Parker who raises his fists to the sun and bellows, "Why did you do that?! WHY?!" On the page, it sounds like tragedy instead, it's one of the funniest moments in the film. Suddenly, one of the ropes breaks and a porter falls to his death. Frequent cutaways to the ropes show them growing frayed by the constant tension. In another sequence, there are shots of the expedition climbing across a steep mountain using ropes. Unfortunately, the film's director was married to Jane and he shot this sequence for maximum titillation. On paper, this could be a disturbing scene. While Jane sobs and descends into hysterics, her father rants inanely. Near the end, Jane is tied up, washed and painted by the painted people. Supposedly this film had former Tarzan star Jock Mahoney as its stunt coordinator it's hard to imagine what he did all day on set when he was supposed to be preparing stunts. Shots of Tarzan swinging on vines are similarly done in slow-motion. Although the fight goes on for about 3 minutes, that's only because the entire scene is shot in slow motion, just in case the viewer mistakenly found themselves getting excited.
Tarzan does rescue the expedition by battling the painted chief. No action scene required, just the same scene transition you'd expect from a prime time sitcom. there's a spin cut and the fight is over, the expedition has lost. When they first attack the expedition, we see them chasing Jane and then. Second, we have the battle with the painted people at the climax. This thrilling sequence is shot as a series of slow-motion close-ups and fadeaways, making it impossible to see what's going on the snake isn't really defeated, the sequence simply ends so another scene can begin. In the first, a snake attacks Jane and Tarzan leaps to her rescue, wrestling the snake off her body.
This film makes so many baffling decisions I hardly know where to begin how about the action scenes? Yes, both of them. Am I forgetting anything? Oh yes, Tarzan is also in this picture. The party falls prey to certain pitfalls during the trip, none greater than a tribe of body-painted people who kidnap women. Learning her father is about to undertake an expedition into a region of Africa never before seen by white men, Jane determines to accompany the group to prove she's as beautiful, intelligent and courageous as every character in the film claims her to be. Tarzan the Ape Man tells the tale of Jane Parker, a young woman who journeys to Africa to find her long-absent father. I had heard the resulting movie was pretty bad yesterday I watched it and. It's amidst this backdrop that 1981's Tarzan the Ape Man came to be I can only assume producer-star Bo Derek and her director-husband John Derek selected Tarzan as the actress' next vehicle because they felt there was money to be made from exploiting the supposed nostalgia wave.
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