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DemonKia -> RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? (11/2/2009 12:51:38 AM)
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FR, after read thru
'A Princess of Mars' was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs some 90-ish years ago, the first in a series of 11 Barsoom books. (Barsoom being ERB's alternate-universe Mars that is the background of the stories.)
ERB is most famously the author of the original Tarzan stories that have sourced so much Tarzan-a-mania since then (I was a big fan of 'George of the Jungle' as a kid, but Christopher Lambert was pretty hunky in that very pretty '80's version of Tarzan . .. . .)
The Barsoom stories (also known colloquially as the John Carter of Mars stories, with reference to the protagonist) are considered to be classic pulp fiction, adventure stories featuring aliens indigenous to Mars / Barsoom, & have been inspiring creative persons ever since. I read them because of Robert Heinlein, who was a huge fan.
Dreamy, the big advantage to reading them is that they're short. I'm not much on most pre-modern literature, the language can so often be turgid, inaccessible, or otherwise not my thing, but 'Princess of Mars' was okay. I don't think I read more than the first one tho' I do have this vague desire to work my way thru the whole series a coupla times, but that's a writerly thing for me . . . .
I found much of what was in the book 'anthropologically / sociologically' interesting, quaintly historical, that kinda thing . . . & as adventure stories they moved along well enough.
I expect I may very well like the movies better than the books, but we'll see.
&, yeah, Willem Dafoe. Mmmmmmm, mmmmmmmm, good . . . . . . . He's on my naked-alphabet list, but that's a whole other thread . .. ..
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