Jumanji on TF1: By the way, what does that title mean?

The feature film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which immerses Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan in the world of the video game Jumanji (in the 1996 film it was a board game that landed in the real world), will be broadcast on TF1 on Sunday night. An opportunity to review the meaning of the famous word Jumanji.

To know what Jumanji means, you have to go back to the source. And the source is Chris Van Allsburg, author of the 1981 children’s book that inspired the first Robin Williams movie.

First of all, we remember that it was Chris Van Allsburg’s frenzied games of Monopoly as a child in the mid-1950s that inspired him to write Juman’s book story.

Frustrated that he didn’t pocket the amazing sums he had accumulated, the American then imagined a game where the players didn’t have to imagine exactly what was happening to them, a game where everything that happened on the board had consequences. in real life. The concept of Jumanji was born…

So much for the origin of this extraordinary story. But what does the name of the game mean? According to Van Allsburg, This was reported by The Independent websiteJumanji is a word that in Zulu, the official language of South Africa, means “Many effects.” that “effects” which, according to him, concern “Interesting results of the game”In this case, an incredible meeting of his world with us.

Now that you know what is hidden behind the word Jumanji, will the game in front of you as a viewer have a special flavor?

We played Jumanji with Dwayne Johnson!