![]() ![]() I realize the purists (and just about everybody else.) hated Tarzan the Ape Man when it was released back in the early 1980s, but I have to tell you: it's an absolute riot, and thoroughly entertaining (if not always intentionally so.). ![]() After all, the film is a lingering, loving tribute not to Edgar Rice Burroughs' seemingly immortal jungle man character, but to Derek's legendary and statuesque, perfectly-sculpted body and her character's tantalizing sense of sexual "innocence." It was produced - seemingly - entirely for male consumption and pleasure. Naturally, she's talking about the reasons why women are put on this Earth (for men's pleasure not their own.), but she might as well be discussing the reasons this film looks the way it does. ![]() Not ours," states Bo Derek (as prim and proper Jane Parker), in her husband (John Derek's) sexual-skewing interpretation of the Tarzan mythos, Tarzan The Ape Man (1981). ![]()
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