I caught so many intentional Hollywood cliches: scenes of the boiler room feral boy with mentor turns sharp shooter pied-piper movie-maker loses his way, improvs a thin cheese, including a final line (no truer than anything else he's said). The injections of vaudeville and burlesque are likewise by design, as is the veneer of faux depth, atop the real depth of strong storytelling. This is a feast for the unfettered imagination, supported with the best our high tech has to offer. So check your literal rational machine world mind at the door. It's a film, see, inheriting from theater before it. Some discontinuities appear deliberate: swept away in the river, then dry? where'd the natives go? how'd they get the ape on the boat? We're warned in advance that science / engineering (the other side of C.P. Read the NRC’s Report Brief (4 pages).King Kong is a venture into the skulletarium, as my friend Gene Fowler might put it. ![]() Vergano, “ NRC: Death penalty effect research ‘fundamentally flawed’,” USA Today, April 18, 2012.) See Deterrence and Studies. Pepper, “ Deterrence and the Death Penalty,” Committee on Law and Justice at the National Research Council, April 2012 D.
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