Tarzan (1999)

Nigel Hawthorne: Professor Porter

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Quotes 

• [after being returned to camp by Tarzan] 

  Jane Porter : Oh, my goodness! Daddy, I was walking. There was... was a little baby, little baby monkey, and I drew a picture!

  Professor Porter : Yes, go on.

  Jane Porter : Suddenly, the monkey starts crying.

  Professor Porter : Oh, poor thing.

  Jane Porter : But, I turn around and there's a whole FLEET OF THEM. An ARMY of monkeys! A huge tree full of monkeys, screaming at me!

  [imitates a monkey screaming at him] 

  Professor Porter : [laughing at her]  That's theropithecus baboonus! She's very good at this!

  Jane Porter : Terrified! I was terrified! Suddenly, I was swinging, on a vine, in the air! Swinging, in the air!

  Professor Porter : With the monkeys!

  Jane Porter : I was in the air! And then, I was all surrounded!

  Professor Porter : What did you do?

  Jane Porter : And, Daddy! They took my boot!

  Professor Porter : Your boot - those are the ones I bought you.

  Jane Porter : And I was SAVED. I was saved by a flying, wild man in a loincloth.

  Professor Porter : Loincloth? Good Lord.

  Clayton : What is she talking about?

  Professor Porter : I haven't the foggiest idea. Takes after her mother, you know. She came up with stories like that. Not about men in loincloths, of course.

• Professor Porter : Oh, Janie Jane! What an amazing discovery! A man with no language, no human behavior...

  Jane Porter : And no respect for personal boundaries.

  Professor Porter : How do you mean?

  Jane Porter : [gets extremely close to Professor Porter]  He was this close to me, daddy, just staring at me.

  [Goes back to blackboard and finishes drawing of Tarzan] 

  Jane Porter : He was confused at first, as if he had never seen another human before. His eyes were intense... and focused, and... I've never seen eyes like those before.

  Professor Porter : Oh. Shall I - ahem - leave you and the blackboard alone for a moment?

  Jane Porter : Oh, daddy, stop it.

• Professor Porter : Oh, those magnificent creatures, shivering in cages. What is this world coming to?

  [He hits his fist on the wall; suddenly the ship shifts to the side, from Tantor getting on board] 

  Professor Porter : Oh, by Jove. Don't know my own strength.

• Professor Porter : Moves like an ape but looks like a man. He could be the missing link!

  Clayton : Or our link to the gorillas.

• Jane Porter : [Describing how Tarzan walks]  He bent his elbows out, and he walked like this.

  Professor Porter : Oh, I see! Just like Aunt Isabel.

• Professor Porter : [after telling Jane to stay with Tarzan]  What am I doing? Captain, ah. Tell them you never found us, eh? After all, people get lost in the jungle every day, right? Tootle-pip!

  [jumps out of the boat] 

• Clayton : [Draws a crude gorilla on Jane's chalkboard and points to it with the chalk]  Gorilla.

  Tarzan : [Takes the chalk and examines it]  Gor-illa.

  Professor Porter : [Excited]  Oh! Oh! He's got it!

  Tarzan : Gor-illa!

  [Proceeds to scribble wildly on the chalkboard] 

  Tarzan : Gorrrrr-illllla!

  Professor Porter : Oh, perhaps not...

• Jane Porter : Oh, Tarzan, you have no idea what's in store for you. You're going to see the world, and all kinds of people will want to meet you. Leaders, scientists, writers.

  Professor Porter : Yes, Darwin and Kipling. Queen Victoria!

  Jane Porter : I haven't met her, but I hear she's awfully nice.

• Jane Porter : And there were gorillas.

  Professor Porter , Clayton : Gorillas?

  Clayton : You found the gorillas? Where, Jane? Where?

  Jane Porter : He left with them.

  Professor Porter : Who did? Who?

  Jane Porter : Tarzan.

  Clayton : Tarzan?

  Jane Porter : The ape man.

• Professor Porter : Jane, dear, I can't help feeling that you should stay.

  Jane Porter : [tearful]  Daddy, please don't! We've been through all of this, I couldn't possibly... I-I belong in England, with you, with people!

  [Jane's glove is blown away towards Tarzan and he picks it up] 

  Professor Porter : But you love him.

  [Jane turns back to look at her father for approval] 

  Professor Porter : Go on.

  [Jane smiles as she happily hugs her father, she jumps off the boat and swims back to Tarzan. Upon nearing him, she stands up and tackles him into the water. Then she kisses him passionately on the lips. Tarzan's eyes go wide because of the action. After a moment, Jane backs off sheepishly while Tarzan looks at her lovingly] 

  Jane Porter : Oh!

  [she laughs and chuckles at his forwardness. In a daze, Tarzan hands Jane her glove] 

  Jane Porter : Um, thank you. Thanks for getting my glove. Thank you...

  [Tarzan then places his hands to her face gently, then he pulls her close to kiss her. Jane kisses him back until they both pull away. Jane clears her throat after noticing Tarzan's whole family on the beach watching]