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PLEASE! Settle a long standing bet between me + my hubby.


In Tarzan, I say Jane WAS NOT raped by the big, ugly, blue guy. My husband says she WAS.

Who is right? I can't find the movie to rent anywhere and nobody we have ever asked can remember if she was or wasn't.

We have been arguing over this for over 10 years!

Help!

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10 years! Wow. As far as I can remember, he doesn't actually rape her - Tarzan shows up and kills him. I think...

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Hi,(SPOILERS)I was looking through the (around 250)films I have on video,going onto IMBd to look up cast lists etc'(OK anorak)when I saw your ' help letter'. I have not watched Tarzan for some while,and as usual there was nothing on TV, So I took a look. Jane is getting washed by the native women, then they paint her white & green. As they do so, the big guy,(Steve Strong) gets up,grabs an elephant tusk,& rams it into James Parker.Before he can have his wicked way with Jane, Tarzan comes swinging in,they wrestle about a bit before Tarzan snaps the big fellers neck. So Jane can return to splashing about in the water with our Hero, safe in the knowledge that she is still virginal. AAAH!
So you can tell your Chap, he's washing up for a week!

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dosen't an ape have it's way with her during the ending credits?

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You are awesome! Of course, my husband still is adamant that he right, but what the hell - I didn't marry him for his brain. He He.

Thanks so much for the effort and you don't know how great it feels to be right - so I hope you enjoy some of my pleasure in winning!!!!!

Thanks!!!!

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To reply to kyote23's remark,
An ape had it's way with her for 2 whole movies. It's name was John Derek.

"Now go away or I should taunt you a second time."

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Excellent remark !! :))) hehe *LOL*

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You are more right than he is, back in the day there was something of altered ending that was deleted out as a result of a lawsuit between the Derek's and Tarzan's creators estate (Rice Burroughs). Jane was tied to a stake after being prepared for the big bad native chief, (I forget at what point this happened btw the washing and painted scenes were also longer. However she was still rescued before her innocence was taken. At the time my older brother was a video distributor and managed to get his hands on the pirated deleted scenes which is what I saw. This was about 25 years ago so I don't fully recall the scene, but I'm sure she still wasn't raped.

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This film was controversial because of sexual content utilized in a traditional story. Bo Derek is seen having a nipple suckled by an animal, a chimpanzee. There are also a number of scenes featuring explicit topless nudity of her. It was these reasons to why the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate allegedly sued the production of this movie. The case was lost but another litigation took place from the estate in regards to the prevention of the film being released. This case was lost too. However, apparently the estate was successful in having removed three minutes of footage deleted from the released version.



Nothing is as it seems, nothing is just one thing and nothing is ever just over there;

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No, she wasn't. Tarzan saves her. (OF COURSE TARZAN SAVES HER!!!)

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If either of you knew how to search the internet you could have settled your feud ages ago.

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