The confusion itself is that this looks like a thankless movie. Has the inherent model of Hollywood blockbusters we understood and the logic of operation have fundamentally changed in recent years? With this question in mind, perhaps the structure of the film can be a key to decoding, leading us to explore the labyrinth behind the image.
At the beginning of the film, Tarzan did not live in the mountains, but returned to the city, and because he was the heir to the rich wealth and special status, coupled with his legendary experience and talent, he was an upper class in London. The film does not show any thoughts of his nostalgia for his homeland, on the contrary, he expresses a strong identification with his aristocratic status. Dr. George Washington Williams, played by Samuel L. Jackson, made several invitations, and finally made Taishan embark on the road of return on the grounds that the Congo cannot be a slave.
Here we begin to discover that this film cannot be viewed through the lens of the past, simply thinking that it is a routine movie: the routine of the prince of the jungle getting a new life. Tarzan doesn't need to go back to the jungle to absorb energy. On the contrary, he saves the jungle with his own power. He and the gorilla will be attacked as soon as they meet, so what the jungle leaves him is more of a cruel society. Tarzan himself is an Englishman who wants to live in a civilized society, not a dark jungle. Both Taishan and Jane kneel to the orangutan in order to get a chance to survive, which shows that the orangutan society is an autocratic society rejected by Taishan, and needs to surrender to express the level of status.
Roma, played by Uncle Wa, is the spokesman for the king of Spain. Spain cannot pay the army salaries, so he thinks of the diamonds and people of the Congo. Uncle Wa's purpose is to give Mount Tai to Chief Mobanga in exchange for diamonds as military pay, so that he can hire troops to conquer Congo. First of all, the well-liked Uncle Wa, Christopher Waltz, became famous in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds", playing a hilarious Nazi officer. Also the villain in "007: Spectre". Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" is also a hilarious villain, talking about an arrogant, self-satisfied, arrogant, who doesn't know that he has been caught in many crises. In this film, Uncle Wa shows fanatical fantasies and indecision, infatuation with Jenny, and uses a bracelet as a big killer.
The setting of Tarzan is to have the ability to unite the local people and the local beasts, and finally eliminate the Spanish invasion. A box of diamonds that was originally used for military pay sank to the bottom of the water. In other words, the diamonds will eventually fall into Dr. Williams and Tarzan's hands.
The core is not to resist the introduction of slavery, and it is absurd to cite Washington's abolition of slavery at the end. Because we all know that Washington himself supported slavery. That shows that Taishan's group of people opposed the Spanish enslavement of the Congo and launched the war of the herd, which itself is not a reliable excuse. The reason is that Uncle Wa does want slaves, but Jenny, Tarzan, and Dr. Williams care more about diamonds.
Combined with the current news, you can have some ideas about the movie itself. The eradication of Uncle Wa means that Europe centered on France (Uncle Wa himself is French) cannot control the Muslim riots, and Europe has introduced a large number of Muslim refugees. One purpose is to provide cheap labor for their high-welfare society, that is The Congolese blacks in the film are slaves. The recent explosions in France have proved that in the eyes of more realistic and practical British people (such as director Yeats), this idea is too simple, and the French cannot control the traditional power and wildness of refugees (black people and animals). This is also an important reason why ordinary British people want to leave the EU. Uncle Wa's bracelet has a taste similar to the European Union. He wanted to tie the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom (Tarzan) broke free.
Diamonds are wealth and capital. The wealth flows to Europe (Spain) in the film, and how Tarzan leads two American people to stop this is to encourage the outbreak of civil war. After World War II, an important means for the United States to control the flow of international capital was to continuously launch small-scale geopolitical wars on humanitarian grounds. Because areas with frequent wars are not conducive to the growth of capital, capital will flow into relatively stable and peaceful areas, such as the United States. In recent years, Europe, which has been declining in recent years, wants to get rid of the capital control of the US model. The European Central Bank has introduced various policies to attract capital inflows and achieved remarkable results. Unrest in Europe (terrorist attack in France, military coup in Turkey) immediately devalues the euro and appreciates the dollar, causing international capital to flow to the United States, which is called "diamonds" in the text. The apparent reason for all this is the collision of untamable traditional forces (Muslim society in Europe, black people in the film) and European society. In the end, Anglo-American (Dr. Tarzan, Jane and Williams) destroys the flow of diamonds (capital) to Spain (Europe) by driving sheer violence (the herd in the film).
Turkey, like Spain, is a place where Christianity and Islam have long loved and killed each other. Therefore, Spain in the film can be understood as Turkey. A few days ago, after the Turkish coup was quickly subsided, the targets of the purge were quickly released: all 1,577 university deans across the country were dismissed, 21,000 teachers’ teaching licenses in Turkey were revoked... 15,200 people were fired from the Ministry of Education. Lost 30 governors, 9,000 Home Office staff, 2,000 judges, 1,500 Treasury staff... More and more evidence suggests that perhaps this was a premeditated, pre-planned purge . Turkey is on the fringes of Europe, and the coup d’état has further boosted international capital flows. Europe was attacked by savage forces, and the result was diamonds to the United States.
The film reflects Yeats' veiled revelation as an intellectual: the riots themselves were led by the Anglo-American system. Of course, he is also very entangled. In the world, only the United States has long-term and stable production of A-type blockbusters. Maybe he got so much money to make movies.
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