I went to the movies today & saw John Carter of Mars. What a great movie! Don't listen to the critics, go & see it. Special Effects were very imaginative, The Music was original & preformed by an orchestra!
This is a story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Tarzan guy! Silly me, I didn't know he wrote anything else but Tarzan.
This is a good Adventure Story with a good amount of action & not so much romance as to make it sappy. I don't know if the movie is Academy Award good but I think Disney Studios made a good movie!
I liked this movie so much that I did a little research, Check it out!
Did you know that this story had already been made into a movie. Yes, in 2009 co-staring Traci Lords! Remember her? Back in the day she was the under aged porn star!
But, look close. This movie claims to have inspired Avatar! I didn't hear that either.
I am going to look for Princes of Mars & compare the two.
Mini Biography:
Date of Birth
1 September 1875, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of Death
19 March 1950, Encino, California, USA (heart attack)
Mini Biography:
His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan.
The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".
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