Did they ever say 'Tarzan' in the movie?
Hey,
I caught this on AMC the other day. Did I miss something, or was the name "Tarzan" never uttered during this movie?
If it's not, that seems like a good item for the trivia section.
No I don't think that they did. Good catch
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I believe when it was last aired in sweden it was known solely as Greystoke.
sharethey just tacked tarzan onto the title so people would know what it's about and go see it
shareWell, I'd also assume that is was named thus because that was the title of the book it was based on; Remember ?
I've....seen things you people wouldn't believe; Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
Your assumption is incorrect. The book Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote was simply called "Tarzan of the Apes" a much shorter (and better) title.
shareI believe they took this title to make it seem different from the not so serious early tarzan movies. But thats just a theory.
shareI noticed that the first time i saw it too. When you think about, why would they say the name "Tarzan" in the movie? The apes don't talk, and how would the people know it? That was his ape name that Kala gave him (means "White Skin"). I haven't read the whole book, so maybe John does mention his "Tarzan" name somewhere and people refer him to it, but i can't think on how he could translate it to human tongue? Animal language is not really like that at all. It really was set on being more possible in our world, which is one of the reasons Jane doesn't return with him in the jungle.
shareYeah weird. They should've at least had the natives give him that name.
shareNah...the name was from the apes. There would be no reason for anyone else to say it. It's pretty much a given. Tarzan wouldn't know how to bring it human understanding. Like how it was so hard for him to grasp the concept of past and future, not to mention family. Only near the end did he finally understand the concept of names (like when he wept over the shot ape from the museum..."People bad! He was my father!"...or later when he's riding the cart around screaming it all out).
shareIn the book, Tarzan actually wrote his name on a note that he tacked to the door of his parent's cabin that Lord Graystoke built during the first year they were marooned in Africa. This was to warn off the first group of "white" people he had ever seen. This group included a bunch of mutineers, along with his cousin Cecil Clayton, Jane Porter, her father professor Porter and his secretary Mr. Philander. Tarzan had discovered the cabin and all the wonderful things inside when he was just an adolescent. He taught himself to read in English from the picture books and gramer books his parents had brought with them from England; however, he couldn't speak a word of English. Rather an interesting concept. Since I haven't finished reading the book yet, I don't know if he ever verbalized his name to the "white" party.
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