{"id":2251,"date":"2009-03-18T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2009-03-18T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:33:18","slug":"king-klunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/king-klunk\/","title":{"rendered":"King Klunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rarity. In 1933, after the release of the classic giant monster film, <em>King Kong<\/em>, Walter Lantz (of Woody Woodpecker fame) released a parody of the giant-ape-in-love epic. As you&#8217;ll see, it follows the bare outline of the plot, adding typical Lantz comic exaggerations. It has been accused of racism in its depiction of the natives, but that strikes me as overly sensitive &#8212;\u00a0 it being made in the early &#8217;30s and in the context of a cartoon satire directed not at the natives at all, but at <em>King Kong<\/em>, the film. Lantz, in fact, has been quoted as saying he thought that <em>Kong<\/em> was a stupid film, which is why he chose to parody it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ArKXdba3C8E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ArKXdba3C8E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: YouTube, but the cartoon is available<span> on the Woody Woodpecker DVD Collection.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rarity. In 1933, after the release of the classic giant monster film, King Kong, Walter Lantz (of Woody Woodpecker fame) released a parody of the giant-ape-in-love epic. As you&#8217;ll see, it follows the bare outline of the plot, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/king-klunk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,73,44,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}