amanaplan1 wrote:
If you feel like cherry picking at that one point regarding Tarzan among all of my others, then go for it. However, as I wrote in my original post and reiterated later, up until Lazenby replaced Connery, the '60s Bond series was the single most successful film franchise produced by the same filmmaking team for the same studio with the same leading man in history. In that regard, it is much closer to subsequent film franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Indiana Jones. Much more than that, it became an international phenomenon, the scale of which had never been seen before in a sustained film series. The same cannot be said of the Bowery Boys, et al.
Totally agree, which is why Bond thrives even today, and Tarzan is at least a generation without a film representation.