2025-03-06 17:37
This morning, I made my #wip’s 13-year-old protagonist, feeling all the indignities of adolescence, go to the pictures in June 1934 to see #maureenosullivan and #johnnyweissmüller in #tarzanandhismate. That was very cruel of me.
NB These films were a staple of school holidays TV when I was a kid, but are very obviously and irredeemably problematic now. And I’m not taking about the papier mâché ears stuck on the Asian elephants…