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1 posted on 03/04/2012 5:16:20 PM PST by rrebo
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i loved the books when a kid. how did dejah thoris look?


2 posted on 03/04/2012 5:17:59 PM PST by beebuster2000
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any relation to James Earl?

On a more serious note, during the superbowl here in Indy, there was a GINORMOUS sign for this on the side of a building in the SB Village. I wondered what it was.


3 posted on 03/04/2012 5:19:24 PM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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I saw the commercial. I can’t believe this many years after the greatness of the LOTR films that CGI could look so terrible. Awful.


5 posted on 03/04/2012 5:21:15 PM PST by toddausauras (FUMR x 1,000)
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Ummmm. John Carter of Mars? Wouldn't that be an R-82 movie? Disney did it? They have to have changed the story.

Mom was so happy that I was reading classics. And then she read some of what I was reading. And then I had to keep them hidden.

/johnny

6 posted on 03/04/2012 5:21:50 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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It pretty much followed the Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian books.

That was my main concern. Burroughs was in a whole new class. Nobody else could take a civil war vet, drop him on mars and have him openly declare "I'm the baddest SOB on this planet and all your women want me."
7 posted on 03/04/2012 5:23:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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Looking forward to being transported to Barsoom.


9 posted on 03/04/2012 5:27:46 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Expel the Occupy White House squatters !!!)
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The “Barsoom” series is an incredibly original body of work and really captures the wonder of Mars. It’s got to be hard to get today’s audience to think back to a time of an unknown Mars, but Burroughs’ work can do it.

Not sure the actress in the role of Dejah Thoris captures my mental image of her, but that’s probably just my personal interpretation. Not gonna stop me.


10 posted on 03/04/2012 5:28:34 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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From I’ve heard and seen from the trailor it looks like the story is pretty different to me, but I hope you are right! I mean, I thought “A Princess of Mars” was just a fantastic and classic title, why did they have to change that? And why not “of MARS” in it at all?!

Freegards, may your thoat never stumble


12 posted on 03/04/2012 5:34:02 PM PST by Ransomed
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Have read these books both as a child and recently.

Am much concerned about what I am seeing in the trailers.


16 posted on 03/04/2012 5:43:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Saw the preview for it in a theater last night. Looks like a cross between Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian.


31 posted on 03/04/2012 6:03:25 PM PST by Rebelbase
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33 posted on 03/04/2012 6:05:38 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ron Paul called Ronald Reagan a miserable failure.....)
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Go see The Lorax this weekend. It was so great. Took the entire family. There is six of us and we all enjoyed it. It is going to be the number one movie this weekend (Made 70 million on Friday). For the second weekend, a great movie has been number one. Things are getting better in Hollywood. Now we have this John Smith movie to look forward too. Life is good movie wise. Hopefully Hollywood will continue this trend.


34 posted on 03/04/2012 6:08:16 PM PST by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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You can see the trailer here.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/john-carter/


36 posted on 03/04/2012 6:13:49 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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After 40 years I’m re-reading the first three Mars books.

I tell ya’ florid prose works better on a 13 year old than a curmudgeon.

Still fun though.


40 posted on 03/04/2012 6:30:17 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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How many Edgar Rice Burrough’s books in Barsoom were there?


42 posted on 03/04/2012 6:49:33 PM PST by tbw2
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Looks like I need to add Edgar Rice Burrough’s books to my reading list. Thanks.


51 posted on 03/04/2012 9:19:29 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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I’m gonna hafta see this movie! One of our cats (a rangy red-furred tomcat) is named John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom. (We call him Johnny. Sweetest cat ever, btw.)


52 posted on 03/04/2012 9:47:36 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (If you back Newt . . . then SEND HIM MONEY!! "Be Breitbart, Baby!")
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Nearly one hundred years ago Edgar Rice Burroughs, the man who would go on to create the much more famous ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ wrote and published his first novel ‘A Princess of Mars’ (Soon to be a Major Motion Picture). My eye was drawn to the amazing cover art of the titular princess.

I learned a lot about how a man should act from those books, but it was only after reading them again later in life that I realized how deftly Edgar Rice Burroughs had woven fundamental truths, social satire and outright prophetic pronouncements into a cliff hanger swashbuckling pulp fiction Sci-Fi story.

Before World War One he foresaw the advent of ‘air power’ in advanced warfare. During World War One he laughed at people who called it ‘The War to End Wars’ through the mouth of a Martian woman. Before the abject failure of Communism during the 20th Century and the Khmer Rouge he portrayed the natural instinct of State Collectives to fight against the family bond and how universal ownership would lead to universal misery. Before the Moon landing he talked about how John Carter, an earthling, would make fantastic leaps under the lower gravity and air pressure of Mars. Before Environmentalism and OPEC he spoke of people fighting for limited resources on a dying planet. Before Martin Luther King gave his speech Burroughs showed that John Carter judged someone by the content of their character not the color of their skin, even if it was green or purple.

Here are 6 lessons with quotes from the book that I learned from reading the Martian stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs...

1) Be kind to animals.

John Carter’s greatest advantage over the Green Martians was that the fearsome Martian hound “Woola” they set to watch over him soon became his devoted pet.

“I had developed considerable affection for Woola and Sola (a green Martian), for the normal earthly man must have some outlet for his natural affections, and so I decided upon an appeal to a like instinct in this great brute, sure that I would not be disappointed.”

Then later he remarked…

“I had at least two friends on Mars; a young woman who watched over me with motherly solicitude, and a dumb brute which, as I later came to know, held in its poor ugly carcass more love, more loyalty, more gratitude than could have been found in the entire five million green Martians who roved the deserted cities and dead sea bottoms of Mars.”

He got the fierce war mounts of the Tharks to follow him like puppies, and the Tharks, although they thought gentleness a weakness, were so impressed that they adopted his methods of training much to their benefit, and John Carter was rewarded with a leg band from the Thark chieftain’s own leg because of the military advantage the Tharks saw in having loyal and responsive mounts.

2) What is inside is important, what is outside isn’t.

“This much, Tars Tarkas, you may do for me in return for the friendship that, I must confess, I feel for you.” *John Carter

“Friendship? There is no such thing, John Carter.” *Tars Tarkus

“I would scarcely recognize you, John Carter, but there is no other mortal upon Barsoom (Mars) who would have done what you have for me. I think I have learned that there is such a thing as friendship, my friend.” *Tars Tarkus

“Twenty-two years before I had been cast, naked and a stranger, into this strange and savage world. The hand of every race and nation was raised in continual strife and warring against the men of every other land and color. Today, by the might of my sword and the loyalty of the friends my sword had made for me, black man and white, red man and green rubbed shoulders in peace and good-fellowship. All the nations of Barsoom were not yet as one, but a great stride forward toward that goal had been taken, and now if I could but cement the fierce yellow race into this solidarity of nations I should feel that I had rounded out a great lifework, and repaid to Mars at least a portion of the immense debt of gratitude I owed her for having given me my Dejah Thoris.” *John Carter

3) Communism sucks.

The Tharks owned property communally and were raised communally. Raising your own child or mating for love was punishable by death.

“Why, oh why will you not learn to live in amity with your fellows, must you ever go on down the ages to your final extinction but little above the plane of the dumb brutes that serve you! A people without written language, without art, without homes, without love; the victim of eons of the horrible community idea. Owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common. You hate each other as you hate all else except yourselves. Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. The way is open to you, you will find the hands of the red men stretched out to aid you. Together we may do still more to regenerate our dying planet.” *Dejah Thoris

4) Take care of the planet.

Mars was an ancient and dying planet. Life existed only because the red Martians built atmosphere plants and great worldwide canals from water pumped from the southern ice cap to irrigate the planet.

5) Women are awesome.

“They make the powder, the cartridges, the firearms; in fact everything of value is produced by the females. In time of actual warfare they form a part of the reserves, and when the necessity arises fight with even greater intelligence and ferocity than the men.” *John Carter

“Tell me of your mother,” I said. “Tell me all you can of the years that I have been robbed by a relentless fate of her dear companionship.”

“Your stature, your manner, the terrible ferocity of your swordsmanship,” said the boy, “are as my mother has described them to me a thousand times—but even with such evidence I could scarce credit the truth of what seemed so improbable to me, however much I desired it to be true. Do you know what thing it was that convinced me more than all the others?”

“What, my boy?” I asked.

“Your first words to me—they were of my mother. None else but the man who loved her as she has told me my father did would have thought first of her.”

“For long years, my son, I can scarce recall a moment that the radiant vision of your mother's face has not been ever before me. Tell me of her.”

6) Never give up hope.

“I still live.” John Carter

“I am afraid that it is hopeless”

“I may answer that in the famous words of John Carter: ‘I still live!’”

“The blind philosophy of absolute courage, but yet futile”

“It served him well many a time, for it gave him the will to attempt the impossible and to succeed. We still live, Nur An; do not forget that- we still live.” *Hadron of Hastur

“Give a Thark his head and one hand, and he may yet prevail.” *TarsTarkus

60 posted on 03/05/2012 10:35:26 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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Just started reading the series, liking it alot so far.
Years ago I read quitre a few of the Tarzan ones


65 posted on 03/05/2012 5:37:07 PM PST by verga (Party like it is 1773)
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I am all for putting John Carter on the big screen, finally. One of the best series from the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

I had some disparaging remarks about seeing how Disney works in some political correctness, but I’ll leave it at that.


66 posted on 03/05/2012 6:20:11 PM PST by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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