Why Tarzan?
Anybody know why the movie/book calls him that if it wasn't his name?
"I fulfilled a lot of people's predictions about me. I've become a real scumbag."
Danny Vermin
[deleted]
[deleted]
[deleted]
The movie.
"I fulfilled a lot of people's predictions about me. I've become a real scumbag."
Danny Vermin
[deleted]
Because that's what his gorilla mother named him. In the book the gorillas had a language and could communicate fairly well. I'm a little suprised you couldn't figure that out.
And don't say the movie didn't explain that because you asked for information from the book as well. I'm a little suprised you couldn't figure that out.
[deleted]
I guess it was difficult to figure out because:
A. I don't speak Gorilla.
B. Gorillas don't speak English.
F u*kin idiot.
"I fulfilled a lot of people's predictions about me. I've become a real scumbag."
Danny Vermin
lol
shareObviously you don't speak Gorilla because you're a bear, RockytheBear. But how is it that a bear speaks English?
shareTarzan is the name given to him by his ape(not gorilla) mother Kala. It means white ape. This is explained in the ERB novels. I too would like to know how it comes to pass that a bear speaks English! lol
Cheers,
Carcuss.
You talkin' to me?
Exactly, TAR meant white in the books, though I thought "ape" was Mangani, which was also why he was called Tarmangani or white ape...
When Tarzan first encounters cannibalistic natives in the first book, he calls them GoMangani, or black ape.
Not sure where the ZAN part fit in then...
This movie followed the book pretty well in the jungle sequences, it took on a complete life of it's own once Greystoke entered civilization...
Tarzan means "white skin", according to Edgar Rice Burroughs's explanation of ape language.
share