Tantor is a major character in Disney's 1999 animated feature film, Tarzan. He is an African forest elephant and childhood (later adulthood) best friend of Tarzan and Terk. In spite of his large size and physical strength, Tantor is incredibly phobic and gentle.
Is Terk a boy or a girl? Terk (voiced by Rosie O. Donnell) is basically a very masculine female, an arquetype rarely seen in film in general. Another example of this trend is Private Vasquez in James Cameron's "Aliens".
"William Mildin, 14th Earl of Streatham, was the real-life inspiration for Tarzan of the Apes. In 1868 he was shipwrecked off West Africa at the age of 11, and spent 15 years living in the jungle, after which he lived in Thrale Road (not much difference there, then)."
Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, and in movies and other media based on it. She is the ape mother of Tarzan who raises him.
In The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and Jane marry. In later books, he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the ape name Korak (the Killer).
She is a rowdy, tomboyish, and fun-loving gorilla and the best friend of Tarzan. She is also Kerchak and Kala's niece, making Tarzan her human adoptive cousin. Terk acts as a "big sister" figure to Tarzan - protective, concerned, and absolutely convinced that Tarzan can't survive without her.
Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter of professor Archimedes Q. Porter. She becomes the love interest and later the wife of Tarzan, and subsequently the mother of their son Korak.
Esmeralda is the maid of Jane Porter, the young girl who becomes Tarzan's love interest in the novel. She is an African American woman, and is portrayed as the stereotypical 'mammy' character reminiscent of the traditional older slave from antebellum days in the American South.
Tarzan noted that he feels threatened by anyone that was different from him. As a result, throughout most of Tarzan's early life, Kerchak treated him with disdain and disapproval and refused to accept him as his son or a true part of the family due to him not being a gorilla.
Terk was eventually killed by Tarzan in the original books, in a one-on-one fight, after kidnapping Jane. Originally, Terk was going to be a male like in the books but was changed to a female after Rosie O'Donnell's audition.
The film takes place over the course of 20 years, from when Tarzan is a baby to when Tarzan is, well, a 20 year old man. Sabor is around at the beginning, and still around (and dangerous) by the time Tarzan is fully grown.
A real-life "Tarzan" who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. Ho Van Lang returned to civilization in 2013 after he spent his entire life in the dense Vietnamese jungle with his father, Ho Van Than.
Jane Porter from Disney's Tarzan is called Jane because she is named after Jane Goodall. You may ask "Why would Professor Porter name his daughter after Jane Goodall?"
While Burroughs never said exactly where Tarzan was set, Cameroon's sandy beaches, imposing jungle and ape sanctuaries seem like a good bet – so much so that the West African country was chosen as the setting for the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
When Sabor spots the Baby, she begins chasing him; the Baby Gorilla tries to race back to his parents but Sabor kills and eats him. Kerchak and Kala hear their son's cries and race to try to protect him, but are too late, so Kala cries sadly in Kerchak's arms at the loss of her only child.
Despite what Disney fans may believe, Tarzan is not related to "Frozen" characters Anna and Elsa. "Can I put one rumor to rest that is my fault? Tarzan's parents are not Anna and Elsa's parents," said codirector Chris Buck during a 20th anniversary panel for "Tarzan" to a lot of applause from the crowd.
Sabor is finally killed as she is impaled on the head of Tarzan's spear tip when the ape man raises it against the ferocious leopard, thus killing the animal.
Making Africa seem authentic was especially important to the filmmakers, since the film was shot in England, except for six weeks in Gabon, filming background by helicopter without the cast. A working waterfall and a 100-foot-long collapsible pier were assembled at Warner Bros. ' Leavesden studios.
