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Ratnakar Sadasyula
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on Nov 03 2008 @ 9:44 am - Popularity: 147 views
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Movies, 50's Sci Fi Movies, Black COmedy, Dr.Strangelove, Glenn close, Independence Day, Jack Nicholson, Parody, Pierce Brosnan, Space Movie Spoofs, tim burton
The Dark World of Tim Burton-V
In the last post, i had discussed about Tim Burton’s homage to the B Movie genre with Ed Wood.
Tim Burton continued his homage to the B movie genre with Mars Attacks, a spoof on the B movie sci fi stuff, which Burton grew up on. If in Ed Wood, he paid a tribute to his idol, in Mars Attacks, he bases his story on the popular trading card series.
What are trading cards?
Basically a variant of playing cards, these would contain images of a famous sports person or movie stills, cartoon characters, TV characters etc. Generally used for exchanging with friends or associates, you had various games around them.
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Mars Attacks was a popular trading card series of the 60’s, which narrated a story of Martian invasion of the earth, through the …
