Tarzan was supposed to speak with both an English accent and an American accent depending on whether he was speaking to humans or gorillas but Tony Goldwyn's English accent was so bad, he just stuck to American for the entire movie.
As we see in "Stranger's Like Me", Jane has to teach him how to understand and speak English. However, despite being able to communicate back in English, he speaks with an American accent. The only other people Tarzan knew initially, the Professor and Clayton, also had British accents.
Tarzan can learn a new language in days, ultimately speaking many languages, including that of the great apes, French, Finnish, English, Dutch, German, Swahili, many other Bantu languages, Arabic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Latin, and Mayan, as well as the languages of the Ant Men and of Pellucidar.
Tarzan does not pass it process; he does not have parents or caregiver and environment that are able to teach him language. Therefore, he does not speak and has no language at all until he meets other humans.
The British accent has been used to portray villains in Disney classics for decades; however, it is not just the British accent they have villanized. Disney has a sad history of making their villains "foreign", as a tool to other them.
To begin with, Americans are not exposed to British accents to the same extent that Britons are to US accents, by way of prime time TV, music, movies etc. This means that there isn't the same underlying familiarity with the accent on which to build.
Why is it easy for British actors to do American accents?
British actors have it easier than actors of other nationalities because English is still their first language, just like with Americans. Despite that, not every British actor can pull off an American accent no matter how talented they are.
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.
(1939), Tarzan and Jane could not be depicted as having their own child because they were not legally married. The storyline was modified to have them adopt an orphaned child in the jungle.
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?"
The yell can best be described as a "Mmmmm-ann-gann-niii" sound that gradually rises ever higher in pitch. Elmo Lincoln recreated his victory cry in a 1952 episode of You Asked for It. Tarzan's yell is used as a melodic refrain in the Baltimora single Tarzan Boy.
"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)."
Tarzan (White-skin) is his ape name; his English name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (the formal title is Viscount Greystoke according to Burroughs in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; Earl of Greystoke in later, non-canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie Greystoke).
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The Mangani, the apes who raised him, had a language, but they didn't really have an accent. As a result, if I remember correctly, when Tarzan was taught French by Paul D'arnot, he spoke it without an accent, yet strangely spoke English, also taught to him by D'arnot, with a French accent.
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.
It is a loose adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la virgen created by Perla Farías. It stars Gina Rodriguez as Jane Gloriana Villanueva, a devout 23-year-old Latina virgin who becomes pregnant after an accidental artificial insemination by her gynecologist.
However, in the original novel Tarzan of the Apes, he was said to be one years old when his parents died and 21 years of age when he met a 19-year-old Jane Porter. Tarzan's name from the original story Tarzan of the Apes means "White Skin" in the ape language. He is one of two Disney characters to meet their author.
Tarzan grew curious of the newcomers as he never seen other humans before due to being raised by gorillas all his life. Tarzan then instantly took a liking to Jane and her father while watching Jane share a loving embrace with her father upon discovering gorillas did family groups together.
Plot. In the late 1880s, a British couple and their infant son are shipwrecked in Equatorial Africa. The adults build a treehouse but are killed by Sabor, a villainous leopard. Kala and Kerchak, the leaders of a troop of gorillas, lose their infant son to Sabor as well.
Tarzan Triumphs could have been subtitled “Me Tarzan, Where Jane?” for with the series moving from MGM Studios to RKO Pictures they lost Maureen O'Sullivan as she was an MGM contract player. Jane would be explained away as, “Visiting her sick mother in London” and wouldn't show up for a couple pictures.
Pretty sure this tale has you wondering about Jane. But sadly for fans of Tarzan's lady friend who first appeared in Tarzan of the Apes — A Romance of the Jungle in 1912 in All-Story, she does appear to be a pure figment of Burroughs' imagination.
They didn't. American English preserves many of the features of the accents common in South-West England in the 16th and 17th Century when the USA was being settled. Both British and American English have evolved in different directions since that time.
Do Americans find it hard to understand British accents?
It can be challenging to understand someone speaking with a foreign accent. This is especially true for elderly Americans who, having grown up speaking American English, may find it difficult to understand someone speaking with a British accent.
Abroad, American accents are most likely to be considered “friendly,” (34 percent of non-U.S. respondents), “straight-forward” (27 percent), and “assertive” (20 percent).
