Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Page #4

Jane!

Jane!

Jane!

Jane. Jane.

Please, Johnny, don't be sad.

I love you, Johnny.

I love you.

[BELL RINGING]

JANE:

Phillippe.

Jane.

I have missed you, both of you,

so very much.

- How are you?

- As you see.

How is he?

Judge for yourself, Phillippe.

He'll be so pleased to see you.

Phillippe.

We've missed you too.

John?

Comment vas-tu? Eh?

John?

I am alone, Phillippe.

You brought me here

to look for my family.

I found an old man.

Now he's dead.

This isn't my home.

- This isn't my home.

- It could be, John.

You are a human being, a man.

You must come to terms

with that fact.

That reality.

You will never find a home,

be at home...

...here or in the jungle,

until you do.

You must overcome

what has happened to you.

You must transcend

the loss, the pain...

...and create something new.

John.

Don't give in so soon.

Otherwise, all that

you have achieved...

...all our work, will be in vain.

- Of course I will stay and help you...

- As my keeper.

- You don't need a keeper, John.

- No, I don't.

CLAYTON'S VOICE:

Never sell.

Never, ever sell.

Do anything, but keep it whole.

Understand me?

Yourself whole.

JANE'S VOICE:

Please, Johnny, don't be sad.

I love you, Johnny.

I love you.

[GASPS]

Leave us now, Iris, please.

Johnny.

Oh, Johnny.

[JANE MOANS]

[GRUNTING]

Thank you so much for coming.

May I take this opportunity

to congratulate you on your engagement.

- May you both be very happy.

JANE:
Thank you.

Monsieur D' Amok.

The erection of a new wing...

...to Waterhouse's

magnificent building...

...allows us to house a wider

selection of specimens...

...many of which were collected...

...during my recent, ill-fated expedition

to West Africa.

An enterprise wholly

in the spirit of Charles Darwin...

...helping us to understand

the origin of our species.

To complete these works in a style

worthy of this great museum...

...has been a costly undertaking and one

we could never have contemplated...

...without the generous patronage

of the late Lord Greystoke.

It is with great pleasure

that I call upon his grandson...

...the present earl, to declare

the Greystoke Gallery open.

Would you care to cut the tape?

We'll go past to the left

of these central cases.

You may recognize one of

the specimens from Africa.

The great hawks.

I was just explaining...

...the ornithological cage here.

It's a little macabre.

It's principally bones and beaks.

With the magnifying glass,

you can actually see...

...the projection on the end

of the bird's beak...

...with which he breaks out of the egg.

The odd thing is the various...

[WHIMPERING]

EVELYN:

Our pice de rsistance.

This is actually the largest

single collection of...

Miss Porter, this is one of

the largest single collections...

...of hummingbirds in Europe.

[GRUNTING AND SHRIEKING]

[GRUNTING]

Look at the one with

the blue breast on the branch...

- Excuse me.

EVELYN:
Mm?

OFFICER:

Sir Evelyn, it's Lord Greystoke.

EVELYN:

Excuse me.

Jackson. Harrison.

Excuse me. Gangway!

- Harrison.

- Yes, sir.

The barracks. Troops.

John, don't do this, please.

Guardsman.

[GUN SHOOTS]

MAN 1:
Get back, everybody.

MAN 2:
Get back.

MAN 1:

Back, please.

[JOHN YELLING]

[ROARING]

No. No.

No.

No, no. No, no.

No.

C'tait mon pre!

He was my father!

D'ARNOT:
However well

he may have mastered...

...the intricacies and complexities

of this absurd society...

...he is what the jungle

has made him.

That we saw yesterday. Irrefutably.

EVELYN:

I take a different view.

He cannot blame society...

...for the action of an impulsive

and undisciplined keeper.

There are two reasons he should stay.

Firstly, for the sake of science.

Science?

Whose science?

Your science? The imperial science?

And second, because to go

would be a failure.

You are so utterly predictable.

What in his terms is

a magnificent achievement...

...you see as your failure,

so you call it his.

How typical.

How tragic.

How very English.

He is the earl of Greystoke,

Monsieur D'Arnot.

The earl has great estates,

great wealth, great power.

Oh, of course, I understand that to you

such considerations may seem absurd...

...but it is essential for all of us

that he take his place in society...

...as his family has done

for generations.

He must be greater than

the accident of his childhood.

And, what is more important,

he must be seen to be so.

My God.

Yes, of course he could stay here.

But through people like you he would

become an object of derision...

...speculation, experimentation.

I promise you, Sir Evelyn Blount,

that I will do all in my power...

...to protect him from this abuse.

This insult.

[JOHN YELLING]

Father!

Mother!

Family, family, family!

Mother, father!

Family!

Father!

Mother!

[YELLS]

Family!

Family!

Animal!

Mother, father.

He must be allowed

to decide for himself.

I want him to stay,

but I also want him to be happy.

As happy as he can be.

And we want for him only

what he wants for himself.

To be whole, to be...

[DOOR OPENS]

I am going home.

EVELYN:

Lord Greystoke, I realize...

That what happened

in London yesterday...

...must have been

deeply distressing to you.

But I would advise you,

in your present state...

...not to make any decision

that could affect your...

...future.

I am going home.

- Lord Greystoke.

- I should go...

...because I know now

who I am not.

You are the earl of Greystoke!

[GROWLING]

Half of me is the earl of Greystoke.

The other half is wild.

I am going back.

[APES GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

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