*TARZAN (1999)* is SO HYPE!! | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review)
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Tarzan was such an interesting character! What made his journey that much more interesting was the dynamic he had with his adoptive father and his very nurturing mother. Also, the music slapped! Enjoy :)
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How ironic that Brian Blessed, the voice of Clayton, is actually a passionate wildlife conservationist, and has his own private sanctuary with thousands of rescued animals!
OMG. Brian Blessed, the deepest voice I have ever heard. His laugh is.... Healing.
You mean "BRIAN BLESSED"?
Even more ironic: he was the one that did the Tarzan yell.
@@RealBradMiller Steven Hartley claims the top prize for deepest voice.
@@kgunitkeese17 They ended up using the yell by Tarzan's voice actor for the movie
Everyone always react to Clayton's death, but Disney had the gall to show both of Tarzan's parents dead.
They were both horrifying 😆😆
I understood death a lot sooner than most kids and that part made me so deeply sad as a kid.
Yeah, and the splattered blood everywhere after Sabour mauled and killed them. 😳😰💀
really subtly too or i was just an unobservant child because i had no idea they were there til I watched it as an adult 😂
@@thecocoacouch Same I was born in 1999, the same year, this movie Tarzan was released.
the way i see Kerchak's character, the biggest thing holding him back from conecting with Tarzan was the grief for the son he lost in the beginning. He says to Kala "he won't replace the one we lost" and i do feel like that thought continues to weight down on Kerchak's mind for the rest of the movie, and with it the resentment towards Tarzan for not being what his first son was. It's as if Kala healed from the loss by opening herself up for love again, taking care of Tarzan, while Kerchak never quite recovered because he remained closed: he has to lead so he leads, he has to be strong so he's strong. He never stops to let go of the grief, only redirects his frustration at Tarzan. I think this movie paints a pretty good picture of grief and love in that way
So true. That's what I get from it as well. This movie also speaks to at least four different types of masculinity: one being pretty friggin toxic obviously, one saddled with so much burden to provide and maintain strength and security even if it means sacrificing the emotional growth and well-being of your community, another that is so trusting-loyal-honest-pure silly and accepting, and the positive mirror of all the things in between those archetypes that can go wrong in the face of adversity. I'll let you decide who is who ❤
Yes totally. My3-year-old granddaughter loves this movie and particularly when they show the first scenes with the baby being found, watching her face she is just captivated!
Solid explanation
I loved in the tie in Animated series (bc of course) how they didn’t forget Him, and at one point Tarzan makes a memorial statue of him in a cave the gorillas use during hurricanes, so he could always watch over them.
Tarzan should be renamed to "Phil Collins bangers featuring the ape man"
I feel like that's the movie's real name, and then Tarzan is just the shorter nickname everyone knows it by.
Honestly! Phil Collins went so hard for this soundtrack and I love it. The story and animation would still be amazing but it wouldn’t hit the same without Phil Collins.
Fun Fact: Phil Collins wrote “you’ll be in my heart” for his daughter ❤
I can’t listen to it without getting tears in my eyes 🥺❤️
when my son was newborn I'd sing random lullabies to him. Do NOT sing "You'll Be In My Heart" to your newborn. You will lose it and be a sobbing mess lol.
Lily?
@@divinelangene6813 I believe so! since she was just a baby when this was released
Its the song i sang to my kids when they were babies. ❤ love phil collins
“It came out the year I was born”
Me: 🤨👴🏽💀
Made me feel old, I'm apparently 4 years older than him 😭
8 years. Anyone higher?
I was 15.
I was 20 when the movie came out.
@brianb8060 one thing that'd make you feel old is that you're almost as old as my mom lol
Terk is actually a girl, her full name is Terkina which her mother calls her at the very beginning when Karla shows up with Tarzan, also calls her little lady and later on Tantor calls her missy. She's just a tom-boy.
She's also voiced by the great Rosie O'Donnell!
Fun fact, The actor who voiced tarzan, couldnt do a convincing tarzan roar, so Brian Blessed who voiced the villain Clayton did it instead.
They ended up using the yell from Tarzan's voice actor for the movie.
wpw
wow
@@vyshak4455not according to anything I can find on Google.
A nice little detail that animators put in the movie is that Kerchak and Tarzan don’t beat their chests with their fists, like apes are often incorrectly depicted, they beat their chests with their palms (or cupped palms) like real Gorillas do
Which explains why it sounds higher pitched when real gorillas do it, more like popping bubbles than pounding drums.
I AM adopted. Im 27 years guy from Poland 🇵🇱. And I know this feeling. You arę not alike like the rest of your Family. But my mum and dad adopted me and loved me, the streanger boy, like my real parents never did. This is why, I always cry on This movie.
I’m adopted too. And my family loves me just as I am and has always made sure I felt like a part of the family. My mom is my biological paternal grandmother’s cousin so we’re distantly related by blood.
I am also adopted. there are several Disney and Non Disney films like this, that is hard for me to watch
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Tarzan's yell (especially in the scene after he defeats Sabor) is one of the single most underrated pieces of voice acting in history. People just don't understand how hard it is to yell convincingly with that kind of power behind it.
I heard that Tarzan's voice actor couldn't actually pull it off and that Clayton's voice actor is the one who did the yells.
@@loupgarou95that's correct which got a little bit of a chuckle out of the cast & crew
This movie has so many great quotes.
Three of my favorites:
“Put me down! Ahh pick me up pick me up!”
“And Daddy! They took my boot!!”
“Mom…are you sure this water’s sanitary? It looks questionable to me!”
Don’t forget “what kind of primitive beasts made this mess” 😂
I mean, they are great lines when you have the context, but not especially quotable... As opposed to something like "I've had it with your emotional constipation!"
I have actually used the term "emotional constipation" before, thinking of this quote.
@@zeph0shade I mean ''dishonor on you! Dishonor on you cow!'' isn't really quotable out of context, still do it very often. xD
@@accalialb Nah that absolutely is quotable out of context! Makes sense to pull that one out anytime someone does or says something you want to be jokingly 'offended' by, which I think for most people is fairly often.
OP's are just a lot more scenario-specific which IMO means less quotable. Like go ahead and quote them too, but they probably won't make sense unless you're:
A - Being picked up
B - Your boot just got stolen and you're informing your dad (or, *ahem* maybe somebody else)
C - You're being asked to drink water from a questionable source
why does it require context to be quotable, sometimes it’s fun to just quote for the sake of it lol
The face Tarzan makes at 18:18 when Jane yeets herself off during the Baboon fiasco will forever be one of my favorite frames of any film. My man is so done 🤣
I've watched so many reactors at this point that I literally thought you had already seen Tarzan. 😂
Same here lol 😅😂
Right?! 😂😂😂
Same
Legit
Thank you for saying this because there are so many reactors I've watched watch different shows and movies that I swear sometimes a reaction will come out and I'll be like didn't (s)he already do this!?
Phil Collins always nails the soundtrack, he also did the soundtrack for Brother Bear which is a pretty underrated Disney film!
He already watched it not long ago iirc
Edit: no he didn't, my bad, mistook it for another reaction lol
I hope he watches it
He also surprisingly did a voice role in The Jungle Book 2
I hope he watches Brother Bear at some point, it's such a good movie and Phil Collin's did an amazing work on it too :')
Every time I hear "Two Worlds" being played in this movie, I get teary-eyed so much for no reason. 🥺🥺🥺
For me it's Son of Man! 😅
Same!❤
‘You’ll Be In My Heart’ is the one that never fails to make me weep.
@@InABroadwayStateOfMind oh yes, that one too! But it's just really unexplainable for me when it comes to Two Worlds. Maybe because of how the parallel of the two families is being illustrated.
I feel like swinging along side Tarzan when I listen to this song.
(At 36:24) You want to know the sad part, Tarzan and Clayton are indeed related in fact "Clayton" is their last names.
Tarzan's real name is John Clayton II. Clayton's real name is William Cecil Clayton. Clayton is Tarzan's younger cousin.
I remember reading about that being the case in the original novel but I don’t know if they kept that for the film beyond using the name for that character.
Did anyone notice at 8:50, Tarzans pupils literally CHANGE on his way back down from his fall? Wow, such incredible attention to detail!!
Fun thing is: Tuk is a girl
And so is Sabor.
Main theory of why she is so agressive is territorial behaviour rather than wanting to eat. It's why she didn't eat Tarzan's parents as they were freshly killed and Sabor was interupted by Kala before she could get to Tarzan.
Yes! It's short for terkina
Bruh i didnt even think about how recent they had actually died now im even more sad 😢
I’ve heard this leopard was considered mad/evil even by other leopards, (kind of like The Land Before Time’s Sharptooth) and the name the movie’s crew went with is actually something for a Lionesses. Apparently the native name for she leopard didn’t sound evil enough.
Terk*
@@brookerickettson4950They made it a Leopard as a nod to realism seeing as lions don't live in the rain forrest.
I can’t imagine the goosebumps everyone must’ve had in the studio from hearing Tarzan’s cry
Something that I find most people miss when they watch this for the first time: Terk is a girl! Her full name is "Terkina", you hear her mom call her that when she asks what's wrong with Tarzan when she first sees him. She's voiced by Rosie O'Donnell.
Something that I've always found interesting about this movie is how they portrayed Kerchak in relation to how gorilla family groups are structured. As the leader of the group, all of the younger gorillas would be his offspring, including Terk and the boys she regularly hangs out with. He never seems to have bonded with his other kids the way he did with his and Kala's, and I'm sure a certain amount of tbat was him distancing himself intentionally. On the other hand, the silverback of the group will usually kick out the males before they reach the age that Tarzan and the older boys are, to stop them from trying to take over the troop (this also helps ensure genetic diversity within the group).
“You’ll be in my heart” gets me every time 😭 Such a good movie.
Turk is a girl btw, her full name is Turkana 😂 her mum calls her little lady in the beginning, but the voice throws peoples off lmao
Without a doubt one of my favorite films and perfect finale to close out the Disney Renaissance. Also Phil Collins who sang and wrote the songs of _Tarzan_ and _Brother Bear_ respectively in the original English language also sang the songs in French, German, Italian, and Spanish (both European and Latin Spanish).
Finally some voice actors in Tarzan have also worked in other animated films for Disney, Wayne Knight who voiced Tantor the Elephant was the guy with the Pottery vases in _Hercules_ but on-screen fans know him for Nedry in _Jurassic Park_ and Newman in _Seinfeld_ and Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, an English actor who voiced Archimedes Q. Porter voiced Fflewddur Fflam in _The Black Cauldron._
Phil Collins did not have to go so hard for a Disney cartoon but I'm so grateful he did 😂😂😂
00:10 oh, if its about the songs, the next logical one should be Brother Bear~
Yes! I can't wait for him to watch brother bear 😁 I still cry every time x
I guess after that Brave?
It’s not Disney, but if we’re following pop artists covering an animated soundtrack, he should add Spirit to the list.
No word can describe a mother's tears. No word can heal a broken heart.
Those lyrics hit hard with the scene of baby ape killed
the most versatile musical instrument is the voice :D which makes sense how he adopted the gorilla's language, and then mimicked all the sounds like the gunshots etc.
So happy - I always feel Tarzan and Prince of Egypt are two movies that are criminally overlooked. 25 years and it still makes me cry like a baby.
What about Treasure Planet?
@@ZondaFRoadster I was about to comment the same thing!! :)
Overlooked? Didn’t this movie win an Oscar or at least an award for the soundtrack and for best animation at the time it came out?
Disney and their stampedes, am I right? You were like, they could die from that. RIP Mufasa
This movie has 1 of my favorite movie soundtracks ever
I just discovered your reaction channel last week and I have to say you’re one of the best out there! You’re so respectful and positive about the movies you react to, which is what people want to see when they watch you watching the films that shaped them growing up. You’re also so perceptive to important themes and to what makes these animated masterpieces so universal. Watching you fall in love with the songs and characters gives your viewers the opportunity to feel like they’re also falling in love for the first time, again ❤. Keep these reactions coming please, I’m such a fan!
Fun fact the voice actor for Tarzan couldn't do the iconic "Tarzan yell" so every time he yells it's done by the man voicing Clayton !
Fun fact, in the original novels Tarzan was based on, and yes he came from novels by Edward Rice Burroughs, Clayton was Tarzan's brother and or cousin, IIRC
They were cousins.
Sir what do you mean *and* ?! 😨
@@thesylph4336😂😂😂
I like that Disney chose to write clayton as what tarzan would have been if he was raised in england
showing the difference in nature and jruturel between the two,
Tarzan is stronger for his upbringing and two families (human and ape)
that’s why tarzan makes that point to Clayton later on that he’s “not a man like you.”
@@thesylph4336 i couldnt recall if they were brothers or cousins
I remember when this movie came out. There were tons of awesome behind the scenes features on the Disney channel. Like, for example, the animators studied surfing and skateboarding footage in order to get his movement right, as he moves through the trees. Besides Mulan, it was also one of the first Disney animated films that utilized CGI for some shots.
I wish I had good news to share about Phil Collins, but unfortunately, he's lost his ability to perform due to a spinal injury. But the songs he made for this film will live on forever.
Be sure to watch George Of The Jungle!
😁
You can’t call yourself a fan of Brendan Fraser if you haven’t seen George Of The Jungle!
This
"Watch out for that tree!"
The cry you remember is from a royalty free sound effects album people have been using since the 1960’s, including me
I figured it’d be something like that 😆
My favorite part of this movie is Tantor being a germaphobe cuz honestly same "are you sure this water's sanitary? looks questionable to me!" 😂
My other favorite part is "And Daddy they took my boot!" 22:38 - 23:02 was also apparently unscripted from what i remember reading
It’s the jungle, of course it’s not 😂 In reality you’d wonder how Tarzan survived so long without at least knowing how to boil water.
The production of this movie is just something to behold.
The animation alone, my god. It is truly sad that we don't get these anymore.
I could say so much about this movie. I was also born the year this came out, and this has been a comfort movie for me for as long as I can remember. One of the greatest disney movies ever made, and one of the best stories ever told in general
phil collins went unnecessarily beast mode on the soundtrack for this movie like why is it so good lmao
haven´t seen this movie since i was a child, and i just remember that the jaguar in the house scared the sh*t out of me and i was scared literally for days... but i remember also that the movie was great
PLEEEEEASE watch “The Prince of Egypt”! It is as epic as The Lion King. Plus it has Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, and Hans Zimmer is the composer! I mean, come on!
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER! I'll always love Tarzan! 🤩🔥💕
Tarzan was a huge part of my childhood growing up. I remember they used to air this movie often on Disney Channel back then. And how cool that you're my age, 'cause I was also born the year this movie came out!
Brother Bear is also a really good cartoon. Highly recommend it ❤
I remember watching years ago that the director said he wanted to give Tarzan a skater attitude and it was from his son he got the motivation
Attitude, not so much. The movements though, definitely, I can see it.
This movie came out the year I was born too, I’ve watched it my entire life, it still never fails to disappoint. It’s so emotionally moving, I sing the songs all the time even when I’m not watching the movie cause they’re so good, and I tear up every time Kala’s baby dies in the beginning, and full on cry at her expression when Tarzan chooses to put his dad’s clothes and go.
I watched this multiple times on our flight to Orlando back in 2000 😅 I'd missed the prologue the first time, so when it finished and stared again, I was so shocked to see it 😂 Minnie Driver's delivery on the line "And Daddy, they took my boot!" makes me laugh every time lol
Fun fact: Phil Collins sang the songs not only in English, but also in German, Italian, French and Spanish (Latin American and Castilian).
Fun fact. Before Frozen 2 was announced a creator of Frozen mad people believe that Tarzans parents are Elsa and Ana's parents and Tarzan is their lost brother.
I think the new theory is that Belle is a descendant of Jane and Tarzan (or a distant relative)
I always thought that theory was kinda stupid, Elsa and Anna's parents don't even look similar to Tarzan's parents, not to mention their boat caught fire, whilst in Frozen it sank. If these two movies were in the same timeline, wouldn't Tarzan be much later? Clothes of the parents look more like early 20st century or very late 19th, according to google, story takes place around 1900s. Frozen is thought to be happening around 1850s, that's half a century earlier.
The only thing that could potentially back this idea up is that both of the couples traveled on a ship at some point, were in heterosexual relationship and looked to be similar age. I was always so confused, that theory never made sense to me :0.
@@shanajeangedeon9060I think for the apparent times that the movies are set in, Jane would have to be a descendant of Belle.
@@nicholaspeters9919 Thanks. I couldn't remember the actual theory, so I just kinda guessed it👉🏽
I thought that to her first, before I even saw the rumors on the Internet! The stories are so similar, and they look so similar! Kind of disappointing that it’s not canon
Clayton's end might be one of the most horrific of the disney villains. Atleast it was the one that freaked me out the most when I was young. I highly recommend looking at some stuff behind making the movie. How they really studied pro-skaters, rollerbladers and surfers to make all his crazy tree sliding.
Clayton’s end and Dr. Facilier in the Princess and the Frog are the two villain deaths that freaked me out as a kid.
They also heavily referenced animals through in person study, along with human behaviors and how they stand, walk, emote, and more. The visual acting in this movie has to be one of my favorites in animation
This movie won the well deserved Academy Award for Best Original Song for YOU'LL BE IN MY HEART.
Also if you liked the Phil Collins music in this movie than I recommend watching Brother Bear (2003). Wonderful music by Phil Collins and Tina Turner.
Would love to see your reaction to "Brother Bear"🐻(2003)
It's my favorite Disney movie that I used to watch with my sister as a kid, I still cry to this day while watching it🤎
SO HAPPY YOU REACTED TO THIS!!!! one of my all time favorite childhood movies 🥹🥹🥹 the phil collin songs are sooo good
I don't know whats going on with my brain.
1. I think i have Deja Vu thinking you already reacted to this movie
2. My deja vu lead me to start listening to the soundtrack (mostly of Phil Collins) yesterday.
3. Suddenly this pops up the day after me listening to the music.
I'm glad you're reacting to this. Lol
As a kid I watched this movie so many times the VHS tape was damaged so I couldn't watch it anymore
Same
Thanks Oscar :) suggestions for future reactions: Robin Hood (Disney), It Takes Two (1995), The Sound of Music (1965) - only if you want to though. Peace :)
Yes, I would live a reaction to the sound of music. It will forever be one of my favorites 😊
YES THE SOUND OF MUSIC WOULD BE SO GOOD
@@annabelledrake2027 it’s a bit long but I like it 😊 Christopher Plummer was handsome in it if I say so myself lol
Rush (2013) Is a really cool movie, i hope one they he react to it.
Omg yes The Sound of Music ❤❤❤
this is one of my favorites! the art and music is so beautiful, and so many likeable characters.
The soundtrack
Couldn't agree more! ❤
36:22
One of the most intense Disney villain deaths ever!
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They were not afraid to make it DARK back then in a way that only adult, with few exception, would get it, very well handled.
I knew Tarzan's soundtrack was good, but I forgot that Tarzan's soundtrack was THIS GOOD. Like, Jesus, Phil Collins, you didn't need to go this hard on the funny monkey man movie. What a legend.
phil collins nailed the songs in this movie special with son of man and stranger like me for those who goes to africa never ran into a silverback gorilla they can be scary
As a Swedish person, I grew up watching this in Swedish. Feels sooo weird seeing this in English
Lance Henriksen as Kershac is awesome (you know, our beloved Bishop the android from Aliens).
I wanted this movies SEVERAL TIMES A DAY FOR YEARS when I was a kid, without fail
Still goated
Fun Fact: Phil Collins also sung the songs in German. For that he wrote down the words the way he would pronounce them from his english-speaking background. He also made impressive live performances singing the main songs in German.
5:47 that's also Baby Kuzco's cry in Emperor's New Groove
Man, this movie is epic! The animation, the songs, and the action. Disney was so different then ❤
Be sure to check out The Great Mouse Detective!
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It’s criminally underrated!
Oh yes!
Indeed! Professor Ratigan is also one of best disney villains
One of the greatest animated films ever created ❤ With one of the best soundtracks. I love this so much. Whenever Tarzan’s adopted mom says “you will always be my heart,” I cry.
When coming up with the way Tarzan would move through the jungle Disney animators and researchers actually went out and watched skateboarders at various skate parks or locations in the city. Those fluid movements that Tarzan uses are based on grinding and gliding with a board. They cited watching people navigate the "urban jungle" as their inspiration for his 'vine surfing'.
I loved this movie growing up
It's one of my absolute favorites! Went to the theater to see it with my Mom for a girl's day out! Great memory. I will always treasure it, especially now that she is gone. I'll probably cry, but I'm hoping you'll love it .😊
This was one of my favourites as a kid. This, Lion King and Toy story were amazing growing up. Especially cause I lost an aunt really early in life and she used to take me and my brother to watch movies like this. It was cathartic to have movies like this. And this one starts SO sad but its SO good. I think child movies this days underestimate kids a lot, old disney movies didnt hold back
So glad you got to see this one. Bit dark but beautifully crafted. When I wss younger, I always thought that Terk was a boy, until I watched it again and found out her full name was Terkina, voiced by Rosie O'Donnell and Tantor called her 'Missy'. Fun Fact - the animators had got inspiration for Tarzan's tree sliding and movements from skateboarders and surfers.
This is THE movie of my childhood! An absolutely amazing soundtrack that doesn't get the appreciation it deserves, and wonderful story. This and Hercules are my two favorite Disney movies. So great to see one of my favorite reactors watch one of my favorite movies!
36:24 that was me too when I first saw it!😱😰
When I was a kid watching Clayton's death, I was pretty distraught. Disney definitely went there. 😮
Read all the Burroughs Tarzan books when I was a kid. Tarzan was my hero back then. Tarzan and Swiss Family Robinson were my world. My favorite books. And they still are.
Omfg dude your right that is the same cry
I legit keep an eye/ear out for these sounds that get reused in film and TV and I NEVER picked up on that one
Fantastic catch 🙌🏻
Omg I love noticing this kind of stuff too, the cooing baby noises Tarzan was making when Kala hugged him were the exact same noises baby Hercules made!
I was too reminded of Gaston when seeing this clay character the first time
Yesssss! Thank you for reacting to this 😁 childhood favourite love the music x
Edit: loved the reaction so glad you picked up the more subtle details 😊 if you're taking requests please react to brother bear Phil Collins also done amazing music for it and it is such a beautiful story ❤
You know you watch too much cocoa couch when "shivers mate" becomes apart of your regular vocabulary.
I have made it a mission that when I become a parent, I would sing You'll Be In My Heart to soothe their crying. While I doubt I'd do Phil Collins due justice, but I'd try hard to emulate the emotion behind the lyrics.
what is insane is that animaters watched skateboarders, surfers and snow boarding to get Tarzen's slides and glides in the trees. Also it blows my mind to me that I born in the begining of the 90s in 1991 and he was born at the end of the 90s at 1999... spirits take me
Phil Collins made the BEST songs for this movie and we love him for it.
Phil Collin’s took home the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2000 for “You’ll Be In My Heart” from this film Tarzan.
This movie is amazing. The pain Tarzan must feel in his conflict between his adoptive parents and the wonders of the life outside his family. The thing that gets me is that he is not stupid. He sees the concept of space and stares in amazement. Almost like he realizes that theres more beyond the island, beyond the world there is an endless sea of
As an animator, I LOVE this movie, esp in the behaviors and acting shown through the characters. So much research went into making Tarzan seem believable as a human imitating animals, and the anthropomorphic animals behaving humanoid while still acting like animals.
(One of my animation professors was an assistant animator on this film, Mulan, Hercules, and more)
Yes dude!! Best disney soundtrack ever in my opinion!! 🔥❤️
son of man will always be such a banger!! one of the few songs i know by heart in both english and spanish (my native lenguage), and the fact that Phil Collins sang it in both lenguages... legend
I can't believe you did spirit (my fave movie or all time!) and not Tarzan yet!! The (arguably) on par soundtrack!!
This is movie is based on characters from a whole series of books. Disney very much cleaned up the story from the books, in spite of the death of Kala and Kerchak's son, Tarzan's parents and Clayton. Clayton, however, was an original character. Tarzan's birth parents named him John Clayton II. He was also an English Earl, the Earl of Greystoke. The original story is very different from this Disney version, but still very interesting. For example, Tarzan's parents knew that his mother was pregnant and they had taken many things with them on their journey. Things that they were able to rescue after the shipwreck, like children's books. He found the home where they were killed and those books and taught himself how to read with them. The jungle was full of native Africans, but they were enemies of Tarzan's. The first white man he ever met was a Frenchman who taught him how to speak. He wasn't fluent in English, so he taught Tarzan to speak French first. So, Tarzan learned to read and write English before he ever learned a spoken language and his first spoken language was French. If you like to read, I highly recommend the books.
Fun story, back in high school our concert band did a competition at Disney world for a competition, and as part of the activities we got to see what recording music for a movie was like and we made a recording of our band playing the trashing the camp song. It got put on a dvd for us to take home and everything. Though we were not nearly as good as the original of course lol
Fun fact it was the voice actor that played Clayton who did the Tarzan yells.
19:46 There's actually a really heart-warming story behind this scene. For Tarzan's expression, the animator used himself as a reference. Specifically, he referenced the face he made when he saw his daughter for the first time after she was born.🥰
Tarzan was the very first movie I saw in theatres (that just made me feel so old 😅) 😁 it has a special place in my heart ❤ even though it doesn't really follow the OG Tarzan of the Apes but *shrugs*
but you add Phil Collins music and you have a perfect combination 😉
Thank you for this reaction; this film holds a special place in my heart. The vine surfing style was inspired by skate board moves by Tony Hawk. “You’ll Be In My Heart” was written by Phil Collins as a lullaby to his daughter. Other “jungle film” that’s amazing is Tim Allen and Martin Short’s Jungle 2 Jungle and Brendan Fraser’s George of the Jungle. 👨👩👦🦍🤎💚💛
There are lots of interesting things to think about in this movie. Of course, Burroughs's basic idea isn't remotely accurate to what would actually happen in the real world on several fronts, but it's a fascinating exploration of adoption, nature vs. choice, and more.
One aspect I noticed in your reaction that I hadn't thought about before-because of your attention to Kerchak-is that Tarzan actually has more of Kerchak's respect than he thinks as an adult. He doesn't have affection. But Kerchak is protecting Tarzan as well as Terk and the others from the humans at the camp, and before Clayton pulls his subterfuge, Kerchak explicitly charges Tarzan with the protection of their family-he is considered an adult and a champion of their tribe, and Kerchak expects Tarzan to do his part to keep everyone safe in a way that he wouldn't if he still thought Tarzan was just an annoying tagalong.
Another feature of their relationship? Tarzan could have challenged Kerchak for leadership of the family when he killed Sabor. Kerchak failed to protect the family. Tarzan did it, protecting Kerchak as well as everyone else when he faced Sabor. It exposed a weakness in Kerchak's leadership and gave Tarzan a claim to authority. When Tarzan brought Sabor's body to Kerchak, it was a demonstration that he wasn't going to make a challenge and still submitted to Kerchak's authority. This gives his later actions more weight. When he challenges of Kerchak's orders regarding the humans, there's an edge of danger to the status quo there. Tarzan doesn't have to submit to Kerchak at this point. He could actually move to take over and go a different direction with the family. Then, when he attacks Kerchak to protect Clayton, in addition to being a demonstration that his loyalties at the moment are with the humans and not the gorillas, it also serves as a humiliation of Kerchak and an overset of his familial authority. Tarzan rebelled against the laws of his tribe. He's technically an outlaw, and Kerchak could do a lot worse to him than he does. (Essentially public disgrace, maybe shunning, but not even exile because Kerchak is so legitimately relieved and happy when Tarzan returns.)
But my favorite part of Tarzan has always been the juxtaposition between Tarzan's nature and his choices. "Son of Man" illustrates it beautifully with both lyrics and animation. Tarzan doesn't grow up a gorilla. Despite being raised by gorillas, he grows up indisputably and defiantly *human.* He makes more complex tools than his mother and cousins could ever think of. He makes his environment serve him. He learns many different forms of communication before he ever learns English, and takes wisdom from many different sources. He learns to swing from smaller monkeys, to swim from the hippos. He experiments to find new and more efficient ways of doing work. Not only is he human, he's a scientist and inventor in the most primal sense. Doing civilization from scratch.
He realizes in the end that he is NOT a gorilla and won't ever be. But he also realizes he can choose his path and his family. In the climax, he essentially tells Clayton that he has learned he can choose what type of man to be. Before that, while dressed in a suit, intending to enter human society, and looking exactly like his biological father, he realizes the crucial difference between a person's genes and a person's family. It's a pretty darn nuanced portrayal of existence.
And the Phil Collins songs slap.
Holy cow- you pointed out so many thing I would have completely missed simply because I just wasn't looking between the lines. (Even if it's not really between the lines.) Bravo.