JOHN CARTER

JOHN CARTER. Andrew Stanton, dir., co-script, with Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon, from "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. USA: Walt Disney Pictures (prod., most dist.), 2012.

SF/F space opera. See for steampunk technology on Mars, and the suggestion of technology to handle Mars-Earth teleportation and other effects. Cf. magic on Mars in the Flash Gordon movies; contrast the more openly magical aspects of the Burroughs stories. Note beauty as well as clunkiness of some of the technology, specifically some of the aircraft.

5. DRAMA, RDE, 17/III/12