King Kong an Interracial love story?!
JC
It gets better — the Boondocks takes it there. Now, obviously, this is all said in jest. I mean, look at who is saying it….but…I have heard a couple of people talking about this — that King Kong is symbolic of an interracial love tale. I honestly think this is taking things too far….you can’t compare apples and apes. 
julie wrote:
taking it too far? he hits it right on. king kong, especially the new version, is directly analogous to the black male/white female (and really now, it’s always a blonde female) dialectic that so bothers our nation’s psyche. jackson even made sure to put in a reference to heart of darkness in the film, a novel that deeply explores the intersections of exoticism, imperialism, and race relations.
Posted 29 Dec 2005 at 11:58 am ¶
eric wrote:
that’s actually a pretty accepted meaning of the film, especially the original version.
Posted 29 Dec 2005 at 2:09 pm ¶
Luke wrote:
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Check out the video link “excerpt” on the left below “photos.”
Posted 29 Dec 2005 at 3:54 pm ¶
jen chau wrote:
oops. didn’t realize (or i didn’t want to believe that it was an accepted representation). ya learn something new…[from mmw readers] :)…every day.
Posted 29 Dec 2005 at 4:51 pm ¶
justin wrote:
Racism is so ephemeral. Has’nt everyone had someone make a snyde comment and then when you call them out they plead ignorance. Then you look paranoid or if you explain to them what’s wrong with what they just said you get caught in this self alienating shame spiral, cause everything has a grain of truth. . . . doesn’t it ??????
Posted 30 Dec 2005 at 7:52 am ¶
Ben wrote:
as in most things, you can see race here if you look for it. however, i agree with jen that calling this a direct reference to anything racial is going a bit too far.
the obvious reference is to the much more fundamental conflict of civilization vs. savagery. however, because of the way our history has unfolded - african slavery, european imperialism, etc. - the white/black dynamic has also taken on aspects of the civilization/savagery conflict. because of that correlation, it is impossible, in my view, to make a film about the C/S conflict without people assuming you’re “really” talking about race.
regardless of whether or not it’s “accepted”, before you accept that meaning of the film, ask yourself, why would you accept a gorilla as a representation of a black man?
there are plenty of films that *actually* deal with interracial relationships, most of them poorly. let a monster movie be a monster movie.
Posted 30 Dec 2005 at 10:11 am ¶
Kaonashi wrote:
The original movie made it even more obvious. I like Peter Jackson’s films but I won’t be spending my money on this one.
Posted 30 Dec 2005 at 12:06 pm ¶
justin wrote:
Civilisation vs. savagery. Yeah I think primitivism vs. modernism is to transparently racist. (White folks trying to push other civilisations, worlds, people, into the past ). Has anyone noticed that a jungle is just a forest without native white people?
Posted 30 Dec 2005 at 8:38 pm ¶
justin wrote:
I don’t want to be mean but I think Bens likes to divide and conquer. ‘Separate this separate that’. Maybe he could talk to the skinheads in my neighbourhood and get them to separate race from immigration issues, so instead of having a problem with me they could just deal with my mother, while I stroke my chin or stare at my navel.
Posted 30 Dec 2005 at 8:59 pm ¶
Anonymous wrote:
You cannot watch the classic 1933 King Kong and NOT see the racist overtones. It’s also in the 1976 version, but not as obvious.
Posted 31 Dec 2005 at 12:33 am ¶
Tarzan & Jane wrote:
“the new version, is directly analogous to the black male/white female (and really now, it’s always a blonde female) dialectic that so bothers our nation’s psyche.”
Actually, in the old version, it was more Afrophobic and one-way. The trophy blonde was an objectified victim - terrified by Kong.
In the new version, society has fast-forwarded 70-odd years past anti-miscegenation laws into the latest craze of Black-on-blonde internet porn. Jackson thus updates and idealizes the inter-special relationship - while sticking with archaic gender-roles - hyperbolized by casting the male as a giant prehistoric ape and the woman as a relatively diminutive Barbie doll. Kong impresses her with his brute strength and stalking devotion - Watts him with her pretty face and cutesy tricks (while still taking a neo-feminist dom role in their relationship). Kong is a heavily-sympathized with sub and Watts an self-empowered dom sex toy.
The only thing missing from this movie was a computer-enhanced graphic sex scene between beauty and the beast…with Watts pounding a strap-on donkey dong in Kong, of course…and him squealing like a 25′ happy pig in shyt!
Posted 16 Jan 2006 at 5:26 pm ¶