Who cares about class?

My essay piece is here, since I’ve read enough rabbit holed book reads, multifaceted reviews, Reddit gossip, Quora surfs, Cracked columns, web clicks and Tv Tropes peeps to tell you the bigger picture. 

Bear in mind that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ chauvinistic values have thankfully been considered passé since before even WW2 was both in and out in the 1940s. But in his Master of Adventure book, Richard A. Lupoff had to admit that ERB was indeed beaten by Bomba the Jungle Boy’s authors in terms of values dissonance. That’s why I don’t care about class or caste when it comes to casting any available portrayer as Tarzan, Jane and others. 

Also according to Cracked columnist Andres Diplotti, the (book+comic canon) ERB parent brand counterpart of Disney’s Tarzan was the mind frying equivalent of radioactive spiders in the 1910s! Which explains why Disney’s Tarzan is already a different beast from him. 

What I do care about a bit more is that which actor or actress will have the badassery and dynamism to play a Tarzan character, which was also because ERB was both classist and casteist as hell even for his time, even though both the racism and sexism aren’t that bad in his books. 

Though he is likely ethnically mixed, Bobby Brazier will surely be the first British actor to officially play Hieronymus Holt in the history of the franchise and its parent brand, which is because the character is himself entering the public domain in America near the end of this decade.