V. Castro
Auteur de Goddess of Filth
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Story does make more sense with the book. Some of the characters that I don't even remember from the movie itself (like young soldier Aris) are more fleshed out and do play an important role in the book itself. Same applies to the robot Jimmy, it is clear he is vital for the villagers as the story progresses. Rest of the story is more or less what we can see in the original release of the movie, with some extras like more details on backgrounds of Bloodaxes and Noble's second in command, Cassius.
Pace of the story is what one might expect from the script-based work, it goes basically from one scene to another in very short paragraphs. This is where some of the narrative weirdness comes into play. Script had to be reworked into chapters so some narrative was added but instead of reworking the script itself into more literary form (take for example very good novelization of Star Wars New Hope), additional narrative was applied as a filler around the very short and to-the-point paragraphs. This creates very weird structures like when lifting off of the Kai's ship is just given as 'it's not much to look at' followed by 'whoohoo'. Or some characters not even saying anything, but then others referring to their [unspoken] words, or some characters just getting named in the middle of the chapter (i.e. slave that takes our group to Titus).
Also, some contemporary stuff [unfortunately] had to make way into the novelization, like constant mention of gender (in a most weird way possible)- in a galaxy so diverse, full of various alien species and human forms augmented and changed in almost every way possible (even within Caligula inspired Motherworld), in a work where we have hentai tentacle sex scene between species and alien openly hitting a human for what seems to be rough sexual intercourse, it is required to list gender as one of the conflicting issues in this universe? Weird, to say the least.
Also missing is what I found missing in the movie too - what is it that makes Motherworld so evil? Reason for asking this is that it is not just Bellisarius' reign that marks the dark period of Motherworld, it seems to be war-oriented even before. Is it because religious dogma or .... what exactly? It is clear it is based on indoctrination and profound religious influence (those priest characters creep me out) but is it akin to Dune-level holy war or something else? This is also one point where book fails - to establish some context, some political relations between Motherworld and other planets (since it seems that some of the planets have their own rulers and kings and are only now targeted by Motherworld - this means there was some relation before). This is not author's error but general script error, this was not clear even in the movie.
While Rebel Moon is mentioned as Star Wars level epic, I think that it compares most closely to Moorcock's Hawkmoon series. Same bizarre, perverse and destiny-led enemy is present in both universes, Motherworld not being so different from Empire of Granbretan. Same form of resistance, small city level fort against the world, defended by small group of warriors exists in both works. Same level of despair and almost physical pressure from mere mention of the dark forces is present in both works, same level of violence and depredations.
Unlike Star Wars, which despite western-gunslinger/ronin hero undertones takes place in a world not unlike our own (politically at least) where civility exists at least to some degree, Rebel Child is too raw, echo of ancient times of Roman Legions and Mongol Horde where disobedience was savagely punished through complete eradication and enslavement. And again this is where it finds it similarities with post-apocalyptic world of Hawkmoon.
I am interested to see where this goes, as it was said we are still to see what is meant by Rebel Moon and how will the siege of our protagonist's village end (do remember that in Seven Samurai enemy were bandits not Shogunate, otherwise there is no way they would prevail). There are elements of very interesting, but adult-themed, SF epic here, I hope they make it work as intended. In any case it's gonna be interesting April release :)
Interesting novelization, clunky and weird at times, but if movie got you interested, you will like it because it does expand the story and the universe. If you did not like the movie, I am not sure it will win you over because all of the elements (except slo-mo :) battles are faster in the book :)) of the movie are present in the novel.… (plus d'informations)