tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598194.post113617362524694021..comments2023-07-02T10:36:19.525-04:00Comments on The Chronicle of Mundane Misadventures: It was beauty killed the beastUmarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485177288443551264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598194.post-1136351123984092442006-01-04T00:05:00.000-05:002006-01-04T00:05:00.000-05:00Man, you take all the fun out of a movie, don't yo...Man, you take all the fun out of a movie, don't you? All this in-depth analysis and all. I mean, DANG, DUDE! DID YOU NOT SEE THE AMAZING SCENE when Kong took on 3 T-Rexes?! What's wrong with you?!<BR/><BR/>You know what's really poetic? When fricken King Kong killed the T-Rex by ripping its jaw apart. Or when Kong took on the giant bats.<BR/><BR/>You left out the real meaningful stuff of this mind-blowing movie.<BR/><BR/>In essence, you are not the man I once thought you to be.M. Imran Abd Ash-Shakur Ranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328488043134381020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598194.post-1136257768106194562006-01-02T22:09:00.000-05:002006-01-02T22:09:00.000-05:00That's a good point... Your comment reminds me of...That's a good point... <BR/><BR/>Your comment reminds me of Ebert's review where he talks about how Jackson's Kong is not really feared by Ann Darrow's character. After the initial scare, she actually grows to like the big guy and achieves some Jane-Goodall-type understanding with him. This is different than the original Kong movie, in which Ann's character pretty much screams nonstop in fear of Kong. <BR/><BR/>Jackson's version removes a lot of the violent sexual connotations (where Kong represents a form of jealous rage/violence in men) and allows the relationship between beast and beauty to be less weird than it otherwise would be. <BR/><BR/>I do like the notion of beauty taming the beast, it is a very poetic concept. One that I think happens to be very true. It is often the case that the most roguish knaves can be transformed by beauty and it recalls the line, <BR/><BR/>"And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty, and beauty stayed his hand. And from that day forward, he was as one dead"<BR/><BR/>Dead because that which was beast-like in him died and something wholly new, different and wonderful took hold.<BR/><BR/>[by the way, if anyone can find the original source of the quote, claimed as an Arabian proverb by the movie, I'd love to hear it]Umarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485177288443551264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598194.post-1136177174453810322006-01-01T23:46:00.000-05:002006-01-01T23:46:00.000-05:00Ah, but beauty killed the beast in that he didn't ...Ah, but beauty killed the beast in that he didn't act like a beast around the beauty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com