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To: montag813
Great picture.

By the way, the original King Kong is a movie about white’s fear of blacks (and especially the fear of the despoilation of white women) artfully disguised as a monster movie about a giant ape.

89 posted on 03/25/2008 10:23:32 AM PDT by ZeitgeistSurfer
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer
"By the way, the original King Kong is a movie about white’s fear of blacks (and especially the fear of the despoilation of white women) artfully disguised as a monster movie about a giant ape."

Really?? I always thought it was just a really bad "B" horror movie along the lines of "Attack of the 50 Foot Man" and "Godzilla" (I've been a horror movie fan since I was 5). They ALL have to have the beautiful, weak, helpless, ultimately brainless woman menaced by the alien, vampire, zombie, whatever who is sexually attracted to her. She is then daringly rescued from a fate worse than death and almost always anatomically impossible anyway - by the dashing male hero.

It's a convention left over from Victorian era literature. It's no different than the way a car ALWAYS pulls out in front of the good guys during any high speed car chase. People analyze it too much. You might as well say that the male zombies chasing the weak-minded, weak ankled woman...oh yeah, another convention is for the beautiful twit who's being chased to twist an ankle at a crucial moment...in the original "Night of the Living Dead" show the fear living men have for the sexual competition of mobile dead men.

94 posted on 03/25/2008 10:35:14 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer
By the way, the original King Kong is a movie about white’s fear of blacks (and especially the fear of the despoilation of white women) artfully disguised as a monster movie about a giant ape.

Maybe that's why it was Hitler's favorite film.

108 posted on 03/25/2008 11:39:35 AM PDT by montag813
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