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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984 · 143 min

Adventure, Drama

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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Appeals to viewers drawn to stately adventure dramas about identity and belonging, especially when spectacle gives way to melancholy cultural dislocation.

Tone
adventurous, melancholic, bittersweet
Payoff
wonder, reflection
Pacing
steady
Intensity
moderate
Structure
linear
Themes
identity, civilization versus nature, belonging, grief, cultural displacement
Setting
nineteenth century, African wilderness and Victorian England

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