HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC # 7 King Kong

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King Kong is the name of the fictional giant ape from the movie King Kong from the fictional Skull Island, who has appeared in several works, most of which bear his name, including the groundbreaking 1933 film, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, and numerous sequels and paraphernalia. In the original film, the character's name is Kong -- a name given to him by the inhabitants of "Skull Island" in the Indian Ocean, where Kong lived along with other over-sized animals such as snakes, pterosaurs and dinosaurs. 'King' is an appellation added by an American film crew led by Carl Denham who captures Kong and takes him to New York City to be exhibited. Kong escapes and climbs the Empire State Building (the World Trade Center in the 1976 remake) where he is shot and killed by aircraft. However, "it was beauty killed the beast," as he only climbed the building in the first place in an attempt to protect actress Ann Darrow (Dwan in the 1976 remake). A documentary about Skull Island on the DVD for the 2005 remake gives Kong's scientific name as Megaprimatus kong, and states that his species may have evolved from Gigantopithecus. I personally like the 1976 remake version the best while some critics call it the worst movie ever! It was the first movie that made me cry cause I really liked the big ape! I also like actress Jessica Lange who played the role of Dawn which was Jessica's big break in Hollywood. Did you know when King Kong first was released back in 1933 it created some big controversy in the US and this because of the story line and what people thought the movie represented! They saw it as follows. 1. King Kong a black ape was shipped to America from Africa to be shown to the Americans is very similar to what was really happening at the time. Black people were shipped to the US to work as slaves. 2. Kong fell in love with this white blond woman and it's known that a lot happened between the slaves and their land lords as well... 3. He tries to escape by breaking out from his chains and get killed, something that has happened to a lot of slaves who tried to escape their land lords! With these three facts they could live but... what about the fact that this black ape had lived in the jungle for so many days and probably slept with her to keep her save from the other animals on that island!? Slept in terms of just sleeping was already enough to get some controversy cause in the 1930's white woman were decent and didn't have any fantasies or whatsoever which included black men! Yeah, right..... Also, when Kong fell from the Empire State Building people just saw it as the big crash on Wall Street just the year before in 1929. So in fact the original movie of King Kong was nothing more than a reflection of what was really going on in American society at that time! By 1976 nobody was shocked anymore of the fact that there could be some kind of love between a human and an animal! I also loved my dogs.

Here's a link to the 1976 version of King Kong! Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UI8JCZxExc

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