News alert!!! King Kong is a racist movie.
Recently there has been a lot of talk about the movie King Kong and what it represents. I went through many cites looking for this and found common themes of racial problems with the movie. Here is a list of why this movie is racist towards black people.
1. White people going to remote islands reminds of the white british slavery traders going to africa back in the expedition era.
2-King Kong eats dark women but falls in love with white blond woman.
3-The capture of King Kong is a reminder of these white slave traders capturing black africans.
4-The transfer of King Kong to New York is a reminder of black slaves moved to the new world.
5-The exhibition of King Kong for profits is a reminder of slaving black africans in cotton fields and other areas.
6-The revolt and subsequent destruction of King Kong is a warning to the dark slaves that whites will prevail.
How ridiculous is this? Well, it seems as if people are really analyzing this and looking at all the ways in which King Kong is related to slavery. I'm not black so I don't know how strongly I would feel about this, but being a minority I'll say this. I don't think the movie is racist and is portraying black slavery, but I would like to know who was the first person who thought about this.
It is my opinion that the only racism going on here is the person who started thinking this way. You would have to be racist to look at the different ways in which you can change something like this movie into something as vile as racist connotations. Either that or it's just another person bored thinking of ways in which he/she can start something up because he/she has nothing better to do with his/her spare time.
I find it amusing everytime a Hispanic friend of mine analyzes everything with a racial mind set.
When I see King Kong, I see a big ape looking for some interspecies loving. If there are people who have sex with animals why cant an animal want to have sex with a person? This clip is on point by the way (click on download video).
Lets face it, when this movie was first made the actresses were mainly white and blond. In order to keep the movie going as original as possible, all remakes are made as close as to the original. Personally I like when a remake is as close to the original as possible. And so what if it's a blond chick. Who doesn't like blonds.
How else are they supposed to bring King Kong to the city? It's not as if they had planes back then.
You can go on an on, and of course you can find many more racially related problems with the movie. I just find it somewhat ridiculous for all these thing to be brought up.
Maybe I'm not being sensitive to the issue, but I wont get involved until people start making fun of the brown race.
posted by Gold Nugget at 8:42 AM
7 Comments:
If you think that's bad, take a gander at what people say about "The Wizard of Oz" and economic theory. Now THAT is trippy, but interesting, stuff.
Also, I don't care how many remakes there are... King Kong and Spiderman BOTH could have had hot sexy brunettes and still maintained the integrity of the film :) Good thing Superman is coming out with a true-to-form raven-haired Lois Lane. Granted, it's going to be a blonde in a wig. Poop.
9:22 AM
i feel ya. I like brunettes, i married one, and i look forward to whoever is playing that role, but for some reason i think whoever plays that role wont truly represent brunettes.
9:35 AM
Okay...so I don't know what to say about all this. It seems that many movies have some racial undertone within them, which can always be detected by the right kind of nose. Maybe we can have Yoni make a movie that depicts Brown people in a negative and stereotypical way. Just to level the playing field a bit, so it's not always black people enduring this...
7:15 AM
this article is stupid,asinine,ignorant,and pointless..and who ever wrote it wouldnt know culture if it walked up and kicked them in the face..first of all its a FICTIONAL movie about a 80 foot gorilla..come on know people..oh and speaking of racism check this out quote"6-The revolt and subsequent destruction of King Kong is a warning to the dark slaves that whites will prevail."
that is one of the most racist things ever utterd by any hypocrite to burden the earth with there dead weight..and what are these fools talking about brunettes and blondes for..IGNORANT!!!!
5:19 PM
It's an allegory of racism. It's not racist.
2:31 PM
Like mufasa said, these people's analysis of the classic as racist is a display of how ignorant they are to film as a tool for social commentary; the film is an allegory to slavery and racism. The writer and director didn't make the film to be racist, they wrote it and directed it to display what racism was like. It's the same for the majority of films and books: it's not racist, it /deals with/ racism.
4:30 AM
That said, your comment on how they 'didn't have planes back then', not quite my friend. The first rendition of King Kong was made in 1933, and the plot takes place around the same time. Planes were definitely around - we all know about fighter planes in the war, don't we? Even so, the first commercial airlines were established as early as 1909 in Germany, so point invalid, unfortunately.
4:37 AM
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