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The Jungle-style Thread - Pop Culture Iconography of the Dark Continent |
JOHN-O
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|  Posted: 2013-01-18 01:08 am Permalink
Rarotonga was technically Melanesian but she vibes more Pam Grier to me !!
(image courtesy of Zeta)
I must find this movie !!
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JOHN-O
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| Posted: 2013-01-21 12:11 am Permalink
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JOHN-O
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| Posted: 2013-02-03 07:45 am Permalink
I love the movie serials of the 1930's and 1940's. I recently spend the last several weeks grinding my way through this one…
The plot revolves around Nazi agents scheming to control an African tribe as a way of expanding their domination into the Europe prior to WWII. If anyone thinks "Indiana Jones" was an original concept, they should watch this B-grade series.
As with all Jungle pictures of that era, no attempt was made to provide any cultural authenticity. It's a wild mix of African "natives" speaking with Californian speech cadences, stone temples with Mayan designs, crumbling Asian idols, exploding volcanoes, magic swords, and a mystical indigenous Jungle Queen who is whiter than white.
No Tikis though. 
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lucas vigor
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From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2013-02-03 4:44 pm Permalink
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On 2013-02-03 07:45, JOHN-O wrote:
As with all Jungle pictures of that era, no attempt was made to provide any cultural authenticity. It's a wild mix of African "natives" speaking with Californian speech cadences, stone temples with Mayan designs, crumbling Asian idols, exploding volcanoes, magic swords, and a mystical indigenous Jungle Queen who is whiter than white.
No Tikis though.
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still way cool, though! Seems to have all the elements we associate with exotica!
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JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2013-02-07 7:06 pm Permalink
INGAGI... another movie I really want to see, alas it's a lost film.
Probably one of the loopiest pre-code flicks, this 1930 Jungle picture claimed to show a ritual where African women were sacrificed to be brides of gorillas. The lurid premise and featured nudity were justified on the basis that it was an actual documentary.
The public bought the hoax !!
  
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JOHN-O
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From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2013-02-14 6:49 pm Permalink
Is there any better example of the common Zeitgeist between Jungle-style and Tiki-style than Adventureland ??
Or maybe that's been discussed already.
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