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The Great Carl Sagan loved Edgar Rice Burroughs the way I did — watch!

By On December 18, 2011 · In Featured, Film

Here’s a wonderful 3 minutes from Carl Sagan on how as a young boy he was mesmerized by the Mars of John Carter, Tars Tarkas, and Dejah Thoris. The reverence with which he speaks of the imaginative transport that the stories achieved for him, and how they inspired him to consider the possibility of the […]

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My new labor of love site "The John Carter Files" is officially up!

By On December 8, 2011 · In Featured, Film

Good ol’ michaeldsellers.com has evolved a site where I spend a lot of my time writing about an object of great passion in my life — the Philppines. I have some other sites “on the side” as well — and last Saturday I came to realize that was time to make another one because it’s […]

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Edgar Rice Burroughs on the "Tarzan Theme"

By On January 24, 2010 · In x,y,z -- Everything Else

Avatar has re-energized my affection and appreciation for the great adventure novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars and according to James Cameron a principal source of inspiration for Avatar. One thing that Burroughs and Cameron have in common, I think, is a unique and perhaps intuitive ability to grasp the mythic structures that cause their stories to resonate astonishingly across disparate cultures.

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An Evening With Danton Burroughs, Grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs

By On January 23, 2010 · In x,y,z -- Everything Else

Earlier this week I wrote about comparisons between Avatar and the great planetary adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs, particularly the John Carter of Mars series which is currently in production with Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Toy Story) directing. As a teen I truly fell in love with Burroughs’ stories, which in those days were being reissued on paperback by ACE and Bantam Books. I was living Germany, an Army brat, and I ordered the books in the mail and would be sent into near ecstacy when a US Mail Jiffy Bag with 4 or 5 books in it would arrive.

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James Cameron's Inspiration for Avatar – Edgar Rice Burroughs

By On January 22, 2010 · In Featured, Film

Detailed article on the creative connection between Edgar Rice Burroughs and James Cameron.

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The Avatar Backlash

By On January 3, 2010 · In Film

Today is the last day of the holiday break, and this afternoon I’m going to see Avatar for the third time — seems a fitting way to end the holidays, since Avatar has been much on my mind throughout this period — and tomorrow it will be back to the grind, with little time available […]

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Random (Gushing) Thoughts on Avatar

By On December 20, 2009 · In Film

When’s the last time you came out of a movie and just wanted to get in line and see it again right then?  When’s the last time you wanted to shout to the people in line waiting to get in –it’s INCREDIBLY AWESOME, PEOPLE?  That’s how strongly I felt when I walked out […]

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