He put Bo through four films beginning with Tarzan the Ape Man here.
John used the springboard of Bo’s newfound celebrity to launch his own career as a director. This was managed by her husband John Derek, a former actor who was thirty years her senior. It was also at this very instant of Bo’s success that her career began to plummet. Bo Derek’s supporting role in the film catapulted her to become an instant worldwide sex symbol. Bo came to fame in 10 (1979), a Blake Edwards comedy where Dudley Moore plays a man going through a midlife crisis who becomes fixated on her. Bo Derek was one of the genuine no-talent phenomena of the era. Also: you’re probably going want to take a shower after seeing this movie.In the 00s, there was Paris Hilton in the 1990s, there was Pamela Anderson in the early 1980s, the equivalent was Bo Derek. This is as good a time as any to point out that pretty much everyone in the movie throws rapey looks at Jane–from the crew of the steamer, to her dad to, well…the elephant might have, it’s hard to tell with elephants. Oh yeah, it gets real incesty real fast, as Parker spends many scenes staring longingly at Jane. Well, the family reunion isn’t exactly a joyous one, as Jane is really cheesed off at dad for basically abandoning her mother to romp around Africa, and James is obsessed with how beautiful Jane is and how much she resembles her mother.
Because, I guess the best to whet your audience’s appetite for some nubile Bo Derek flesh is to show Richard Harris hanging brain. He greets the arrival of the tramp steamer carrying Jane by doing a jig on the river bank wearing only boots and a nightshirt. I mean, like, break out the butterfly nets and the rubber room nuts. Jane finds dad set up on a river bank with his expedition, and he is absolutely nuts. Jane has ventured in darkest Africa in search of her father, James Parker (a possibly-unhinged Richard Harris), a world-famous explorer and adventurer. In this version, Jane (she of “Me Tarzan, you Jane” fame) is played by the aforementioned Bo Derek. The story of Tarzan the Ape Man is really nothing new: girl meets boy raised by monkeys, boy…no, that’s basically it. And with that, let us dive into 1981’s Tarzan the Ape Man. That moment when we, as a society, went from “We’re in the midst of a bad recession and gas shortage, so let’s smoke some pot and have an orgy,” to “Yay! Reagan said that it’s morning in America! Let’s all do coke and have an orgy!” Because, gentle reader only that era of innocence could bring us a big-budget Tarzan movie that basically serves as nudity-delivery vehicle for Bo Derek. When the decade still had a contact high from the ‘70s-still batshit crazy, but less violent and despondent. And when I say that, I mean the pre-blockbuster days of the early-‘80s.
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