But The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard as the titular hero and Margot Robbie as his American love Jane Porter, is a generic, tedious adventure that hopes you will have some sort of vague memory of the character while also attempting a half-hearted post-modern spin on his mythology. In a way, that could make Tarzan ripe for reinvention in an expensive new feature film. The last live-action Tarzan movie was released in 1998 (Disney produced an animated one the following year), and like a lot of his contemporaries – the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet and Burroughs’ John Carter among them – Tarzan’s name doesn’t conjure up a certain kind of classical pulp adventure but rather a hazy memory of something your grandparents once watched in black and white. He is also one of the most famous fictional characters of the 20 th century, the subject of some 26 books written by his creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs, not to mention the star of many other books, comics, movies, radio shows and TV series.īut this is the 21 st century, and what might have been instantly recognizable a few decades ago is now either a curio or completely forgotten by newer generations of fans and consumers finding their own heroes. Who is Tarzan? He is John Clayton, the Viscount Greystoke, who is left alone in the African jungles as a child and raised into a feral yet heroic man – the “lord of the jungle” - by a tribe of great apes.
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