What we realise is that for Kong, the definition of beauty is not about blond hair, it's about emotion. As for Ann, she's drawn to the animal because he makes her feel something real, and that is Kong's loyalty, protection and friendship. What more could a woman ask for? The classic idea of the beast is one who tends to have very pure, strong emotions - he doesn't contain or repress his feelings. I think that for women, who wrote the original myth in the 17th and 18th centuries, the story had a primitive natural eroticism, a combination of raw power and innocence. A woman's dream of a protective monster like Kong is a sort of infantilising dream of being back with some daddy figure, of thinking yourself back to the beginnings of your own life, when your parents were huge and your father was a titan!
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All work and no play makes Ann a dull girl. Once in the jungle, she's getting back to being female and showing her girl side. The sheer power of the animal is scary, but once the beauty realises the beast is tamed, she's ready to combine her new found-out-in-the-work-world power with her old time girl-power. She's drawn to the animal because he makes her feel something real, and that is his loyalty, protection and friendship. It's almost like they have struck up a domestic relationship. "OK, he's in a bad mood. I just let him read his paper and go back in his cave for a couple hours" kind of thing.
I know when women are wearing Victoria's Secret to the boardroom (bedroom, too?), Ann-meets-ape story sounds too far-fetched to metrosexy females. But won't she prefer a man who is a skillful fighter and a master survivor?
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