Showing posts with label planet of the apes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planet of the apes. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2008

beware the beast man

The post about Iblis' decision to not bow down before Adam got me thinking about Islamic anthropology (see only human) and how when God announced He was going to place humanity on the earth the angels skeptically asked: What! wilt Thou place in it such as shall make mischief in it and shed blood, and we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? (2:30) It also reminded me of another memorable scene from the Planet of the Apes movies:

Saturday, March 29, 2008

more monkey business

A few days ago I managed to catch some bunch of talking heads on Fox discussing LaBron James and his King Kong pose on the cover of Vogue magazine and it got me thinking about the larger question of whether it is ever okay to use racialized monkey images, which of coursa reminded me of the following scene from one of my favorite movies:



see also:
monkey business (I fixed a few of hte links but some are dead)