Ghosts of Mars story

movie: Ghosts of Mars (2001) · 2001-08-24

Ghosts of Mars (titled onscreen as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars) is a 2001 American science fiction action horror film written, directed and scored by John Carpenter. Synopsis: A police officer is sent to a remote Martian mining outpost to transport a notorious prisoner.

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Theme	Level	Motivation
a common enemy unites	major	The police officers (Melanie most notably) and the criminals (Williams most notably) set their mutual antagonisms aside in order to fight their common enemy: the possessed miners.
colonization of Mars	major	The story is set on a colony on Mars in the second half of the 22nd century.
friendship	major	Melanie and the criminal she'd been sent to apprehend, Williams, bonded over the course of fighting the possessed miners together, and ultimately came to like each other.
ghost	major	A main novelty of the film is that the spirits of ancient Martians were going around possessing human miner colonists.
law enforcement	major	The story follows a police detail on Mars as they attempt to pick up a notorious criminal from a mining camp jail and transport him back to the main Martian colony site.
Martian extraterrestrial	major	The spirits of long dead Martians were going around possessing the Red Planet's new human colonists.
spirit possession	major	The spirits of long dead Martians were going around possessing humans who'd colonized the Red Planet.
trust in a potential foe	major	Melanie and the other police officers deliberated over whether to trust Williams' and the other criminals after they'd agreed to join forces to fight the possessed miners, and vice versa.
working together in spite of disagreement	major	The police officers (Melanie most notably) and the criminals (Williams most notably) set their mutual antagonisms aside in order to fight their common enemy: the possessed miners.
brother and brother	minor	Uno tried to free his brother Williams from police custody.