The favorite Tarzan …

Fictional hero born from the pen of american writer Edgar Lee Burroughs (1875 – 1950). Appeared for the first time in 1912 in the October issue of the magazine All Story, but became known worldwide by the film, and the olympic champion of swimming, Johnny Weissmuller, who embodied the big screen.
According to Burroughs, Tarzan was the son of βρεττανού lord and lady Greystoke, who were captured by pirates on a journey in West Africa. His parents died when he was a baby and his upbringing by the Μανγκάνι, a tribe of gorillas. They gave him the name Tarzan, which in their language means white man. His real name was John Clayton, lord of Γκρέϊστοκ.
As a young Tarzan met Jane Porter and her family, who had a similar adventure with that of his parents. His heart skipped a beat for the young american, and when she returned to her homeland, Tarzan left the jungle to seek out his first and only love. They married and lived for a time in England ,where he was born and their only son Corak. Tarzan disappointed by the hypocrisy of the civilized world sought the meaning of life, returning with his family in the jungle.
The Burroughs endowed his hero with unusual abilities for a normal human being. Tarzan could not climb, and standing in the trees, like a monkey. With senses excellent, he could smell the food from a distance of a mile and heard the παραμικρότερο sound of two miles. The power, the speed, the reflexes, and the bathing of the abilities outstrip those of the average man.
Faced with success, gorillas, rhinos, crocodiles, dinosaurs and other large animals, while bend successfully irons and lift big heavy loads with one hand. He knew very well the body language and the communication with the animals was a piece of cake for him. He could heal only the wounds that other people would have sent to the grave. Eventually became immortal, thanks to the juju mugumbo, which gave him a magician.
Burrows made an almost flawless hero. Tarzan looked like he was athletic, tall, handsome ,brown, gray eyes. Emotionally it was a courageous, constant, and loyal to his partner. Was notable for the intelligence and the morale of the background, while on each occasion he was a protector of the weak.
The philosophy of the one-dimensional: a return to nature. She was wearing a simple outfit of leather dead animal, covering only his genitals and was belted with a knife. It was enough for a tree branch to sleep on, while he was eating raw meat from animals he killed himself. Although he was able to live in a civilized society, he preferred to remove the thin coating of civilization,” as it said Burrows.
Tarzan, all these years, is one of the most popular fictional heroes. In addition to the dozens of stories written by Burroughs, and after his death other authors with the permission of the foundation Burroughs, Tarzan has been transferred to the cinema, theater, television, comic books, and has featured in video games and βιού-master. The critical acceptance not kept pace with the great success. The critics didn’t forgive to Tarzan that he came from the area of “cheap literature” (pulp fiction), the so-called and παραλογοτεχνίας. On top of that, the author was accused of was reproduced in the first of the books racist and sexist stereotypes about women and blacks. Only when Burroughs moved to Hollywood, became more liberal and in the last books of the Tarzan satirized sexism and racism.

In the movie Tarzan made his appearance on January 27, 1918, when the director, Scott Sidney was transferred to the big screen the first book of Burroughs’s “Tarzan of the apes” (publishing house “Livanis”), starring Elmo Lincoln. Until today have been shooting 87 movies even with hero Tarzan, glorified, and almost identified with the american olympic champion of swimming, Johnny Weissmuller in the ‘ 30’s.
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