opfgames.blogg.se - Tarzan the ape man 1981

WHY DID YOU DO THIS?!?!? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!? Her loopy father seems to be, at best, only mildly aware that Jane and her mother are not actually the same person:

Incest Subtext: Jane is said to look a great deal like her mother.

Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jane's dad is killed when a native impales him with a giant elephant tusk.

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.

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.At one point, James 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.