Tarzan (1999) |
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Tarzan Cast |
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Minnie Driver
(as Jane Porter)
with Tony Goldwyn
(as Tarzan)
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Tarzan (1999) was nominated for the following awards:
Academy AwardsGolden GlobesYoung Artist Awards
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Young Artist Award
2000 Annie Awards
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Annie
1999
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Nominated
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Annie
1999
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production
Nominated
Kids` Choice Awards, USAGrammy Awards
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Grammy
2000 ASCAP Film and Television Music AwardsBMI Film & TV Awards |
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Quotes .. , / . Young Tarzan: I`ll be the best ape ever! Tantor: That sounded like Tarzan. It sounded like - like he was in trouble.
Terk: Yeah? Why doesn`t he get his new friends to help him? I don`t care.
Tantor: That`s it! I`ve had it with you and your emotional constipation! Tarzan needs us, and we`re gonna help him! You got that?
[places Terk on his back]
Tantor: So pipe down, and hold on tight... we`ve got a boat to catch.
[Tantor charges off a cliff and into the ocean]
Tantor: I`ve never felt so alive!
Terk: Good, `cause I`m gonna kill you! Tarzan: No matter where I go, you will always be my mother.
Kala: And you will always be in my heart. Kerchak: You came back.
Tarzan: I came home. [Jane draws Tarzan on the chalkboard]
Professor Porter: Shall I, ahem, leave you and the blackboard alone for a moment? Professor Porter: Oh, Janie Jane! What an amazing discovery! A man with no language, no human behavior...
Jane Porter: And no respect for personal boundaries.
Professor Porter: How do you mean?
Jane Porter: [gets extremely close to Professor Porter] He was this close to me, daddy, just staring at me.
[Goes back to blackboard and finishes drawing of Tarzan]
Jane Porter: He was confused at first, as if he had never seen another human before. His eyes were intense... and focused, and... I`ve never seen eyes like those before.
Professor Porter: Oh. Shall I - ahem - leave you and the blackboard alone for a moment?
Jane Porter: Oh, daddy, stop it. Jane Porter: Oh, Tarzan, you have no idea what`s in store for you. You`re going to see the world, and all kinds of people will want to meet you. Leaders, scientists, writers.
Professor Porter: Yes. Darwin, and Kipling. Queen Victoria.
Jane Porter: I haven`t met her, but I hear she`s awfuly nice.
Professor Porter: Oh, those magnificent creatures, shivering in cages. What is this world coming to?
[He hits his fist on the wall; suddenly the ship shifts to the side, from Tantor getting on board]
Professor Porter: Oh, by Jove. Don`t know my own strength. Clayton: Hiding, are we? Good! I could use a challenge, because after hunting you, gathering up your little ape family will be all too easy! Kala: Close your eyes. Now forget what you see.
Kala: [puts Tarzan`s hand to his chest] What do you feel?
Young Tarzan: My heart.
Kala: [puts Tarzan`s head by her chest] Come here.
Young Tarzan: Your heart.
Kala: See? We`re exactly the same. Jane Porter: I was saved! I was saved by a flying wild man in a loincloth. Clayton: Even if you hadn`t grown up a savage, you`d be lost. There are no trails through a woman`s heart. [after being returned to her camp by Tarzan]
Jane Porter: Daddy, they took my boot! [Terk and Tarzan are wrestling]
Tantor: Whoa! Okay. It`s all fun and games till someone loses an eye. [Tarzan sneaks up behind her to try and scare her]
Kala: Don`t even think about it.
Tarzan: How`d you know it was me?
Kala: I`m your mother. I know everything. Now, where have you been?
Tarzan: I thought you knew everything. Kerchak: I said he could stay. That doesn`t make him my son. Terk: Can you believe that guy? Drops us like a newborn giraffe - kerplop! - then waltzes in and expects us to...
Tarzan: Terk, I`m asking you as a friend.
[Looks at Terk with big, soulful eyes]
Terk: Oh, with the face and the eyes... All right! All right! But you`d better not make me do anything stupid.
[Cut to Terk in Jane`s dress]
Terk: I`m going to kill him! Clayton: If I can teach a parrot to sing "God Save the Queen," I can certainly teach this savage a thing or two. Young Tantor: Mom! Are you sure this water`s sanitary? It looks questionable to me! Terk: What kind of primitive beasts are responsible for this mess? Tantor: Oh, Terk, I`ve never seen him so happy.
Terk: Eh, I give it a week. Tarzan: Tarzan. Tar-zan.
Jane Porter: Tarzan. Oh, I see!
Tarzan: Oh, I see!
Tarzan: [points at himself] Tarzan.
Tarzan: [points at Jane] Oh, I see.
Jane Porter: No, no, no. No.
Jane Porter: [clears throat, points at herself] I`m Jane.
Tarzan: No, no, no. No.
Tarzan: [clears throat, points at himself] I`m Jane.
Jane Porter: No, no.
Jane Porter: [points at herself] Jane.
Jane Porter: [points at Tarzan] Tarzan.
Jane Porter: [points at herself] Jane.
Tarzan: Jane.
Jane Porter: Exactly. Professor Porter: Looks like a man but walks like an ape. He could be the missing link!
Clayton: Or our link to the gorillas. [repeated line]
Clayton: Have we met? Tantor: [Terk is dressed in Jane`s dress to lure Kerchak away] Actually, I thought that dress was rather slimming on you.
Terk: Oh, really? I thought it was a little revealing. Tantor: What`s everybody lookin` at?
Tantor: [sees the camp] Ooh! The horror! It`s gruesome! Hide me!
Terk: Pull yourself together. You`re embarrasing me. These things aren`t alive.
Tantor: I knew that. Professor Porter: [after telling Jane to stay with Tarzan] What am I doing? Captain! Tell them you never found us! After all, people get lost in the jungle all the time!
[jumps out of the boat] Jane Porter: [trying to coax a baby baboon to give her back a drawing] All right, enough of this. I want that paper on the count of three. One, two... Oh, look! Bananas!
[as the baboon looks away, Jane snatches the drawing away]
Jane Porter: Ha ha! I can`t believe you fell for that one!
[the baby baboon starts crying]
Jane Porter: Now, now, don`t give me those crocodile tears. What would your parents have to say?
[suddenly she hears a growl; turns around to face a band of angry baboons]
Jane Porter: See? I told you they`d be cross. Go easy on him, children will be children.
Terk: What kind of animal are you?
Tantor: You know, I`ve been thinking lately that Tarzan may be some sub-species of elephant.
Terk: Are you kidding... What are you talking about?
Tantor: I mean, think about it. He enjoys a peanut, I enjoy a peanut...
Terk: He looks nothing like you! [Tarzan takes Clayton`s gun and aims it at him]
Clayton: Go ahead. Shoot me.
[chuckles]
Clayton: Be a man.
[a shot is heard, but not from the gun; it`s Tarzan mimicking a gunshot]
Tarzan: Not a man like you! Tantor: [as Tarzan is leaving on the boat] Tarzan!
Terk: We`re too late! I can`t believe it! If only you had asked for directions.
Tantor: We didn`t even get to say goodbye.
Terk: Well, good riddance! Who needs you? Go on, get out of here, Bald Boy! You ingrate! You bald ingrate!
[Throws a rock at the water]
Terk: Go out and rot for all I care!
[to Tantor]
Terk: What are you looking at?
Tantor: I`m gonna miss him too. Clayton: Sorry for the rude welcome, but I couldn`t have you making a scene when we put your furry friends in their cages.
Tarzan: Why?
Clayton: Why? For 300 pound sterling a head. Actually, I have you to thank, old boy. Couldn`t have done it without you. Tarzan: Kerchak, forgive me.
Kerchak: No. Forgive me, for not understanding that you have always been one of us. Our family will look to you now.
Tarzan: No. Kerchak.
Kerchak: Take care of them, my son. Take care of them. Ape Boy: Hurry up, Terk!
Mungo: Last one there`s a dung beetle!
Terk: Yeah, first one`s gotta eat it! Young Tantor: [Sees Tarzan swimming] Piranha! It`s a piranha!
Tantor`s Mother: Tantor, there are no piranhas in Africa.
Elephant #1: Don`t tell the kid that. Of course there are piranhas in Africa.
Elephant #2: No, she`s right. They`re native to South America.
Elephant #1: Oh, come on, now.
Elephant #2: You think I would be standing here if they were?
[Meanwhile, Tarzan is trying to get a hair from the first elephant`s tail]
Young Tantor: Look out, he`s right behind you!
Tantor`s Mother: For the last time, honey, there are no piranhas in...
Elephant #1: My butt! Something`s got my butt! Jane Porter: [Tarzan has saved her from the baboons] Put me down! Put me down!
[the baboons approach]
Jane Porter: No, pick me up, pick me up, pick me up! Jane Porter: [Hanging from a tree] It can`t get any worse, can it?
[it starts to rain]
Jane Porter: Obviously, it can. Clayton: Ah, yes. I remember you. I think this one would be better off stuffed. Kerchak: Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them see you and do not seek them out.
Tarzan: They mean us no harm.
Kerchak: Tarzan, I don`t know that.
Tarzan: But I do. I have spent time with them.
Kerchak: You may be willing to risk our safety, but I`m not.
Tarzan: Why are you threatened by anyone different from you?
Kerchak: Protect this family and stay away from them.
[Tarzan sulks away]
Kala: Tarzan, for once listen to Kerchak.
Tarzan: Why didn`t you tell me there were creatures who look like me? Jane Porter: [Describing how Tarzan walks] He bent his elbows out, and he walked like this.
Professor Porter: Oh, I see! Just like aunt Isabel. Jane Porter: And there were gorillas.
Professor Porter, Clayton: Gorillas?
Clayton: You found the gorillas? Where, Jane? Where?
Jane Porter: He left with them.
Professor Porter: Who did? Who?
Jane Porter: Tarzan.
Clayton: Tarzan?
Jane Porter: The ape man. [a gunshot breaks the jungle silence]
Tarzan: What was that?
Tantor: It wasn`t me, I swear. Jane Porter: [after Clayton fires in the air] Mr. Clayton, please. What if it`s a gorilla?
Clayton: It`s no gorilla. Clayton: [Draws a crude gorilla on Jane`s chalkboard and points to it with the chalk] Gorilla.
Tarzan: [Takes the chalk and examines it] Gor-illa.
Professor Porter: [Excited] Oh! Oh! He`s got it!
Tarzan: Gor-illa!
[Proceeds to scribble wildly on the chalkboard]
Tarzan: Gorrrrr-illllla!
Professor Porter: Oh, perhaps not... Young Tantor: Are you sure this water`s sanitary? It looks questionable to me!
[Steps into water, then yanks foot back out]
Tantor`s Mom: It`s fine, honey.
Young Tantor: But, Mom! What about bacteria?
Tantor`s Mom: Tantor, can`t you see Mummy`s talking?
[Mummy meaning Mommy]Trivia k A teapot and set of teacups in the explorers` camp bears a sharp resemblance to Mrs. Potts and her teacup children from Beauty and the Beast (1991). When Tantor sees them, he is scared that they may come to life. Terk responds "Pull yourself together. You`re embarrassing me. These things aren`t alive." In Beauty and the Beast (1991), of course, they are. "Deep Canvas": The brand-new technique created by Disney for use in Tarzan, which allows 2D hand-drawn characters to exist seamlessly in a fully 3D environment.
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# Minnie Driver largely ad-libbed the breathless speech in which Jane tells her father and Clayton about meeting Tarzan for the first time.
When the gorillas pick up Professor Porter and turn him upside-down, a beanbag toy of Little Brother from Disney`s Mulan (1998) falls out of his clothes. In the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, Tarzan was adopted by Apes (ie. chimps as seen in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)) and the only gorilla mentioned was Bolgani the Great, who was an enemy of Tarzan and the troop. Tantor was an old bull elephant disliked by the denizens of the jungle, Sabor was a lioness, and Terkoz (presumably "Terk") was a male ape and Tarzan`s arch nemesis within the troop. Also, Kerchak murdered Tarzan`s family. The producers changed it not only to make him more sympathetic, but also to make it less gruesome for families. The song "Son of Man" sung by Phil Collins talks of Tarzan as the Son of Man. The actor Brian Blessed who does the voice of Clayton, Tarzan`s enemy, played Peter, a disciple and friend of Christ in the TV-movie _Son of Man (1969) (TV)_. Son of Man being Jesus in this case, who first used this expression of himself.
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# During Turk`s musical trashing of the explorer`s camp, two apes mimic the bump-bump step seen in the classic Disney short In the Bag (1956).
The movie went back into the Disney vault on January 31, 2002. Typically, this means the VHS and DVD versions of the movie were pulled from store shelves on this day, and the movie won`t re-appear in either format for 10 years.
When one of the gorillas takes Clayton`s gun to examine it, he holds it up and stares down the barrel, in exactly the same pose as one of the apes at Disneyland`s "Jungle Cruise" attraction. Tarzan has been adapted from its book many times over the years and is second only to Dracula in the adaptation chart. Even though Clayton (first name William in the book) is a villain in the movie, he and Tarzan are actually cousins according to the original story from Burroughs. William being after Tarzan in line of succession and therefore wouldn`t not want him to be alive. This film contains numerous references to the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films (Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), et seq). These include a "Me Tarzan, You Jane" introduction scene, Tarzan wrestling with crocodiles, and Jane`s costume at the end of the film resembles the clothing worn by Maureen O`Sullivan in the Weissmuller series. The boat that Clayton and his team use to get from the freighter ship to the jungle when they are going to hunt the gorillas is the same type of boat used in the "Jungle Cruise" rides in Disney`s theme parks. To see how Tarzan`s body would move while sliding down a log, the animators based his movement on that of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk while on his skateboard. #
# Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were both seriously considered for Clayton before Brian Blessed auditioned for it, the directors felt his deep booming voice would be perfect for he character. Rosie O`Donnell accomplished a life long dream in this film, she had always wanted to voice a character in a Disney animated movie. In the film, Jane Porter and her father are from London. In the novel, they are American citizens. The first Disney animated feature to open at number 1 since 1995`s "Pocahontas". One of the main reasons why animation was chosen as the perfect way to execute a Tarzan story was because the character is so lithe and animal-like, it would have been nearly impossible to achieve those effects with live action. The 48th Tarzan movie.
The first Tarzan movie to have a one-word title. This is not Glenn Close`s first involvement in a Tarzan movie - she dubbed the voice of Andie MacDowell in 1984`s "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes". One movie-goer was compelled to write to the New York Times on July 22nd to vent his anger at how Tarzan`s exaggerated physique would cause unrealistic expectations in young boys. The second 2-disc Collectors Edition DVD to be released by Disney. Phil Collins was chosen to provide the music as a deliberate move away from the Disney "showtune" formula. There are approximately 1100 names in the closing credits. The Disney animators actually hired a professor of anatomy to consult with them over Tarzan`s musculature. He would superimpose the correct type of muscles over their drawings to help show them how to depict a man at the peak of his physical prowess. SPOILER: Clayton is the first Disney villain to die by hanging. Originally Tarzan sent Clayton to his doom until the filmmakers realized that that would go against Tarzan`s line, "I`m not a man like you."
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