This isn't Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars—no bazaars or Martian princesses. Just an empty, depthless waste of dirt and rock. (credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)
Long-awaited by fans of Andy Weir's novel, Ridley Scott's film adaptation of The Martian opens today in theaters in the US. On the fence about checking it out tonight or this weekend? Maybe we can help you make up your mind.
The Martian brings science, largely unchanged, from book to screen
From Lee Hutchinson's review:
Movie adaptations from books—especially beloved books—can be frightening things. Reading is a deeply personal act, where we take in words and build worlds inside of our minds where only we can experience them. Seeing a movie based on a book is almost like going on a blind date with someone you’ve known intimately through letters but never actually seen. That first meeting isn’t always a good one, because when beheld with your for-real eyes and ears, the person you see and hear isn’t necessarily going to be anything like the version of the person you thought you knew.
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Director Ridley Scott chose to go in a slightly different way with the film. So much of the book relies on the audience having access to Watney’s internal monologue (because so much of the book is composed of Watney’s journal writings), and heavy narration in movies is a dramatic device that rarely works. So, we get to hear Watney’s thoughts via video logs that he keeps—but we also get to see Watney in a way that we can’t in the novel.
Ars talks with Matt Damon on being astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian
Damon talks space, science, growing potatoes on set, and the infamous potato fertilization scene:
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