Skarsgard promises us flashbacks to the character as a boy, but the bulk of the story is about his adult life and return to Africa, "The emotional journey isn't, you know, the man from the jungle trying to readjustment or adapt to life? in Victorian London. It's quite the opposite. When you first meet him, he's in England? he's Lord Greystoke and he's very civilized and a British lord and then he goes back to his home?his emotional home?the Congo, and it's that kind of dichotomy between man and beast. He's not really happy in England. He's got an amazing wife; a fantastic manor? a really good life on the surface, but he's not happy. He's not really himself there."
As the movie progresses, Skarsgard says, there is, "more Tarzan and less John Clayton III." Sadly for those of us on set this day, they are filming a scene relatively early on in Tarzan's return to Africa. There is a train car set up on a stage and Tarzan is having a moderate disagreement with some Belgian soldiers, a disagreement mainly expressed through some violent physical acts. We can't get a good look at what's happening inside the train car?although we do see a soldier wearing a harness get lifted out of the car after being manhandled by Tarzan?but we get to see the movie magic of the car rocking back and forth along with the lights moving so as to simulate the motion of the train.