Partiamo dai difetti: i personaggi sono piuttosto superficiali, basta, per esempio, una sola parola per convincere anche il tizio che fino a cinque minuti prima era super cattivo e spregevole a diventare un eroe santo e a rinnegare tutti i suoi (sbagliati) ideali. Tre romanzi figli del loro tempo e la loro età si vede tutta. Libro letto per curiosità e perchè volevo chiarire alcuni dubbi nati dopo aver visto il film scopo parzialmente raggiunto. They're still arguing when I finish the book. You're kind of proving my point here."ĭevil: "And warriors with six limbs and green skin and no emotions that go around killing everyone."ĭevil: "Carter gets to ride through the desert on an eight-legged thoat."Īngel: "These books are all horribly sexist as well, by the way."ĭevil: "He fights plant-men that eat people."ĭevil: "He has a telepathic ten-legged dog!" Plus there are evil pirates that live beside an underground sea and go on the rampage in flying ships."Īngel: "Evil pirates with black skin. The devil says, "Yeah, I know, but he can jump really high. Even before he gets to Mars, the whole shtick with John Carter is that he's a proud soldier of the Confederate Army."
The angel says, "No but seriously, I'm not kidding. The devil at my left shoulder says, "Yeah, but it's got loads of cool aliens and sword fights and weird palaces and stuff."
The angel at my right peers over my shoulder to see what I'm reading and says, "Christ on a bike, this shit is really racist."
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