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RESENSI
FILM
TARZAN
Tarzan is
the thirty-seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It
was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and
released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 18, 1999. It is based upon
the Tarzan of the Apes series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major
motion picture version of the Tarzan property to be Disney. It is also the last
"bona fide" hit before the Disney slump of the early 2000's making
$171,091,819 in domestic gross and $448,191,819 worldwide.
PLOT
In
the late 1880's off the coast of Africa, a young
couple and their infant son escape a burning ship and land on the unexplored
rainforests of Africa, where they craft themselves a treehouse in which to live
using salvaged ship parts ("Two Worlds").
Meanwhile, a gorilla couple namedKerchak and Kala are traveling
with the rest of their group when their infant son is killed and eaten by a
leopard named Sabor.
The next day, the still-heartbroken Kala hears a distant child's cry and,
following it, stumbles upon the treehouse. She enters the treehouse to find it
trashed, and blood covered paw prints (as well as the corpses of the couple) on
the floor. Kala rescues the baby from a still-hungry Sabor and returns with it
to the rest of the group, but Kerchak despises the boy for his appearance.
Nevertheless, Kala decides to raise the boy as her own, naming himTarzan ("You'll Be in My Heart").
A
few years later, Tarzan makes friends with feisty young female gorillaTerk. One day, Terk and
two of her friends go to a pond where the elephants are. Terk tells Tarzan he
can hang out with them if he gets a hair from an elephant being sarcastic
hoping it would get rid of him, but Tarzan takes her seriously, so he tries to
get a hair but he starts to cause a commotion with all the elephants including
a young elephant thinking Tarzan is a piranha named Tantor. Eventually,
he gets the hair and sends all the elephants (except Tantor) into a stampede
right into the gorillas, almost killing a baby gorilla. He then befriend Tantor
and goes on adventures with Tantor and Terk ("Son of Man").
Despite his inability to compete with the rest of the gorillas, Tarzan
perseveres and eventually grows into a strong, capable, and gorilla-like grown
man. When Sabor attacks the group again, Tarzan successfully fights with and
kills her, earning Kerchak's respect, even though Tarzan only has one scratch.
Tarzan then notices a group of humans arriving: Professor and his daughter Jane,
who have traveled to Africa in search of gorillas, along with their hunter
guide Clayton.
Jane then has an encounter with a horde of angry baboons, who chase after her.
Jane runs towards a cliff and tries to jump to the other side, only to be
caught mid-leap by Tarzan. She screams as she is taken to a branch, where she
demands to be put down. Tarzan puts her down, but then the baboons get closer
and she screams, "No! Pick me up!" The chase then rages on, but
finally, Tarzan gets Jane to safety. Curious about Jane, Tarzan proceeds to
examine her, at one point playing with her feet, tickling her. He then notices
her gloved hand. Taking off the glove, Tarzan places his hand against hers,
then puts the side of his head to her chest and listens to her heartbeat, and
this is when he realizes that he and Jane are the same. He takes Jane back to
her camp.Tarzan And Jane
Meanwhile,
Tarzan's friends, who are trying to find him, arrive at the human trio's
campsite and proceed to destroy it, playing music on various human objects they
find in camp ("Trashin' the Camp"). Tarzan returns Jane to
camp, but departs with the other animals before Professor Porter and Clayton
arrive. In the jungle, Kerchak instructs the others to stay away from the
campsite, but Tarzan protests, believing that the humans pose no threat. Tarzan
secretly returns to the campsite and is introduced to the other men, and the
three of them teach Tarzan about the human world ("Strangers
Like Me"); nevertheless, Tarzan refuses to tell them the gorillas'
location, fearing Kerchak's fury. A few days later, when the boat to England
arrives, the trio, unable to find the gorillas, prepare to leave, and Tarzan is
heartbroken to see Jane depart. Clayton tells him that they will stay once they
find the gorillas. Tarzan, eager to have the humans remain, schemes with his
friends Terk and Tantor to get Kerchak out of the way while Tarzan shows the
humans the nesting site.
When
Tarzan, Jane, and Archamedis board the ship the next day to return to England,
Jane and her father are captured by the thugs (who have also turned on the
captain and his officers); as soon as he steps on the boat’s deck, Tarzan
realizes what’s going on, and after watching the thugs closing in on him, he
narrowly avoids them by jumping over them and landing on one of the cages. Clayton’s
men start climbing the cage so Tarzan quickly jumps to another cage and then to
the ship’s mast. He briefly gets distracted after hearing Jane calling out his
name as she’s taken to the cargo room, but before he could even try to do
something, one of the thugs takes hold of his right ankle, leaving him hanging
from the mast. He shakes him off by kicking him on the face, but the rest of
them are catching up with him quickly, so he climbs to the top of the mast and
makes a huge leap from there, towards the ship’s funnel, much to the amazement
of his pursuers. He manages to reach its end and hang from it; however, he
immediately finds out that the funnel is too slippery for the shoes he is
wearing. He desperately tries to hold tight, but being unable to lay his own
feet and keep them in place, his left hands slips away, and Tarzan is left
horrified as he watches his right hand slowly slip away as well. He finally
loses his grip and falls from a great height, crashing right into a pile of
boxes. Tarzan slowly crawls out of the remnants of the shattered boxes,
obviously in an enormous pain. Two of Clayton's men take advantage of this and
rush towards him, grabbing him and slamming him against the ship's
superstructure. He uselessly tries to break free from their grip, but he's just
too weak and hurting from the fall. It is just then that Clayton appears on
deck, firing his shotgun into the air and asking what was going on. Tarzan,
still trying to break free, begs for Clayton's help, to which Clayton mocks him
(pretending he didn't know him and calling him "ape man") and hits
him with his shotgun right in his stomach. Clayton then reveals that he wanted
to find the apes so that he could sell them for a high price, and admits that
he couldn't have done that if it wasn't for Tarzan telling him where the apes
were. Tarzan understands what he had done, and then screams out loud in anger
as he watches Clayton walk away and tell the thugs to lock him up with the
others.
As
the crew storm the jungle, Tantor and Terk rescue Tarzan and they race off to
stop Clayton and his men. In the ensuing battle (in which the gorillas are
aided by various jungle animals), Clayton shoots Tarzan in the arm and mortally
wounds Kerchak with his rifle. Tarzan and Clayton duel among the treetops until
Tarzan wrests Clayton's gun away and smashes it. Clayton pursues Tarzan with a
machete into a tangle of jungle vines, which Tarzan uses to ensnare Clayton,
with one of the vines becoming looped around Clayton's throat. Clayton's wild
slashing at the vines to free himself cuts the vines holding him in the air,
but does not notice the vine around his throat, and does not cut it, causing
him to fall and hang himself. Tarzan then finds the dying Kerchak, who
apologizes to Tarzan for his behavior and makes him, as the uncontestedly most
capable of the younger generation, leader of the gorillas. Kerchak dies, and
Tarzan and the gorillas mourn for his demise.
With
Clayton's men captured and the crew released, Jane and Professor Porter prepare
to depart for England. However, realizing where her heart belongs, Jane returns
to the jungle and is soon followed by her father; the three of them reside
happily in the jungle among the animals and gorillas ("Two Worlds Finale").
CAST
- Tarzan (Voiced by Tony Goldwyn) is a man raised by gorillas who finds out he is truly a human. He is the protagonist of the film.
- Jane Porter (Voiced by Minnie Driver) is a daughter of Professor Archimedes Q. Porter as part of an English explorer group. She's the first of the group to meet Tarzan and they fall in love. She is the deuteragonist of the film.
- Professor Archimedes Q. Porter (voiced by Nigel Hawthorne) is Jane's short-sized father and an eccentric biologist.
- Tantor (voiced by Wayne Knight) is a paranoid elephant and best friend of Tarzan and Terk. He has Terk step all over him most of the time, but when Tarzan is in danger he steps up and tells her off. He is the secondary tritagonist.
- Terk (voiced by Rosie O'Donnell) is a feisty, tomboy-ish ape who acts as a foster sister of sorts to Tarzan. She at first considers him a pest, but later warms up to him, often helping and keeping Tarzan out of trouble with Kerchak. She is the primary tritagonist.
- Kala (voiced by Glenn Close) is Tarzan's foster mother, who rescued him from Sabor after losing her own baby to the leopard. She rears Tarzan as a man of the apes, and lends a voice of compassion and understanding to Tarzan when he feels that he doesn't belong, explaining that Kerchak simply can't see they are one and the same.
- Kerchak (voiced by Lance Henriksen) is the xenophobic leader of the gorillas, who refuses to accept Tarzan as his son because he is human. He is Tarzan's foster father who gets euthanized by Clayton
- Young Tarzan (voiced by Alex D. Linz) Shown as having many difficulties, such as nearly killing the gorillas, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, cobras, snakes, scorpions, lizards, aardvarks, porcupines, bees, dragonflies, parrots, toucans, woodpeckers, owls, frogs, flying squirrels, mandrills, crocodiles, tortoises, archerfish, chameleons, bats, rhinos, genets, armadillos, and hyenas by causing an elephant stampede while trying to obtain an elephant hair, and feeling insecure because of his differences.
- Young Tantor (voiced by Taylor Dempsey) is an elephant who notices Tarzan and tries to warn the other elephants, but goes unheard; he later befriends Tarzan.
- Clayton (voiced by Brian Blessed) is the guide of Professor Porter and Jane Porter, and the principal antagonist of the film. He's a hunter who kills and euthanizes animals in the jungle
- Sabor (voiced by Frank Welker) is the leopard who killed Tarzan's parents which left Tarzan orphaned. He was then raised by the gorillas.
- Tantor's Mom (voiced by Estelle Harris) is young Tantor's mom who easily loses her patience due to her son's annoying chattering.
SONGS
The
songs for the film were written and performed by the singer Phil Collins.
- · Two Worlds
- · You'll Be in My Heart- (featuring Glenn Close)
- · Son of Man
- · Trashin' the Camp
- · Strangers Like Me
DEEP CANVAS
To
create the sweeping 3D backgrounds, Tarzan's production team developed a 3D
painting and rendering technique known as Deep Canvas. This technique allows
artists to produce CGI background that looks like a traditional painting. For
this advancement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the
creators of Deep Canvas a Technical Achievement Award in 2003.
After
Tarzan, Deep Canvas was used for a number of sequences in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, particularly
large panoramic shots of the island and several action sequences.
Expanded
to support moving objects as part of the background, Deep Canvas was utilized
to create about 75% of the environments in Disney's next major animated action
film, Treasure Planet, though the results were less
stunning, due to the film's tighter painting style which could have been
accomplished without such advanced software. Deep Canvas was designed to
accomplish a very loose, brushstroke-based style without hard edges, but
Treasure Planet's backgrounds were more hard-edged and clean
.
Deep
Canvas was finally used in a more natural setting in restrained doses for
Disney's final two traditionally animated theatrical releases, Brother
Bear and Home on the Range.
An
advanced version of Deep Canvas technique was originally planned to be used in Angel
and Her No Good Sister, a Disney animated feature which features bluegrass
music. However, since the project was cancelled, it is unknown if Deep Canvas
will be used on any of the new projects given the Disney/Pixar merger and the
software Disney will have acquired as a result.
AWARDS
- · 1999 Annie Award in the Technical Achievement in the Field of Animation category (for the Deep Canvas process).
- · 2000 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for the song "You'll Be in My Heart" by Phil Collins.
- · 2000 Academy Award for Best Song for the song "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins.
- · 2000 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
