Film Review: King Kong(1933) Essay Example

trouble just being around. ”) When they arrive the skull island and make contact with the native people, Denham was fascinated by the ritual conducted by the natives.

However, his frivolous whistling shows that he pays no respect to the natives or their ceremony. All he sees is money and fame if he can film all these scenes and sell them to the public in New York. The idea that white people are superior to the natives is also problematic. The chief of the native people proposes to exchange six women for Ann. Further, the fact that Kong finds a white woman far more attractive than a native one is racist. In the movie, Kong fights as many as three or four dinosaurs in order to protect his heroine.

Every time he defeats a dinosaur, he stereotypically pats his chest and roars to show his masculinity. Also every time he approaches to her, despite her continuous screaming, he is gentle, careful and loving, which sharply contrasts to his behavior of trampling native women at the end of the movie. While the primitive (Kong) could not resist the attraction of a white woman, the civilized (Jack and Carl) plays the role of saving the white woman. When they fight with Kong in the jungle, Kong fails to kill them despite the fact that he succeeds in killing dinosaurs.

After Kong was brought to the civilized world, he completely loses his position as the king of the nature and has to die in the face of civilization and technology. Unsurprisingly, it is Carl who proposes to use airplanes and it is Jack who climbs

up to the top of the Empire State and finally gets Ann. Ann, on the other hand, does nothing but screaming, screaming, and screaming since Kong makes his first appearance in the movie. As a woman, she is incapable of controlling her own destiny.