#disney's tarzan

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

I love when Disney gives the same animal species different fur colors

#love that #it's the little things #disney #the lion king #the lion guard #disney's tarzan #brother bear #screenshot

[artist-ellen]

Modern Jane Porter

I wanted her to be a little bit academia/professor chic with some adventurer vibes. I think she is a zoologist major, or maybe a biology major. On the weekends she hangs out at skateparks with her sk8er boi (XD I'm sooo not funny but I can't reel it in).

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[moveslikeanape]

Happy Valentine's Day!

I've cleaned up/recreated some of the old Tarzan Valentine's cards. Feel free to save them and send them to your friends!

#disney's tarzan #character: tarzan #adult tarzan #character: jane #jane: yellow dress #character: terk #character: tantor #jungle fun #jungle fun: valentines #tarzan 25th anniversary

[spiderdreamer-blog]

Tarzan (1999)

It's hard to define sometimes where the end of the Disney Renaissance period from the late 80s through the 90s is. After the release of The Lion King, the 2D animated features steadily made less money and critical acclaim became more mixed. There was a sea change occurring thanks to more competition from companies like DreamWorks and Warner Bros., as well as the advent of the computer. For me, the dividing line is 1999's Tarzan, mostly because it's after this point that we get to what I and others call the 2000-2004 "experimental" age with films like The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo & Stitch, and Treasure Planet. But Tarzan has much in common with those films, representing a step away from the Broadway musical traditions and into a new, intriguing arena of animation storytelling. It's genuinely one of my favorite Disney films to revisit, and I hope this review helps explain why.

The story takes Edgar Rice Burroughs' initial novel Tarzan of the Apes as a guideline more than an actual adaptation, namely ditching concerns about nobility wealth inheritance and unflattering black African caricatures (the spinoff TV series would deal with the latter in trying to be, uh, less problematic about such). We pick up with Ye Olde Dramatically Convenient Boat Wreckage in a truly commanding opening sequence set to Phil Collins' anthemic Two Worlds. Tarzan's unnamed parents land in Africa and are put in parallel to gorillas Kala (Glenn Close, at the time coming off a very different performance for Disney as live action Cruella De Vil) and Kerchak (Lance Henriksen). Tragedy strikes for both families, and where one loses his parents, another gains a son. But Tarzan (Alex D. Linz as a child, Tony Goldwyn as an adult) grows up knowing he is "different", desperate to prove himself as an ape and belong. He seems to find an equilibrium, becoming best friends with Terk (Rosie O'Donnell) and Tantor (Wayne Knight at his most nebbishy), and even managing to vanquish Sabor, but then strangers arrive. Strangers who look like him, in the form of British scientist Archimedes Porter (Nigel Hawthorne), his daughter Jane (Minnie Driver), and their guide Clayton (BRIAN BLESSED). Now things steadily grow more complicated as Tarzan wishes to learn all he can about these outsiders and himself, but what might it cost?

One of the first, most notable things about the film to me is its complexity in the writing and characterization. Looking back, the Renaissance can have a problem in terms of male leads being love interests who don't get as much focus or slightly bland focus-tested "likable". This isn't true for ALL of them; the Beast has many layers to his personality, while Simba and Quasimodo are great, imo, because they have more baggage tying them down and thus more to rise above for true heroism. Nor does it make most of them bad characters. But it was notable enough, as was the tendency for them to be overshadowed by the villains or sidekicks, for co-directors Kevin Lima/Chris Buck and writers Tab Murphy/Bob Tzudiker/Noni White to slightly...course-correct.

Ergo, Tarzan himself is very much the main focus here. There's only one major sequence that he's not really involved with, and even when he's not onscreen, the other characters are as intrigued by his contradictions as the audience. (Insert your own Poochie jokes here, though obviously it doesn't come CLOSE to that) We truly feel his anxiety about fitting in, and the lengths he goes to are intensely relatable even at their most self-damning.

The other characters, too, feel richer and more lived-in than many of the standard types. Kala is a mother figure, one who tries to make Tarzan feel like he belongs, but is deeply scared of losing him. Kerchak is possibly my favorite character in the film because of how much you have to read into his actions because he holds so much back emotionally until the very end. Even then, he comes off as a more realistic harsh father figure than a caricature, and we can always understand where he's coming from. Jane is one of the best Disney love interests, meanwhile, feeling like a modern romantic comedy heroine with a lot of drive and initiative, as well as being just genuinely nerdy, which you don't often see even today. Clayton manages a nice two-step of seeming like an obvious bad guy but playing things down the middle until he gets what he wants. Even the comic relief gets good moments, such as Professor Porter gently supporting the romance or Tantor standing up for himself at a critical juncture.

Of course, what helps here is that said characters have some of the most beautiful environments and animation backing them up in Disney history. The African jungle is depicting as a kind of painterly, hyper-real fantasy, with impossible tree shapes and vines that bloom in the sunlight. And the then-revolutionary Deep Canvas CGI process allows Tarzan to soar through them, the camera spinning and rotating with each movement. The design sensibility is "classical" Disney to a large degree, but with slightly longer faces or larger eyes to add expressiveness. The California, Parisian, and Florida animation teams all clearly busted their asses to make this come to life. And Glen Keane's work with the Paris studio on Tarzan might be the best of his legendary career in terms of the variety of movements and subtleties in expressions. So too goes the rest of the supervising animators: Ken Duncan makes Jane truly lovable and wholly distinct from the likes of his Meg or Amelia; Randy Haycock gives Clayton a macho swagger that feels entirely his own rather than feeling like a Gaston ripoff; Bruce Smith combines remarkable anatomy work and microexpressions with Kerchak; Russ Edmonds' Kala is warm and motherly while never letting you entirely forget she's a gorilla; Dave Burgess makes Porter funny with his slightly squat, short shapes; and Mike Surrey and Sergio Pablos make for an excellent duo on Terk and Tantor in terms of contrasting their size, as well as the latter giving nervous-nelly body language to such a huge character. That's harder than it looks.

The aural end is just as good. Much hay and memery has been made of Phil Collins going ridiculously hard on the storytelling songs, which I fully support. But it really is true that they add so much here and take the burden off the characters in terms of singing save for the improvisational scat number "Trashin' The Camp". I'm partial to "Strangers Like Me" in terms of the earnest yearning and connections that Tarzan makes over the course of it. And of course the various versions of "Two Worlds" are essentially the mission statement of the film, complete with absolutely bitchin' percussion. Mark Mancina's accompanying score is also excellent, sounding like a fusion between The Lion King (which he produced/arranged for both the film and Broadway show) and his action movie work on projects like Speed or Bad Boys. Particularly great is the cue that plays when Tarzan defeats Sabor and builds up to his classic yell, which milks the heroic triumph for all its worth.

The voice cast is also excellent top to bottom. Goldwyn has a deeper timbre than many Disney male leads, less of an ingenue, and this adds to the stormier emotions; we truly feel his pain on lines like "Why didn't you tell me there were creatures that look like me?" But he's not TOO grim, thankfully, and gets some good subtly funny moments such as sounding out monkey noises in a conversation that Jane only hears one half of. Close is properly maternal, of course, getting her best showings in emotional one-on-ones with both Linz and Goldwyn as they hash out their relationship. Henriksen, like the animation, wisely underplays Kerchak and lets the emotion come out through his gruff, gravel-pit voice rather than obviously signaling things. Driver is hilarious and winning as Jane, getting some of the best laughs and most sweetly tender bits of the proceedings. It's all the more impressive when you consider she played Lady Eboshi in the Princess Mononoke dub the same year, which is the utter opposite of this performance. BRIAN BLESSED doesn't do a lot of his patented BRIAN BLESSED yelling outside of some choice bits at the end, but he makes a meal of Clayton regardless as a charismatic asshole, and I like how he plays a climactic bit of manipulation in particular. Hawthorne gets a much better showing here than his previous Disney voice role as Fflewddur Flam in The Black Cauldron, daffily sweet and humorous in equal measure, while O'Donnell and Knight are familiar vocally but use that to inform their characterizations rather than distract.

I think what I like most about this movie is that it feels incredibly well-rounded. Some Disney movies from this period might have a great villain or sidekicks but a weaker protagonist in Hercules or strong protagonists/villains but a weaker supporting cast as in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (Then you have Pocahontas, which sucks on ALL ends!) In Tarzan, everything feels of a piece, and nobody jars against the tone or mood. Combine that with the dizzying highs of the animation and truly excellent emotional beats, and you've got a real winner that stands the test of time in my eyes.

#disney animated canon #tarzan #disney's tarzan #reviews #analysis

[blogthebooklover]

Happy Belated Earth Day! 🌎 🌱🌳

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Here is Mae & Noa from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, recreating the Tarzan & Jane scene! 😂❤️😍

This is my first time drawing Mae, and either my third or fourth time drawing Noa. This is possibly one of the hardest pieces I've worked on, so far.

The polls are in, I will be posting fan art from time to time! I work with traditional art, preferably mixed media. I would like to do digital art as soon as I have a proper laptop or tablet. I was very hesitant about sharing my art on this site. I am still learning and practicing how to do shading and lighting, especially with colored pencils.

#planet of the apes #kingdom of the planet of the apes #fan art #pota fanart #fanart #mae #noa #pota mae #pota noa #tarzan #tarzan 1999 #disney #disney's tarzan #mixed media #colored pencils #now i see why hands are the hardest to draw #and so many fucking leaves!!!! #i did some editing on my phone to make the colors pop like irl #traditional art #my art

[tychodorian]

Jane is done!

For those of you new here, I have a series going called Dungeons & Disney where I take your favorite Disney characters and put them into D&D. We did Aurora so far, and now here's Jane!

You can read a little bit about her on her sheet, but we decided on a jungle Ranger for her class! I couldn't find her birthday (unlike Aurora, which is sad), but otherwise everything else about her is Disney canon!

I'm in love with her little safari outfit and I also gave her a little bit of a tan (I figured living in the jungle would have done something for her at some point).

Let me know what you think! If you want to see the other D&Disney characters...

Current Dungeons & Disney Characters:

Disney Princesses:

Aurora

#trans artist #trans artwork #art #digital art #fan art #fanart #disney #disney movies #disney animation #disney fanart #jane porter #disney's tarzan #tarzan #dungeons and dragons #dnd art #dnd #dnd character #dungeons and dragons art #dungeons and drawings

[dorovalley]

#tarzan and jane #fanart #disneys tarzan #jane porter #disney #genderbend #disney genderswap #genderswap #rule 63 #disney genderbend #disney's tarzan

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

The Tarzan soundtrack had no right to be THAT fire.

#disney #disney's tarzan #soundtrack #txt #phil collins ate and left no crumbs whatsoever #you know something's that good when i use stan twitter/gay lingo

[theanimationalley]

#disney #tarzan #disney's tarzan #disney channel

[rhinowalker]

Tarzan is such a cinematic masterpiece like it always be an absolute hit with the animated film. The most outstanding Disney film ever seen many times. Disney’s Tarzan is my favorite movie of all time since 2000! Very outstanding work on the deep canvas BGs, the soundtracks is comforting to my ears, and the inspiration from Edgar’s novel is gorgeous.

Happy 24th Anniversary to my favorite Disney Movie, Tarzan!

Tarzan belongs to Edgar Rice Burroughs ©️ Walt Disney Pictures

#danielle #danielle rhinoceros #disney's tarzan #tarzan #disney fanart #disney #edgar rice burroughs #tantor #terk

[devileaterjaek]

#sora #kingdom hearts #tarzan #kh #2002 #gaming #disney's tarzan #rpg #jrpg

[gatsby-system-folks]

Watched Disney's Tarzan again and Jane is so autistic. The hyperfixating and the stimmimg and the whole thing with the hands. How she remembers things with her hands! And she barely ever makes eye contact with anybody, except: if it's her dad, Tarzan, or if she's mad.

And how she goes on rants and tangents and doesn't often manage to get an entire sentence out without taking time to make a funny noise or wave her hands around!

And how she doesn't use much of a filter and always just sorta says things! Not rude but just.. open!

And her dad gets it perfectly because he's both seen her grow up and probably is also autistic and knows TM, and Tarzan gets it because those are also animal things (read: how he was raised) and those are the two characters she connects with more than anybody.

And specifically this thing she does! Where she and Tarzan take turns looking directly at each other. While she's looking at him, he's looking at the ground and vice versa, and it switches back and forth every other sentence or so! With split second bits of eye contact to make sure the other is still invested without making them uncomfortable! Which is something me and my autistic friends do!

And they only make extended, direct eye contact when they're touching hands! Grounded, understanding!

There's more! There's more!

She just like me fr

#disney's tarzan #tarzan #jane porter #jane porter tarzan #character analysis #jane porter is autistic #making that a tag #~ shermie

[moveslikeanape]

Two Worlds by Steve Thompson for the EPCOT International Festival of the Arts, January 12 – February 19, 2024

#disney's tarzan #steve thompson #art: disney art #character: tarzan #baby tarzan #young tarzan #adult tarzan #character: jane #jane: yellow dress #character: terk #character: tantor #character: kala #character: kerchak #character: professor porter #character: clayton #character: manu

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

So I was looking at Disney fanart and I was wondering if I was the only person being bothered by people drawing the gorillas from Tarzan as humans and making them Black??

I know that it’s just fanart and it’s probably for accuracy, the same way people draw the lions from The Lion King as Black but... I feel like since what makes Tarzan himself is that he is a human who was raised by gorillas so, I think that no matter how unintentional it is, it’s impossible to draw these animal characters as humans without making something racist. Because if you draw them as any other ethnicity, it’s inaccurate, given where they live but if you try to be accurate, then it can’t not be racist.

I'm not black so I'm just gonna post this. But I'm p positive we had something about tarzan fanart some years ago. Lemme try digging it up! Also pls pls no weighing in on this if you're not Black!!!

mod ali

#fhpoc asks #tarzan #Disney's tarzan

[blogthebooklover]

Tarzan: The Broadway Musical Soundtrack - 19. Everything That I Am

@bookishdaze

This is from the Tarzan Broadway soundtrack.

I wish Spotify had this version, I think the song overall is PERFECT for Noa!

#youtube #kingdom of the planet of the apes #planet of the apes #disney on broadway #tarzan #disney's tarzan #tarzan 1999 #tarzan on broadway #phil collins #noa #pota noa #noa pota #owen teague

[n64retro]

Disney's Tarzan (Eurocom, Activision, 2000)

#disney's tarzan #tarzan #nintendo 64 #eurocom #activision