Post by drystyx on Mar 20, 2017 16:56:43 GMT
Savage entertainment. There are a few lulls involving the primates, a nit pick in an otherwise action packed adventure.
Tarzan is what most men want to be. He's a "God man", a total perfect being in a "God world", unencumbered by the enemy's laws of gravity and Physics.
Jane is the perfect woman. Maureen O'Sullivan is one of the most stunning visions of perfect female beauty in film History. Only Dawn Wells of TV fame is over her in that regard, by a natural male reckoning. But Maureen is up there.
The sexuality is unsurpassed in anything outside of XXX.
But the calling card of this film is the safari characters. Those are the characters we follow. It's hard to call them villains, though they do represent the "antagonists", and even the more villainous one, "Martin My Friend" as played by Paul Cavanagh, is not pure evil. In fact, he is probably the most three dimensional and likable villain in Hollywood film History.
Paired with a semi-heroic guide played by Neil Hamilton, Martin joins a safari, and puts every penny into a search for Ivory. If he doesn't bring it back, he's broke, and homeless, and on to a slow death probably, prey to the elements. This is his one chance.
The guide (Neil Hamilton) desires and loves Jane. He is the only survivor of the previous safari, in which her father died, in which she met Tarzan. They found the "elephant's graveyard", a mystic place where elephants go to die, full of Ivory tusks.
There are two Africans who make it to the last stand of the safari, one of which is the native's ramrod. They play a big role in the finale, when those two stand with the two white men and Jane in a rock formation against a deadly tribe of lion hunters. The lion hunters call on the lions to attack the five safari survivors.
Where is Tarzan? Well, they think he's dead. But we know better, don't we? How many of the five can he save? And will he even try to save "Martin my friend", who showed treachery to Tarzan.
"Martin my friend" is actually the focal character here. As I said, he's an amazing villain, and we feel empathy for him (most of us do). He has great motivation, as does Harry (Neil).
It's a lot of plots woven in one. It's the ultimate romance, and the ultimate motivation of characters. It's a blend of the natural world in which the safari members are forced to live and the "God Heaven world" that Tarzan and Jane manage to become a part of. In their world, they will never age, they will never suffer death or disease. All bruises heal. They are conquerors. There's a supernatural feel to this, but they are forced temporarily into the natural world of the safari.
10/10
