Word: tarzanitis
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...otherworldly about these frames. They evoke the hyper-realist, pop illustration style of Maxfield Parrish and the uneasy, richly detailed backgrounds of da Vinci, yet they are photographs, with the texture and versimilitude that implies. Like shots of the long climb up the "escarpment" in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan pictures from the same period, they immediately summon the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. This is fantasy on a grand scale...
There are remnants of family left: a sister living in England, a stepmother who gave my dad waves of happiness in his final years. The bonds feel closer now, and we all laughed hysterically poring through his massive, pack-rat's collection of videotapes. (Tarzan's New York Adventure? Drums of Fu Manchu? Dad, please!) But walking through the house is no longer nostalgic. There's an aching feeling that my folks should be in the next room, or pulling up in the driveway. Nothing seems quite right...
...Brian Grazer puts it), wears his hair in a ponytail and absolutely loves apes. He wore his own monkey suits in The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the remakes of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young. He designed the primates in Gorillas in the Mist and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes...
...Tarzan (1999) DCFMGT Production demo lets you follow a scene from sketch to final version; plus recording sessions with neo-heartthrobs 'N Sync flattering ex-heartthrob Phil Collins...
Disney has been making what amounts to the same animated feature for more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and funny sidekick who guides him through adolescent trials to heroic manhood. Typically, these conclude in combat with an older male representing traditional ways...