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What can I say? This film was one of the reasons, along with Fantasia, Jaws and Gone With the Wind, that I wanted to get into filmmaking when I was a boy.
I watch it now, in this amazing restoration, and realize that even then I thought the acting was atrocious. The best thing that could happen to these shallow people is having Ann Darrow snatched up by a giant gorilla, who apparently has more personality than even the leads.
As a milestone in filmmaking, nothing beats this thing. I saw the film projected, for the first time, on the big screen here in Hollywood and during the battle with the T-Rex (actually an Allosaurus) this sixteen year old girl sitting behind me said, "That is so f$%king cooool!" The sound design is jaw-dropping, especially since sound had only entered movies a little over four years earlier.
The movie is actually quite disturbing, because as soon as the crew of the SS Venture get to the island, it's kill, kill, kill, kill. Man kills Dinosaur, Dinosaur kills Man, Beast kills Man, Beast kills Native, which is also man but not according to 1933, Beast kills New Yorker, which is Man in a suit, then Man kills Beast then says Beauty killed the Beast.
This two disc set is worth every death. The image is clean and stable, but still looks like film. The documentaries are wonderful, especially the Marion Cooper doc. The recreation of the Spider Pit sequence is rhetorical, since we'll never really know what it looked like. (There was a customer on Amazon a couple of years ago who claimed he had that scene preserved in a battered 16mm print but that Warners wouldn't meet his price. I never found out what happened to him).
Though dated and racist and clumsy as hell, the editing, the sound, Max Steiner's grandfather of all film scores, and especially Kong himself, make this a film I need to see every once and a while just to remind me of why I got into this crazy business.
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I just saw this again on TCM, and the surprising thing about this film is that despite the fact that it's over 70 years old, its power hasn't diminished at all. Despite 2 remakes and countless parodies (The Simpson is especially fond of parodying this film), it is still a great motion picture. It is very intense and surprisingly terrifying, especially in the uncut version. Despite the "advances" in SFX today, these effects don't feel dated, because you're so drawn into the story, and you really care about the characters. Fay Wray and Carl Denham are real people, not just stock characters reading movie lines (ironically, Denham is a film producer here). The scenes where Kong battles prehistoric creatures are unnerving and still unsettling even today (in some reissues, these scenes were cut, but have been restored for all subsequent DVD editions).
As much as I admire Peter Jackson, I cannot understand why he would want to remake/"reimagine" this film, as it is his favorite film. He is an excellent filmmaker (the scope of the Lord of the Rings films is amazing, and he should commended for that), but how can you remake something you love? I don't understand it at all, and especially when the original film has so much force, power, and depth to it. It's like remaking The Wizard of Oz or Gone with the Wind.
Regardless, the original King Kong is magnificent, one of those movie classics that more than lives up to its reputation.
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KING KONG was (with a certain fire breathing lizard)my
FAV. rubber toy from 74. How can anyone not love The King.
This and one other are the DEFINITIVE monster on a rampage
movie,this is a classic not only of the HORROR film but of cinema
itself! Rarely has there been so convincing a fantasy creation
on the screen as Kong. Willis O'Brien F/X give The King charming
sort of life and personality sadly lacking from today's special F/X
Corny performances and Max Steiner's great score add to the fun!
Long Live The King!
NOTE:Also recommend Gojira/Godzilla 1954
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No matter how many times I see this film, it still surprises me. this is a classic that has stood the test of time and is still better than the remakes for sheer excitement with few special effects.
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King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
When I was a kid, I obsessed over monster movies. (Well, didn't we all?) I was eight when the 1976 remake of King Kong came out, and I saw it innumerable times on the Saturday afternoon creature feature over the years. But somehow, despite seeing clips from it thousands of times and having seen enough stills of it in monster-movies books and magazines when I was just a little squid, I somehow managed to never see the original version entire. I remedied that error last week. King Kong is one of those movies that constantly makes thousand-best lists (of all those I've compiled, only Jonathan Rosenbaum's leaves it off), but while I was watching it, I had to wonder: did it make the lists because of what it was in 1933, or because it holds up well today? Ideally, a truly classic film should be a mix of both (Murnau's Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens is a perfect example; at the time, it was revolutionary, with Murnau inventing new ways to film tracking shots and the like, while it still packs a creepy punch almost a century later just because it's a damned good movie); while there's no doubt that King Kong was revolutionary for its time, and did a great deal to advance the wonderful world of movie special effects, it was made at a time when silent film was still a credible option, and the expressionism inherent in silent film hadn't quite cleared off yet. And when I look at it like that, I realize just how modern it was, for its time; so many of the players in this movie give perfectly creditable performances. But the one who seems like a holdover from the silent film days where her acting is concerned is incapable of being ignored-- the movie's star, Fay Wray. Now, I grant you, she's supposed to be playing someone who's acting in a silent film, so had she kept the overacting for when she was in front of Robert Armstrong's cameras, well, that would have been all well and good. But even while everyone around her is acting in a more modern fashion, Wray is all about the overacting. It tends to get annoying.
That said, the movie is exceptionally well-made (especially given Cooper and Schoedsack's previous collaboration, the somewhat anemic The Most Dangerous Game, made on a basement budget using the sets and actors, for the most part, the two were using for King Kong); the script is well-plotted and well-paced, much of the acting is at or above par for the time (Wray has already been noted; Victor Wong, who portrays Charlie the cook, plays his role well, but is so hopelessly stereotyped we never get to see what he's really made of), and of course the special effects were marvelous for the time. It is certainly still a watchable movie, and an enjoyable one. And maybe that's enough. ****
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