Who once described Tarzan as a major influence on her childhood and said that she would be a much better spouse for him than his fictional wife, Jane? Naturally, she spent time around apes like him!
"even better if he is able to bury it a week so that putrefaction has had a chance to tenderize it a bit. Tarzan's primitivist philosophy was absorbed by countless fans, amongst whom was Jane Goodall, who describes the Tarzan series as having a major influence on her childhood. She states that she felt she would be a much better spouse for Tarzan than his fictional wife, Jane, and that when she first began to live among and study the chimpanzees she was fulfilling her childhood dream of living among the great apes just as Tarzan did. Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli"
"White portray Tarzan and Jane as a bickering married couple. In an episode of ""The Fairly OddParents"", a spoof of Tarzan appears as ""Lord of the Drapes"", and ""Lord of the Shapes"", instead of Lord of the Apes. The Japanese ""Jungle no Ouja Ta-chan"" (King of the Jungle Ta-chan) series, originally a manga by Tokuhiro Masaya, was based loosely on Tarzan. It featured the characters of Tarzan and his wife Jane, who had become obese after settling down with Tarzan. The series begins as a comical parody of Tarzan, but later expands to other settings, such as a martial arts"
"his father's past for fear that he might somehow try to relive it. Perhaps she instinctively knew that Jack was somehow very connected to Tarzan's old life, for Jack did have an avid interest in wildlife and he was extremely athletic. When the Claytons heard about the displayed ape, John decided to take Jack to see him. Tarzan was surprised to find the ape was his old friend, Akut, and began conversing with him. Jack was amazed to see that his father could do so. John then told Jack of his life as Tarzan. Jack started sneaking away to see"
"Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the ""Mangani"" great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel ""Tarzan of the Apes"" (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and subsequently in 25 sequels, several authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, both authorized and unauthorized. The film version of Tarzan as the noble savage (""“Me Tarzan, You Jane”""), as acted by Johnny"
"of their party are marooned on the same coastal jungle area where Tarzan's biological parents were twenty years earlier. When Jane returns to the United States, Tarzan leaves the jungle in search of her, his one true love. In ""The Return of Tarzan"", Tarzan and Jane marry. In later books he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the ape name Korak (""the Killer""). Tarzan is contemptuous of what he sees as the hypocrisy of civilization, and he and Jane return to Africa, making their home on an extensive estate that becomes"
"series as needed for accuracy. That series had Burroughs' daughter, Joan, in the role of Jane. Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan of the Apes is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine ""The All-Story"" in October 1912. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle, to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. The character was so popular that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels."
"has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs' creation of Tarzan. Mowgli was also an influence for a number of other ""wild boy"" characters. Tarzan's jungle upbringing gives him abilities far beyond those of ordinary humans. These include climbing, clinging, and leaping as well as any great ape, or better. He uses branches and hanging vines to swing at great speed, a skill acquired among the anthropoid apes. His strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, senses, flexibility, durability, endurance, and swimming are extraordinary in comparison to normal men. He has wrestled full grown bull apes and gorillas, lions,"
"the ""white ape"" is actually Tarzan, an uncivilized white man raised by apes living in the jungle. James continues to pursue Tarzan with the purpose of capturing him, dead or alive, and bringing him back to England. Realizing that James is on his trail, Tarzan kidnaps Jane. Jane and Tarzan become fascinated by each other. Jane is then kidnapped by natives who intend to make her a wife of the tribe leader, forcing Tarzan into action. In a 2012 interview with the film history magazine ""Filmfax"", co-writer Gary Goddard revealed that he had originally been commissioned to write a screenplay"
"with Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz and Djimon Hounsou. Disney's animated ""Tarzan"" (1999) marked a new beginning for the ape man, taking its inspiration equally from Burroughs and """". Its major innovations were recasting the original fictitious ape species that adopted Tarzan as gorillas and turning William Cecil Clayton, his paternal cousin and rival for the affections of Jane in the early novels, into a brawny out-and-out villain known only as ""Clayton."" Tarzan was voiced by actor Tony Goldwyn and Jane by Minnie Driver. Two direct-to-video sequels followed, ""Tarzan & Jane"" (2002), and ""Tarzan II"" (2005), a re-exploration of the"
"of in whispers; but which no white man ever had seen [before Tarzan]” (""Jungle Tales of Tarzan"": ""The Battle for Teeka"") implying a connection to the Almas or Yeti. There have been a number of attempts to identify the fictional ""Mangani"" with an actual primate species. Science fiction author Philip José Farmer speculated they might be a variety of ""Australopithecus"" in his pseudo-biography of Tarzan, ""Tarzan Alive"". Walt Disney Pictures' 1999 animated feature film ""Tarzan"", its sequels, and the television series ""The Legend of Tarzan"" based on it, portray the apes who raised Tarzan as gorillas, though in the books"
"Jane Porter (Tarzan) Jane Porter (later Jane Clayton, Lady Greystoke) is a major fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film. Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter of professor Archimedes Q. Porter. She becomes the love interest and later the wife of Tarzan, and subsequently the mother of their son Korak. She develops over the course of the series from a conventional damsel in distress, who must be rescued from various perils, to an educated, competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully"
"time as king of the apes. Kerchak's terrible reign has made a lasting impression on his subjects, however, as even after his death his former tribe is often referred to as ""the tribe of Kerchak"", whatever other individual happens to be king. Burroughs's later Tarzan book ""Jungle Tales of Tarzan"", which relates additional details of Tarzan's youth among the apes, is also set during the period of Kerchak's rule of the ape band. Mysteriously, however, Kerchak himself does not appear in the book, possibly indicating either frequent absences from the tribe or the author's unwillingness to complicate his story by"
"adaptation of the original story, contradicting it on numerous points of the story. Early Tarzan films portrayed Jane Porter and (occasionally) her father faithfully to the portrayal in the novels. The 1932 sound film ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" and its sequels changed the character's name to Jane Parker, portraying her as English rather than American and making her and Tarzan the adoptive parents of an orphan they named ""Boy"". In addition, the name of Jane's father in the first film is James Parker. Remakes of the 1932 film, (""Tarzan, the Ape Man"" (1959) and ""Tarzan, the Ape Man"" (1981)) reprised"
"grief, as when his ape mother Kala is killed in ""Tarzan of the Apes"", or when he believes Jane has been murdered in ""Tarzan the Untamed"". He is deeply in love with his wife and totally devoted to her; in numerous situations where other women express their attraction to him, Tarzan politely but firmly declines their attentions. When presented with a situation where a weaker individual or party is being preyed upon by a stronger foe, Tarzan invariably takes the side of the weaker party. In dealing with other men, Tarzan is firm and forceful. With male friends, he is"
"used for close ups of a roaring leopard and the clumsy back-projection in the ""underwater"" scenes make it a treat for lovers of the ludicrous. The plot of the film reprises that of the 1932 version, with James Parker (Douglas) Harry Holt (Danova) and Parker's daughter Jane (Barnes) on an expedition in Africa in which they encounter Tarzan, a wild man raised by apes. Various adventures ensue. The film was made at the same time as another Tarzan film, ""Tarzan's Greatest Adventure"" produced by Sy Weintraub. MGM had kept the remake rights to the 1932 ""Tarzan the Ape Man"", enabling"
"understand what the typical white male is supposed to act like. His instincts eventually kick in when he is in the midst of this confusion, and he ends up dominating the jungle. In Tarzan, the jungle is a microcosm for the world in general in 1912 to the early 1930s. His climbing of the social hierarchy proves that the European white male is the most dominant of all races/sexes, no matter what the circumstance. Furthermore, Turgovnick writes that when Tarzan first meets Jane, she is slightly repulsed but also fascinated by his animal-like actions. As the story progresses, Tarzan surrenders"
"Opar.) Tarzan discovers a mad scientist with a city of talking gorillas. To create additional havoc, a Hollywood film crew sets out to shoot a Tarzan movie in Africa and brings along an actor who is an exact double of the apeman himself, but is his opposite in courage and determination. An amnesiac Tarzan and his monkey companion Nkima are taken by an African warrior to be his guardian spirits, and as such come into conflict with the murderous secret society of the Leopard Men. Tarzan's wife Jane, in her first appearance in the series since ""Tarzan and the Ant"
"this portrayal as well as that of her father. Maureen O'Sullivan, who portrayed Jane Parker opposite Johnny Weissmuller in the 1932 film and its first few sequels, was the most famous screen Jane. In more recent Tarzan films, starting with """" (1984), the character is once again Jane Porter, and her father Archimedes Q. Porter, and both once again Americans (with the exception of Disney's 1999 animated ""Tarzan"", which again represents both as English). Actresses who portrayed Jane on film include: The Jane character is absent in: Three Tarzan films presented female leads who became the partner of Tarzan, but"
"films. Starting afresh with an extremely free adaptation of ""Tarzan of the Apes"" which threw out everything that had gone before, the Weissmüller series was a boon to the franchise if not to the character. In contrast to the articulate nobleman of Burroughs's novels, Weissmuller's Tarzan was a natural hero with a limited vocabulary. The ersatz pidgin of his dialogue has often been mocked as ""Me Tarzan, you Jane,"" although that particular line was never spoken in any of the films (see insert). Tarzan and Jane were clearly married in the novels, but their legal status was left ambiguous in"
"popular Tarzan character. Burroughs set his novel near the village of Mbonga, among the Beti people and their closely related ethnic group called the Fang people. The initial Tarzan story, where infant John is discovered by apes and raised by a female ape, built on the colonial era stereotype of cannibalistic Africans in the equatorial forests. The story, states Shoup, provided a contrast of ""pure uncorrupted"" noble Tarzan in the midst of a barbaric cannibalistic society. The Tarzan syndicate became a global sensation, was widely followed, created some 89 movies in the 100 years that followed, and launched numerous comic"
"Tarzan's adolescence in his sixth Tarzan book, ""Jungle Tales of Tarzan"". Tarzan is his ape name (meaning ""White-Skin""); his English name is ""John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke"" (according to Burroughs in ""Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle""; Earl of Greystoke in later, less canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie ""Greystoke""). In fact, Burroughs's narrator in ""Tarzan of the Apes"" describes both Clayton and Greystoke as fictitious names – implying that, within the fictional world that Tarzan inhabits, he may have a different ""real"" name. As an eighteen-year-old young adult, Tarzan meets a young American woman, Jane Porter. She, her father, and others"
"Cheeta Cheeta (sometimes billed as Cheetah, Cheta and Chita) is a chimpanzee character who appeared in numerous Hollywood Tarzan movies of the 1930s–1960s as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarzan. Cheeta has usually been characterized as male, but sometimes as female, and has been portrayed by chimpanzees of both sexes. While the character of Cheeta is inextricably associated in the public mind with Tarzan, no chimpanzees appear in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs that inspired the films. The closest analog to Cheeta in the Burroughs novels is Tarzan's"
"to civilization through implying that Tarzan's growth into a perfectly civilized person stems from his Western, white heritage and ability to read and write. However, Mikko Tuhkanen claims that the apparently civilized qualities of Tarzan, such as his interest in reading, threaten his survival as a human in the jungle. For Tuhkanen, Tarzan represents the fluidity with which humans should define themselves. He asserts, “[T]he human and the nonhuman become grotesquely indistinguishable” in the novel. Humans mistake apes for other humans, an ape tries to rape Jane, Tarzan finds a surrogate ape mother when he cries out like an ape,"
"ape was his old friend, Akut, and began conversing with him. Jack was amazed to see that his father could do so. John then told Jack of his life as Tarzan. Jack started sneaking away to see Akut and began learning the language of the apes. Jack began to form a plan to take Akut back to the jungle. Paulvitch saw an opportunity for revenge, and agreed to help Jack. They escape to an African port where Paulvitch attacks Jack. Jack (probably now 12), like his father, was man-sized as a teen. Paulvitch is killed, and Jack, terrified, escapes into"
"Tarzan (radio program) As told in the ""Tarzan"" book series, the episodes centered around young Lord Greystoke, who was raised by a female ape as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and Jane Parker, a girl who was separated from a safari. Vincent Terrace wrote in his book, ""Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows"", ""Stories relate Tarzan's efforts to protect his adopted homeland from evildoers."" Producers of the transcribed programs added a touch of authenticity by going to zoos to record sounds of jungle animals and then using those sounds in appropriate places in episodes. The initial"
"with the tribe, raiding its village for weapons and practicing cruel pranks on them. They, in turn, regard him as an evil spirit and attempt to placate him. A few years later when Tarzan is 18 years of age, a new party is marooned on the coast, including 19 year old Jane Porter, the first white woman Tarzan has ever seen. Tarzan's cousin, William Cecil Clayton, unwitting usurper of the ape man's ancestral English estate, is also among the party. Tarzan spies on the newcomers, aids them in secret, and saves Jane from the perils of the jungle. Among the"
"father's knife, although he is terribly wounded in the struggle. As he grows up, Tarzan becomes a skilled hunter, exciting the jealousy of Kerchak, the ape leader, who finally attacks him. Tarzan kills Kerchak and takes his place as ""king"" of the apes. Later, a tribe of black Africans settle in the area, and Tarzan's adopted mother, Kala, is killed by one of its hunters. Avenging himself on the killer, Tarzan begins an antagonistic relationship with the tribe, raiding its village for weapons and practicing cruel pranks on them. They, in turn, regard him as an evil spirit and attempt"
"wild man and a tribe of apes. Kerchak forbids contact with the humans, but Tarzan and Jane grow to love each other and Jane tells her father more about the wild ape man (""Like No Man I've Ever Seen""). Tarzan soon visits the humans and becomes properly acquainted with them, especially Jane, though Clayton becomes jealous of their love. Jane tries to teach Tarzan more about humans and human life, while Tarzan shows her his jungle world, too (""Strangers Like Me""); all the while, Jane tries to cope with her emotions (""For The First Time""). She tries to tell her"
"and nobler sort, and at an age at which he could not have been influenced by association with creatures of his own kind I threw him into an environment as diametrically opposite that to which he had been born as I might well conceive”. The scholar Jeff Burglund notices that although Tarzan was brought up in the jungle far from other humans, he is inexplicably drawn back to his parents’ cabin and the objects which he finds there. He discovers a capacity for gentlemanly behavior around Jane despite no one teaching it to him. Although the African tribes which he"
"speak it. Upon his return from one visit to the cabin, he is attacked by a huge gorilla which he manages to kill with his father's knife, although he is terribly wounded in the struggle. As he grows up, Tarzan becomes a skilled hunter, exciting the jealousy of Kerchak, the ape leader, who finally attacks him. Tarzan kills Kerchak and takes his place as ""king"" of the apes. Later, a tribe of black Africans settle in the area, and Tarzan's adopted mother, Kala, is killed by one of its hunters. Avenging himself on the killer, Tarzan begins an antagonistic relationship"
"in swimming. He became the most famous and longest-lasting screen Tarzan, starring as the Ape Man in a total of twelve films, through 1948, the first six produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the final six from RKO. The beauteous and scantily clad O'Sullivan was a major factor in the early popularity of the series. The role of Jane in the films was reduced after O'Sullivan departed in 1942 following the sixth film in the series (and the last for MGM), ""Tarzan's New York Adventure"". Two Jane-less films followed before Brenda Joyce took over the role for the last four Weissmüller Tarzan"
"Weissmuller, does not reflect the original character in the novels, who is gracious and highly sophisticated. Tarzan is the son of a British lord and lady who were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died, and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe by whom Tarzan was adopted. Soon after his parents' death, Tarzan became a feral child, and his tribe of apes are known as the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother. Burroughs added stories occurring during"
"the initial Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"" (1912), and reappeared in the second book, ""The Return of Tarzan"" (1913), and the sixth, ""Jungle Tales of Tarzan"" (1916/17). When Tarzan's parents are lost in Africa and presumed deceased, the older John Clayton's title passes to the line of his younger brother and thence to his nephew William, who holds it at the time we meet him in ""Tarzan of the Apes"". William is portrayed as a well-meaning but ineffectual person with a romantic interest in Jane Porter, a member of the party marooned in Africa together with the Porters. When"