Wich2 wrote:
Thanks for the facts, Ryan. For folks who respect the truth, they matter.

Small asterisk:

As far as Box Office champ, we'd have to total ALL receipts from ALL Bond and Tarzan films. And there have been more Tarzans - in fact, as cited above, even within their respective first 50 years. Would Bond's 25 beat Tarzan's 40, adjusted for inflation?

-Craig
In a discussion about modernity, just the idea of having to adjust for inflation simply states that the older character could not maintain its evolution into recent times, while the newer one did.