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Just a word of clarification -- several reviewers have said that it's back and included as an extra on the DVD. Not quite. It's lost -- nothing exists but a few still photos, some pre-production sketches and a short outline in the script. No one even knows exactly what it contained or how some of the creatures appeared. But, based on what does exist, Peter Jackson shot a NEW spider sequence using filming techniques from the 30's. It's well done and entertaining -- it's just NOT the actual missing footage. Just an educated guess at what it might have been like. That's why it's not inserted into the film -- it was never part of it.
Great set over-all. Super extras. Kong is pretty grainy, but better than any previous release. And Fay Wray is still beautiful.
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I remember the first time I saw "King Kong" on television as a child. Although I was quite young, the cinematography still made a huge impression on me. While I had no idea who Fay Wray was at the age of 5, I knew I loved the movie, and the fantastic story of a giant ape found on Skull Island and captured as the "8th Wonder of the World!"
Now, as Peter Jackson creates yet another version of the Kong story, I can't help but come back to the original. As some reviewers have mentioned, the spider scene is indeed back in the new DVD set. Amazingly, the actual film holds up well 70 years later. The Willis O'Brien special effects were revolutionary at the time, and stop-motion animation allowed Merian Cooper to bring a 50-foot gorilla to life on the silver screen. The legendary Harryhausen was inspired by this film, as was the current remake's director, Peter Jackson.
Although I'm sure Jackson's version will be phenomenal (hopefully better than the Jessica Lange 1976 production), I still love the original. The movie not only inspired remakes, but also "Son of Kong," the Godzilla films, and science fiction cinema as a whole.
Like "Citizen Kane," "The Godfather," or any number of other classic films, get this one. "King Kong" is the type of movie that needs to be preserved for generations to come.
Why settle for a modern interpretation when there's no need to improve on the original? ~LBS
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I am very much looking forward to this release, now even more after learning the lost spider pit sequence has been reconstructed by Peter Jackson, creator of the new "King Kong" due out in theaters in December. I'm just hopeful the spider scene is included in the newly restored film and is not just an extra on the bonus features disc.
The first movie I ever watched, according to my mother, was the original "King Kong." I apparently watched it intently from my playpen sometime in the early 1970s. "King Kong" also happens to be the first videotape I purchased in the 1980s. I remember reading the Book of Lists 2 back in the late 1970s and it featured a section on the most famous scenes cut out of movies. One of them was the scene in 1931's "Frankenstein," when Boris Karloff, playing the monster, threw a little girl into a lake. That scene has since been restored by Universal, but I'll never forget the joy of seeing it for the first time. I purchased the restored version of Frankenstein on video back in the late 1980s and it was great to finally see the cut lake scene after years of wondering what it was like. I still get a kick out of seeing it today. One of the other famous cuts mentioned in the same book, however, was the spider sequence.
The cut was made in 1933. It's 2005 and a print of it has never been found. But I'd rather see a reconstructed spider sequence than nothing at all. Hopefully, it's a part of the movie and not just an extra. And, you can't go wrong with it when you have Peter Jackson behind it. Well, I guess we'll have to wait until Nov. 22 to see how it all pans out.
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Peter Jackson has been re-creating a lost scene from the original 1933 King Kong while working on his $292 million remake.
The result - a six-minute scene in which a dinosaur chases men on to a log, then Kong throws them into a pit where they are attacked by giant spiders and crabs - will appear in a restored version of the 1933 film to be released on DVD in three weeks.
The scene was filmed in 1933, but cut because director Merian Cooper thought it slowed the film's pace.
Other than two pre-production sketches and one photograph, no remnant of the legendary "missing spider pit sequence" has ever been found.
Jackson, who cites the original film as the reason he became a film-maker, decided to reshoot the missing sequence.
He hired Hollywood director and screenwriter Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) - and veteran make-up and special-effects whiz Rick Baker, who played Kong in the 1976 remake, to help. Jackson directed and edited the six minutes and it has been inserted into the original film with careful weaving of music, visual effects and the right black-and-white film grain, so it appears as it was shot in 1933.
Though Jackson's King Kong relies on state-of-the-art visual effects to create the giant ape, he deliberately used the same techniques film-makers used in the early 1930s for visual effects. The work included stop-motion cameras, miniature environments, rear screen projection and glass matte paintings.
Jackson has emulated old black-and- white film techniques before. Some people were fooled into believing silent film footage for his mockumentary Forgotten Silver was real when it aired on television in 1995.
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