That's exactly what people did, so we were out there with the gray pajamas, standing on stilts with a face cam. The face cams turned out to be great for the actors, because they could treat them like they could use them for the actual distance that they had to be from things. That was a real benefit I swear now that I'm seeing the end product, finally getting finished shots on the other side, if I were to shoot again tomorrow, I would do it all over again exactly this way.
It was the right call, it was the right way to be Even when I would take time of writing the Thoats [the creatures the Tharks ride]. We actually went through the pain of figuring out what it felt, looked like, animating it, figuring out what the lope of it and the gallop of it was, and then programming that data into an electrical cart so the saddle would move exactly at that, so that hopefully when it was all done and you put a Thoat on there and you put a Thark in it, that real saddle would match, and it does.
So hopefully if we've done it right, people will go, "How the hell is he sitting on this? How the hell did he ride around on this thing? What other beasts from the Edgar Rice Burroughs work are in the film? John Carter isn't all Thoat-riding Tharks which would still pretty awesome, even if it was.
ERB was a machine when it came to creating alien beasties and Disney had a lot monsters to make in order to make this world come to live. Creature animator Eamonn Butler [pictured here] took us through a collection of concept art and creature drawings and introduced us to Woola Carter's Martian mutt!
Woola went through a lot of concept art, specifically softening the monster pup's look, and in the last image we saw Woola looked downright adorable. Butler surmises that Woola may steal the show even though it's only on screen for a small amount of time. Woola has a wide mouth with rows of shark-like teeth but kind puppy eyes. It looks absolutely nothing like the earlier concept art for the defunct Jon Favreau production. Think wider mouth, squatter feet and sweeter disposition.
Also on the monster roster: the big White Ape! We watched a few minutes of the infamous ape showdown, and let's just say Taylor Kitsch is swoon-worthy. Somehow, they've managed to take the boy scout out of Carter and replace it with a bit of Han Solo. Watching Kitsch roll about in the dust in what I'm assuming was temple to the Therns kicked the crap out of the Star Wars prequel's monster fight.
And I only got to see that White Ape for a few minutes, but it just felt real. There was a weight to the giant beast. Sadly, there are no giant lion Banths in this production, but plenty of sabertooth Banth skulls strewn about for the keen eye. Fingers crossed the next film will have some giant Martian cats!
Very little time was spent with the Zodangas and Heliumates tribes the humanoids living on Mars but I did get to see each tribe's armor channeling a whole lotta Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes and watched a quick exchange between Princess Dejah and Carter in one of her more elaborate getting-ready rooms.
Their exchange was intense, but little could be really revealed as it was one of the first times we saw these two together and already drama was flying. That being said, the set inside Dejah's world was a gypsy fairy wonderland, full of dirty sex magic. If you get what I'm saying. Stanton explained that Petra in Jordan was an massive inspiration for the world on Mars. How the hell do you make this and not look like you're being derivative yourself? He came in, and I wanted somebody that was not a famous sci-fi guy.
I wanted somebody that would think more literally. He comes more from an architectural background. How would he attack some of these things? How would a different world come up with doors and windows? Not necessarily how we would do it — that challenge. When I was on a rant, like usually when I'm describing something, how I wanted it to feel, he had somebody mock up this image. It was totally the touchstone for me. I said, "That's what I want.
We know, we know: A movie about an Earth man fighting on Mars with a giant alien dog, and this is our nitpick? Where will Woola rank in the hierarchy of other excellent, loyal non-human sidekicks, including Falcor, Chewbacca, the Sprites from Rainbow Brite, and Orko from He-Man? If you woke up with a stuffed toy Woola next to you, would you scream? Why are all the posters for the movie so red-tinted and Mars-y when the movie itself looks like it takes place in a desert in Utah?
And who decided to make the green aliens so dusty they look almost gray? And was that person afraid of the aliens looking too much like those in Avatar? Nice to finally make your acquaintance! And how exactly does the gravity work on Mars? And in sense, the sequence is both a burial and a death, the death and burial of John Carter of Virginia. It is not a huge leap to understand that in fighting the blind White Apes, Carter is fighting himself, fighting the incoherent rage that has blinded him since the death of his wife and child.
The film confirms this when Carter literally kills the second Ape from the inside out — emerging drenched in the blue blood of the ape, becoming something new on Barsoom: the first and only Blue Martian. Part of what makes this sequence work is the muted palette that Andrew Stanton has used in the film, causing the blue blood to practically explode on the screen. Carter is simultaneously something old a kilt-wearing blue-painted Pict , something new a Blue Martian , something borrowed a human stolen from Earth , and something… well… Blue!
Spiritually reborn, John Carter is finally able to become what he was always supposed to be, a war leader, leading the Tharks to save Helium and fight off the Zodango forces, rescuing Dejah Thoris from being forced to marry Sab Than.
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