Seen anew on TCM today Kinko is made to do the whole "Step-n-Fetchit" range of business used by negro actors of the period. The rolling eyes, the head scratch, even the peeping around the rocks at the couple in front of the fire, cuddling, he does the finger to mouth, raised eye brows (unibrow?)and bowing back out of sight.
I realize they were different times but this stuff certainly sticks out today.
Come on lads, bags of swank!
I think that trying to connect little Kong's cute antics with racist stereotypes is stretching it.
Of course. We only see them with modern eyes, I'm sure that the writers, director and even the SFX guys that operated Little Kong didn't plan some underhand piece of racial discrimination.
But in 1933 black actors with almost no exception had to fit into the stereotypes that Hollywood assigned them which was servants, shoe shine "boys", Pullman attendants, all with limited education and "Amos & Andy" style speech patterns and Little Kong was presented in that context....
Come on lads, bags of swank!
Of course. We only see them with modern eyes, I'm sure that the writers, director and even the SFX guys that operated Little Kong didn't plan some underhand piece of racial discrimination.
But in 1933 black actors with almost no exception had to fit into the stereotypes that Hollywood assigned them which was servants, shoe shine "boys", Pullman attendants, all with limited education and "Amos & Andy" style speech patterns and Little Kong was presented in that context....
Please read the quote you display CAREFULLY.
I say that BLACK ACTORS HAD TO FIT THAT STEREOTYPE and that Little Kong was PRESENTED in that context..
Come on lads, bags of swank!
Right. You meant for one thing to lead to the other, and it doesn't. Because there's no valid basis for such a comparison.
Really?
And what is the basis for your claim ?
Come on lads, bags of swank!
I'm not the one making spurious claims with no basis.
Then you show a limited knowledge of American social and racial history in motion pictures.
I'm sorry you feel the need to be in denial of the regular denigration of black Americans in so many movies from the 1900's up until the 1960's.
I recommend the following:
"Black Hollywood" by Kimberley Fain
"Bright Boulevards" by Donald Bogle
You're welcome.
I recommend watching SON OF KONG again and realizing how totally irrelevant any of this is to that particular film.
YOU'RE welcome.
I see denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Come on lads, bags of swank!
Well, at least you admit it.
I realize I must have embarrassed you suggesting you READ something more than flyers from the KKK and White Power Movement.
Come on lads, bags of swank!
Well, you know how horrible us SON OF KONG fans are compared to the usual social justice warrior.
Always bringing it to that when someone disagrees, huh? 😏
shareYou back again Rastus the Race Baiter? Do you ever watch movies or do only screen for skin color? You must lead a very humdrum existence. And your probably a guilt ridden white poofer too.