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sophia_sol) wrote2018-01-19 09:22 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2018-01-19 09:22 pm
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Disney's Tarzan
Okay me and Housemate E just watched the Disney Tarzan movie, which I'd never seen before because I did not grow up on Disney and it wasn't one of the ones sentientcitizen made me watch as a preteen when we met and she discovered I didn't know any Disney and decided she needed to fix that.
I decided I needed to watch Tarzan after reading the first of the original Tarzan novels, because...well, unlike most Disney "adaptations" of books that go way far afield from their source material, there was no danger of the Disney adaptation being WORSE and every chance of it being actually an improvement. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but it was...bad.
And hey, the Disney movie was totally an improvement! The book's themes are basically: humans are great, humans from aristocratic bloodlines are the greatest humans, Tarzan is the greatest human who ever lived and far superior to the apes who raised him. The movie's themes are: family is who you love!! choose love over everything!
Also the movie contains zero black people to be racist about. And I mean, a movie set in Africa with zero black people is not great, but a book set in Africa with savage superstitious cowardly cannibal black people is definitely worse.
There's things to criticize about the movie, yeah. But overall it is PRETTY CHARMING. And I ship this Tarzan and Jane a millionty times more than the Tarzan and Jane of the novel; movie Tarzan and Jane are super adorable together.
Also I love Tarzan's butch best friend Terk. All the other female gorillas were like...definitely feminized as much as you can with gorillas, but not Terk!
sentientcitizen made me watch as a preteen when we met and she discovered I didn't know any Disney and decided she needed to fix that.I decided I needed to watch Tarzan after reading the first of the original Tarzan novels, because...well, unlike most Disney "adaptations" of books that go way far afield from their source material, there was no danger of the Disney adaptation being WORSE and every chance of it being actually an improvement. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but it was...bad.
And hey, the Disney movie was totally an improvement! The book's themes are basically: humans are great, humans from aristocratic bloodlines are the greatest humans, Tarzan is the greatest human who ever lived and far superior to the apes who raised him. The movie's themes are: family is who you love!! choose love over everything!
Also the movie contains zero black people to be racist about. And I mean, a movie set in Africa with zero black people is not great, but a book set in Africa with savage superstitious cowardly cannibal black people is definitely worse.
There's things to criticize about the movie, yeah. But overall it is PRETTY CHARMING. And I ship this Tarzan and Jane a millionty times more than the Tarzan and Jane of the novel; movie Tarzan and Jane are super adorable together.
Also I love Tarzan's butch best friend Terk. All the other female gorillas were like...definitely feminized as much as you can with gorillas, but not Terk!