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In Reply to: Astute Commentary, HalfNote........ posted by audiohead on December 19, 2005 at 05:20:38:
That's an interesting point. And there are many who point to films like the original Psycho to make exactly this point, which seems all the more relevant when you take the shadows of the jungle and the lights and nighttime backdrop of New York, particularly in the original Kong film. But I think the mythic elements arise more out of the simple ingredients of the story -- the great beauty, the powerful, yet vulnerable beast, the romance and freedom of the jungle, and the harsh, unforgiving reality of the great modern metropolis, the juxtaposition of the attainable weak human lover with the totally impossible, yet irresistibly powerful lover in the guise of the libidinous monster, the ultimate romantic force in Jackson's remake.As far as your comment regarding color film's inability to convey fantasy, per se, I think I'd have to disagree. Afterall, the utopian painters emphasized color, as did the romantics of almost every stripe. That great artist of commercial fantasy art, Frank Frazetta, worked in color as well. And we all remember a little films like "The Wizad of Oz", and 2001." I thought, in fact, that some of Jackson's sets in the new KK were Frazetta-esque, as his monsters certainly were. Perhaps, though, this is just my impression. Yet, I am sure that black and white, as you assert, can be very effectively used in fantasy film-making as well.
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