Interesting.
Did the movie notion of ''The moving City'' stem from the literary descriptions of it being moving as the books description of its geographical location were inconsistent?
The movie, taking this literally, reinvents this notion as an actual Aircraft Carrier type moving city. Maybe I have it wrong. lol
Everything will be OK in the end, if it aint OK,it aint the end.
If you recall, Glen, both Helium and Zodanga in A Princess of Mars are empires as well as cities. Thus, Dejah Thoris may be referring to the distance to the borders of the Zodangan and Heliumetic Empires when giving John Carter directions.
In Swords of Mars, Zodanga is part of the Heliumetic Empire; thus the text gives the distance between the cities.
Now realistically ERB probably just forgot and goofed. However, the text allows for this interpretation as a way to reconcile the disparate statements in the two novels.
There's no reason to have Zodanga become an environment-destroying technological nightmare in the film except Stanton's need to throw his leftist ideology into a script that should be fun and light rather than morose, pedantic, and drab.
Requiescat in pace, Krystle Papile. I'll always miss you. Justice was finally served.
If that was Stanton's intention, he goofed somewhat.
By Colour coding the Zodangans red, as outside the US it is generally regarded as the colour of the left-wing. As in the communist anthem ''Keep the Red Flag flying Here!''
Everything will be OK in the end, if it aint OK,it aint the end.
Here in the US, red is the color of political conservatism while blue is the color embraced by the Left. (I personally hate the colorcoding system.)
In any event, Stanton and indeed all Pixar are known for the kind of upper class liberalism embodied most recently by Hillary Clinton in our presidential race. That's the reason Stanton pointedly ignores the textual point of flags' being composed of colors and has the Heliumites fly a monochromatic blue flag while the Zodangans fly a similarly monochromatic red flag.
Ironically Edgar Rice Burroughs was a staunch Republican and political conservative who most likely would have preferred the flags switched if the Producers felt the childish need to dumb down the multicolor flags of Barsoomian nations to throw in some ridiculous political message to a movie that should be escapist fun rather than a pedantic, morose political polemic.
Requiescat in pace, Krystle Papile. I'll always miss you. Justice was finally served.
The Republicans of the early 20th Century are not the same as now. The "Dixiecrat" southern states jumped from the Democrat to the Republican party when President Johnson worked to end segregation and pass the Voting Rights Act.
There is no mainstream left party in the United States. Neo-Liberal Democrats like the Clintons would be considered right of center in Europe and rightfully so.
That stated, the problems with John Carter have little to do with politics. Red and Blue are the color of Stratego pieces too, and they represent nothing politically.