“The Legend of Tarzan” is too politically correct – Aftenposten

I was among the last who were joined by Johnny Weissmullers Tarzan on Norwegian village cinemas in the late 70s. I remember well the jungle cry his unique yodeling actor brought with them from their childhood in Tyrol.

We’ll also hear Tarzan jungelrop here, but from a distance. Alexander Skarsgard plays him as a more low-key “noble savage”, without the animal for clothes and with an inscrutable smile on his mouth. But he takes off his torso, and boasts an impressive data manipulated torso.

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And it is here The Legend of Tarzan most successful: it gives us all jungle animals on one barrel, with mostly superior effect work. But when the actors open their mouths or move, break the magic and we are painfully aware of the ridiculous basis for the myth of Tarzan, the Ape Man, as it was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912.

Racism is removed

the racist mindset is admittedly removed: Tarzan is no longer the white god who introduces justice in the jungle darkness, but a noble superhero who can communicate with all animals and fighting against the white colonists.

This time it’s King Leopold’s Belgian terror in Congo to defeat while the British Empire, where Lord Greystoke (Tarzan who also called) has settled with his Jane, standing on the side of good. Something is nonetheless the same: Although all Africans by definition is good, it is only Tarzan who can give them inspiration to chase out the white colonists.

irresolute script

David Yates was the director who gave the last Harry Potter films a becoming dark, but this harmless, well-intentioned universe he seems a bit helpless.

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the main problem is the script. It lacks ingenuity and humor. Filmmakers will upgrade Tarzan to a quality superhero, but should rather with humor and verve have acknowledged origins rooted in b-culture.

It hurts to see endowments as Samuel L. Jackson try to save a hopeless character which is a pale copy of his freedom fighting in the Hateful Eight . Nor Christoph Waltz gets a lot out of a kind of super villain he has shone with before.

And Jane? She shows courage in the beginning when she persuades Tarzan to return to Africa, but in the jungle, she quickly captured and tied to a riverboat as enticement. There will be limits to revisionism.

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