After 50 years of Tarzan movies, Greystoke was really the first proper version of the story to get made.
Gone was the fighting crocodiles and baddies and the epic 'call' (if I could spell it I would!) in the forest, replacing it was an, essentially, mentally affected child/boy/man who was left in the forest to scavenge an existence.
They then traumatise the boy/man more by taking him out of the only environment he is familiar with to become an amusement for the upper class.
Its presented as a tale of woe and wonder and romance.
This movie has a soul.
Gone was the fighting crocodiles and baddies and the epic 'call' (if I could spell it I would!) in the forest, replacing it was an, essentially, mentally affected child/boy/man who was left in the forest to scavenge an existence.
They then traumatise the boy/man more by taking him out of the only environment he is familiar with to become an amusement for the upper class.
Its presented as a tale of woe and wonder and romance.
This movie has a soul.