Analysis of the film ‘King Kong’

‘King Kong’ in is a film published 1933. some people think it is a film about the love of wild beast to a beauty. In this essay, I will argue that King Kong is a film about race, and it is the particular race against between white people and black people.
The first period of this film is that Denham wanted to publish a wonderful film so they went on an oceangoing voyage and found an island which is far away from American’s center New York. On that island they found black people, this implies that black people are not identical to white people, they were forced to live an island far away from cities which is backward and difficult to find. This shows the racial segregation between white and black people. At 30:31 a scene that was showed straight and ----angle , the angle gave the whole condition of which way black people were gathered and what kind of house they lived in, also how they wore was shown at the same time. At 31:00 a medium shot was given to the chief of aborigine, he’s upper part of the body was naked and his face was cover by white and black colors this gives a huge contrast with white people. White people wore shirts and dress while black people wore grass skirt and naked upper part of body no matter they were men or women. At 34:30 a straight angle recorded black people held with spear and shield while Denham said “Get ready the rifle”. This shows that white people are catching the pace of technology but black people are still live in a barbaric era. The simple comparison leads a huge difference of lifestyle and living condition of black and white people. In addition, I was impressed with a special sentence said by the chief of aborigine at 35:06 and translated by captain ‘He said he wanted to use 6 women to exchange Ann as a present to Kong.’ In these words, it implies that from bottom of chief’s heart, he