The first 50 minutes of the movie is rather boring. This movie Jane’s dialog is a little smart mouthed in comparison to the Baltimore raised Jane Porter of the books. Margot Robbie physically is close to the Jane Porter Clayton of the books. He is scarred up, muscular but not a steroid freak. He reverts to an animal easily.Īlexander Skarsgard does look good as Tarzan.
In the books, Tarzan is constantly fighting to keep a civilized exterior. He seems to spend most of his time as the jungle lord finding lost city after lost city. If you have read the books, Tarzan has no reluctance at all with adventures. When called Tarzan, he replies “That is not my name.” He resists the idea of going back to Africa. He is in England living the life of an English lord. Tarzan is portrayed as an emo 21 st Century reluctant hero. He is already something of a legend in the movie. I always figured Tarzan was born around 1880. Figuring that his son Korak fought in the trenches in WWI, would make him born around 1900 or a little earlier. Problems: 1890, a little early for Tarzan. Rom makes a deal to deliver Tarzan to the chief who will supply diamonds in return for Tarzan. The native weapons are over the top oversized spear heads that would be useless as a projectile weapon. Right off the bat, I have a problem turning Opar from a lost colony of Atlantis to some tribal entity. Rum is searching for the diamonds of Opar. The movie opens with European soldiers (Belgian or Congo Free State) getting massacred by natives with one survivor, Leon Rum. The Legend of Tarzan is set in the year 1890. The 1970s Saturday morning cartoon came close using some Burroughsian locales with visits to Cathne, Pellucidar, the Forbidden City etc with G rated action. These were hard-boiled adventures with no fantastic elements present. Gordon Scott came close to the book Tarzan in Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959) Tarzan the Magnificent (1960). Most of the movies were made on tighter budgets making use of stock footage and studio back lots. He was reduced to an autistic monosyllable side of beef by Johnny Weismuller in the 1930s and 40s. Tarzan has not been well served on the big screen. It has been pointed out elsewhere that you would not have Star Wars and a lot of other things in science fiction if not for Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later on, I read Burroughs’ other series of Pellucidar, Amtor, Barsoom etc. My middle school years were filled with Tarzan Ballantine paperbacks first with Robert Abbott covers and then with Neal Adams and Boris Vallejo covers. Edgar Rice Burroughs is a very important writer in my life. Some positive responses by friends of mine convinced me to take the kids to go see it. It had the whiff of 300 about it (a movie I despise). I caught the attention deficit trailer a few months back, which repelled me. There is a new live action movie, The Legend of Tarzan.
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