Tarzan - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jeffrey]

There are approximately one thousand one hundred names in the closing credits.

[sandra]

Despite being a leopard, Sabor was portrayed in a very stylized way, with a body and head with strange angles, very long, thin fangs (almost like those of a saber-toothed cat), and scarce spots unlike those of a real leopard. As usual in film depictions of big cats, Sabor's roars and growls are a mixture of sounds of several felines, including leopards, jaguars, lions, tigers, and cougars.

[richard]

At the end of "You will be in my heart" (shortly after Tarzan is adopted by Kala), a woman's voice can be heard softly whispering "Always...". This could be interpreted to be the spirit of Tarzan's mother, showing her undying love for her son.

[carla]

During Terk's musical trashing of the explorers' camp, two apes mimic the bump-bump step seen in the classic Disney short In the Bag (1956).

[jesse]

The Disney animators hired a professor of anatomy to consult with them about Tarzan's musculature. He superimposed the correct types of muscles over their drawings to help show them how to depict a man at the peak of his physical prowess.

[tammy]

Tarzan is one of the most muscular Disney heroes alongside others in the likes of Hercules and Li Shang in terms of physique, since living in the African jungle had built up his growing body from childhood to manhood.

[camila]

Ben Affleck and Christian Bale were considered for the role of Tarzan. Both of these actors would go on to perform as Bruce Wayne/Batman for live action theatrical films.

[beth]

To see how Tarzan's body would move while sliding down a log, the animators based his movement on that of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk while on his skateboard.

[ray]

When the gorillas pick up Professor Porter and turn him upside-down, a beanbag toy of Little Brother from Disney's Mulan (1998) falls out of his clothes.

[darrell]

In The Legend of Tarzan (2001) season two, episode one, "Tarzan and the British Invasion", it is made clear that Tarzan knows his parents were killed by Sabor when explaining to Jane's friends that he never got to know them. He goes on to tells them that they were killed in the treehouse (where he, Jane, and her friends were having tea at the time) and even points out the location of where their bodies used to be.

[michele]

Lance Henriksen was cast as Kerchak as the filmmakers felt that only his powerfully deep and gruff voice would be able to "fill the immense size of Kerchak".

[wallace]

Brian Blessed has stated that Clayton is one of his two most cherished roles in his career, the other being Blackadder's father, King Richard IV, in the British sitcom The Black Adder (1982).

[willard]

Like real gorillas, Kerchak is depicted beating his chest with the palms of his hands as opposed to clenched fists commonly depicted in gorillas in both popular culture and public imagination.