Of all the film versions of Tarzan I have seen, this one is my favorite. At times it was a little more "epic" than it needed to be, but I guess that just added to the fun. They were each good, but every time they appeared on the screen, I never really saw the characters they were playing, I saw the actors. The Legend of Tarzan has more on its mind than many movies starring the classic character. I enjoyed watching them, but it sort of seemed like they were there as "stunt" casting - nice but unnecessary. Jackson looked like they had a lot of fun in their roles. This Jane is American, and is feistier than we usually see her. It was refreshing to see Margot Robbie's take on the character. Earlier movie Janes were often given a British accent and occasionally had a pampered upbringing. One aspect of Jane's character that was often ignored in the earlier Tarzan movies, is that Jane lived in the USA before she married Tarzan. The Tarzan stories that had those elements were never my favorite ones anyway, so I don't mind that they are absent from this movie. One other element missing from the books is the science fiction or supernatural slant that several of the stories had. Another change is the removal of many of the more racist elements the books had in the depiction of African tribesmen, and they are not missed at all.
Instead of using words (as in the books), Tarzan can read an elephant's eyes, and he calls crocodiles by mimicking a mating call. Some changes from the books that The Legend of Tarzan makes is the way Tarzan communicates with animals. Tarzan's command of language is competent, and his interaction with other people is never awkward or stilted as it had been in earlier movies.
This rendition of Tarzan provides much of the classic story’s background in very quick fashion, about how baby Tarzan came to be the white. In The Legend of Tarzan, Alexander Skarsgård plays the character much like I imagined him when I read the books. I sort of hoped the famous Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan Yell would be heard in this movie, but that was a thing of long ago, and this isn’t his movie, yet the makers still put in a similar, albeit more rugged version. In the books, the adult Tarzan was very well educated and spoke several languages, but in the movies he hardly knew any English and rarely spoke in complete sentences. I always wondered why we never saw a Tarzan movie that portrayed the character as he was written in the books. I recently read (or re-read) about twenty of the original Tarzan books.
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