Monday, October 20, 2025

#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - 10/19/2025

 October 19, 2025 and nineteen years ago on this day in The Russian film, “Tarzan des Mers,” the name was changed to “The Amphibian Man” at the request of the ERB Inc., released in the US: The film had little to do with Tarzan, other than the appropriation of his name. The original film, based on the 1928 novel, “The Amphibian Man” by Alexander Beliaev. There’s no reason to explain the plot because the film, THE SHAPE OF WATER,” is virtually the same story, start to finish. The Shape of Water was even placed in the 1960s. “The Shape of Water” received 13 nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, the most of any film in the 2018 race. It won in four categories: Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Director, and Best Picture.

The drabble for today is “Under Water, No One Can Hear You Yell.” Like the film, The Shape of Water, plagiarized the Russian film, Tarzan de Mers, I plagiarized my own drabble about this film. It features my old friends from New Orleans, Pat and John.
Pat said, “John, Let’s go see that new Moscow made Tarzan Movie.”
“Pat, you know that I don’t speak Russian.”
“That’s not a problem, John. I checked with the Audubon Zoo. Amphibians don’t speak Russian either.”
“That’s not all, Pat. The Russians originally titled the film, “Tarzan de Mers.” That’s just wrong. Buying a ticket encourages bad behavior.”
“Excuse me?”
“Tarzan of the Apes. Not Tarzan of the Sea. Sounds like a tuna fish ad or a pasta order. Apes, not eels, not sharks, and not octopi. Underwater no-one can hear the Tarzan yell. It’d just be blub, blub, blub.”





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