comes the next book, Thurid is willing to make an exception for Dejah Thoris because A: she's the most beautiful woman in the world, and B: he hates John Carter so much he'll do just about anything to hurt him. Or because they consider themselves so much better than the other people of the planet that such an act would be counts as a form of bestiality. Phaidor implicitly* thinks she's going to get raped, but she's wrong were we to adapt things further, I would actually emphasize that they don't do that sort of thing, once again demonstrating that unlike say, the Therns, they are an honorable people with many good qualities that cancel out the other stuff. So you have to choose which of the two is the least bad option.Īlso there is no rape. The issue is, some people are dumb, and would just look at the surface, and I don't think that's avoidable unless you lose part of what makes the story so great. And of course, Isuss herself only eats First Born. Which, of course, is the same logic by which the Therns eat the Reds and Greens. In fact, it's just the opposite they only eat Therns because they're a superior race and eating the flesh of anything less than the next-highest-race would pollute them. That's why it's awesome, that like, they're cannibals, but it's not because they're savages. I mean, yeah, all of those negative stereotypes about Black people get subverted, inverted, and twisted around in a glorious fashion, but it would still come off bad to many people and might cause problems?Ĭlick to shrink.That's. On the other hand, having actual Black folks play a people who are boastful, violent, thieving cannibals who refuse to do useful work and are introduced abducting a pretty white girl for implied rape is also pretty collar-tugging. The former is more in line with how they are described (and how they tend to be depicted in illustrations), but it's also gonna come off as blackface. It will almost certainly never happen, but if a Live Action version of Gods of Mars were to be made, would it be preferable to cast the First Born with Caucasian actors in make-up or with African-descended actors? Obviously, this is a thread for discussion of all things related to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I've been meaning to post one of these for yonks, and I might as well use my now-copious free time to do so.
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