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David Perlmutter's avatar

"So here we see some respect to the original source material, and some artistic liberties taken to the origin."

It should be noted here that Edgar Rice Burroughs kept a close eye on what Hollywood did to Tarzan when he was alive, and even produced a film adaptation of the story at least once himself. Given that Disney actually explores Tarzan's backstory in some detail, which the vast majority of the live-action adaptations do not, he would probably be tolerant of it, if not pleased.

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The Brothers Krynn's avatar

Interesting Burroughs sounds like he was really smart about things and quite open minded on this sort of thing. I could stand to learn from him.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

He wasn’t smart about everything he did, of course…

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The Brothers Krynn's avatar

Fair, though there’s still lessons to be learnt about not being inflexible on some things like adaptations.

Some things he was pretty erm strange about.

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