Charles Liu
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Podcast Appearances
The movie, now that I'd forgotten this, was quite sympathetic.
It was.
Very much so.
It was the... It was...
Some people think that it was a way that the movie makers were trying to say, hey, don't hurt the environment, guys.
Take good care of nature, lest it comes back and bite you or bite you in half, which was one of the scary scenes of King Kong, where he actually had a human being in his teeth.
Dangling, right.
Dangling, and while he bit down on it, and he was like, oh, yeah!
That's scary, right?
But that was sort of nature unfettered if humans messed it up, right?
And he wound up being in love with Fay Wray, the girl, climbed up the Empire State Building, and then airplanes came and shot him and killed him, and he fell down to Earth.
And the last line of the movie, "'Twas beauty killed the beast."
As he's laid their dead on the street.
That's right.
Or it was humans that killed the beast.
Yeah.
The beast was, this beast was actually a very friendly guy.
I mean, he treated the humans with perfect respect.
and normal behavior until he was put in this environment.
And, you know, one of the things also was the humans losing control of nature, right?