Watched ‘John Carter’ (2012) on Netflix.
Based on ‘A Princess of Mars’, the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Mercifully it flopped at the American box office, and the filmmakers cancelled plans for a sequel, and for a trilogy they had planned!
Not just about ‘Life on mars’, this film shows Kingdoms on Mars!
Human like people and then your usual green coloured weird ugly creatures belonging to some other species.
Two kingdoms helium and Zodanga have been warring for years.
Our hero John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is transported there.
Apart from the red planet’s low gravity and hence our earth-man’s ability to take giant leaps, everything else is, you know, bullshit, that too of the incredible variety.
So earth man falls in love with a princess there (Lynn Collins). Bad guy (Dominic West) from the rival kingdom comes to possess a deadly weapon that can destroy Helium, but agrees to make peace only if the princess of Helium will marry him.
There are super bad guys, third parties basically, who do not want truce, but want kingdoms to destroy each other so they may take charge of all the resources on all the planets.
John Carter, initially looks for a way to return to earth, but has a change of heart and fights off all who come in his way to marry the princess. He kills two giant white monkeys with four arms.
On his first night, he abandons his plan to return to Earth and decides to stay on mars, and hence, throws away the magical medallion that is his only means to return to earth…
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Garuda and Nataraja idols are seen in the collection of John Carter.
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‘Your presence is requested up at the fort. I suggest you come peaceably’
‘You don't have a dog in this fight’ (none of your business)
#westerncinema
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