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- King Kong is an enormous ape and the title character of a series of films. Ben Grimm and Clint Barton were fans of the character. While Force Works was fighting Ultimo, Hawkeye compared the enormous robot to King Kong. When the Fantastic Four went to Wakanda, they encountered a sonic based creature in the shape of an enormous ape. Thing likened the creation to King Kong by calling it Crimson Kong, based on its all red color.
- King Kong is a giant gorilla-like creature. He uses a walker, wears a hearing aid, carries a skeleton of a woman (supposedly Ann Darrow) and is very elderly. He is supposedly an ally of humanity, but according to President Nixon, he is too old to help stop tentacles from reaching Earth.
- King Kong is a 2018 fantasy adventure film. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name and stars Emma Watson, Sam Claflin, and Nathan fillion
- thumb|right|Der japanische King Kong King Kong ist ein überdimensional großer Gorilla und eigentlich eine Erfindung des US-amerikanischen Kinos aus dem Film King Kong und die weiße Frau.
- The Tenth Doctor liked the film and claimed he was present at the real-life events that inspired the film, saying the film was closer to fact than is assumed. (COMIC: Echo)
- King Kong is one of Hollywood's most famous iconic character. It is the name of a fictional giant gorilla who is the main character of several Hollywood films. He lives in the legendary Skull Island which is filled with monstrous creatures. The main three films featuring King Kong are King Kong (1933 film) which was a grond-breaking Hollywood film and its two remakes King Kong (1976 film) and King Kong (2005 film).
- King Kong is a member of Vode An. He's an avid fan of Over The Hedge, Star Wars, King Kong and several other things.
- In 1937, Indiana Jones sympathized with the titular character after his encounter with sorcerer Ian Soames on Estray Island.
- He has a crush on Little Miss Sunshine.
- King Kong was a giant gorilla from the planet Megaprimata. He crash-landed in the ship from Dinosaurs on a Space-Ship . The ship looked like an island and floated in the Earth Sea. He was killed when he fell off the Empire State Building. A new incarnation was created by the alien Tonchiki. Kong was then controlled by the evil War Doctor from the Dalek Films Universe. He escaped.
- King Kong is a 2005 universal film.
- King Kong ist einer der beliebteste Monster Filme aller Zeiten. King Kong war das erste Monster, das für den Film erfunden und nicht aus Literaturvorlagen adaptiert wurde.thumb|King Kong mit der weiße Frau
- King Kong is a giant ape that has personally ruined the lives of Bruce Cabot, Jeff Bridges, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, Jessica Lange, Fay Wray, Stephen Colbert, Charlton Heston and Nelson Mandela. He is smelly and likes to fight Godzilla in his spare time, he has never become quite the scourge to Americans that Godzilla has become for the Japanese. King Kong is also proof that man did not evolve from apes, because if we did, then we'd obviously be much bigger.
- Po zlikwidowaniu w tej edycji różnych kategorii nagród King Kong, została stworzona jedna. Jest to nagroda dla piosenki, która wyróżnia się od innych w danej edycji. Rada WSC wraz z organizatorem danej edycji wybiera kilka piosenek, które są nominowane do nagrody King Kong.
- King Kong is simply a giant gorilla. His size ranges anywhere from 6 to 45 meters, depending on the incarnation. In the original King Kong, Dino DeLaurentis' remake, its sequel King Kong Lives, and Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, King Kong is 6 meters tall and weighs 5 tons. In King Kong vs. Godzilla, he is 45 meters tall and weighs 25,000 tons. In King Kong Escapes, Kong is 20 meters tall and weighs 1,000 tons.
- The film's budget climbed from an initial US$150 million to a record-breaking $207 million. It was released on December 14, 2005, and made an opening of $50.1 million. While the film performed lower than expectations, King Kong made domestic and worldwide grosses that eventually added up to $550 million, becoming the fourth-highest grossing film in Universal Pictures history. It also generated $100 million in DVD sales upon its home video release. The film garnered generally positive reviews from critics and appeared on several "top ten" lists for 2005, though some reviewers criticized it for its 3-hour, 7-minute running time. It won three Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.
- thumb|261pxKing Kong es una película dirigida por el cineasta Peter Jackson. Se trata de un remake, con un estilo visual muy propio del director, del clásico King Kong (1933).
- King Kong is the main villain in the episode "1000 Years of Courage" as the uncle of the Monkey. He and his nephew live in a future world inhabited by anthropomorbphic bananas and run a scam that they are admitting members of this species into banana heaven ("Bananahala") so that he can eat them.
- King Kong was a monster that lived on Skull Island, until a film crew came to his home, disturbed a tribe who worshiped him. The tribe brought the only female from the crew to Kong. Instead of eating her, Kong befriended her. Soon he was captured by the film crew, and brought to New York. He broke from his handle bars and capture the lady he loved. Being shot continuly, he climbed up a skyscraper. He was shot down soon after.
- King Kong is first mentioned in one of Akira Toriyama's manga in Wonder Island, when Gyaosu reports that a dangerous criminal said that he was "an old bald cross between Astro Boy and King Kong."
- King Kong on jättiläisgorillasta samannimisessä v. 1933 valmistuneessa elokuvaklassikossa. King
- King Kong (1933) is a monster movie directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack about a monstrous gorilla who is caught on an exotic island and then taken to New York where he breaks loose and creates havoc. The film has had a few sequels and remakes, including Peter Jackson's remake from 2005, and a movie called "Kong: Skull Island" set in the same universe as Godzilla (2014) that was released in 2017, with a battle Crossover set for 2020. See also: King Homer.
- King Kong is the titular protagonist and anti-hero of the King Kong franchise. He is a giant black gorilla from Skull Island. The true enemies for Kong are the Vastosaurus Rexes or the United States Air Force, though neither are actual villains since the Vastosaurus only attacks because they are wild animals who hunt for survival, and the Air Force were only attacking Kong out of fear he was hurting people. Future projects of King Kong are in development, including one where he fights Godzilla.
- King Kong is a giant ape who became a very big movie star with his 1933 film, followed by a handful of sequels and remakes including a Japanese movie called King Kong vs. Godzilla where King Kong fights Godzilla. He has been spoofed in numerous Muppet productions, his iconic climb up the Empire State Building being a frequent target of parody.
- See also 154-foot Great Big Spider Monkey. King Kong is an enormous ape creature who first appeared in the 1933 film, King Kong. He resides on Skull Island, most of the animal inhabits are gigantic. In the original film, He was created using stop-motion animation -- later versions of Kong were either men in suits or as seen in the 2005 remake, Computer generated.
- King Kong, Godzilla, 2-D from the Gorillaz, and The Amber Lamps are in fact the creators of the universe, the 18.5th United States President and will be re-elected in 2008 (this is Chronologically correct, if you protest, please take another look at Obama). All that was, is now, and ever shall be was created by his great claws, that said he was in fact modeled off Peter Jackson, which while impossible is true. For five hundred billion years he ruled the galaxy and in that time witnessed the rise and fall of nations, the birth of stars and the destruction of worlds. In 5 B.C., Mrs. Kong and Mr. Kong had a child. It was at this time that they made up the word King. In King's early days, he helped to build Stonehenge and the pyramids and dig out the world's oceans. In the time of King Kong's
- With those words, RKO Pictures introduced one of the most well-known and enduring movie monsters of all time. "Kong" is a giant gorilla living on a hidden island in the South Pacific. When a charter ship travels to this island, the oversized primate becomes enraptured by the crew's sole blonde woman, whom the island natives offer up to it in sacrifice. The crew rescue the girl and even manage to capture Kong, bringing the creature back to Manhattan for a spectacle. However, Kong escapes and causes mayhem in the streets of New York before being shot off the top of a skyscraper.
- King Kong is a mighty, legendary ape who, in many ways a cultural icon and one of the first true giant monsters of cinema history, first debuting on the silver screen in the 1933 movie of the same name and later in subsequent sequels and remakes. He is arguably only rivaled by Godzilla in popularity and infamy though he is considerably smaller than most versions of Godzilla. Much like Godzilla, King Kong is not a true antagonist in most of his movies and can be seen as an early example of a tragic villain. King Kong was a member of a giant ape species called the Megaprimatus Kong and was the last of his kind, living on Skull Island, a place filled with murderous natives and dinosaurs. He reappeared in the 2017 reboot film Kong: Skull Island and in a future crossover sequel to the 2014 Godz
- Tutto ha inizio quando un gruppo di americani annoiati, pieni di soldi e senza un cazzo da fare decidono di andarsene in vacanza/fare una spedizione naturalistica nell'isola sperduta che si rivelerà essere la sua dimora. Appena arrivati il gruppetto viene aggredito dagli indigeni locali incazzati perché l'elicottero degli invasori è atterrato proprio sui loro gerani e la figa di turno viene rapita per essere offerta in sacrificio all'imperatore Kong che, sentito l'odore di figa, viene e se la porta. Prende il via quindi il disperato tentativo di liberarla guidato dal protagonista maschile nerboruto di turno e l'equipaggio, tra animali preistorici, terroristi arabi e sicari che seminano morte e disperazione finché la bella non viene liberata accidentalmente con una esibizione canora di Gigi
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| Goals | - keep love and protect Ann from threats and to save himself from the US Army
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| known rivals | - Tyrannosaurus rex, Cave Serpent, Pteranodon, Godzilla, Gorosaurus, Giant Octopus, Doctor Hu, Mechani-Kong, Giant Sea Serpent, Giant Boa, Vastatosaurus rex, Terapusmordax, U.S. Military, Skullcrawlers, Preston Packard, Mire Squid
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- King Kong is an enormous ape and the title character of a series of films. Ben Grimm and Clint Barton were fans of the character. While Force Works was fighting Ultimo, Hawkeye compared the enormous robot to King Kong. When the Fantastic Four went to Wakanda, they encountered a sonic based creature in the shape of an enormous ape. Thing likened the creation to King Kong by calling it Crimson Kong, based on its all red color.
- King Kong is a giant gorilla-like creature. He uses a walker, wears a hearing aid, carries a skeleton of a woman (supposedly Ann Darrow) and is very elderly. He is supposedly an ally of humanity, but according to President Nixon, he is too old to help stop tentacles from reaching Earth.
- King Kong is a 2018 fantasy adventure film. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name and stars Emma Watson, Sam Claflin, and Nathan fillion
- thumb|right|Der japanische King Kong King Kong ist ein überdimensional großer Gorilla und eigentlich eine Erfindung des US-amerikanischen Kinos aus dem Film King Kong und die weiße Frau.
- The Tenth Doctor liked the film and claimed he was present at the real-life events that inspired the film, saying the film was closer to fact than is assumed. (COMIC: Echo)
- King Kong, Godzilla, 2-D from the Gorillaz, and The Amber Lamps are in fact the creators of the universe, the 18.5th United States President and will be re-elected in 2008 (this is Chronologically correct, if you protest, please take another look at Obama). All that was, is now, and ever shall be was created by his great claws, that said he was in fact modeled off Peter Jackson, which while impossible is true. For five hundred billion years he ruled the galaxy and in that time witnessed the rise and fall of nations, the birth of stars and the destruction of worlds. In 5 B.C., Mrs. Kong and Mr. Kong had a child. It was at this time that they made up the word King. In King's early days, he helped to build Stonehenge and the pyramids and dig out the world's oceans. In the time of King Kong's birth there was only one GIANT planet. In this planet there were female apes and King Kong. But one day while King Kong was doing his daily "satisfaction" a new ape appeared, this is the famous Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong and King Kong fought for over 100 years in the Napoleonic Wars, until the planet blew up into many different planets. (This fight got the name "The Big Bang") Donkey Kong ended up on a planet named Nintendo that got sent outside this galaxy while King Kong ended up on Mars, but right now he is living inside the jungles on the planet Earth, with his favorite habitat being that of Skull Island, the small island below New Zealand's South Island. King Kong has one daughter, Stella Kowalski McKong, born in 1432 to Christopher Columbus. King Kong has had a long and filthy affair with 50 Cent's Chinese aunt Chin "100 Yen" Jackson and some Native American with smallpox that is far, far too disgusting to detail here. But we can tell you there was a lot of screaming and no one is happy with George Bush who is also the father. He also has a son, only known as Son of Kong, who was cloned recently by the Umbrella corporation. They did this in the hope that an army of Zombie Kong's would be the next big innovation in military warfare. However they soon realized that they were useless because of the unaccounted for size factor, so they released the blood-crazed, rampaging Son-of-Kong back into the wild... New York City. It was then that he made his famous climb to the top of the Empire State Building which inspired Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to climb Mount Everest. However the Freemasons had plotted the whole thing, and caught the scene on camera, which they made into a blockbuster movie. Trivia: In the 2005 remake of the movie, Fay Wray's name was changed to Fay Kaboobs to stay relevant in these Modern Times. King Kong went into semi-retirement in the year 2000, reducing his public appearances to a smattering of N'Sync concerts and the decapitation of fifteen Saudi prisoners, after which he went into exile in the Islamic Republic of Frankistan. In the year 2047, however, the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong mutated through its own toxic poisoning to become a 400 ton gorilla, as it did not want to completely return to China. It has since taken the name King Kong, and as of yet, there has been no war between the two great primate powers. The lack of primal warfare has lead some to believe that the former island is being groomed as a replacement for the day when the Great Kong finally decides to Fuck All. He is still planning his revenge for all the movies he starred in and was never paid for. “He looks like a monkey, but fights like a crazy man with a hook in his ass.” ~ Captain Obvious on King Kong “Hey there Sexy” ~ Oscar Wilde on King Kong “I got King Kong in the trunk” ~ Jibbs and Chamillionaire on kidnapping
- King Kong is one of Hollywood's most famous iconic character. It is the name of a fictional giant gorilla who is the main character of several Hollywood films. He lives in the legendary Skull Island which is filled with monstrous creatures. The main three films featuring King Kong are King Kong (1933 film) which was a grond-breaking Hollywood film and its two remakes King Kong (1976 film) and King Kong (2005 film).
- King Kong is a member of Vode An. He's an avid fan of Over The Hedge, Star Wars, King Kong and several other things.
- In 1937, Indiana Jones sympathized with the titular character after his encounter with sorcerer Ian Soames on Estray Island.
- He has a crush on Little Miss Sunshine.
- King Kong was a giant gorilla from the planet Megaprimata. He crash-landed in the ship from Dinosaurs on a Space-Ship . The ship looked like an island and floated in the Earth Sea. He was killed when he fell off the Empire State Building. A new incarnation was created by the alien Tonchiki. Kong was then controlled by the evil War Doctor from the Dalek Films Universe. He escaped.
- King Kong is a 2005 universal film.
- Tutto ha inizio quando un gruppo di americani annoiati, pieni di soldi e senza un cazzo da fare decidono di andarsene in vacanza/fare una spedizione naturalistica nell'isola sperduta che si rivelerà essere la sua dimora. Appena arrivati il gruppetto viene aggredito dagli indigeni locali incazzati perché l'elicottero degli invasori è atterrato proprio sui loro gerani e la figa di turno viene rapita per essere offerta in sacrificio all'imperatore Kong che, sentito l'odore di figa, viene e se la porta. Prende il via quindi il disperato tentativo di liberarla guidato dal protagonista maschile nerboruto di turno e l'equipaggio, tra animali preistorici, terroristi arabi e sicari che seminano morte e disperazione finché la bella non viene liberata accidentalmente con una esibizione canora di Gigi D'Alessio che passava di lì per caso. Rincoglionito dalla musica[citazione necessaria], Kong si accascia a terra e viene catturato e trasportato a New York per essere preso a colpi di pomodori marci dalla gente. Ovviamente la cattività non dura a lungo: Kong viene liberato dalle catene grazie all'intervento di un gruppo di 100% Animalisti armati di saldatrice per fondere le ernormi catene. Dopo aver saccheggiato tutti i Fast Food della città, seminato morte e distruzione e rapito di nuovo la gnocca, King si abbarbica sull'Empire State Building dove viene prontamente battuto da uno Zeppelin tedesco. E vissero tutti felici e contenti, tranne lui.
- King Kong ist einer der beliebteste Monster Filme aller Zeiten. King Kong war das erste Monster, das für den Film erfunden und nicht aus Literaturvorlagen adaptiert wurde.thumb|King Kong mit der weiße Frau
- King Kong is a giant ape that has personally ruined the lives of Bruce Cabot, Jeff Bridges, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, Jessica Lange, Fay Wray, Stephen Colbert, Charlton Heston and Nelson Mandela. He is smelly and likes to fight Godzilla in his spare time, he has never become quite the scourge to Americans that Godzilla has become for the Japanese. King Kong is also proof that man did not evolve from apes, because if we did, then we'd obviously be much bigger.
- See also 154-foot Great Big Spider Monkey. King Kong is an enormous ape creature who first appeared in the 1933 film, King Kong. He resides on Skull Island, most of the animal inhabits are gigantic. In the original film, He was created using stop-motion animation -- later versions of Kong were either men in suits or as seen in the 2005 remake, Computer generated. Kong, though depicted as being almost 20 feet tall, was only 18 inches tall was made with cotton and latex with a rabbit pelt over a machined, ball and socket armature. This techinque involved more complex and useful armatures than before, when armatures were just wood or wire. King Kong was created by Willis o' brien a newspaper cartoonist who has been working in special effects since 1914. This very famous monster has influenced gernerations of special effects wizards and filmmakers alike for example, The father of stop motion -- Ray Harryhausen.
- Po zlikwidowaniu w tej edycji różnych kategorii nagród King Kong, została stworzona jedna. Jest to nagroda dla piosenki, która wyróżnia się od innych w danej edycji. Rada WSC wraz z organizatorem danej edycji wybiera kilka piosenek, które są nominowane do nagrody King Kong.
- King Kong is simply a giant gorilla. His size ranges anywhere from 6 to 45 meters, depending on the incarnation. In the original King Kong, Dino DeLaurentis' remake, its sequel King Kong Lives, and Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, King Kong is 6 meters tall and weighs 5 tons. In King Kong vs. Godzilla, he is 45 meters tall and weighs 25,000 tons. In King Kong Escapes, Kong is 20 meters tall and weighs 1,000 tons.
- The film's budget climbed from an initial US$150 million to a record-breaking $207 million. It was released on December 14, 2005, and made an opening of $50.1 million. While the film performed lower than expectations, King Kong made domestic and worldwide grosses that eventually added up to $550 million, becoming the fourth-highest grossing film in Universal Pictures history. It also generated $100 million in DVD sales upon its home video release. The film garnered generally positive reviews from critics and appeared on several "top ten" lists for 2005, though some reviewers criticized it for its 3-hour, 7-minute running time. It won three Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.
- thumb|261pxKing Kong es una película dirigida por el cineasta Peter Jackson. Se trata de un remake, con un estilo visual muy propio del director, del clásico King Kong (1933).
- King Kong is the main villain in the episode "1000 Years of Courage" as the uncle of the Monkey. He and his nephew live in a future world inhabited by anthropomorbphic bananas and run a scam that they are admitting members of this species into banana heaven ("Bananahala") so that he can eat them.
- King Kong was a monster that lived on Skull Island, until a film crew came to his home, disturbed a tribe who worshiped him. The tribe brought the only female from the crew to Kong. Instead of eating her, Kong befriended her. Soon he was captured by the film crew, and brought to New York. He broke from his handle bars and capture the lady he loved. Being shot continuly, he climbed up a skyscraper. He was shot down soon after.
- King Kong is first mentioned in one of Akira Toriyama's manga in Wonder Island, when Gyaosu reports that a dangerous criminal said that he was "an old bald cross between Astro Boy and King Kong."
- King Kong is a mighty, legendary ape who, in many ways a cultural icon and one of the first true giant monsters of cinema history, first debuting on the silver screen in the 1933 movie of the same name and later in subsequent sequels and remakes. He is arguably only rivaled by Godzilla in popularity and infamy though he is considerably smaller than most versions of Godzilla. Much like Godzilla, King Kong is not a true antagonist in most of his movies and can be seen as an early example of a tragic villain. King Kong was a member of a giant ape species called the Megaprimatus Kong and was the last of his kind, living on Skull Island, a place filled with murderous natives and dinosaurs. He reappeared in the 2017 reboot film Kong: Skull Island and in a future crossover sequel to the 2014 Godzilla reboot film currently titled Godzilla vs. Kong.
- King Kong on jättiläisgorillasta samannimisessä v. 1933 valmistuneessa elokuvaklassikossa. King
- King Kong (1933) is a monster movie directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack about a monstrous gorilla who is caught on an exotic island and then taken to New York where he breaks loose and creates havoc. The film has had a few sequels and remakes, including Peter Jackson's remake from 2005, and a movie called "Kong: Skull Island" set in the same universe as Godzilla (2014) that was released in 2017, with a battle Crossover set for 2020. See also: King Homer.
- King Kong is the titular protagonist and anti-hero of the King Kong franchise. He is a giant black gorilla from Skull Island. The true enemies for Kong are the Vastosaurus Rexes or the United States Air Force, though neither are actual villains since the Vastosaurus only attacks because they are wild animals who hunt for survival, and the Air Force were only attacking Kong out of fear he was hurting people. Future projects of King Kong are in development, including one where he fights Godzilla.
- With those words, RKO Pictures introduced one of the most well-known and enduring movie monsters of all time. "Kong" is a giant gorilla living on a hidden island in the South Pacific. When a charter ship travels to this island, the oversized primate becomes enraptured by the crew's sole blonde woman, whom the island natives offer up to it in sacrifice. The crew rescue the girl and even manage to capture Kong, bringing the creature back to Manhattan for a spectacle. However, Kong escapes and causes mayhem in the streets of New York before being shot off the top of a skyscraper. There have been three major film adaptations of the original story (along with numerous spin-offs, sequels and cross-overs): 1933Filmmaker Carl Denham brings out-of-work actress Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) on a hurried expedition to find an uncharted island, where he hopes to work on his next film. Ann will provide the "love interest" angle, while an unknown entity called "Kong" will provide the excitement. The ship's crew finds the island inhabited, its natives in the midst of an elaborate ritual where a girl is being ceremoniously decorated. The natives note fair-haired Ann and wish to decorate her instead, and when the crew refuse the natives resort to sneaking aboard the ship and kidnapping her. Tying her to an altar, they resume their ritual, chanting "Kong! Kong! Kong!" until an enormous something comes crashing through the trees... First mate Jack Driscoll, who has developed feelings for Ann, leads the ship's crew on an expedition through the island's interior, where Kong has taken her. Along the way, nearly the entire crew is killed by the prehistoric creatures and other dangers. Meanwhile, Kong defends Ann from attack from a T Rex and shakes the remainder of the crew off a log into a deep crevasse. Jack evades death and continues after Kong, finally reaching the beast's lair in the island's mountain peak. There, while Kong battles a huge pteranodon, Jack and Ann escape and return to the native village. Kong pursues them, intent on retrieving Ann. He crashes through the hundred-foot gate that protects the village, but Denham subdues the monster with gas bombs. Bringing Kong back to America instead of a movie, Denham puts the amazing creature on display in Manhattan. However, misinterpreting the intentions of newsmen trying to photograph Ann, Kong breaks loose from his bonds and begins a rampage through the city seeking the "woman of gold". Finally retrieving her from a hotel, Kong proceeds to climb to the highest point in Manhattan--the Empire State Building. There he attempts to fight off a squadron of biplanes, and Ann makes her escape. While he knocks down several that circle too close, the modern war machines finally get the better of the monster, and he plummets to his death. Followed later that year by Son of Kong. 1976The story remains pretty much the same, but the characters and situations are changed: instead of a filmmaker seeking an exciting movie locale, an amoral oil executive is seeking an uncharted island (hidden by a perpetual fog bank) where he hopes to find an enormous untapped deposit of crude. The requisite blonde, Dwan (Jessica Lange), is encountered at sea, adrift in a lifeboat, the sole survivor of a yacht explosion; and The Hero is a stowaway anthropologist. The rest of the film plays out more or less as the previous version, albeit with a somewhat more realistic depiction of the natives and with fewer island hazards (the only oversized animals featured are Kong and a snake). The oil exec, upset to learn that the island's crude is unfit for refining, decides to "bring home the big one" in a very literal sense; when the hero brings Dwan back from Kong's clutches, Kong is again captured and brought to New York in a gaudy publicity stunt. Again, Kong misinterprets the intentions of pushy photographers, and the story goes on from there. This film differs from the 1933 version in another, very important aspect: the relationship between Kong and "his" girl. Fay Wray's Ann was treated as nothing more than a kidnapping victim, a prize for Kong. Dwan, on the other hand, is given several extended scenes--on the island, on the ship back to America, and in New York--actually forming a bizarre sort of bond with the big guy. And when Kong climbs to the top of the (then newly constructed) World Trade Center towers and is attacked by the military, Dwan is right there, trying to be a human shield for him. But to no avail... A sequel, King Kong Lives, followed... ten years later. 2005Peter Jackson's take on King Kong returns to the story as propounded in 1933: Depression-era filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black), dodging debt collectors, hires an out-of-work Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and quickly leaves on an expedition to find a certain uncharted island... Jackson's film diverges from the original by providing more of Denham's and Ann's respective back stories. Further, "Jack Driscoll" is changed from the ship's first mate to a playwright, and a narcissistic Hollywood actor is added for comic relief. The natives are much more brutal than past portrayals. And, as with the 1976 film, a good deal of attention is paid to the unusual "romance" between the girl and the primate, which is strong enough that Ann would rather stay on the island with him than see him captured; and later she refuses to participate in his exhibition in America. She does, though, show up in time to halt his rampage through the city, and from there... well, you know how this one ends. Interestingly, the 2005 version of the film makes a show of Denham filming scenes and dialog lifted from the original 1933 movie.
- King Kong is a giant ape who became a very big movie star with his 1933 film, followed by a handful of sequels and remakes including a Japanese movie called King Kong vs. Godzilla where King Kong fights Godzilla. He has been spoofed in numerous Muppet productions, his iconic climb up the Empire State Building being a frequent target of parody.
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