Unlike previous cinematic Tarzans, the Disney version really does perform like an ape-man, swinging through the trees, as well as "surfing" down tree branches, with relative ease. (Both men were in town recently to promote the new film, which opened in theaters nationwide on Friday.) "And it would be impossible for any actor to be able to do that. "We had to have a Tarzan who actually behaved like an ape, yet looked like a man," animator Glen Keane elaborated. "We wanted to make a 'Tarzan' that no one had seen before - one that was more like the character as he was originally written, which certainly couldn't be done in a live-action movie," said Chris Buck, co-director of Disney's new animated "Tarzan" feature. So why on Earth would anyone want to do another one?Actually, the fact that so many big-screen Tarzans have failed probably just invigorated the creative geniuses at Walt Disney Pictures' animation house, who have defiantly responded "Why not?" to that question. More than a few of the motion pictures featuring Burroughs' man-ape character have been awful (most recent examples include 1981's "Tarzan the Ape Man" or 1998's "Tarzan and the Lost City"). It must approximate Disney excellence." - Edgar Rice Burroughs, writing about the possibility of an animated Tarzan movie in 1936.
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