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What A Cartoon Movie! - Tarzan (Patreon)

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2024-08-26 04:00:04
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We end our Summer of the Disney Renaissance with the film that most mark as the finale to that era, 1999's adaptation of Tarzan. A big box office success that redefined Edgar Rice Burrough's character for a new century, we dig into the questionable colonial roots of the story as well as how Disney adapted it into a surprisingly mature tale of two worlds/one family. Learn how this Oscar-winning soundtrack came together with breathtaking character animation and groundbreaking background art for a tale that holds up better than just about any other version of the loin cloth-wearing adventurer.

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Joe Binson

Thanks Boys!

Tricia

As someone that saw this movie as a four year old, the violence didn’t really register with me until I was older, I even missed Clayton’s hung silhouette my first few watches; however things like the town’s cruelty toward Quasimodo did get a negative reaction from me and I couldn’t finish Hunchback when I was a little kid

Blake R.

an interesting factoid about the animated series is that they did the 'character meets the author who created them' episode where Edgar Rice Burroughs comes to the jungle and hangs out with Tarzan. but the more i've learned about him now, i'm surprised he wasn't measuring Tarzan's skull for phrenology

nina matsumoto

Commenting early to say agreed with Bob on Andie MacDowell being a terrible actor; I don't think it's a hot take. Why was she cast so much in the 90's?? Love Minnie Driver though

Giovanni

The Trashing The Camp bop I've heard a lot whenever PBS Kids is on commercial saying what's coming up next

Tyler the Destroyer

Did anybody else have the either McDonald’s or Burger King straw with Tarzan’s face halfway down when you inhale to drink from it it makes the Tarzan roar ?? I drove my parents crazy with that

Harry Thornton

For a unique corner of Tarzan's cultural influence: In 1972, author and Tarzan fan Philip Jose Farmer wrote out a fictional biography called Tarzan Alive, which treats the character as if he was a real person, and the book series as a "real" history. If it was just that I wouldn't bring it up, but there's one section in particular that got a lot of attention: Farmer suggests that Tarzan was actually part of a massive family tree which many other characters from the same literary era (Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Phileas Fogg, Bulldog Drummond, James Bond, even Leopold Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysses) also belong to. Farmer theorized them as all having ancestors who were exposed to radiation from the Wold Newton meteor of 1795 (which was a real event) and from that their descendants gained superhuman abilities. It's a pre-internet example of a fan theory, and many have tried expanding the family tree out even further. The most prominent example is Alan Moore's own literary crossover series, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which he admitted was influenced by Farmer's work.

Ryan O'Reilly

The Toy Story Zoetrope was originally on display at the Animation pavilion at Disney’s California Adventure, and moved to the Academy Museum a few years back

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I was going to comment that while Matt & Trey's hatred of Phil Collins just because they lost an award to him is ridiculous (especially since they view themselves as 'punk rock' guys so why does an Oscar matter to them), but I don't really care because he's a conservative prick. But I looked into it, and apparently he is NOT a conservative party supporter and seems to have a decent head on his shoulders, or at least shuts up about his shitty views, which is more than I can say for the still incredibly transphobic South Park guys. For what it's worth, I do think his Tarzan music is better than Blame Canada.

Harry Boucher

Always nice to hear a bit of Brian Blessed love. As a father of two young children I hear his voice quite often, playing the role of Grampy Rabbit in Peppa Pig (what has my life become?) There are several episodes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DznXQYPJ1oQ for example) in which he uses his ‘Tarzan call’ so I guess this is just a party trick he’s happy to crack out, for the right price, nowadays. I also agree that Collins’ soundtrack, for all its charm, sounds at least a decade out of date. Maybe it was the Disney execs’ revenge for not getting ABBA, 15 years past their prime, for The Lion King.

Marcel Hoang

I see me and my friends subscribe to the original author’s strategy of explaining problems by responding with “Hey, shut up.”

nina matsumoto

Grammar nerding it up to say Henry didn't need to correct himself -- "hanged" is the correct past tense when it's a person being killed in that manner, not "hung" (which is reserved for inanimate objects) I learned this from a RLM video where Mike gets very annoyed by Jean-Luc Picard saying "hung" when talking about a suicide (because an intellectual like Picard shouldn't get it wrong)

Harry Boucher
>>147760132

Yep! I was taught at school that a person is ‘hanged’ but a picture is ‘hung’. It was a fun lesson.

N Rose

Another nice podcast — and now I know why the Tarzan books were never on any of my reading lists in school... Tarzan was the only renaissance-era Disney film I had never seen before now, and unfortunately I can't say I really cared for it. The animation was top-notch stuff for sure, but the story didn't really win me over. The dialogue in general felt very... TV show level, rather than theatrical film level? If that makes sense. And while I'm okay with Phil Collins, I didn't think the songs fit well here and they pulled me straight out of the film every time one played. I also found the side characters annoying, and the villain unmemorable. Still though, that animation. Just jaw-dropping. Guess I need to finally watch Treasure Planet to see that unique 2D/3D art style blend taken even a step further. (Or perhaps I'll just wait until next summer, if that's on next year's docket?)

yethen

I was born in 2000, and my older sister (age 4) wanted to name me Tarzan and refused to address me by any other name til I was about 4. I think it’s cuz i have brown hair and was a baby. So this film always will be connected to my sister

Eric Schuman

there was ever so slightly more tarzan representation at the theme parks beyond disneyland. while walt disney world's magic kingdom kept (and still have) the swiss family robinson theming to their treehouse in adventureland, there was a stage show at animal kingdom called 'tarzan rocks!' that leaned very hard into the extreme sports angle. it closed in 2006 but a similar show opened in shanghai disneyland a decade later. a pilot for a live action tv series starring the lead actor of the animal kingdom show was produced but the series was never picked up. there was also a scene in disney-mgm studios' great movie ride that recreated a scene from the johnny weissmuller/maureen o'sullivan tarzan films.

Joe Hodgson

The Phil Collins soundtrack isn't odd for a Disney film, but it is unusual that he sings all of the songs in the film. I go back to The Lion King where we had a bunch of Elton John songs, but he wasn't in the actual film. I think they're okay though and I have no real love or hatred of Collins. He was just a guy I saw on MTV a lot in the 80s. I think the melodies are nice, but agree that some of the lyrics come across as way too literal, but I don't know who is to blame there. I've never really contemplated what constitutes the end of the Disney Renaissance before. I have no idea what the general consensus is either. I always viewed Oliver & Company as the unofficial start since it establishes the format of the films to follow, just without the success both critically and financially. I had aged out of Disney films well before Tarzan, but since it arrived in '99 it feels like a natural endpoint. The only other endpoint for me would be Lilo & Stitch which felt like the only film after Tarzan to match the success of the Renaissance era films and what followed was mostly not good until Tangled.

Chris Dobson
>>147650511

She was a tall model with an accent, that's pretty much it. Still works for Gal Gadot today!

Joshua Marchant

In animation college there was a long-standing drawing exercise where we would take an existing character and pose them in a manner that contrasts their personality. The example we were shown, as it was blown up and pasted on the wall, was a *perfect* drawing of Goofy posed as Tarzan (which I’m only just now connecting are both lead characters in Kevin Lima movies). I wish I’d taken a photo of it or at least learned the name of the artist.

YancySr

Tarzan was the first dvd I ever saw. My 8 year old mind just could not comprehend how a dvd menu worked. My flabbers were well and truly gasted.

kazoo

speaking on kingdom hearts, the first game is the only one that Tarzan's level appears in. it's the only level that doesn't come back in chain of memories on the DS because of copyright issues I think.

TonyK

bob should read lair of the white worm by bram stoker

Andrew

Toy wise I remember I had a Tarzan figure that could zipline with an included plastic green vine. I want to say I had a sabor figure too which came with an nondescript raw meat with bones in it and I always joked to my mom that it was the baby gorilla because she hated that

YancySr

Heartbreaking fact about mythbusters. Adam & Jamie were never really friends.

YancySr

Sorry to Yap on. But in the UK Brian Blessed is known as something as a bullshitter. I think the one used in the film isn’t him. The voice tone is just different

Kaz Nosu Gref

Margot was pretty much in demand in 2016.

Kaz Nosu Gref

These songs just make me want to cry.

Kaz Nosu Gref

Why is Rosie O so hated in America?

Kaz Nosu Gref

Bob your constant nit picking over details and consistencies always make me laugh; remember, it's a cartoon, with talking animals. What does it matter how the Elephants know of their location and other continents? 😆