Now that we know it would be possible, where does the
idea come from?
Sexual intercourse of women with other animal species
has been represented in art for thousands of years, with early examples known
from Egypt, India and Greece (Dekkers, 1992). How this
the idea get from Mesopotamia through Arabia
and into King Kong thousands of years later?
There is no real mystery about how the beauty and
beast association in King Kong was born. We already saw that the sexual
association of apes with women is ancient, but for Gorilla gorilla it
began shortly after the species was named in 1847: only ten years later
Emmanuel Frémiet presented in Paris
a sculpture of a gorilla carrying a woman to rape her (Jones, 2006).
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| Source: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/stowed-away-emmanuel-fremiets-gorilla-carrying-off-a-woman-2-2/ |
Cooper said that he originally wanted to film a documentary about gorillas but having no funds to do it, ended up with King Kong, and that when young he had read some cheap novel in which gorillas kidnapped village women (Haber, 2005, p. 187). The film’s dialogue mentions that you need a pretty face and a love story to attract viewers (Dohm, 2007) so everything was there for a gorilla-loves-woman story.
Having established this historical connection, I
wonder if something similar could happen in real life. You may be surprised.
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