Thanks to Ace I found this tool here.
So when King Kong unfolded and the 1930s New York crowd scenes were almost devoid of black faces, rather than the 15 per cent you would have expected, and when the first black actors had small non-speaking parts - dancers and the only major black character was the strong caring second officer to the ship's captain - the good and dutiful slave stereotype - I was squirming in my seat. If I had not been at a premier with my transfixed son I would have been out of the door soon after the wide eyed, homicidal, half dressed, blacker than black natives of Skull Island started cavorting one hour in.
Peter Jackson's movie is like the 20s/30s King Kong but with a modern film studio budget.
He was trying to be very true to the work he was re-making........
and yet some one has to assume a racial animus to this.
Could it be that Jackson had that 1930sish movie feel in his mind and was trying to recreate the awe and beauty of those films which were made back in a far less Racially enlightened time when -gasp- very few Black faces were on the screen?
Dave over at Garfield Ridge puts it into even better perspective
With respect to the natives on Skull Island, they are indeed very black-skinned (Jackson cast Melanesian islanders). They're definitely a stereotype. . . of crazed, cannibalistic, headhunting islanders. Is that stereotype accurate? Most certainly not. Then again, neither is a 25-foot-tall ape, or an island that time (and evolution) forgot.
Dave next thing your going to tell is is that Movies aren't always about real things.....
Its just a movie people.... a good movie
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