Hotter and Sexier: The whole point, pretty much.Hollywood Natives: A tribe of these act as the villains at the end.Budget-savingly, they never actually get there in this version. Elephant Graveyard: As in the 1932 version, the expedition is looking for one of these.
Tarzan the ape man 1981 ebding movie#
This may be the first movie to treat Tarzan as a Period Piece, beating Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes by three years. The Edwardian Era: Set in 1910, around the time when the original book was written.For some reason, they don't seem to care about doing the same to their male captives. After capturing members of the expedition, the natives quickly set about putting Jane into this attire as well. Body Paint: The hostile natives wear nothing but this and loincloths.Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Happens to Jane as she is captured by the generic African savages and prepared as the royal bride for their chief, alongside getting a Body Paint."The seat of my pants" is short for "fly by the seat of my pants" and comes from 1930s aviation parlance. In another scene, he mentions "the seat of my pants" in reference to acting on instinct.Parker sings, "Jerusalem." Although the words were written by William Blake in 1804, they weren't put to music until 1916. Adaptational Nationality: Jane and her father are American in the original novels (and British in most adaptations) they're Irish in this movie, with Jane having a noticeable lack of accent.I mention this because IP edits often get removed without cause, so if the stuff I mention is no longer there, someone else can restore it from the article history. Why bother? This was one of the worst, most mediocre and stupid films ever made! - AVM ( talk) 01:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Film co-writer įor some reason (possibly because he has no Wikipedia article?) the film's co-writer, Gary Goddard, was omitted from the article, even though his name is even on the poster used to illustrate this piece! I have restored his name, and also added a Production section featuring information from an article on Goddard printed in a recent issue of Filmfax, a major film history magazine with international distribution. Thank you.īetacommandBot ( talk) 06:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC) If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. Image:Tarzanyell.jpg is being used on this article.