a cave and wakes up on a dying Mars. It does suppose that Mars once had life as we know it. And I was thrilled to see that the movie doesn't appear to back off from that premise. I am not going to REALLY spoil you now...but I am going to give you a taste of how great this story is by telling you the set up for it...
...John Carter wakes up on Mars in this valley where the Martian people go to die. It is their version of paradise. They go there at the end of their long lives and supposedly find those who have died before them and live in peace and love forever. That's what their priests tell them in the one religion of Mars. And anyone who returns from the valley is immediately put to death as a heretic. However, all that really happens to you in the valley is that the priests kill you for sport and then eat you.
John doesn't die easy. Not only because he's a warrior on Earth, a swordsman, but also because he's used to Earth gravity. So he takes on the wild tribes of Mars and their religious zealots and, due to the extremely low gravity of Mars, he manages to impress even the most cynical of warriors on Mars. It is non-stop nail-biting, cliffhanging butt-kicking fun from there on out as John tries to make sense of a world inhabited by people who are only impressed by how big a badass you are. Oh, and the woman are equally deadly on Mars...more so in some cases.
As you can tell, I'm a major fan of E.R.B.
Rae