Post #203821 by mbonga on Mon, Dec 19, 2005 9:49 PM

It's also a nice bit of social commentary on the way "real" natives are versus the way they might be depicted by money-grubbing showbiz hucksters back in the "civilized" world.

I recently read Crichton's novel "State of Fear" before seeing "King Kong," and as creepy as the real natives were in "King Kong," the natives in Crichton's book were much worse. Anyway, your comment made me think of that book because of the naive civilized character in the book who is delighted to finally meet real natives living "close to nature," only to find that was the worst mistake he ever made, to put it very mildly.

[Edited: I originally stated the book "Amazonia"--wrong book]

[ Edited by: mbonga 2005-12-20 06:47 ]