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Hard to believe, perhaps, but this film was denounced as immoral from more pulpits than any other film produced prior to the imposition of the bluenose Hayes Code. Yes indeed, priests actually told their flocks that anyone who went to see this film was thereby committing a mortal sin.

I'm not making this up. They had several reasons, as follows:

Item: Jane likes sex. She and Tarzan are shown waking up one morning in their treetop shelter. She stretches sensuously, and with a coquettish look she says "Tarzan, you've been a bad boy!" So they've not only been having sex, they've been having kinky sex! A few years later, under the Hays Code, people (especially women) weren't supposed to be depicted as enjoying sex.

Item: Jane prefers a guileless, if wise and resourceful, savage (Tarzan) to a civilized, respectable nine-to-five man (Holt). When Holt at first wows her with a pretty dress from London, she wavers a bit; when Holt tries to kill Tarzan, and Holt and Jane both believe he's dead, she wavers a lot. But when she realizes her man is very much alive, the attractions of civilization vanish for her. And why not? Tarzan's and Jane's relationship is egalitarian: He lacks the "civilized" insecurity that would compel him to assert himself as "the head of his wife". To boot, he lacks many more "civilized" hangups, for example jealousy. When Holt and his buddy arrive, Tarzan greets them both cordially, knowing perfectly well that Holt is Jane's old flame. When Holt gets her dolled up in a London dress and is slow-dancing with her to a portable phonograph, Tarzan drops out of a tree, and draws his knife. Jealous? Nope. He's merely cautious toward the weird music machine, since he's never seen one before. Once it's explained, he's cool.

Item: Civilized Holt is dirty minded. Savage Tarzan is innocently sexy. As Jane slips into Holt's lamplit tent, Holt gets off on watching her silhouette as she changes into the fancy dress. By contrast, after Tarzan playfully pulls the dress off, kicks her into the swimming hole and dives in after her, there follows the most tastefully erotic nude scene in all cinema: the pair spends five minutes in a lovely water ballet.(The scene was filmed in three versions--clothed, topless and nude--the scene was cut prior to the film's release, but the nude version is restored in the video now available.) And when Jane emerges, and Cheetah the chimp steals her dress just for a tease, Jane makes it clear that her irritation is only because of the proximity of "civilized" men and their hangups. Where is the "universal prurience" so dear to the hearts of seminarians? Nowhere, that's where. Another reason why the hung up regarded this film as sinful.

Item: The notion that man is the crown of creation, and animals are here only for man's use and comfort, takes a severe beating. Holt and his buddy want to be guided to the "elephant graveyard" so they can scoop up the ivory and take it home. They want Tarzan to guide them to said graveyard. You, reader, are thinking "Fat chance!" and you're right. He's shocked. He exclaims "Elephants sleep!" which to him explains everything. Jane explains Tarzan's feelings, which the two "gentlemen" find ridiculous.

Item: Jane, the ex-civilized woman, is far more resourceful than the two civilized men she accompanies. Holt and buddy blow it, and find themselves besieged by hostile tribes and wild animals. It is Jane who maintains her cool. While the boys panic, she takes charge, barks orders at them and passes out the rifles.

Item: Jane's costume is a sort of poncho with nothing underneath. (The original idea was for her to be topless, with foliage artistically blocking off her nipples, which indeed is the case in one brief scene.)

Lastly, several men of the cloth complained because the film was called "Tarzan and His Mate" rather than "Tarzan and His Wife." No comment!

Of course, Tarzan, who has been nursed back to health by his ape friends, comes to the rescue, routs the white hunters, and induces the pack elephants and African bearers to return the ivory they stole to the sacred place whence it came. The End.

So there you have it. An utterly subversive film. Like all the other films about complex and interesting women (see, e.g., Possessed with Rita Hayworth and Raymond Massey) which constituted such a flowing genre in the early 30's and which were brought to such an abrupt end by the adoption of the Hays Code.

The joie de vivre of this film is best expressed by Jane's soprano version of the famous Tarzan yell. A nice touch, which was unfortunately abandoned in future productions.

Let's hear it for artistic freedom, feminist Jane, and sex.

Just Got out Of The Eras Tour Dolby Cinema, I'm Going to See this Again in IMAX next Weekend.

Taylor Swift is such an Efficient and Unique Performer and her Songwriting is at times Remarkable (Yes, I know she has Co-writers for Many of her Songs). 🎤

Taylor Swift -

1. She's Gorgeous to look at.

2. She was Performing so well in the Routines and Singing.

3. Her Speeches in Between every other Couple of Segments added even more to the Show.

4. I loved/liked Her different Costumes, the different Stage Layouts and Lighting, back up dancers and the band.

But here's what in my opinion, really makes Taylor Swift a Very Unique Performer -

5. She has a know-how, she has a Brightness or Likeability to her Facial Expressions, also her Physiognomy coupled with her own added personal Face Mannerisms and Look Mannerisms adds more to her. She also has this certain type of Elegance about her that adds to her Singular Ability to pull off what she does and how she does it. She's a Superstar.

There's a few moments when the crowd was just applauding and cheering for Taylor and it was Roaring in Dolby Cinema.

It was Such an Outstanding Performance

Bonus - She has Great Face Symmetry both when Frowning and Smiling 👌

Segments -

Lover - Excellent introduction to the Show 👌💖. "The Man" Song and Stage Layout was so Good to Watch. WHAT A PERFORMANCE!

Fearless - Solid Segment to Keep the Ball Rolling. I loved the Gold Screen Background Too. 🌟

Evermore - 🌲🍾 I loved the Screen Layout during this Segment, as well as the Songs. Also the Orange Glowing Balls Routine was great to Watch 🍊

Reputation - Great Segment and the Snake Visual was Great 🖤. Also, the people in the Boxes Set Piece was so good to watch. And "Delicate" is a damn good song.

Speak Now - Great Segment 💜

Red - Super Entertaining Segment with Beautiful Red Layout 💋

1989 - Category F5 Tornado Energy. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! 💎

Folklore - I Loved this Segment, gave such a different Vibe (Mainly Because of Betty) During the Show 🎸

Acoustics - Such a Relaxing Segment 🎹

Midnights - What a Vibe! Man, Taylor really knows how to Constantly Reinvent Herself. Category F5 Magnificent Sounds in Some of the Songs in the Midnights Segment. 🌃🌌

Overall, What a Show and What a Performance!

All the sketches in this old episode of the show are so incredibly funny, but the one with Bill Hader goes full ''Anthony Perkins'' while imitates Shepard Smith was truly the ''sugar'' of the night hihiihi also it's so weirdly sexy. Hader is doing a man on his game of imitating people that are famous or not, but in this case it's have won all the awards, even the Oscar!.

His interactions with Mother are truly the top of the sketch and also i loved the fact that they reproduce the full killing body of her at the end of the film.... What's that mother? Yes i wrote the review, im such a good boy i have already tell you that. Don't give me that look, mother.

Anyway, i gotta to go, because i gotta wash my toothbrush before mother give me a kiss for nightime. See you in my nightmares!