Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan "The Great Dinner Scene" Great clip from the 1984 movie...Greystoke Christopher Lambert .. Sir Ralph Richardson...Ian Holm... Andie MacDowell No copyright intended
What I love about this scene is when Tarzan imitates that guy mocking him by mimicking and what I love is that you can't tell if he's just being a mimic and doesn't really get the implication of what guy is saying or if he knows he's being mocked and decides to show that guy what he sounds like, I think it's the second but still you can't really tell.
This movie had so much potential and dropped the ball! The real Jane Porter -not Parker- [as written by Edgar Rice Burroughs] was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland. Her father was Archimedes Porter was an ordained minister who marry them at the end of the second novel "The Return of Tarzan." D'Arnot was a French Naval Officer and not a hunting guide. Tarzan killed his ape foster-father when he was young and his first spoken language was French, taught to him by D'Arnot.
You have to admit out of all the Tarzan movies out there, this is, if not one of the best. Love this scene! The rest of the movie is alittle on the sad side, but this scene is super cool. Thanks for posting.
Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan. One of the greatest movies no one knows about. It'a about Tarzan yes from the Jungle trying to adapt to regular life. Two of my favorite films have Christopher Lambert in them. This one and Highlander. Back when movies were made with such awesome cinematophery. I know misspelled it.
People, Jane Porter is not supposed to be English. In Burrough's original books, she and her father are American (from Baltimore). It was the 1930s films that changed her surname to Parker and made her English, and subsequent adaptations, including Disney,followed suit. But GREYSTOKE was based on Burrought's original book and intent.
SHE IS NOT!! She is the daughter of a professor and very opinionated about things (like girls from America marrying English nobility). She is honorable enough to marry a man she does not love because she gave her word, and in further books (Tarzan the Terrible) becomes quite proficient in jungle craft and a true Diana of the Jungle. Burrough's heroines are always feisty and proud. She is just the product of her time and station. Any "dumbness" she has is because she is not accustomed to jungle life, she is a city girl. I would like to see anyone around here take on a gorilla that can dead lift 400 pounds or a lion that is built to kill. Her fear in the book is natural and understandable. She even can foresee the sly underhanded motivations of a man who invests in her father's research when her father can't.
I have a copy of the novel hand dated 1918. It is not in the best of shape. I have to lay it flat on a table and turn the pages carefully. Certainly the best Tarzan movie I've ever seen.
Jane was meant to be American so they weren't trying to give her a better English accent. I think the problem is Andie has a southern American accent and that's not the American accent they wanted for the film.
THE character of TARZAN he was dressing suit with long Brown hair and green eyes in the human civilization of humans with Jane Porter and her dad the profesor Arquímedes Porter
As far as the characters created by Burroughs, the movie dropped the ball! I, like many others who have read the novels, do care, and didn't care for the distorted concept! You should look in the mirror.
Enough with the dropping the ball. There was no ball and nothing was dropped. It is an incredibly melancholy from huston, his last movie. Wait until you have some wisdom. Oh... As for WHAT WAS IN THE BOOK; NEWSWIRE: No-one ever cared. It's the concept, see. No you don't see. Ahhh. This web deserves a better class of commenters.
I agree with you; and Tarzan's nudity in itself is erotic and, psychoanalytically speaking, it says a lot about Burrough's own sex-life; as Angelo's paintings say a lot about the artist's homosexuality, if you will. But the erotic tones you referred to should be rendered subtly; otherwise the work would be a flop.
