"To be honest, I don't think it would have been possible to do this film without the trip," Keane said. "But seriously, it was unbelievably moving - just to be able to see these beautiful animals and look in their eyes, to see the intelligence beneath. "That was the really hard part of this job," Buck joked. Speaking of study, Buck, co-director Kevin Lima and most of the animators also went to Kenya and Uganda to watch gorillas and other jungle animals in their native environment.
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"We studied hours of footage from professional athletes to see how they do their amazing stunts." And that's what we wanted to give our Tarzan," he said. "Skilled skaters have this incredibly fluid body movement. "His movements are based on those of real animals and professional surfers and skateboarders," said Keane, who admits that he got some inspiration from his son, a fanatical skateboarder. Unlike previous cinematic Tarzans, the Disney version really does perform like an ape-man, swinging through the trees, as well as "surfing" down tree branches, with relative ease. (Both men were in town recently to promote the new film, which opened in theaters nationwide on Friday.) "And it would be impossible for any actor to be able to do that. "We had to have a Tarzan who actually behaved like an ape, yet looked like a man," animator Glen Keane elaborated. "We wanted to make a 'Tarzan' that no one had seen before - one that was more like the character as he was originally written, which certainly couldn't be done in a live-action movie," said Chris Buck, co-director of Disney's new animated "Tarzan" feature. So why on Earth would anyone want to do another one?Actually, the fact that so many big-screen Tarzans have failed probably just invigorated the creative geniuses at Walt Disney Pictures' animation house, who have defiantly responded "Why not?" to that question. More than a few of the motion pictures featuring Burroughs' man-ape character have been awful (most recent examples include 1981's "Tarzan the Ape Man" or 1998's "Tarzan and the Lost City").
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It must approximate Disney excellence." - Edgar Rice Burroughs, writing about the possibility of an animated Tarzan movie in 1936.
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