Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Fridge / JohnCarter

Go To

OR

Changed: 122

Removed: 129

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
To clarify one of the entries.


* The film's title is simply ''John Carter'', he doesn't really get the title of "John Carter of Mars" until the end of the film. (However fortuitous, the lack of Mars in the title was originally due to ExecutiveMeddling.)
** The film actually lampshades this by displaying the title on screen a second time at the end of the film... this time in full.

to:

* The film's title is simply ''John Carter'', he doesn't really get "John Carter"; neither the character nor the movie gets the title of "John Carter of Mars" ''of Mars''" until the end of the film. (However fortuitous, the lack of Mars in film, whereupon the title was originally due to ExecutiveMeddling.)
** The film actually lampshades this by displaying the title on screen a second time at the end of the film...
is displayed ... this time in full. (However cool, the lack of "of Mars" in the title was originally due to ExecutiveMeddling.)
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* The first trailer featured the ArcadeFire song "My Body is a Cage" as covered by PeterGabriel. The lyrics start with: ''My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing / With the one I love / But my mind holds the key.'' At the end of the film [[spoiler:John's Earth body keeps him from being with Dejah, and he uses his wits to find a way to return to Mars. (His Mars body is a duplicate while the original is left in suspended animation.)]]

to:

* The first trailer featured the ArcadeFire Music/ArcadeFire song "My Body is a Cage" as covered by PeterGabriel.Music/PeterGabriel. The lyrics start with: ''My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing / With the one I love / But my mind holds the key.'' At the end of the film [[spoiler:John's Earth body keeps him from being with Dejah, and he uses his wits to find a way to return to Mars. (His Mars body is a duplicate while the original is left in suspended animation.)]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

!!FridgeBrilliance:
* The film's title is simply ''John Carter'', he doesn't really get the title of "John Carter of Mars" until the end of the film. (However fortuitous, the lack of Mars in the title was originally due to ExecutiveMeddling.)
** The film actually lampshades this by displaying the title on screen a second time at the end of the film... this time in full.
* The first trailer featured the ArcadeFire song "My Body is a Cage" as covered by PeterGabriel. The lyrics start with: ''My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing / With the one I love / But my mind holds the key.'' At the end of the film [[spoiler:John's Earth body keeps him from being with Dejah, and he uses his wits to find a way to return to Mars. (His Mars body is a duplicate while the original is left in suspended animation.)]]
* The second trailer had a symphonic instrumental cover of Music/LedZeppelin's "Kashmir". Though unused, the lyrics start with: ''Oh let the sun beat down upon my face / Stars to fill my dream / I am a traveler of both time and space / to be where I have been.''

Top