![]() ![]() Thankfully, Bryan Cranston provides some brief moments of acting relief with a brash performance as a local sheriff back in the US. Her attempts at embodying strength are virtuous, but come across as too earnest. Collins provides a more affable heroine with toughness and grit, but still plays that stereotypical female character, rescued by the protagonist hero. While they detract from Kitsch’s superhero tone and disconcerting dialogue, they cannot completely be held accountable for the lacklustre performance. Kitsch’s problems are dramatically emphasised by the mounds of makeup placed on his eyes. ![]() Despite this routine summation, John Carter is a character with an interesting backstory (although the acting may permit to think the opposite) Carter is the white male protagonist that enters a foreign land, falls in love with the beautiful and all-knowing Princess, and protects the local savages from threat of extinction from malevolent forces. In fact, a whole slate of films could be interchanged for the three aforementioned titles. Similarities can be drawn to the stories of Pocahontas, Aladdin and even Avatar in their depictions of the hero’s journey. Together they battle the threat of extinction from the Zodanga, led by Sab Than ( Dominic West). Taken captive by 12 green barbarians (the Tharks), Carter manages to impress the natives with his superhuman strength and thus meets Princess of Helium, Dejah Thoris ( Lynn Collins). In Barsoom, a civil war has been playing out between Zodangians, Heliumites and the Tharks. Instead, 79 years of nightmarish development and pre-production surrounded Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series, which was first published in 1912.īarsoom is the native word for Mars, which is where 19 th century renegade and Confederate Civil War veteran John Carter ( Taylor Kitsch) finds himself after stumbling across a vessel that transports him from a cave in the United States. Oh, what could have been… Had production been indeed productive, John Carter might have been the first animated feature film in cinema, pipping Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the post. ![]()
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