![]() He even sticks his pinky out when he drinks a lovely cup of English tea. Living in London several years later in 1884, Clayton has had a good wash and put on a nice neckerchief. The Legend of Tarzan is concerned with the next chapter in the saga. We know his backstory already: raised by gorillas, taught to swing from vines and in love with a strange visitor called Jane. He's now known as John Clayton the third, after his father who was killed in the jungle when their ship washed up on the coast of the Congo. Talking of lip-biting, Alexander Skarsgard steps into the loin cloth as Tarzan - except his loin cloth has been swapped for beige jodphurs and his name isn't just Tarzan any more. It's a much moodier vision of the technicolour Disney romp I recall from my childhood - a bit like the vibe of the first Twilight film with slightly less lip-biting. ![]() From the opening shot it looks like the film has been dipped in a bottle of your nan's blue rinse and then left out in the sun to dry. You'll recognise the visual style of David Yates, director of many of the later Harry Potter films, immediately. Bring out the leopard print and get ready for a history lesson, because Tarzan is back in The Legend of Tarzan, a robust re-imagining of the infamous Edgar Rice Burroughs story. Please refrain from rolling your eyes at yet another reboot that nobody asked for, but I'm here to tell you that there is a new reboot that nobody asked for.
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