Talk:Sfanomoe

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Ywhateley (talk) 04:11, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Still in planning stages. I haven't completely dissected/analyzed the setting yet, but it seems like there were a number of possible avenues that jungle films could go down - one of the things on my "to do" list will be trying to decide on which ones fit well with a Venusian setting; there's enough overlap that they potentially all work:

• pulp jungle adventure, with wild animals, deadly jungles, lost civilizations, savage tribesmen, and greedy/arrogant/foolish white adventurers who meet with bad ends; seems like those characters who respect the setting traditionally tend to come out alright....
• weird jungle adventure, which is more of the same plus strange monsters, magical savage tribesmen, and mystical treasures (King Kong falls into this area, sometimes Jungle Jim movies did, "Attack of the Mushroom People" did, and the Indiana Jones movies often went there)
  • TVTropes seems to cover both this and more "realistic" pulp jungle adventure as "Jungle Opera" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JungleOpera
• "ravenous jungle" tales, including "cannibal holocaust" films featuring cannibal savages, and almost always greedy/arrogant/foolish white tourists and adventurers coming to a bad end (seems like these thrive on "downer" endings for these characters)...
  • I think "Predator" and "The Ruins" probably also count here....
• TVTropes seems to cover a mix of this and "Jungle Gothic" as "Hungry Jungle".... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HungryJungle
• "Jungle Gothic" kind of resembles pulp jungle adventure mixed with with some of the nastier and more bizarre Southern Gothic themes ("The Most Dangerous Game", "West of Zanzibar", "Kongo", "Apocalypse Now", "Heart of Darkness", "Island of Dr. Moreau"....)
• Then, there are the Old Solar System science fiction stories from the early 20th century, TVTropes covers the subject as "Venus is Wet" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VenusIsWet