![]() ![]() John was a gentleman soldier, and Tarzan a noble born with a good heart but raised as a great ape."The Nix as a brook horse" by Theodor Kittelsen: folklore transformed into a fantasy world Fantasy The "Civilized Savage" is pretty much what Bruce Wayne/Batman are, and would be equally appropriate to apply to Tarzan and John Carter. I think he would do a great Princess of Mars too. ![]() Not sure who would do it right, but my thoughts on it are that the guy who made the new batman movies has a real goof eye for that balance. Jane was no weeping maiden looking to be rescued either, she turned into a true jungle queen with Tarzan at her side, and after a while Tarzan even fit in as Lord Greystoke. To truly do him justice, they would have to portray him as someone who is sharp as a razor, and physically intimidating as well. He was the offspring of brilliant people with great genetics, and raised as a savage. To me, I always think of Tarzan from the books, as a brilliant mind trapped in a savage body. I got mad as hell about pretty much all the Tarzan movies. (Sorry, folks, that this got off topic so much, but the opportunity to talk to another Burroghphile just doesn't come along that often) Incidentally, have you ever read Philip Jose Farmer's take on Tarzan? "A Feast Unknown," (which reads like pornography, so be forewarned) or its sequels, "Lord Of The Trees," and "The Mad Goblin" then a totally different version in "Time's Last Gift," which is the best of all of them, in my opinion. Carter is one of my all time personal fiction heroes, and I really hate the idea that he's going to be butchered the way that Tarzan always has been. Ron Ely was, in my opinion, about the closest that any actor ever came to actually getting the character right, possibly because he was the only one who ever actually bothered to read the books.Īnd as I've been writing this, it has just occurred to me for the very first time that the studio that ruined my image of Tarzan is the same one that is making the movie about John Carter. Even the live action movies were far better than that, though Weismuller, Gordon, and most of the rest were well off target too. I may be one of the few people in the world who got actually angry at how Disney turned Tarzan into a dumb, dread-locked, tree surfing parody. (And is anyone else really looking forward to this movie?) So, if anyone here would care to share, what do you see when you imagine the For a long time, the Barsoomian revolver remained a complete mystery to me, until I saw what would be to me the perfect example: Mal Reynolds' pistol from "Firefly." The dagger I saw as a medium sized Arkansas Toothpick. The short sword, I imagined as being, obviously, shorter in length, but with a heavier blade, something like a small cutlass or a very large Bowie, suited more for hacking and chopping than than anything else. Personally, I always envisioned the long sword as a cross between a rapier and a saber, something actually used for fencing of a lethal nature. We are told that the normal armament of all Barsoomian warriors consists of a "long sword," a "short sword," a handgun, and a dagger, though no specific details of any of them were ever given. ![]() (My purpose for asking is that, from what little that I have seen of trailers for the new movie, they missed it on all counts) I don't know how many people here are familiar with the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, primarily the exploits of the immortal John Carter on the planet Mars, but for those of you who are, I would be interested in your input on just how Carter and every other fighting man on Barsoom is armed. ![]()
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