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The most direct and literal interpretation of the phrase comes from the 1975 French-Belgian adult animated comedy, (French: Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle ). Directed by cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger, the film is a gleefully obscene parody of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character. It was animated on a budget of $1 million and ran for 80 minutes.

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Beyond the scandal of a single film, a deeper, more pervasive "shame" is tied directly to the character's origins. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912, Tarzan is a product of a racist and imperialist era. As one critic notes, the name "Tarzan" itself literally means "White Skin" in Burroughs' made-up gorilla language. The original stories are drenched in a colonial worldview where a civilized, superhuman white man brings order to the "dark continent".

This has led to decades of critique. The character is often cited as a deeply racist product of his time, and modern attempts to revive the franchise are forced to confront this uncomfortable history. In the 2016 film, The Legend of Tarzan , the hero is even portrayed as being ashamed of his own past as a colonial figure, hiding from his legacy in the English countryside. : It was the very first foreign animated

The most direct ancestor of the "shame" in the keyword is the 1975 French-Belgian adult animated film, Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (original French title: Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle ). This film is an unhinged parody of the classic Tarzan mythos. Directed by cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger, its opening sequence famously includes a scene of bestiality, a violent attack on Disney's The Jungle Book , and a deeply racist caricature of an African person—and as one reviewer noted, it only gets weirder from there.