KING KONG
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- Nairn0
But I guess, Nairn, all the cool gorilla fight scenes were fun too.
KuzII
(Dec 19 05, 02:41)Yes. They were. "They're why I went to see the movie".
I didn't feel 'Any way' about the movie - Frankly, I'd've thought it more useful to leave the film feeling that All of humanity's tribes are destructive and beastly when they fight to the top of their respective piles - what happened to the original lords of the Island? You don't choose to infer anything there? I don't see that Jackson made a terrific distinction between the morality of the different forms of brutality humans are able to inflict on one another/everything else. Just that Humans (all) are nearer beast than we're likely to admit.
As for your indignation about the the Savages and the Beautiful European Blonde they attempt to sacrifice - I just feel you're reading too much into it. If you were a tribesman (and I'm not inferring you are, even if you do live in Leeds) you'd send the bizarre golden-haired shrieking female to Kong as quickly as I would in that situation - SHE's the weird alien thing in their eyes - it's not some self-effected nod to colonial superiority... it's the logical outcome of initial contact between 2 wholly separate 'cultures'.
But, I guess, Kuz, people see what they want to see. I didn't view it through a racially segregating polariser - just a morally segregated one.
Anyway, assuming The Heart of Darkness wasn't in the original - did you not think it's inclusion a little trite, given the actual journey arcs played out by the various characters? It seemed like it was there more to instill darkness and gravitas and to justify Jamie Bell's innocence and, well, make you wonder when the black dude was going to ..er.. 'get It'. I didn't see any direct character parallel, except for maybe the author guy. But then, I was horrifically stoned when I saw it.
Ho hum, anyway, peace out brother.
ps. the Leeds thing? j/k!