King Solomon's Mines: Difference between revisions

It was enormously successful, launching the [[Jungle Opera]] genre, and was followed by over a dozen sequels and prequels featuring the protagonist Allan Quatermain, including a crossover with Haggard's other most famous novel, ''[[She]]''. It has been adapted for film and television many times.

 

=== ''King Solomon's Mines'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Convenient Eclipse]]

* [[Crossing the Desert]]

 

=== Haggard's sequels and prequels provide examples of: ===

* [[Badass Grandpa]]:

** Umslopogaas, son of Chaka, is still kicking ass and taking names when he's over 60 years old.

 

=== Adaptations provide examples of: ===

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Elizabeth Curtis from the Deborah Kerr adaptation gets sick of her waist length hair in the humid African jungle and hacks a slice out of it. When it cuts to the next scene she has cut it short into a perfectly styled short do. That style might have been fashionable in the 1950s when the film came out but the film is set in the 1800s when women didn't have short hair. Test audiences actually laughed their heads off at the scenes when they first saw them that the producers nearly removed them. But they couldn't explain Elizabeth's change of hairstyle so they kept the improbable scenes in the film.

* [[Throw-Away Guns]]: Parodied in the 1985 comedy/adventure film adaptation. The female character throws a gun at the villain; he shouts: "Thank you!" and uses it to blast away at her.