One thing that bugs me about the original novel (and should bug everybody if they’ve actually read it) is all the White Supremacist propaganda. Prager” - a freshman at Harvard –and appeared soon after the Legend of Tarzan trailer was released, has attracted 463 Likes as was the top comment on the thread (out of 7,000 comments) for a long time, and now is the third most popular:
Here is an example of what is probably the most civil and fairminded comment I’ve seen in social media on this topic. Lord and Lady Greystoke with Basuli and Mugambi rode together at the head of the column, laughing and talking together in that easy familiarity which common interests and mutual respect breed between honest and intelligent men of any races.īut for every enlightened passage like that one –there are other scenes and passages that support the argument that some degree of racism existed in Burrroughs’ works. In itself the hunt was a success, and ten days after its inauguration, a well-laden safari took up its return march toward the Waziri plain. Burroughs fans counter that it’s more complicated than that - and cite, for example, passages like this one from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, 1916 (Chapter 24): The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Burroughs like many of his contempotaries was a full-on racist.
#Barsoom races movie
the fact that the 1912 story is now a $180M wannabe blockbuster movie destined for the global marketplace makes this issue fair game and relevant. While one can argue that it’s not fair to apply 21st century standards or racial awareness to a 1912 story and its author …. With Legend of Tarzan generating buzz courtesy of its well-received teaser trailer, the long-debated issue of whether Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs was a racist has come alive on discussion boards and comment threads.