Vancouver SunĪccording to his death certificate in 1969, Strong was born in Berne, Switzerland, on Oct. Marked ‘circa 1925’ in pencil and stamped Yucho Chow Studio, 23 Pender St. Undated promotional photo of Jack Strong holding a woman up, probably for a vaudeville act. There was an amazing photo by Chinatown photographer Yucho Chow of Strong performing with a woman up on a pole that Strong is holding up with his face. Yes, that’s right, when Strong wasn’t in wrestling tights he was performing feats of strength and acrobatics, the latter with a female partner. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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One of the other big problems I had with the movie is actually a combination of the acting, writing and storytelling, since all of these characters don't "sound" like they're in the late 1880s one bit.
He does have his moments, but I was surprised at how emotionally vacant this character appeared to be, which doesn't necessarily make sense when you take into account how "refined" he had become in London for nearly a decade. Sure, he has the perfect look and washboard abs to play the King of the Jungle, but his personality and emotional depth in this movie is akin to a washboard itself, simply wooden. I rather enjoyed Margot Robbie's spirited performance as Jane, but I was not impressed by Alexander Skarsgard's performance. The script is also littered with a slew of corny one-liners, although a few of them are actually kind of good. Sure, we see them in London living in the lap of luxury, but neither Tarzan/John Clayton nor Jane seem truly happy in London. We also never really get a clear picture as to why Tarzan and Jane left their modest African home, which Jane seems to resent somewhat. The story's pacing is fairly slow, and even though it was just 109 minutes, it felt like it could have been tightened up in a few places. Her father is sent to the Congo to teach English to the villagers, where Jane meets, falls in love with and eventually marries the jungle man.Įven though the weaving of an iconic fictional character into a historical story line is sufficiently impressive, the script by Adam Cozad ( Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) and Craig Brewer ( Hustle & Flow) is spotty, at best.
In this story, Jane first encounters Tarzan when she is a young woman.
This backstory is tightly woven into the fabric of The Legend of Tarzan, with Tarzan ( Alexnder Skarsgard) being lured back to his homeland of the Congo, where he was raised by the jungle animals from infancy after the death of his parents.
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Jackson's character George Washington Williams was a real-life person, I didn't realize that Christoph Waltz's Leon Rom was an actual person, who had committed horrific atrocities in the Congo Free State throughout the 1880s and 1890s, before George Washington Williams exposed his work for Belgium's King Leopold II. What I didn't fully realize until after the screening, was that this movie also puts the iconic Tarzan ( Alexander Skarsgard) and Jane ( Margot Robbie) into an actual historical setting, with a few characters based on actual people. The Legend of Tarzan does take a few steps in different directions with this character, cobbling together bits and pieces from Edgar Rice Burroughs' later books, slightly altering Tarzan and Jane's back story. I remember watching the 1984 film Greystoke when I was a wee lad in the 1980s, but the character itself was never one I was thoroughly obsessed with. I don't consider myself a Tarzan aficionado or scholar whatsoever.
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