New movie, Tarzan

Posted by Winnie Melda on November 2nd, 2018

"The Legend of Tarzan” has a moment whereby Samuel Jackson is playing as an African American Diplomat who is hoping to expose the slave trade happening in Congo. HE starts firing a machine gun of the 19th century to the villainous white colonialists wearing a pith helmet. This film is a real-life Civil War veteran and historian, George Washington Williams who is represented by Jackson characters as an archetype who was not represented in the century old Edgar Rice Burroughs’s African set of a black hero of Tarzan stories. In doing so, the film comes across as a titular character trying to reconcile being both the future and once King of the Jungles and the fifth Earl of Greystoke. The Legend of Tarzan also wants to be traditional and modern, classic and hip. It becomes a tough balance to strike, and Legend of Tarzan is not exceptional to manage such a balance making the movie to be bad.

            One of the issues that make this film bad is its character representing the real hero of the movie whose film director David Yates refers to Jackson Williams. The director portrays him as the reluctant Tarzan, yet Alexander Skarsgard plays the real Tarzan. Thus is an indication of the racist baggage that comes with this movie that was present in earlier B- movies and books. There is no place for such a racist baggage in modern day films, especially with the modern sensibilities.

 The title of the movie is “The Legend of Tarzan” and not “The Legend of Washington-Williams George.” Its posters portray Skarsgard, Magot Robbie, an Australian access who plays Jane and some CG gorillas. There is no black character visible in the movie poster.

 Another problem that the film poses is whether its anti-colonial message is suitable from a storytelling standpoint. The directors hope that through the character, Jackson, viewers would find him more intriguing in finding out that King Leopold was ad did in Congo. However, this is a window dressing of Hollywood towards political correctness. Adding the black sidekick character, George Washington Williams in the set makes it become more of a daily trite manner to usage white anxieties and fears. Also, there is no need of recycling the story of Tarzan over and over again, yet Hollywood has not exhausted all other interesting tales.

            Also the new film, Tarzan plays as though a dog ate some parts of its script. It starts with Tarzan played by Alexander Skarsgår, the Lord of Greystoke John Clayton going back to the baronial English Manse w having no intentions of going back to Belgian Congo as he hybridizes coconuts. Meanwhile, his splendid story is in brief sprained through the action involving a hazy flashback making the whole story seem like a sequel to a movie that never existed before. Thus it becomes frustrating to the viewers.

            The film’s director also did little in impressing the audience. David Yates showed no interest towards the African landscape that he is refereeing but instead the studio did pare away with connective issues that let nothing but only a formula wreck. By watching the Legend of Tarzan, it feels as though it wants to be longer, to get down and breathe a little. Its staging is not inept, but some individual shot looks truncated as the actions are paired down with the unoriginal essence. The CG apes and elephants are magnificent and impressive as well as the lovely pair of Clayton’s Lions nuzzles. However, still, more humans could add more flavor to the film.

 I also believe that Skarsgård could have made an excellent Tarzan or Clayton in different circumstances. The film director was not fair on that. He has a rangy body and a combination of refined features that perfectly suits his home at the treetops. It was not, therefore, his fault to make the rhythm of the film going as the main characters and ends up only looking like the paler version of Viggo Mortensen. One of the innumerable disappointments in this film is that it takes him an hour in the film before he removes his shirt while Robbie is shown to be fully clothed from the beginning to the end of the film. It leaves me also wondering how Tarzan’s trousers restricted his vine-swinging. Thus though this may seem like superficial issues, the film misses displaying the fun of a Tarzan movie displaying bare limbs.

 Finally, the strange aspect is the onscreen title that has the title R written next to it that denotes its trademark. That’s not the case since the character Tarzan appeared in early short stories of 1912 and that this character at present is public domain. The legend of Tarzan is also less likely to create spawn imitators as purported by the onscreen title of this film.

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