OMG how horrible
Actually as portrayed, her appearance matches the description in the book except for one (admittedly significant) detail.
The lips aren't "ruby" (what were you thinking of?)
Posted on 03/08/2012 9:09:54 AM PST by trailhkr1
Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War Confederate Captain discovers a lush planet inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter a princess who is in desperate need of a savior.
(Excerpt) Read more at imdb.com ...
I think you'll have a hard time figuring out where the singing teacup fits in the Burroughs' original manuscript. < / just kidding, I hope>
The Tharks owned everything communally, and individual love or mating was punishable by death. Every mating had to be state sanctioned, and the resulting children were randomly assigned, not raised by their parents. The State was all, there was no family. One owned nothing, one was assigned assets by the State.
Dejah Thoris had a few words to say about this (and I hope her impassioned speech made the movie, but I doubt it)....
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.”
Adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom books is better than the usual comic book adaptations, I guess. I’ve always wondered why Hollywood hadn’t tried to create a franchise out of John Carter as they did with Burroughs’ Tarzan.
story has been PC’d somewhat... Dejah is not the feminine drop dead beauty of the novels but a muscular he-woman, not really sexy at all... John Carter isn’t very bright in this version, taking a backseat (as is Hollywood’s way) to a more intelligent and stronger woman (dejah)...
see the actress remark on her portrayal here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/lynn-collins-john-carter-premiere
BTW, saw "Act of Valor" last night. Mixed: great to see the baddies die with no qualifiers. I thought the Seals were actually pretty good actors. Photography was exceptional---loved the scene with the rescue boats and their gatling guns. But overall, the plot line/story was quite weak, and should have had the whole audience bawling like babies at the end. Ultimately, it's always about story, story, story.
Never heard of them, and I was a youth in the 70’s.
I read all of the John Carter books. The post war attempts by Heilein were a disappointment, but the first were great!
Since there is no way Mars qualifies for global warming, I’d guess it’s on the threat of technology or “climate change”.
This movie is made by Disney, which bring us “Good Christian Bitches”.
I’m not optimistic about this movie. I expect an emasculated, PC John Carter.
OMG how horrible
Actually as portrayed, her appearance matches the description in the book except for one (admittedly significant) detail.
The lips aren't "ruby" (what were you thinking of?)
She has a bell button.....Does that mean she didn’t hatch out of an egg?
She has a belly button.....Does that mean she didn’t hatch out of an egg?
I’m betting it’s a gender thing. You probably only heard of the author’s other famous character, Tarzan, via television and movies. The books are fantastic, but they are the swashbuckling stuff of male adolescent fantasy.
The Tarzan of the books is markedly different than the Tarzan in movies and television btw.
Ummm, have you actually seen Lynn Collins? The 5’3”, 120lb actress is anything but a muscular he-woman. You have no earthly idea what you’re talking about.
Interminably long, dull and incomprehensible, “John Carter’’ evokes pretty much every sci-fi classic from the past 50 years without having any real personality of its own.
Absolutely awful! At $300 million, Disney’s ‘John Carter’ is trash for cash
He is kicking a** in the trailer and fighting a giant orc monster, does not look too emasculated.
Of course they didn't show the part where he and orc decide to stop fighting, and wind up hugging each other.
Well, she is supposed to be a warrior princess. She looks pretty hot in the pics I have seen. Better than those hokey 40- and 60's sci fi clicks where the women only wore frilly dresses and all they did was scream. I like strong women.
I saw the interview you linked and no where did it say John Carter is not very bright and takes a backseat to Dejah.
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