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TarpleyG

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King Kong Looks a Little Like Clint Eastwood
« on: December 18, 2005, 03:32:00 PM »




Great movie...sad as hell like the other two.

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2005, 10:01:12 PM »
I see King Kong still has his scars from his butt-kicking by Godzilla.

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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2005, 08:37:37 AM »
I read an article where there were talking about his appearance. I guess the original "model" looked like a giant ape, but it appeared to be too clean-cut. So, they messed him up a little to indicate a hard life of battling dinosaurs on the island. He's supposed to have the appearance of a rugged old man who's been around the block a few times. Clint Eastwood fits that description to a T.
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2005, 09:05:27 AM »
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He's supposed to have the appearance of a rugged old man who's been around the block a few times.
Heh -- he does kinda look like a grumpy old man in that picture.

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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2005, 01:54:02 PM »
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I see King Kong still has his scars from his butt-kicking by Godzilla.
Um, King Kong won that fight.
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2005, 02:13:48 PM »
I've also heard, in popular media, that King Kong is a derogatory allegory to the Darwinist view of black people. Amazing how people will perceive things...
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2005, 05:52:07 PM »
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I see King Kong still has his scars from his butt-kicking by Godzilla.
Um, King Kong won that fight.
Weren't there two endings?  One for Japan and one for the US?
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2005, 07:54:41 PM »
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Weren't there two endings?  One for Japan and one for the US?
I've heard that, but I'm not sure if its true. I think Toho left the ending "open" on purpose to please both Japan and the US, kinda letting the viewers decide for themselves who won.

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2005, 09:02:39 PM »
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Weren't there two endings?  One for Japan and one for the US?
Evidently (and this bummed me out when I found out about it) there were no alternate endings.  King Kong won in both versions.

Wikipedia entry on the Dual Ending myth
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« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2005, 11:21:28 AM »
Notice how they changed the natives in this remake so they're not black? Guess they didn't want Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to come calling.... rolleyes


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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2005, 08:01:38 PM »
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Notice how they changed the natives in this remake so they're not black? Guess they didn't want Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to come calling.... rolleyes


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Seems to me that Skull island should be populated by islanders, rather than africans. Isnt it in the South Pacific? The actors looked a lot like the people I would expect to find on an island that had no contact with the outside world.
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