James is an adventurer, who is trying to find the legendary burial ground of the elephants that is located somewhere near a famed inland sea of Africa. The story of Tarzan, the Ape Man, goes like this: Jane Porter (Derek) goes to Africa to meet his father James (Harris), who she has never met in her life, as he abandoned his family when she was just a baby. They both act far better than the movie really deserves and the same could be said on other actors as well.
And that something is Bo Derek and Richard Harris, who both act, at least when they are together on the screen like they were in some entirely different movie, a movie that isn't even based on the same script the director was making. While it is a movie I felt like turning off at times because of how bad some of the scenes are, it still has something in its core, that makes it interesting.
It has scenes that just flow oddly or feel completely misplaced, just as the "humorous" use of the famous Jhonny Weissmuller Tarzan yodle throughout the movie, starting from the MGM studio logo.īut still, despite the less than stellar direction and editing and the mixed up script, or perhaps just because of them, this bad movie manages to be intriguing. It fails in even the simplest thing of presenting a scenery as magnificent by using too tightly framed shots and confuses messy slow-motion layered shots as an exciting way of showing action scenes.
This confusion carries over to how the movie presents itself visually.
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