![]() ![]() The films share the same jungle sets and even some of the same actors - Wray played the female lead in both, and Robert Armstrong played her character’s goofy brother in the former as well as the movie director Carl Denham in the latter. Cooper worked on both pictures together, as director and producer in the former and as co-directors and co-producers in the latter. ![]() Schoedsack’s 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game falls prey to the misogyny found so often in action and adventure films, as can be observed in its reduction of its only female character to a damsel-in-distress archetype as well as its implicit affirmation of Zaroff’s ideology.ĭangerous Game and King Kong (1933) were produced concurrently. ![]() Despite its apparent criticism of the objectification of women, Irving Pichel and Ernest B. ![]() Created in a period during which women were commonly seen in Hollywood films and in American culture more broadly as mere housewives and sexual objects, this jungle adventure movie is no exception. Since the words come from the mouth of the antagonist, one who enjoys hunting men, their sentiment is presented as evil and archaic, but this does not stop the movie from reinforcing misogyny. “Only after the kill does man know the true ecstasy of love.” These words from the villainous Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks) to protagonist Bob Reinsford (Joel McCrea) in the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game imply that whichever man succeeds in killing the other will receive the pleasure of sexual relations with Eve (Fay Wray), regardless of her consent. ![]()
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