KING KONG ...roar!!!

I watched “King Kong” before Christmas but it never occurred to me that the movie could be a great topic for discussion, I mean beyond the ape and man relationship. After talking about the movie with several friends and hubby, I realized that the movie projects various dimensions of social, political and historical output. With the Great Depression as its background and the plight of black people in America during that era, King Kong “carries” the weight of social context and political critique on its metaphoric back, fashioned to be an action packed movie full of jungle adventure and romance. Another interesting aspect of the film is also observing not how “beauty killed the beast” but also how “machoism wins the beauty”. Jake Driscoll, the socially progressive playwright has not chance against the physically strong and “macho” King Kong in winning Darren `s heart. Driscoll is merely a replacement; a person that Darren holds on in the last scene AFTER King Kong fell and died. This is in fact a study on the art of human behavior and the attraction between Kong and Darren is not literally an interspecies relationship (as I read in some of the reviews on line) So, I did some research and discover a few interesting stuffs for us to get to know Mr. Kong better:

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC06folder/KingKong.html
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC04folder
/KingKongHistory.html
http://www.kongisking.net/history
http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/kingkong

Don’t forget, that Malaysiakini.com reported previously that our local folks sighted ape-like life form in the interiors of Johor. The Jakun indigenous people have some “haisy” encounters with the giant ape and the existence of these ‘Big foot” was confirmed by our Malaysian Nature Society. Hmmm...