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    Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    Willem Dafoe's name is now spelled correctly. Thank you all for your pasheince and understooding.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    Perhaps either my math or my understanding of the word "limbs" is incorrect, but I'm guessing that Willem Dafoe is actually playing a character with *six* limbs (four arms, two legs), based on the image above.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/16/09

    @SuprabhaAquilinus: Exactly my thought.
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    07/16/09

    @SuprabhaAquilinus: I count 7.
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    07/16/09

    @ticktockman: "THERE...ARE...FOUR...ARMS!!"- J. Picard
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    I'm wondering if the character in the movie will be as anatomically correct as that render/model in the picture...
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    07/16/09

    @Pasketti: blast, someone pointed out the penis before i could. foiled!
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    07/16/09

    @Pasketti: Considering the rumours about Mr Dafoe, I don't imagine he would be allowed to appear like the Martian in the pic - it would be thought ENORMOUSLY indecent I would think.
    As a matter of fact, Mr. Dafoe seems to be indicating exactly this thought in the above picture.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    The Green Martians aren't actually depicted as "evil" (Burrows had a whole "noble savage" thing going on and considering the genre and time of his writing, his characters were actually fairly gray)

    Rather, the Mars (Barsoom) he depicts has basically become a hellish desert planet, with a handful of ancient water aquaducts/etc actually still running and its those cities that have them that manage to keep eeking out an existence among the Red Martians (who look like Earth-humans, though like a different ethnicity with reddish skin).



    still, the Green Martians are basically depicted as a harsh people, trying to survive a harsh and unforgiving world. They kind of have to be tough to survive.
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    07/16/09

    @CodenameV: Didn't they have slightly more sophisticated tech than just aquaducts? I seem to remember a scene in the first book where they're running around in some kind of ginormous atmospheric processing plant.



    Anyway, gotta say that Dafoe has excellent taste in his Martian races. ;)
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    07/16/09

    @Blue_Thark: they're salvaged from a previous civilization; they have a basic idea of how to keep the surviving ones functioning, but they can't make new ones
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    Image of ObadiahNycteus ObadiahNycteus
    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    A good choice overall. The man has excellent range and I think he can manage the character, making him both otherworldly and human at the same time. Also he will bring one thing that is very important to Tars Tarkas - gravitas. Tars is smart, heroic, and a complete badass, and that's not a role you hand to just any actor.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    It's been a great year for William Dafoe; Daybreakers now this; just when you think "wow nothing great in a while" he does Spiderman, and when you go "he hasn't done anything in a while since Spiderman" now this



    WILILAM DAFOE DIED FOR CHARLIE SHEEN'S SINS
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    07/16/09

    @CodenameV:" WILILAM DAFOE DIED FOR CHARLIE SHEEN'S SINS"

    Amen!
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    This movie movie just peeked my interest. Dafoe is the sort of actor who isn't afraid to take on extreme character roles and have fun with them. Sure, he can be hammy, as with BOONDOCK SAINTS, but his amazing range allows him to play characters as varied as 50's-styles bikers to Nosferatu.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    Stanton could save some money by cutting in scenes of the Green Goblin from Spiderman into the movie and drawing on an extra set of arms.



    I think it will stay mainstream friendly. The books are built around strong themes, and for all of the fantastic material, Carter himself always stays grounded in the values and ideals of home (although some of those values and ideals will, I hope, be updated; Carter was a Confederate officer after all, and some of the language of the books flirts with racism).
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    This is fantastic news! Willem Defore (not William) adds 95% more awesome to just about everything he's in.
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    Image of SybaRat SybaRat
    07/16/09

    @AngryEddy: Make that 135% if we get to see his dangly, uncircumsized Martian peen.
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    07/16/09

    @AngryEddy: Felt this needed to be pointed out as well. His name is Willem, not William.
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    07/16/09

    @SybaRat: I'll make that 135% if we DO NOT get to see his dangly Martian doppleganger, thanks.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Willem Dafoe Is The Only Sympathetic Green Alien On Mars
    Love William Dafoe, Every role he plays he adds his unique style to and it just is awesome. Best one yet was Paul Smecker in Boondock Saints.
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    06/12/09

    In reply to Andrew Stanton's John Carter Of Mars Ready To Start Filming... In Utah's Alien Landscape
    a possible Dejah Thoris?

    [www.slashfilm.com]
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    03/31/09

    In reply to A Glimpse Of The John Carter Of Mars Creatures We'll Never See
    John Carter > John Conner
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    Image of mordicai mordicai
    03/31/09

    In reply to A Glimpse Of The John Carter Of Mars Creatures We'll Never See
    I'm super excited about this-- be good, be good! That Woola strikes a balance-- I mean, how horrific can you make it when at the end of the day, people are supposed to love it?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/31/09

    @mordicai: Sadly both these images are from the Paramount version, which never got made. We have no images yet from the Andrew Stanton version, which is getting made.
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    01/26/09

    In reply to John Carter Will Visit A "Real," 2-D Mars
    Is it just me or does a movie that has the entire populace as naked not seem like a perfect fit for Disney?
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    01/26/09

    In reply to John Carter Will Visit A "Real," 2-D Mars
    What concerns me is that this is being produced by Disney which may tend to create a family oriented film. Is it possible to be true to the original John Carter stories and have a G or PG rating? I doubt it. The presence of properly depicted Dejah Thoris alone is enough to warrant a PG-13 rating if not (hopefully) R.


    In all seriousness, the John Carter stories were violent and he left a wake of bodies with severed limbs and heads behind him with little remorse simply because the bodies belonged to races that had different skin colors, different religious beliefs, additional arms, or happened to be furry. Since he eventually had an egg with Dejah, a red skinned chick, and created the so cleverly named love child Carthoris, as well as befriending a Thark, it could be construed as a tale of redemption and tolerance. These aren't easy themes to interweave into a G rated movie.

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    01/26/09

    @Logan5: Disney has production /distribution brands for releasing non G-rated material. I imagine this will be released under the Miramax name.
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