I'm reading Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes right now and I'm blown away by how grisly it is and how much different it is from the Disney film.
>Kerchak (ape leader) kills Tarzan's parents not Sabor (the leopard) >Kerchak has random fits of rage and routinely murders half a dozen members of his clan during said fits >During one of these fits Kala (Tarzans adopted mother) attempts to flee from him with her baby on her back but it slips off and falls 30 feet to the ground and dies on impact. Kala then carries the baby gorilla corpse around with her until she finds an infant Tarzan. Kerchak sees him as well and moves to crush him but Kala switches the baby gorilla course with the infant Tarzan >Tarzan is repeatedly attacked by other apes for being different. Tarzan kills most of them during these fights. >During one particular battle an ape grabs his scalp and attempts to rip the skin off his face. Tarzan tries to pull away and his skin rips leaving a chunk of flesh dangling over his eye and he has to finish the fight while only using one eye. >Tarzan kills Kerchak. Puts his foot on his corpse, and beats his chest while doing the Tarzan yell. >Tarzan kills Sabor and then eats her. >Kala is killed by an African tribe member. Tarzan hunts this man down, slips a noose around his neck from above, hangs him from a tree and then jumps to an adjacent tree, pulls out his knife and jumps down opening the mans body from chest to groin. Tarzan then lands on the ground as the man's guts spill to the jungle floor around him. >Tarzan goes on to troll the man's tribe. He sneaks in at night and steals arrows and puts the helmet of the man he killed in the center of their village. He also kills another tribesman and climbs a high tree and chunks the corpse into the middle of their village and they all flip out >They think he is a jungle deity and routinely leave food out for him to appease him. Tarzan regularly takes the food but continues to troll them and steal their arrows
I kind of like the porno version of Tarzan. I just wish that Jane didn't have fake tits. It takes the 1800s immersion out.
Aiden Sanders
>holy shit user can I see? this is my used and abused trade paperback I can post it in about 3 hours
Christian Brooks
thread will be archived by then user no worries
Kevin Robinson
damn movie adaptation when?
William Murphy
Who would win, Tarzan or George of the Jungle?
Robert Jackson
George just lucky I guess
Isaiah Bennett
I've only read a couple of John Carter stories and The Land That Time Forgot from Burroughs, I should definitely get back into his stories
Jaxon Ward
I'll set up a phone alarm to make a new thread
Liam Clark
in the book, "Tarzan" literally means "white skin" in the ape language
Aaron Cruz
based user
Andrew Rivera
Does John Carter get grisly as well? Would love to start reading those.
Joshua Bell
Sounds kino. Would make a great movie but I doubt it would be made today. ”Racist” and ”colonial”
William Green
Absolutely user. It's a damn shame
Juan Thompson
Does he fuck the gorillas?
Gabriel Myers
only the underage ones
Noah Perez
Not nearly as grisly as what op describes anyway, from what I remember, but otherwise they're a fun read
Nicholas Harris
Theres a scene in the movie where he brutally kills like a 100 aliens with a sword
Kevin Young
It not about the number, it's about how personnel it is. Would you call vaporizing 10000 humans, in an instant, grisly or a guy peeling a girl's skin off of her back while he rapes her and another guy feeds the skin to her father while he's forced to watch them take turns on her? Then they'd take his eyes out so that's the last thing he remembers.
They do the same with most of their movies. The Jungle Book is pretty much indistinguishable, they even pronounce Mowgli's name wrong. It is explicitly stated that "Mow" is supposed to rhyme with "Cow".
Owen White
How much extreme tree-sliding is there in it?
Brayden Brooks
I had one as well at one point, they're surprisingly inexpensive if they don't have the dust jacket. I found mine at a used bookstore for $5
