Reflection of Tarzan

• I don’t like the opening song in the beginning of the movie. I think it is too upbeat and I was not paying attention because I did not think the movie had even started yet. I was watching with Nicole (my roommate) and asked if I could fast forward through the opening credits when she told me, "It started already!"
• It kinda seems like the name of Tarzan came out of nowhere when the mom gorilla named him. It was also a very quick response with almost no thought to it. 
• I was wondering if the song "You’ll Be in my Heart" by Phil Collins was originally from this movie and thought that it definitely couldn't be. But then I thought that was weird if Disney borrowed another song because it usually makes all of it's own music. I was surprised to learn the song actually is originally from Tarzan. It turned into such a popular song- maybe one of the most popular of all of the Disney movies because it is so popular that can be considered unaffiliated with the movie at all by unknowing people like myself.
• I thought it was funny how Disney had the elephants having the intellectual conversation about where pirañas live because elephants are supposed to be wise
• I felt bad throughout the beginning part of the movie because poor tarzan didn’t ask to grow up in this world and he isn’t accepted. What other option does he have though? There is no man village to go to like in The Jungle Book.  But as we find out later in the movie, there is somewhere he can go to be with other humans.
• I wonder why Tarzan has dreadlocks in the movie. Is that what happens when hair is really dirty and unkept? I also am curious if this can be seen as offensive to anyone.
• Disney loves making the tiger the villain who wants to kill the human- just like Shere Khan in The Jungle Book. The two movies have so many similarities they almost seem like different versions of each other and Disney decided to just release both because they couldn't pick a favorite.
• Why don’t the gorillas help him when he’s getting attacked by the tiger? They just sit there and watch and luckily he wins but I don't understand why they left him to fight alone.
• When he meets Jane he is able to imitate the way he talks. Just because he’s a human doesn’t mean he’d be able to talk like one instantly. I think it would be something like the way a deaf person talks at first.
• It's also confusing because he and the gorillas have a common language which is english for the sake of the audience being able to understand, but in reality its not because he can’t speak english. This is probably confusing for children when he actually does speak real English.
• It was ironic when the gorilla's called humans primitive beasts.
• Tarzan wears a loincloth just like Mowgli.
• Why does Jane call Tarzan him the apeman when she knows he was raised by gorillas. I guess gorilla-man didn't have a good enough ring to it?
• I found it a little weird when she was drawing him and fell in love with the "apeman."
• It was very unrealistic he would be able to learn to read and be man so fast. It is probably relatable to kids though because they are learning to read and talk so he could be a role model to them.
• Tarzan chooses love over the rational decision when he decides to bring the humans to see the gorillas in order to keep Jane from leaving, even though he knows this is a bad idea.
• Tarzan talks in gorilla for the first time in movie when he acts more like a human. The English he has learned with humans now became his base language so when he talks to the gorillas again, it is not in English it is in gorilla sounds.