Ending the Kong-troversy
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The King of Skull Island has been saddled with an unfortunate reputation for years. The Omni Viewer and Snazzy Chapeau are here to end it once and for all.
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I never even knew or thought of Kong or the film being associated with racism.
Most rational people don't.
MothMarauder I didn’t ether
Blame the over sensitive new generation being exposed from another generation where it was the norm
I always associated it as an allegory for Animal cruelty.
Here's how I see Kong depicted in this film: He's the last of his kind (I'm ignoring "Son of Kong" because there is only one thing that contradicts this movie, which I'm mentioning it right now), he's lonely, he constantly battles predators all day long and that kind of life does not grant him and kindness. All he ever wanted from Ann was to be friends with her, because he's lonely, and he even tried to give her a flower when they were at his lair (when he had his back turned right before the elasmosaurus fight, it wasn't meant for the audience to notice, but it was a nice motivation as to _why_ he had his back turned), and he's done nothing but protect her because she's the closest thing to a friend he'll ever get.
And, like any other animal, whenever Kong goes on a rampage is because he attacks only when either on the defensive or when he's aggravated. And as for the final scene, it was just simply that there was a giant monster ravaging the streets of New York and needed the means to put him down, and they wanted him off the building. Kong was in a world he was not familiar with and that led to his downfall. I've seen the movie a hundred times and never once have I ever noticed the racial element in it. The only reason some people accuse the movie as such (even though it's not even there as far as I'm concerned) is because of the time period it was made. As long as they say _"Bah it wuz mayd bahk in '33",_ that's all they're ever gonna need for an argument, which is dumb.
That's a really good look on the film...
Here I go weighing in on an old video again. 🙄
If anything, King Kong speaks to the inhumane treatment of animals by early zoos and traveling circuses at the dawn of the 20th century. There’s no shortage of stories from those day of circus elephants being pushed to their limits and lashing out with murderous rage, which resulted in their termination. If I’m not mistaken, I believe Marion C. Cooper was partly inspired by a news story wherein a Komodo dragon was taken into captivity, escaped and had to be destroyed.
The reason Cooper chose a gorilla as his star was because he had a fascination with great apes. Plane and simple. Honestly, I doubt the movie would’ve worked if it were about an elephant, or a giant feline of the genus panthera, or a Komodo dragon.
The sequence with Snazzy was comedy gold.
THANK YOU! You said it perfectly. As a huge Kong fan, it aggravates me to no end when people scream racism.
I personally don't believe the theory of Kong being a metaphor for the slave trade, since Cooper loved gorillas and wanted to feature them in a movie for quite a long time before finally producing Kong, but I can get how some people might think it is. But like Cooper himself said when people try to dissect the movie for themes and such, "It says more about them than it does the movie."
People are silly.
I KNOW RIGHT!
The slave trade metaphor is just one interpretation. Another could be the exploitation of foreign lands; a third is the irresponsibility of scientific exploration; a fourth is just a twist on the old Beauty and the Beast story.
Still, even when taken seriously, the slavery interpretation still doesn't equate to racism the way some would have us believe
I’ve listened OV. I didn’t even know this was an issue, but thank you for addressing it
If the slave trade thing was intended to be the meaning of the film, wouldn't that mean...
It's not racist?
Kong was the good guy of the film.
XD
This is why I love your channel.
Just doing my part to better the community.
Yeah, the fact that some people don't seem to get that Kong is sympathetic boggles my mind.
I didn't know that was a thing... King Kong racist??? I never saw it that way :\
Most sane people don't. We understand what the movie is actually saying. This is why cherry picking is so dangerous.
Omni Viewer I could have said something akin to cotton, but then someone would have gotten offended.
Ok... Most sane people don't... But who sed I am sane??? :P"
WolfX1120 i would agree with that as i have never heard anything about king kong being racist or being a metaphor to slavery i think people just look into things to much without realizing that the movie has no direct mentions or a central theme about racism
I didn’t even know about this controversy. Great video
Great deconstruction of the controversy. You did a good job, explaining the flaws of this.
Thanks, as always. Hope it catches on.
Wait this was a thing I thought it was just something someone in the news brought up to make controversy.
You mean that video which popped up back in March before Skull Island was released? Yeah, that reignited the debate, but I remember articles on io9.com saying the same thing about Peter Jackson's remake. Trust me, this is nothing new.
However, you're right that the argument exists purely to generate controversy.
4:06 i see the godzilla 2014 halo jump poster that omni viewer hates while others like it as he analyzed it in non-moving pictures
Yup. I'm such a fan, I even keep the stuff I don't like.
Omni Viewer i also recently watched one of your atomic roasts video review of godzilla vs king ghidorah, which i was surprised on how u viewed it as a over complicated kaiju story with a time travel plotline that just confuses everyone, will u do another one of thoses, but with the showa godzilla movies that were bad? Like godzilla vs the sea monster? or son of godzilla? Or even godzilla's revenge? Which many say is the absolute worst of the series.
I do have more Atomic Roasts in the works, including a couple of Godzilla movies. Of all my different videos, though, Atomic Roasts take the longest to make, hence why they are so infrequent. There are more coming, though, I promise.
Sorry but I'm still mostly new to your channel, what is the orange puppet thing exactly?
That's Snazzy Chapeau, the dinosaur-lizard-thing originally created for my deviantArt page (link in the video description). He's mostly shown up in my MLP reviews, but I'm trying to bring him into my other videos as well.
That's his stand
Hey Omniveiwer, I want to know your opinion on the Trope Talk video about Kaiju made by O.S.P.
Ah yes the whole "King Kong is racist" argument. Many of my film professors find this claim to be true. I have a lot of respect for them, but that claim is kind of farfetched.
Feel free to show them this video and see how they respond.
You should get new professors.
King Kong is racist?......what has the world come to? (kill me...)Everyone(almost) knows this is a movie about a sympathetic creature trying to get it on with a girl(jokes,am I right?),and eventually gets confused and ultimately dies because of his relationship with Ann.That is extremely tragic. Why people even do that,well,I don't know.
Hey Omni!
I thought this was about Godzilla fans hating on kong
Great video 👌
Thanks.
How come I feel like I seen this video already? 🤔
This debate reignites every time a new King Kong movie is made. There may have been a few videos on this subject released back when Kong: skull Island was released.
Great video.
Thank you.
+Omni Viewer You really are one of the best youtubers out there. And I find your content to be better than most.
I am dumbfounded that people thought everyone of the crew of the Venture is white and American when one of them is literally of Chinese descent
King Kong.....
Racist....?
Wat?
Yeah, that's how I reacted the first time I heard someone say it.
MartianManFromMars Internet...that's wat
This threw me off at such a height that not even mt. everest could top I didn't even know this was real
I love it
The portrayal of the natives was pretty racist due to being a 1933 film, but Kong himself is just part-animal-part man, not really a metaphor for anything but animals and nature. And ultimately even in the original it's tragic that Kong dies. It's not a direct finger-point at colonialism, but it's an admission that it destroys everything it touches.
Hey is that a Zoid up on your self?
Yes and no. It's a Robostrux, which was the first attempt to bring Zoids Stateside way back in the Eighties. My Dad found it at a garage sale years ago, and we built it together without the instructions, which had been lost long ago. Good memories.
So, yes, it technically is a Zoid, but by a different name.
AH yes i do remember those as a kid wanted one so bad, they didn't sale in my area. That was a great find.
Hi
It should have been kongtroversy
I don't see any racism in this movie or with king kong, i think it's Misperception, i still see this movie as a Masterpiece, one of the greatest movies of all time, and yet people criticize it for being racist. If kong was a human ( like it was mentioned in the video) would that change their perception or not?
How can you make this and not even talk about the concept; "death of the author"?
How about the extremely stereotypical depiction of the Chinese man in the King King movie?
Skull Island is in Indonesia, so why are the islanders African in the first place?
King Wrong
Sympathetic characters can still propagate harmful stereotypes, and lots of Racists opposed Slavery. The natives are played by White people in Black face. The intent was not malicious but it still reflects the racist attitudes of the time.
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