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Tarzan (2013)
★ 5.7 · 621 ratings on TMDB
The legend starts here
One of the most classic and revered stories of all time, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan returns to the big screen for a new generation. Tarzan and Jane face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash in the African jungle.
DirectorReinhard Klooss
The emergence reading
Tarzan keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, nature, identity, colonialism.
zero-distanceUSexploitationnatureidentitycolonialism
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