
She is stunning and the image will be burned into my memory for the rest of my life. A 12 or 14 foot tall image of Bo's glistening wet body strolling up and out of the blue ocean directly towards the camera, into bright sunlight is one of the most beautiful images a person could ever imagine. Twenty-seven years later, I remember in vivid detail the scene of her coming out of the ocean in full-frontal nudity. From the standpoint of pure physical beauty of human form, Bo Derek was at her physical peak when her husband shot her for this film. I was bored out of my mind except when Bo Derek found herself in a situation where she could shed her clothes. There were only a few people in the theater when the show started and several left as the movie dragged on. Having seen "10" about a year earlier, and thinking Tarzan the Ape Man might be similarly funny and entertaining, I took the 45 minute drive from a very rural town in San Mateo County, California "over the hill" to San Carlos to see a late night showing one Friday night in 1981.
