In this telling the hero (Alexander Skarsgård) has been living in Victorian England for nearly a decade with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), when he’s lured back to the jungle by an envoy from the King of Belgium (Christoph Waltz). His adaption is visually stunning and more racially sensitive than most, yet even he continues the tradition of presenting Tarzan as the paternalistic white savior of the jungle while the American soldier, politician, and journalist George Washington Williams-an impressive historical figure shoehorned into the film as Tarzan’s sidekick-represents another old stereotype: the cowering black man offering the white hero comic relief and words of wisdom. Indeed, the tale of the man raised by apes, tamed by love, and civilized by society has been told ad nauseam, though usually not well-which leaves room for David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter movies, to make a strong case for reinvention. Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to portray Tarzan, in three silent films, as a kind of eroticized white native in a headband later Johnny Weissmuller, who donned Tarzan’s loincloth in 12 films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, made chiseled abs, white-god status over African tribes, and the undulating “Tarzan yell” part of the character’s cinematic signature. Tarzan is one of the most widely known and frequently iterated characters in modern media history, having been the subject of more than 30 books, 50 films, and various other entertainments since his creation, by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, over a century ago.
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