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Post #166732

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ShiftyEyes
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Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
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31-Dec-2005, 2:24 AM
All that the Skull Island Orcs scene missed was a burning cross. It's been a while since I saw a major film with such a repulsively racist scene.
What's so racist about the natives? It may be a stereotype of natives, but I wouldn't put race as a factor. The natives don't really look like Africans to me. They actually look more like how I originally imagined Gollum from the Lord of the Rings! I did read though that Jackson took the look from actual photos of natives that even had the red eyes, though he undoubtedly took it to the extreme.

I do think their depiction is a bit over the top though. In Jackson's film, they're complete savages. The natives never killed anyone in the original film.