Second Legend of Tarzan Trailer, Theatrical Poster Released

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• I must say that I ADORE the tag line “Human. Nature.”, it’s smart, and so perfectly Burroughs. You can read it as “Human nature”, but the punctuation also indicates that those two words aren’t necessarily meant to be associated, and are even perhaps contradictory. That was all Burroughs’ purpose, to explore the links between those two words. Perfect.

• I’m getting pretty excited. This looks promising. Of course the movie itself might not deliver, but so far things are looking fairly good.

  It even looks as if those apes are supposed to be the Mangani, not some real great apes like gorillas. But that is also one of the things which seems to be raising complaints about the trailers, they look like gorillas so people not familiar with the novels are assuming they are supposed to be gorillas, but they do not behave like gorillas. I wonder if that gets cleared in the movie? There have been comments on the IMDb forum that while they are actually the Mangani in the movie (from somebody who claims to have seen one of the test screenings) that name does not get mentioned in the film.

  That lion scene is interesting, and one of the more scary bits for me. Did he have a pet lion, like Jad-Bal-Ja, in the movie universe, and those lions are familiar with him from before, or is he supposed to be able to connect to all the wild animals like many of the newer movie versions do, and which is not a talent the original novel version had? I rather hope for something like the pet lion version. Ten years would be possible, if barely, lions can live over it in the wild, and the human raised ones do seem to be able to remember their humans for fairly long times. Would be, perhaps, sort of believable that if the top male or female of a smallish lion pride is his former pet then all in the pride would accept him after it does. Well, at least I’m getting the impression that the gnu or whatever stampede is not a voluntary one by the gnus, it does kind of look like he might be driving them with the lions, maybe. Although the idea of using lions like sheepdogs is a bit weird too. 🙂

• Yes, that struck me too. Possibly they noticed the confusion from the trailer regrading the timeline and decided to show a more straightforward look at it. They began with scenes of the origin story then went to Greystoke and showed those scenes with the voice override (
  I think it wasJohn Hurt,who plays Jsne’s father) telling Tarzan he had to ho back to the Congo even though he didn’t want to. Then they moved bto the Congo and showed us Tarzan nuzzling the lioness ( a welcome back for Tarzan) followed by scenes with the apes and Jane’s being taken prisoner etc. it was more linear,with what looked like occasional flashbacks ( the hand patting the elephant trunk looked like young Tarzan’s hand) and the fight with the ape( I think it’s Kerchak) where Tarzan is wearing what looks to be a loincloth with his hair longer seem to be flashbacks.

  This more sequential alignment seemed to have cleared up some of the previous confusion,at least for those who paid attention. There are still those who think this is a live action version of the Disny film and are critizing it for the changes like the apes killing Tarzan’s father and the apes being in the tree house when Kayla takes baby Tarzan. Some even think Disney made this film.

  Some think there will be a lot of the origin story in the movie, a lot on him as Lord Greystoke and then a lot on his return to the jungle imagining it as either a super long film or one that is rushed to jam everything into it.So basically the trailer exchanged one set of problems ,a confused timeline for another ,it’s trying to cover too much ground. They didn’t realize the origin parts would be in brief highlights seen as flashbacks, nor that Tarzan’s time at Greystoke woukd only be long enough to establish his cultivated veneer , reluctance to return to the Congo and rationale for going. Most of the movie takes place in the Congo but some didn’t get that.

• It’s still a “teaser” in that sense…..also — I think it’s pretty strange that they are selling the story as the “reverse” ….. yet spend the first 56 seconds of the trailer on the origins backstory . . . . . . I haven’t heard anyone complain about that or even mention it, but it was the first thing that struck me.

• Yes, it does look great. Just wondering why the marketing group decided not chose any clips with Tarzan talking yet? Any ideas?

• WOW this looks great …..

• The cinematography looks great.