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So they want to make Tarzan 'modern'?

posted 12 years ago by jsrrtzjr10
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Remember this silly tv show of a Tarzan driving around Africa in a jeep [funny Africa's traffic cops never gave him a ticket for speeding! HA HA!], and talking "sophisticated" [not the Johnny Weismuller's "me Tarzan, you Jane and Cheeta"!] And the author Burrough's disliking Mr Weismuller's interpretation. Well, excuse me; if the guy is brought up by monkeys and apes in the jungle, he will act like a "savage". At least Weismuller's interpretation was the closest to reality. And yet, not to be taken seriously. So don't bring me this crap of "Ron Ely's was the best" PHONY!
What next, Tarzan on a tree top with glasses and an ipad???? Damn! And the 1960s tv show was ridiculous!

[–] mstheroff-1 12 years ago

Yeah, you know better than the guy that invented the character and wrote all the novels. In fact, I think you must be the smartest person in the world--I wish you had written the books.

"At least Weismuller's interpretation was the closest to reality." People should definitely watch a Tarzan movie for a dose of reality, or maybe Buster Crabbe's Flash Gordon, which is another docudrama based on actual events.

[–] jsrrtzjr10 12 years ago

Thank goodness it will never have ocurred to me write stories of a loincloth naked idiot hanging from trees with his pals the monkeys, and eating bananas. And all in the jungles of Africa. HA!

[–] solex10 12 years ago

You're a dunce, please read the novels first before you embarrass yourself further.

[–] jsrrtzjr10 12 years ago

Do you take a loincloth naked guy hanging from a tree, having monkeys and apes as pals and eat bananas seriously? Yeah? Who is the dunce? HA HA HA!

[–] jsrrtzjr10 12 years ago

There are better books to read. Anyway, thanks for the "feedback" idiot.

[–] mstheroff-1 11 years ago

Okay, see ya!

[–] vinidici 10 years ago

Remember this silly tv show of a Tarzan driving around Africa in a jeep [funny Africa's traffic cops never gave him a ticket for speeding! HA HA!], and talking "sophisticated" [not the Johnny Weismuller's "me Tarzan, you Jane and Cheeta"!] And the author Burrough's disliking Mr Weismuller's interpretation. Well, excuse me; if the guy is brought up by monkeys and apes in the jungle, he will act like a "savage". At least Weismuller's interpretation was the closest to reality. And yet, not to be taken seriously. So don't bring me this crap of "Ron Ely's was the best" PHONY!

What next, Tarzan on a tree top with glasses and an ipad???? Damn! And the 1960s tv show was ridiculous!

Umm, Tarzan / John Clayton / Lord Greystoke taught himself to read English and learned to speak French prior to his visits to civilization. In England he could be just as urbane and "man about town" as any fancy-schmancy, hoity-toity English gentleman / playboy. He even joined the RAF as a fighter pilot during WWI. Tarzan can and does supress his savage nature when circumstances call for it and, conversely, reverts to savagery when circumstances call for THAT. If anything, Ron Ely's portrayal is pretty tame compared to the worldly sophistication Tarzan had acquired in the ERB novels.

Okay folks, show's over, nothing to see here!

[–] hackraytex 7 years ago

I have no problem of Tarzan seeming modern since I have read many times that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote him that way. He made Tarzan adaptable to whatever his situation was. I just saw the new one in the theater and it was really good. I hope they can do a couple of sequels.

The only things I had problems with in the TV show was pretending for it to be set in Africa when it was clearly being filmed in South America. The budget seemed to be restricted for even that time and I think that may have been another reason that it only lasted two seasons.

It is good to see it back on Heroes and Icons on Saturday. I wish someone could re show the movies from the earlier years but the PC crowd would probably raise an extreme uproar and they have done pretty well at getting their way.

[–] liscarkat (16476) 5 years ago

Better that it was filmed in South America in a real rain forest than at the L.A. Arboretum or some studio fake jungle, as so many earlier Tarzan movies were.