HOME | DD
mimblewimble β ::Tarzan::
Published: 2009-05-18 01:40:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 5178; Favourites: 222; Downloads: 62
Redirect to original
Description
From my profile.Another burning question:
How the HELL can he keep from flashing everyone in that tiny little scrap of clothing while running around?
Related content
Comments: 113
Have you read the book? Tarzan doesn't have a beard because he learned how to shave.
π: 0 β©: 1
Ikr Ppl jjust need to reed the book not just go by the movieΒ
π: 0 β©: 1
I've also said the same thing about The Wizard of Oz. It was a book before it was a movie, and the book is way better than the movie.
π: 0 β©: 0
That is a very good point. I'd suggest that he shaved but then again that brings up the question, why hasn't he cut his hair if he knows how to shave?
π: 0 β©: 0
Better yet, if he lives wth apes, why does he wear a loincloth? And also, where did he get it? :/
π: 0 β©: 1
In the book he learns to skin leopards and wears the hide
π: 0 β©: 1
Actually, he tried to use a lioness' hide and hung it on a tree but to his dismay it turned hard and stiff, for he did not know how to tan leather. It was during his occasional slaughter of native negroes that he, to his delight, came across a loincloth from a corpse. He felt the need to cover himself because he saw humans wearing clothes from the books he discovered in the house where he was born and where his parents died. He realised his superiority over the animal kingdom and wanted to physically defer himself from them.
π: 0 β©: 0
....i do NOT know o.o i hate beards though. (srry santa! xD)
π: 0 β©: 0
Haha! I was just wondering the same thing! But I'mm pretty sure its because beards would scare little kids... they scare me... and I'm 16. No offence to people who have beards, I'm sure you don't look creepy on you.
π: 0 β©: 0
In Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes," the first book in the series, he learns to use his father's knife to shave the hair from his face so that he will no longer resemble his simian brethren as much. He does this because he realizes that he is a man and not an ape, which he learned from the various books that were in his parents' cabin in the jungle where they were marooned. That should clear things up a bit, I think. 
π: 0 β©: 1
Dude those books rock! Read john carter if you haven't already.
π: 0 β©: 1
I've already read the first three. Edgar Rice Burroughs was a freaking GENIUS. It's nice to meet a fellow fan. So to speak.
Β
π: 0 β©: 1
dido. I hate that disney got their grubby hands on his legacy!
π: 0 β©: 1
I only feel that way about the John Carter film. It was total Hollywood-ed, cookie-cutter crap. I loved the animated Tarzan film, though. They don't screw up the stories that they re-tell, they just make them more family friendly while still teaching important moral lessons.
π: 0 β©: 1
Completely agree. I like the tarzan animated film because its a tamer way of telling the story
π: 0 β©: 0
Its in the Novle, he relixes he's a superor species that the apes and don't want to look like them in any way. Read the book its really good!
π: 0 β©: 0
Actually, in the book it said that he cut off his facial hair to express his humanity
π: 0 β©: 0
As far as the beard, theres a genetic code that prevents facial and a lot of times body hair. Most Native Americans have it. As for the wild-man-skirt, I wondered the same thing when he was rescuing Jane XD
π: 0 β©: 0
In the book, he shaved with a knife.
and also for your second question, he kinda did flash every one around. He was naked until he stole someone else's loincloth...I don't know what's Disney's cover-up for that.
π: 0 β©: 0
i want to know about the facial hair too but i know how he didn't flash people in his loin cloth. loin cloths are just one long cloth that goes between the legs. rope of some kind is tied around the waist and lays on top of the cloth. the front and back of the cloth are then free to flap down over the rope. (that is hard to explain. i hope that was understandable.)
π: 0 β©: 0
It's obvious he paid Harry Potter to give him a potion, then he went to Narnia for a goat hair, which he eventually got, then drank it, danced around a fire, and BOOM! No beard.
π: 0 β©: 0
don't question it ! it is a blessing to women like me who have a distaste for facial hair lol
π: 0 β©: 0
Because Tarzan is awsome that way! :iconmonkeyluvplz:
π: 0 β©: 0
go on youtube look up songs from Tarzan and there is a lot of answers in the comment debating :3
π: 0 β©: 0
You know this is a very good question! And I hadn't ever even thought about it before! *clearlyignorantoffacialhair*
π: 0 β©: 0
Well in the book he starts shaving immediately because he takes pride in coming from a hairless race, and he thinks facial hair would make him look more like an ape.
π: 0 β©: 0
I have heard that some ethnic groups are not able able to grow beards. So I think it's some kind of trait he got from his mother (I think his father was Irish or something).
π: 0 β©: 0
I was wondering about that too when I just recently watched it...
π: 0 β©: 0
...true enough. A beard would ruin his look though~
π: 0 β©: 0
I seriously asked myself that question five seconds before I saw this. It made my day.
π: 0 β©: 0
It's rumored that Tarzan is Native American, and they don't have facial hair. c: mystery solved.
π: 0 β©: 1
..but he was on an English boat in the beginning.
π: 0 β©: 1
it is possible that on of his parents are of native American decent.
π: 0 β©: 1
Well it's possible but not likely.
π: 0 β©: 1
well then my best theory is either diet or some kind of mutation in the genes. Although native Americans aren't the only group of people who can't grow beards.
π: 0 β©: 1
But, his mom was clearly irish.. and his dad had a beard. so.
π: 0 β©: 1
oh yea, it was the mom that was irish not the dad. I haven't seen that movie in years. I think it has something to do with genes or diet then.
π: 0 β©: 1
haha, it couldn't matter less, it's just a movie XD
π: 0 β©: 1
yea, I thinking into this too much.
π: 0 β©: 0
I dunno - his face looks pretty soft. Like baby worthy soft.
π: 0 β©: 0
I read the first book and it actually addressed that, lol. Apparently when he started growing a beard at first he was happy because it made him look more like an ape. Later on though, when he sees Jane and Clayton for the first time he wanted to look more like a man so he shaved it off with a knife.
π: 0 β©: 0
ha i know what you mean. plus he doesnat have a happy trail either...and as far as i know no armpit hair either
π: 0 β©: 0
| Next =>