Originally posted by Beale the Rippe
My dear Kong, I have always understood and loved the "themes concerning the oppression people put on themselves and the oppresion exerted on people by the government and the explosive consequences that can result from these overreaching types of control", I don't believe this is in reference to the Bush administration or Iraq.
It certainly has implications concerning Bush administration policies, but Kong does agree that the movie doesn't directly address Bush.
Originally posted by Beale the Rippe
The person who I had the conversation with believed that:
1) It was directed towards Bush
Its scope is wider than Bush, although he is encompassed to some degree.
Originally posted by Beale the Rippe
2) The primary theme of The Hulk was that violence only begets more violence, and that this is criticizing the invasion of Iraq by showing the "spiral of violence" in the Hulk. (His proof was that some of the primary scenes take place in the desert, a "direct reference to Iraq."
Puhlease!
Thats a stretch. Particularly since it was filmed between March and August of 2002, well before the war in Iraq began. You friend would do better by comparing the atmospheres of pre- and post-9/11/01, and look for commentary there.
Originally posted by Beale the Rippe
And my simian friend, if you will read what I enjoyed about the Hulk, and what I thought about it, you will see how I clearly favored the characterization over the action. (Not to mention that I loved how it wasn't an action movie).
Kong recalls reading that somewhere.
Hope you didn't take the previous post as insulting.