#Barsoom film skin

It's beautiful how they speak, almost poetic. My favorite element of the book however is the florid language.

There's a crisis at the end of the first book to save Mars that is not in the movie, but some hints to it are, such as the racing little flier. Kantos Kan (played by James Purefoy) is in the second book. There's pieces of the first two books scatter.

#Barsoom film skin

The Temple of Issus (in the second book) is inhabited by the Black men of Mars (but not black in the same sense of the Earth races, their skin is metallic or stone-like, and reflective). When Carter does go in the second book, he finds the White Men (Therns) are not supernatural (as is believed by the Red and Green men) or technologically advanced, but that they are religious fanatics deluded into thinking themselves gods. They don't make an appearance at all in the first book and there is not visit to the Gates of Iss in the first book. The Therns are bald but they wear yellow wigs in shame. The 'milk' is from a plant and becomes Carter's chief source of nutrition and water. He is one of many minor chiefs and there is a capital city, several days journey away, to which he brings Carter to participate in the arena - which is ruled by a fat lazy and vicious king (Jeddak) Tars Tarkus is a mighty warrior chief (a Jed), not a weakling dependent on out-thinking his opponents, but he is very intelligent as well.

They are a little larger than depicted in the film, and are hugely muscular - including the women, not the skinny things depicted in the movie. They do not kill their own eggs after the hatching. They find humor in violence, even of their own kind. The Tharks have no sense of compassion whatsoever. He actually walks around on Earth briefly and knows he is going to Mars as he is gazing at it and flies toward it at incredible speed. The Burroughs character is not a true nephew, but rather John Carter is a close friend of his family as a child.Ĭarter travels to Mars via astral projection.

The implication being that he's immortal. He doesn't remember his childhood, doesn't age, and only remembers being a warrior. In the book, John Carter is of mysterious background.