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. 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.Some changes from the books that The Legend of Tarzan makes is the way Tarzan communicates with animals. In The Legend of Tarzan, Alexander Skarsgård plays the character much like I imagined him when I read the books. I always wondered why we never saw a Tarzan movie that portrayed the character as he was written in the books.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 recently read (or re-read) about twenty of the original Tarzan books. FINALLY - A Tarzan closer to way he was in the books!
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