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Ridley Scott explained how studios didn’t realize ‘The Martian’ was a comedy.
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This is my favorite book and favorite movie. So I really must wonder, did they read the script? Mark literally makes dirty ASCII art that is broadcast across the earth.
The book was a comedy as well. Tons of great dry jokes. The two are not mutually exclusive.
It’s a farce: “a light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirical comedy and improbable plot”. It’s played straight. The stakes are serious. It should be a tragedy. But then there’s a literal turning point when they turn around to rescue Watney, and it’s ridiculous.
How did no one realise this? Like half the movie at least is black humour
[Insert standard explanation about the worldwide decline in media literacy here]
Will have to re-watch. I don’t remember much because I’m old.
“Mark Watney: Space Pirate”
Maybe it was behind-the-scenes commentary? I recall that one of the goals from the author was that they keep the “positive” outlook. Like, there are plenty of stories of people losing their minds after being stranded.
This would be different.
The book is hard sci-fi and excellent.
The movie is dumb shit and screwy. The only way this change of tone and content is justified is by realizing that they switched genres and turned it into a movie.
The book is highly comedic.
Yes but it never breaks the science in the name of comedy. Using the other astronauts’ poop to fertilize went against the book just so he could make an extra joke. The Ironman scene was also ridiculous and unnecessary.
The movie didn’t need to dumb down for a few extra gags.
In the book he uses his own poop. Not a huge change really.
It is a very big change because of the reason he only uses his own poop and not the poop of the other astronauts. They broke away from the hard science in order to insert a joke.
