I understand that dogs and cats see things in black and white. Are humans the only Earth creature capable of seeing in color, and if so, what allure did King Kong have towards Ann Darrow/Dwan just because she was white and blonde haired?

If King Kong saw only in black and white, Ann Darrow/Dwan wouldn't have been any more "attractive/interesting" to him than any of his previous native "brides."

Now, if apes do see in color, then this is just another example of Buttmunker being a "monkey's uncle."

Are you saying you can't tell the difference between Ann Darrow and the native women if you watch the film in black and white?

One thing I noticed, in Kong '76, was that the previous native brides wore fake "yellow hair" on their heads. Apparently, somehow, jungle savages "knew" that Kong favored blondes.

Being an animal it probably had more to do with scent than sight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_visionhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18489237

Redheads need not apply.

Gorillas are trichromatic. So they see in color. Though other apes may not. Interesting question to bring up.

Which King Kong are you talking about?

Claymation apes see only black and white.

Men in monkey suits see in color.

CGI apes are blind.

Shouldn't this be in Otter since the question pertains more towards apes and how they see color?

I think he liked Ann's perfume.

Considering Merian C. Cooper conceived the idea of Kong going ape over Ann Darrow in the early 1930s, I wonder if they knew back then about how animals view the world. Of course, I don't think he gave an ape's giant shit if he knew it or not - his story is fiction, so what difference did it make for the movie whether Kong could see Ann's skin and hair color?

Because Naomi Watts is hot?

You clearly haven't seen that mantis shrimp meme from The Oatmeal.

So maybe Kong saw that Otter thread a while back that said certain race's women aren't that attractive. Kong is a damn racist & into beastiality.

Come off your high horse, sir. Nobody is perfect.

No, it's not.

When Kong grabbed that random woman out of her apartment, did he look at her or did he sniff her?

Kong made the mistake of sniffing her, and she hadn't changed her maxi-pad yet. She reminded him of the unsanitary "brides" of yore, so he tossed her.

"King Kong" is an allegory. White Man's Warning to Black Men about the Dangers of sleeping with White Women.

I thought ya'll knew this?

'Twas beauty, killed the beast... and our superior honkey firepower..

Especially if they don't require them to wear condoms.

That's one school, but I'm of the other, more obvious school of thought is Kong being an allegory of black slave taken from his homeland and brought to America against his will by white men.

Kong never had anything to put a condom on.

Where did you come to understand this?

A person or animal that is "color blind" doesn't see the world in black and white. It usually means they don't have the necessary cells in their eyes to see red and orange.

To most people the rainbow is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. To a color-blind person, their rainbow starts at the yellowish-green. Dogs and cats are color-blind in the same way. They can't see red, orange and organish-yellow.

Some animals have cells that allow them to see colors that humans can't see.

if you have 5-10 mintues, this comic explains things pretty well.: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

I was told this as an 8-year old, and I never questioned it.

My favorite was Danny Perry's take that Kong was a manefestation of Carl Denham's frustration at being impotent. He suggests when Denham tells Ann she doesn't have to worry about him he means because he can't physically have sex, and the King Kong puppet has no penis, so obviously it is Carl's id, stroked into a wild rage by Carl's sexual frustration over hot Ann.