![]() ![]() Because, I guess the best to whet your audience’s appetite for some nubile Bo Derek flesh is to show Richard Harris hanging brain. He greets the arrival of the tramp steamer carrying Jane by doing a jig on the river bank wearing only boots and a nightshirt. I mean, like, break out the butterfly nets and the rubber room nuts. Jane finds dad set up on a river bank with his expedition, and he is absolutely nuts. Jane has ventured in darkest Africa in search of her father, James Parker (a possibly-unhinged Richard Harris), a world-famous explorer and adventurer. In this version, Jane (she of “Me Tarzan, you Jane” fame) is played by the aforementioned Bo Derek. The story of Tarzan the Ape Man is really nothing new: girl meets boy raised by monkeys, boy…no, that’s basically it. And with that, let us dive into 1981’s Tarzan the Ape Man. That moment when we, as a society, went from “We’re in the midst of a bad recession and gas shortage, so let’s smoke some pot and have an orgy,” to “Yay! Reagan said that it’s morning in America! Let’s all do coke and have an orgy!” Because, gentle reader only that era of innocence could bring us a big-budget Tarzan movie that basically serves as nudity-delivery vehicle for Bo Derek. When the decade still had a contact high from the ‘70s-still batshit crazy, but less violent and despondent. And when I say that, I mean the pre-blockbuster days of the early-‘80s.
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