Comments on: King Kong and Skinny White Blondes

By: 3rdlevel

3rdlevel — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:37:08 +0000

Duh! Every film contains metaphors representing ideas about “reality”. If there was no connection with reality, you wouldn’t have any frame of reference to understand it. But to see the racism in “King Kong”, you don’t need to imagine Kong as a metaphor. Is it so hard to recognize the grotesque stereotypes of “primitive” blacks, sacrificing a lily white blonde, while beating frenzied jungle rhythms?

By: Jim Pfaff

Jim Pfaff — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:26:13 +0000

Geez! These comments are a flippin’ freak show themselves!

By: Addie

Addie — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:40:36 +0000

I think a lot of people are missing the point here.

Finding a racial subtext in Kong isn’t about being liberal or conservative. It’s not about looking for problems either.
Film has arguably become the most important instrument of artistic expression in the world today. If a film wasn’t full of implicit cultural meaning why would anyone relate to it?

Yeah, King Kong has no racism, Narnia isn’t a Christian allegory, and The Exorcist isn’t about child molestation…..right. I agree that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But a lot of times it’s a big fat metaphor.

By: mary

mary — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:48:58 +0000

Hard to deny the racial implications in the original movie.

As for this new version, which I really look forward to seeing, if Peter Jackson cast a black female in the role, would it have mattered? Or a brunette?

What some of the critics seem to forget is that the character most people identify with is King Kong. Leaving race out of it, this is about an impossible love that leads to a bad ending. That’s pretty universal.

By: BIRDZILLA

BIRDZILLA — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:54:00 +0000

KING KONG vs BIRDZLLA i will bomb him just like the pigeons in central park do SQUARK SQUARK

By: Catez

Catez — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:47:57 +0000

the tracer bullets that miss Kong atop the sky needle apparently sail on to pick off members of the Algonquin Round Table quipping over their martinis in the bar and nobody gives a damn or even thinks about it.

I know for a fact that Dorothy Parker was not killed by tracer bullets. And there isn’t any football in King Kong.

(Have to meet these kind of arguments in a robust and equally intelligent manner).

By: Catez

Catez — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:42:27 +0000

I guess you have to know a bit about Jackson. He’s always liked things that are a bit weird, fantasy type things. (I won’t even tell you about his early pre-LOR movies and I won’t watch them either). He made it simply because he has liked the story since he was a kid. I know that’s hard to believe – but it’s the same sort of reason he made LOR – he was personally really into the book.

Moving right along…
Jackson lives on an island (same one as me but alas he has not invited me round as yet). And er… I did hear crashing and rumbling sounds in the back garden yesterday. Movies are really true sometimes.

By: beautifulatrocities

beautifulatrocities — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:26:35 +0000

I saw it & I was offended. The clear implication is that the cracker dude lacks the right equipment so the blondeshell has to turn to a big jungle gorilla for satisfaction. Well I’m NOT underequipped & anyone who says so is a damn liar!!

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:23:14 +0000

I’m just waiting for the day when we look back on today’s typical black entertainers much as we do Steppin’ Fetchit, Amos n Andy etc with disdain. Selling their dignity for a few pieces of silver…

In my eyes, the old-timers were comically funny, there’s nothing funny about Ho’s, Pimpin’ etc as nuthin but sex, slap or smackdown objects

Ciao

Andy

By: Norris McDonald

Norris McDonald — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:31:00 +0000

Okay. So he fell for her. She was fine. Get over it.

By: AAEA Blog

AAEA Blog — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:29:11 +0000

Big Black Goes Ape Over Blond

He fell for her.

By: Heliotrope

Heliotrope — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:49:56 +0000

So if Kong were a Great White Ape and the love interest turned out to be Halle Berry, would she be “black” enough?

Racism is s-o-o-o-o-o boring when you have to look under rocks to find it.

By: American Zealot

American Zealot — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:32:52 +0000

Waiting for the next “Matrix”, ya dig?

By: American Zealot

American Zealot — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:31:53 +0000

@ #21

Sorry dude, I dont buy it.

Get some new material Hollywood, because I won’t pay to see another rehashing.

I am doing my part and writing some stuff of my own but I don’t have the resources yet to make anything on my own accord, so complaining will have to be my contribution for now.

By: Ernest S.

Ernest S. — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:03:25 +0000

No no no! We’re all missing it.

This movie represents how the Left (represented by the island natives) are truly in touch with, and understand the “needs” of the blacks (represented by Kong), until Conservatives (the rich white men, because we all know Conservatives are rich, white, and evil, don’t forget evil) come along and “steal” the Black Man’s identity and enslave him!

If only Michael Moore had been available to direct! Well, better to see this beacon of truth than that horrible, conservative Christian propaganda piece about “Narnia”. (/sarcasm off)