I give up! Just call it John Carter for all I care! No Mars, no Princess, no nothing! Maybe the female demographics will think he’s that pretty boy from ER! Yeah, that’ll bring in the chicks! And tell the Marketing execs to give themselves raises. ĭisney High Muckety-Muck (throws down his Mont Blanc) Yeah, but then you got that whole Mars thing again. and before that, it was Under the Moons of Mars. Pissant Disney Executive(looks through notes) Hey! Didn’t this project have some other name years ago? Their data indicate a negative response to Mars -– anything that evokes sci-fi or aliens. Those clowns in Marketing really think one word in a title will affect the gross? And they got a whole list of movies with Mars in the title that bombed like Hiroshima. They say the word Mars in the title will chase off women. They say it’s doesn’t skew for some of the demographics. Yeah, yeah, I agree with you, boss! But Marketing doesn’t like it.
Marketing says we gotta change the title. The Barsoomian mercenary class, composed of warriors known as panthans, is highly respected and trusted. Pledging one’s sword at the feet of another is equivalent to a lifelong promise of allegiance. The ruler of a nation can only be replaced if that nation’s council of advisors allows a challenger to engage in a mortal duel with the ruler. The only way an airship may be surrendered is if the commanding officer voluntarily leaps off of the deck to his death. If a warrior is killed in a duel or in fair combat, everything that was his is acquired by the victor. A warrior may not respond to an attack with a weapon greater than the weapon wielded by the attacker.
In accordance with this code, duels for the sake of honor and military promotion are common. Personal behavior, culture, politics and war revolve around a system of principled conduct, rather than mere expediency. The chivalric code of honor on ERB’s Mars guides virtually every aspect of civilized Barsoomian life. Those particulars owe much to mankind’s long history of storytelling, as will be illustrated throughout this article.
Many of the individual changes in the adaptation relate back to this foundational shift away from the key cultural particulars of ERB’s fictional world. In a change that is both subtle and profound, the Barsoomian “code of chivalry”, which is one of the most striking and memorable aspects of ERB’s world, is essentially absent from the film.
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