Again, we are reminded of how Gaston also takes advantage of a widowed father and his lovely daughter. For some reason, this has never occurred to the Porters. Clayton wishes to capture, cage, and sell them to whoever wants them. We all know that Tarzan has not survived all this time in the kill-or-be-killed jungle by being slow-witted!Įventually, he relents (thanks to the charms of Jane) and then Clayton reveals the true reason for his interest in gorillas. Of all the Gorillas in this movie, this one looks the most like King KongĬlayton tries to change Tarzan’s mind by treating him like a retarded child – he keeps drawing pictures of gorillas, pointing at Tarzan, and then pointing at the drawing. Tarzan is reluctant to do this because Kerchak, the gorilla family patriarch, has forbidden such intercourse. Oh yeah, I bet gorillas really LOVE that noise and will just come RUNNING to meet them! All they get instead is man who thinks he’s an ape (and if Darwin’s correct, he is!)ĭ.Having met and made friends with Tarzan, the explorers realize the only way to make contact with the gorillas is to persuade their new acquaintance to take them to his home. Clayton is also in search of gorillas… but he turns out to be terrible at finding them! When we first meet him, he is firing off his rifle haphazardly through the jungle (like Gaston, he is a hunter). The latter two are in search of gorillas to study. Tarzan unintentionally puts him in his place by attempting to mimic him.Ĭ.Clayton is an Englishman employed by Professor Porter and his daughter Jane as a guide through the African jungle.
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Clayton even tries to teach Tarzan how to look and move like a man. ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a %$%$%$%$%$WREī.They are both masculinity personified. I read that the character designers wanted to give him a Clark Gable-look (back in the day, EVERY man wanted to look like Clark Gable and EVERY woman wanted to have Clark Gable). Except in his case, he’s a trifle more successful than the hapless Bradley.Ī.Clayton, like Gaston, has an enviable physique. Two years before ‘Tarzan,’ audiences were shouting “Watch out for that tree!” to George, George, George of the Jungle, strong as he can be (with a lovable Brendan Fraser)! Everything sacred the Tarzan franchise might have had went up in flames of laughter!ĥ.‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Tarzan’s non-animal nemesis, Clayton, like Bradley Uppercrust III (if you’ll remember, I gave him the LOWEST Disney villain rating), is trying to be Gaston.But having learned better he must, like Quasimodo decide what kind of man he is – “What makes a monster and what makes a man, sing the Bells of Notre Dame?” ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame.’ Tarzan grows up believing he is a deformed ape because most of the other gorillas treat him like that.‘Pocahantas.’ We have an informative though deadly interracial culture clash.In ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the novel on which the film is based, Sabor was… a LIONESS! Uh oh! Can’t use that! Moreover, at the end of the film, when he is left in charge of his gorilla family, he lets out his classic Tarzan yell, which, alas, reminds us of Simba roaring atop Pride Rock, announcing his accession as ‘The Lion King.’ This is a jungle story and the filmmakers here tread very carefully to ensure they do not use too many animals for characters that were used in ‘LK.’ One of Tarzan’s earlier adversaries is Sabor the Leopard. Like ‘The Lion King,’ the story of Tarzan takes place in Africa – albeit in a different part of Africa.I mean, it’s basically a re-hashing all sorts of elements and themes found in other Disney films not even ten years old! Watching ‘Tarzan’ for the first time in years, it occurred to me how fantastic it is that this film works at all.