Sentences with phrase «heavy creative license»

by Walter Chaw David Yates's The Legend of Tarzan is at once a long - overdue, if massively - fictionalized, biopic of George Washington Williams's time in the Congo observing colonial Belgium's abuses of the rubber, ivory, and diamond trades; and it's an adaptation, nay, updating of Edgar Rice Burroughs's first five Tarzan books, with heavy creative license taken but the spirit kept largely intact.