Ace-- I touched on this issue a bit in my review.

Digital Brownshirt's got comments too.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I guess that JESSIE JACKASSON will be protesting again

Jonah Goldberg talked about this during the "Lord of the RIngs is racist" hoopla:

www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg010303.asp

He makes a good point: Who's the real racist? Someone who sees an ape and thinks "black people" or someone who sees an ape and thinks "ape"?

Mucho gracias for the link, Ace, much obliged.

Bottom line: Kong starts out slow (real slow) but picks up and ends incredibly well. I was very surprised it was as good as it was.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

P.S. BTW, my Weblog Awards race is still really close-- it's been back and forth between me and my nearest competitor. Since this is the last day of voting and all, wouldn't mind some extra clicks here.

"I was lucky that my paternal instinct to stay and explain this to my son at the end got the better of me, because the next two hours were fabulous.

Though it was always impossible for the film not to endorse the black male stereotype, and one has to ask why Jackson so wanted to make King Kong as opposed to anything else, his attempt to shelve the lust angle and portray the relationship between Kong and Darrow (played by Naomi Watts) as owner and favourite pet - in that order - worked. The cinematography was excellent and my worst fears were not realised."

Notice how this enlightened fellow started enjoying the movie right about the time it started to portray the relationship between the supposed black man stylization and white chickie as "owner and pet - in that order"?

Instead of musing about Peter Jackson's motivations in making it perhaps Kwame should ask himself whether there is any way they (meaning someone other than Spike Lee Productions) could have made a King Kong movie that held no racial under, over or middle- tones for him.

So, in case everyone has forgotten, this is what we have been ordered by the elites to do:

Do NOT go see King Kong, er, rather King KKKong. If you do, you are nothing but a racist pig.

You MUST go see Brokeback Mountain. In fact, you have to see it at least 3 times. If you do not, you hate gay people.

You really have to work very hard to be stupid enough to get offended by Kong in racist terms. I think medication for paranoia might be called for.

Although the Orcs in LOTR were clearly symbols for the honkey vision of the black man and so that movie is racist, and Jackson probably is too.

One more thing, if Jackson had merely made Kong gay then we wouldn't be hearing this shit.

A gay kong would trump black outrage.

The comments at the Times article are priceless. This one really caught my eye:

white folks are already fully aware, albeit subconciously, of how this kind of racial mind f**king works, and enjoy the fruits of it.

Those racist "white folks"!

Dave, the web's go-to guy for ape extravaganzas, reviews the movie, giving it a rave (but consider the audience, here) and finds the charges of racism pretty silly.

I also see that some people are up in arms because Jackson cast Melanesian actors in the role of the "savages". Now, correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the island in the Pacific Ocean? What did they want playing them, Scandinavians? I guess a character can't be "bad" unless he (or she) is white.

I think my favorite complaint is that the population in NYC isn't presented in the "correct" proportion of 15% black. What the hell, was he sitting in the theater furiously taking a census of the crowd shots?

His poor kid will probably never be able to just enjoy a movie without having its hidden political/social agenda explained to him at length by his killjoy dad. Sometimes a giant monkey's just a giant monkey, dude.

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