Long Live the King | King Kong | Full Documentary
Вставка
- Опубліковано 13 жов 2021
- Feature documentary about the enduring popularity of the character King Kong, and how the 1933 film has inspired countless artists, writers and filmmakers.
- Фільми й анімація
By all standards, this film was an incredible achievement in 1933. That it wasn't awarded any Oscars at the time is totally mind boggling.
It's all about context...1933 folks in the industry likely thought of the movie as being nothing more than a cartoon, as opposed to the heavy-drama of movies back then.
@@curbozerboomer1773
More likely that KONG was just way over their highbrow heads. But at the same time it was a huge commercial and critical success upon release.
@@anthonycrnkovich5241 The Awards had just been started a few years earlier by MGM head Louis B. Mayer, and they were the "prestige studio" in the late silent and early talkie era. RKO was third or fourth down in the hierarchy, so KING KONG (1933) was unlikely to get a lot of attention at the Academy Awards. Columbia Pictures was probably less prestigious than RKO, at least until IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT blew up.
And it is racist and should be banned for spreading horrific stereotypes 👎🏿
@@mananimal3644
This film is not racist and we're not living under a totalitarian government.
King Kong was the first film I ever remember seeing. My local library had a 16mm print of it and they showed it in their basement on a rolled down screen for the kids. It rocked my world. I've been rocked by other films over the years, but no one beats The King.
Amen.
In 1993 I was 9 years old, TNT played every King Kong movie made up to that point in chronological order during my summer vacation... That was where I was not only introduced but fell in love with all the King Kong movies...
This year marks the 90th anniversary of this iconic masterpiece
I was 5 years old.1955. My mom said we needed to stay up to watch the movie about the big gorilla. I think I protested.Was bored till the walk up the "bridal" stairs by Faye Ray,and then -Steiner's score with the foot "clomps" came on,and King's entrance-well, I was hooked! Especially by the dinosaurs.
That movie is responsible for a lot of my imagination that carried me all my life.I have even done a suite of the Steiner score for concert band,but have yet to have it played- maybe before I die!!
Wonderful ! I'd love to hear your suite on the Steiner score
Mighty Joe Young is an underrated movie. This was on British TV a lot in the 1970s, usually on a Saturday morning.
What they don't mention is that until about 20 years ago, the prints of Kong seen in the US were a bit on the dark side. And when the deleted scenes were found and restored they looked like crap. But then a print was found in the UK which had never been censored and had high contrast and a bright clear picture, and this print was used to restore the film to a quality not seen in the US since the 1930s and 1940s, and that is the version we have today and that is what the scenes from the film used in this documentary come from. I still remember Leonard Maltin on Entertainment tonight reporting on this and showing scenes the way we had all seen them for many years and then a side by side comparison with the restored version and it was literally like night and day.
Thats right ! I saw the same broadcast on TCM
Kong 33 is still not quite as clear as its sequel Son of Kong from the same year or other contemporary fantasy horror movies like Jekyll and Hyde or Frankenstein, both about two years older. Possibly a victim of its own success, with endless prints struck from its original negative. It's certainly very watchable, though.
2005 Kong was the BEST DINOSAUR MOVIE EVER!
A very-very good film.
Cooper wasn't a "soldier of fortune". He was volunteer who joined Polish army during war 1919-1920 and fought against russians. He was a war hero decorated with highest Polish military order, was shot down, escaped from russian prison camp, had an affair and was a father of great Polish writer and translator, Maciej Słomczyński. His life is a material for a movie.
The reason I got into the film industry an the greatest monster love story ever made.
Great to see that they talked about King Kong being shown on TV in NY every Thanksgiving back in the 70s and 80s, though it was actually on WOR, not WPIX. I don't remember when was the first time I saw the 1933 Kong or what was the first Godzilla movie I ever saw but I wouldn't be surprised if it was during one of those Thanksgiving movie marathons when I was very little, because as far back as I can remember I have always been aware of both monsters.
I finally watched the 1933 movie last night. I can see why it became a landmark movie aside from having so many "firsts." I couldn't help but think of how King Kong and Jurassic Park were both groundbreaking special effects movies and they both involve dinosaurs. Those creatures really have captured our imagination as a species.
Well done ! When I first saw King Kong (1933) on local TV, my Dad stopped working at home to watch it with me. He recalled his childhood memories of seeing it at his local movie theater. That kind of appeal makes Kong a legend.
I would go to bed after watching it and lie there re-playing scenes in my head.
I remember being somewhere between 5-7 years old back in the early 90's. My dad bought me a stegosaurus toy, and upon seeing me play with it, my mom popped in a VHS of King Kong just so that I would see the scene where the stegosaurus charges at the sailors. It was one of the primary films that ignited my imagination, and to this day, remains one of the reasons why I became a filmmaker myself.
The giant gate doors from King Kong were burned down and filmed and used in the burning of Atlanta scene in Gone With The Wind.
Then how were they used in Jurassic Park?
@@mikealvord55 Maybe they used the ones from KK 1976.
The 8th wonder’s gonna be turning 91 this April. It’s 2024 and with a new movie on the way, Kong is still kicking.
Long live the King
I was 8 years old when it was shown on TV in the '50s. It was a milestone in my kidhood. I still remember watching it, and when Kong finally appeared, asking my folks, "Do you think there could be dinosaurs?" When the stegosaurus comes into view, I exploded, and have been enthralled ever since. It always tops my favorite movies list.
Peter Jackson's movie is third, behind his Lord of the Rings trilogy. I went to see it at least 10 times in rapid succession. I mentioned it at work, and a co-worker's comment was, "It's too long!" My reply was, "It could be a WEEK long, and I'd still be savoring every frame."
The best part of the DiLaurentiis version, for me, is John Barry's soundtrack.
Thank you for this documentary, which I found interesting and entertaining. Always a pleasure to 'meet' Kong-o-philes.
I am a huge fan of King Kong1976 and the soundtrack by John Barry is fantastic :-) I'm also a fan of King Kong Lives, the soundtrack is also really good.
3/22/23
Kingkong is my all time favorite monster movie hands down greatest beast ever plus the evolution of this giant ape is unbelievable unmatched such a beautiful but sad story ann darll and the creature have a bond like no other until the end so epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this one too. My favorite (if I have one) is The bride of Frankenstein
In the novel "Gravity's Rainbow," there's an imaginary club for people who have seen "King Kong" at least 100 times.
A masterpiece 90 years on
That's a great documentary about a great film.
I like the 1933 King Kong
Same here!
Should be.." LOVE ".......
The Original Kong is Still the Best.
Bob Burns says the giant Kong they built for King Kong 1976 looked nothing like the faces of the suit Kong they built for the film, BUT the same was true for King Kong 1933. The giant bust they built for Kong 1933 had a face that looked nothing like the faces on the stop motion Kong. It was more jarring for me because the giant bust was shown up close lots of times in Kong 1933. At least the robot Kong in '76 was kept at a distance very briefly and not up close in full screen.
That Animatronic Kong was Laughable.
It could barely move. 😄
Angel Feliciano
Yes but it was barely even shown. We hardly see it. The goofy looking giant bust in Kong '33 is shown clearly in close up a number of times and it looks silly. Completely cheesy.
I saw the amazing one that was on the universal studios tram ride. It smelled like bananas. 🤩
@@wonderrob3225
Ah but did it taste like bananas?
The Animatronic Kong was really Bad.
It didn't even match the Appearance of the Performer in the Gorilla Suit.
It's the greatest monster movie ever made hands down
Great review/analysis - thanks for this treat!
I was about 6 years old when commercials for the late 1940s releas on early TVs was being advertised. The movie was not shown on TV yet (had to go to a theater to see it, but the TV commercials were so realistic and memorable that I've newer forgottent them and I am in my late 70s now. My mother could only watch the TV ads a couple of times before she had to leave the room every time it came on. My father wasn't impressed. But one night after seeing the ad on TV,a wind came up outside and the tree next door was moving around and casting a shadow on my closet wall. Damn - it looked so real I actually imgined that the big ape was just outsid emy window.
Im almost 60 now. You and me were among the first to see and love these classics on TV
@@wonderrob3225 I had the great honor to have met him before he passed. He showed me a collection of some of his flexible minitures...he had a huge bunch of them on his work bench. The man was amazing.
Naomi Watts was a worthy successor to Fay Wray in Peter Jackson's reimagining. Her interactions with Kong was the highlight of that film for me. And she even talked with Fay about taking on such an iconic role.
Yes. Such a shame about Black and Brody though. Completely miscast and unconvincing.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Sadly, I agree with you there. When a friend expressed his dislike for the idea of Black being cast, I told him, "He's a villain. You're not supposed to like him." And Brody? Good actor, but just. not. Driscoll.
@@Polyphemus47
I actually think Thomas Kretschmann was underused and would have been a better love interest for Watts than Brody.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I couldn't agree more.
That stuff was as corny as the scenes in titanic, or even up there with the sw prequels.
I absolutely love this documentary! I did KING KONG FANTASIA - I love the segment on Fay, there was just something about her so arresting, beyond sexuality, just an ethereal quality that made a huge impression on me.
Fay went on, to be a very good actress!...In actuality, she had started in silent films around 1925...you can see her projecting emotions, particularly in the close-ups, much like silent film actors had to do, in order to sell their characters. Her facial emoting during the movie is very sensitive, espressive, and she is so beautiful!...it all works for her!...When I think of the most stunning Hollywood actresses, I think of her, and of Marilyn...both women were blessed with physical beauty beyond compare..If Fay had come along in the 1950s, the world would have been obsessed with her image, just like MM's image has been celebrated...Young people now still know who Marilyn was, but Fay's charisma is so far back in history now, that she will only be remembered as "that blonde" that Kong wanted...But Fay, in her later years, did graciously accept her notoriety, for what it was, and embraced the fact that she was in a very unique, "classic" movie.
I remember watching King Kong in the Compton Drive-in in 1973 in my dad's 1963 VW bus...all 10 of us!
How could those at the back see the screen? 😂
@@lyndoncmp5751 Periscopes?
OMG! I remember going to the drive in with my Dad. We saw LOgans Run and Blazing saddles and the Poseidon adventure etc.. Those were the days! Oh how I miss my DAD!
I remember as a kid watching King Kong ( the original ) every Thanksgiving day. I always made a point to watch it. Still not sure why it was played every Thanksgiving lol Absolutely love the movie. Perfect classic monster movie. Pure magic.
Started in 1976, most likely to cash in on the hype for the 1976 King Kong remake that was going to be released in December 1976. After that WOR just kept repeating it every Thanksgiving, along with the other giant ape movies and some Godzilla movies.
When I was a kid I could sometimes on a good day get good reception from Channel 29 in Buffalo NY, I think. They would play King Kong and Godzilla movies and I loved them so much that even when the reception was so terrible that it was just a screen covered in "snow" I would still listen to the movie and imagine the scenes from my memory. The little subtle things Harryhausen did with his creatures just brought them to life. I still wait in anticipation for the T-Rex to scratch his head in King Kong every time.
This was basically Interviews with People who are Fans of King Kong.
Not a lot of Coverage or Going Over the History of the Original Film.
King kong 1933 was the first film i ever watched when i was a kid. Still my favourite movie.
This would be my time machine choice. 1933, New York premiere of King Kong, sit at the back and watch the audience reaction.
It captivated me at a very early age to a point where I’ve loved every Kaiju ever since
THIS IS WORTH YOUR TIME.............
my mom saw KING KONG on the Million Dollar Movie and would always talk about it; she said it played like 5 times a day. Seeing KING KONG on the Big Screen from Fathom Events two days before Covid-19 shut down theaters was a Mind-Blower; it was like Kong was Alive!!!! I went to both screenings and had an insane headache afterwards. Fathom Events TCM needs to screen KING KONG this year on the Big Screen; it turns 90 years old this year.
Absolutely FIVE TIMES A DAY. CHANNEL 9!!
I don't know if they will speak about it, but King Kong was the first film to have a score written specifically for it. Max Steiner was commissioned to write a film score for a "monster" movie. He decided that, contrary to how other films used "generic" or classical music, that he would compose for the action on the screen. To this day, it still impresses those who hear it.
When they were speaking about the stop-motion making part of some scenes, one man asks, "I wonder how they figured that out?" Well, for that, we to thank Walt Disney, for his company's invention of the multi-plane camera system. They were experimenting with it in the early 1930's and put it to use in the film, "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs". The only difference between how Snow White and King Kong were shot is that Disney's multi-plane was a vertical system, while Kong was shot horizontally.
Kong is a metaphor for the middle aged man-- taken from a world he knows and ruled and unable to survive in a new one ...but he was going to kick some ass on the way out.
Thats an insightful observation
umm...not really.
Still my favorite movie(grew up in the 70’s). Just a marvel of film-making and story-telling.
Love King Kong.
One Of My Favorite Movies.
I love King Kong too. It’s one of my favorite movies too!
KISS ROCKS!
Nothing Tops the Original King Kong.
The real achievement of the ( first) de Laurentis production was that Kong wasn,t made by stop motion techniques. The work in make up and dress was completely wonderful and very realistic. For me that Kong film is my favorite.
Thank you for posting this documentary! ❤️
Have this classic monster movie in my collection. xx
Fun documentary. Godzilla v Kong was booked like a wrestling match. It even endended with a Dusty Finish!
Loved this film as a kid
Thankyou
What a fantastic loving tribute!
Regardless of how good (King Kong 2005) or bad (King Kong 1976) the character can be, there’s no denying that the character and story has had a powerful resonance on cinema. In my experience, here’s not only one of my favorite kaiju, but here’s also the primary inspiration for my favorite fictional character: Godzilla.
Side note, in the both times Godzilla and King Kong clashed (first in 1962 and again in 2021), it was a joy for me, especially when round 2 happened in 2021
King Kong 1972? 1976 is when it came out the remake other than the cheezy Japanese movies.
@@ronmailloux8655 One sec
Edit: Yep, you're right. I got the date wrong
I think '76 is better than' 05. Its not a bad film by any means, and I don't think '05 is particularly good either. Its a bit of a bloated self indulgent misfire.
@@lyndoncmp5751 you are in my team.
@@miguelrubiorincon3904
Haha thank you Miguel 👍
The only thing I found memorable about the 1976 remake was Jessica Lange in those Daisy Dukes.
Great score, Bridges and Grodin are good, the close up face shots of Kong are stunning and the location photography is awesome.
I loved seeing her boobies as a kid . possibly the first ones i ever saw
The suit that was used in King Kong vs Godzilla wasn't a Gorilla suit.
It was a modified version of Half Human / Monster Snow Man; with a different mask!Q
King Kong and Anne Dawn Darrow should be together. They make the perfect couple.
Outstanding !
I’ve just watched both films starting with the best one first the original but got to say I was impressed with how they filmed the second one taking us back to that era I thought the views at the beginning were brilliant and really takes you back...
Son of Kong was the second film and released 9 months later. Mighty Joe Young is essentially the third film.
That old king Kong was the guy falling for the wrong girl no matter how much he cared she just wasn't going to end up with the hero and if he couldn't have the girl he would rather be dead so he went down in a blaze of glory I loved this movie every year it played I watched it.
My first introduction to King Kong was the 1976 one with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange. And of course I absolutely loved the movie so much. And while the 1933 movie was no doubt an amazing wonder when it came out, it just looked horribly cheesy to me when I was a little kid. Now that I'm grown, 1933 King Kong still looks cheesy, but so does 1976 King Kong. 😏 1976 Kong still holds a little place in my heart as it inspired such an imagination for me back then.
In the run-up to the 2005 version's opening, there was talk from Peter Jackson about how much he loved the 1933 original, with a wink towards what he and others felt was the inferiority of the 1976 version. (spoilers: the 1976 version is certainly different, but it's still a good movie) However, it is odd to see how it is actually closer in tone to the 1976 version. First, in the 1933 version, Ann Darrow doesn't "bond" with Kong; she hates him and wants nothing more than to get away from him. 1976: Dawn loves Kong; she wants to protect him and is heartbroken when he dies. 1933: Carl Denham isn't the villain. He's brave and honorable and just wants to make a movie and when that falls through he presents Kong as a spectacle. Only by our modern understanding of these things do we see him as a manipulator. But he certainly doesn't manipulate his men. He wants to do right by the crew. 1976: Charles Grodin's character is a deceiver and a manipulator who doesn't care about the crew. He does exploit Kong in the same way, but his presentation is shown to be much more garish and tacky than Denham's. 1933: Bruce Cabot wants to rescue Ann and sees Kong as a villain. 1976: Jeff Bridges wants to rescue Jessica Lange, but when it comes down to it, he feels more sympathy for Kong and rejects her because of Kong's brutal death. Finally, in 1933, Kong is a brute who kidnaps Ann because of subtextual lust. But in 1976, Kong is in "love" with Dawn and is her friend and protector. All of these differences show that the 2005 film is much more in alignment with the one from 1976. But, as I say, the 1976 film is still not bad.
@@lanceash Thank you for telling it like it is. The 2005 only broke ground because it had CGI. Big deal. The setting was the same as the 1933 original and a lot of the plot points resemble the 76 version. I'll stick with 33 and 76. The 2005 version did nothing for me.
For King Kong '76, there were TWO actors playing Kong.... Rick Baker and William Shepherd, who, sadly, wasn't credited. However, you can Google William Shepherd King Kong and get some photos. Not sure which scenes he played.... possibly one was when Kong was trying to disrobe Jessica Lange.. Mr. Shepherd was also in another movie remake; Phantom of the Paradise, where he was seen in all the concert scenes. Especially the Wedding. Mr. Shepherd knew how to work a scene.
Long live the King.
I think for the 100th anniversary of the original film, they need to install a giant animatronic Gorilla onto the roof of the Empire State building that beats his chest every hour on the hour and lets out a big Kong roar, and it should stay there till the end of time.
good idea
0:54 i❤ King Kong 1933 I watched the movie since I was a kid and now I still watch it
King Kong is the best
What a fun film this was. And they're right. We're still showing Kong to the new generation. Also one of my favorite lines from Mighty Joe Young. "You can't lasso a gorilla!"
Thank u so much for this documentary that u think there would be tons about this film but there isn't!!!!!! I always even to this day find every single dinosaur on that island incredibly badass looking regardless of how much modern people see them !!!! I love each & every dinosaur look in this film !!!!!Best looking dinosaurs in a movie in the history of films , IDC if they're stop motion, they all look so badass & cool 💯 same with every other claymation film made from The Ghost Of Slumber Mountain , The Lost World & King Kong all the way up to the 1990's & 2000's claymation stop motion films like Nightmare Before Christmas & Corpse Bride 👍
In the early fuifties when I was in maybe seventh grade, the movie was screened in my hometown and my dad took me to see it. It was his favorite movie.
I remember going to the drive in with my Dad. We saw LOgans Run and Blazing saddles and the Poseidon adventure etc.. Those were the days! Oh how I miss my DAD!
1976 Kingkong is my all time favorite movie
I sure do. I was about 3, and it did not scare me a bit! And ever since after I'd always ask my parents to check TV Guide to see if it was gonna be on, and this was the late 80's and early 90's, and it would be shown on Saturday afternoons on ABC's Affiliate KATU!
The legend will survive us all.
because we are temporary. 😭
WWOR ran the big monkey movies on Thanksgiving and ran Godzilla flicks the next day. Great memories 🤘👍
Just today found and watched this 2017 video "documentary" for the first time, and at 66 and being a life-long serious fan and collector of classic and modern Fantastic Cinema, including of the classic 1933 movie "KING KONG", to me its a mixed bag of interesting comments by a few film industry related people and others in 2017 expressing their love and respect for the film and the iconic character....and of a lot of undeserved focus on the many terrible and forgettable films,TV programs, cartoons and other media crap that is clearly careless and disrespectful of the film and the character. I will continue to view and enjoy watching the 1933 classic, but after those few interesting comments, i wont again view this odd video (which i certainly dont consider a "documentary") and i still cant understand why anyone even bothered to make it, or how anyone can believe that most of the long list of people and "contributors" in the credits of this video (which looks like it was produced entirely on a cellphone by one person) really had anything to do with it.
You are just being silly...the point was to show how influential the original KONG was, in the ensuing decades.
My love for Kong was solidified in the early 70s....my mom was in the hospital so it was just me and dad. He made us steak and fries and let me stay up late. We watched Kong and Son of Kong... It's one of my happiest memories... Then a couple yrs later mom took me to the drive in to see the Kong with Jessica Lange.
To this day I'll watch any kong they make... I even liked the one with Linda Hamilton where Kong finds a Mrs Kong. The end seen is so sad Kong lies dieing as he gets to see his newborn son for the first and last time.
Kong VS Godzilla..... I always see kong as the winner bc think about it.... Kong does all his fighting natural.... No nucleur breath no armor she'll.. Just brut strength.
I love that monkey... (yes I know he's an ape not a monkey).
I honestly thought that by now someone would've found the 'Spider Pit Sequence.' That, and 'London After Midnight,' seem to be the Holy Grail of lost film.
I haven't seen every film in the franchise because there's about 13 of them all up, but I will stand up for King Kong Lives because this video makes it out to be a really bad film. I love King Kong Lives. I think it's a very fun movie that doesn't take itself too seriously and it has a lot of heart (and not just the big artificial one). Is it stupid, yes. Are some of the effects hilariously bad, yes. But I love the story of it, the emotional rollercoaster of whether Kong could survive, meeting Lady Kong and (spoiler alert) getting to meet his son just before he dies. It's this amazing bittersweet moment, then we get to see Lady Kong and Baby Kong living safely at the end. It's just so sweet, and I also love the scenes where it's just King Kong and Lady Kong essentially acting out scenes from a typical romantic comedy but with giant Gorillas. I think it's a great film. I also have a theory that the Kong in the most recent films is not the original, but rather the adult Baby Kong from King Kong Lives, which is why he's suddenly so much larger.
I think there's only about 9 kong films
good for you if you managed to find something to love in that movie. I'm a huge Kong and monster B-movie fan in general, but King Kong Lives is honestly one of the very worst films that I have ever seen.
Great documentary. I remember when it was released to TV in 1950's and watched it twice on the big screen in in later theatrical re-releases. Thought the dedication at the end should have been to Willis O'Brien.
Love king kong and most movies. I did not want him be killed in 1931. Incredible how it was made.
1933
Kong is King
Nothing could replace the original that wat makes it so good it timeless
I guess they never saw the original Japanese-language version of “Kingu Kongu tai Gojira,” as the US cut does away with the satire and social commentary. Ishirô Honda was an absolute master. Peace.
In grade school we had a "talk and tell" session and my friend Roger got up and told the Kong story .He called the Stegosaurus a giant porcupine.We corrected him, poor guy, and I think we may have hurt his feelings!
I love Steiner's score, and what I really appreciate about John Barry's score is the sparseness and simplicity of his writing.Check out the Maybe My Luck Has Changed theme - gorgeous!
In the late '90s, Kong The Animated Series came out, all the episodes of which I watched years ago, where the focus is a clone of the original Kong with human DNA that travels with a group of human heroes all over the world to protect the world from an evil professor. It had competition from Godzilla The Series (which served as a continuation of the 1998 film), but I still love it, as I love all Kong material. I am making fanfictions of the mentioned animated series crossing over with Godzilla The Series, a reimagining of the original Kong story, and plan to feature Kong in a new way in a Godzilla fanfiction.
King Kong je l ai découvert lors d'une diffusion au ciné club je devai avoir 6 ou 7 ans chez ma grand mère maternel. Le ciné club était et je me souvien elle partie dormir . J était impatien et après la présentation le film commence avec la musique comme un coup de tonnerre de max steiner
J avou j'en ramnai pas large mais j ai adoré ce film une aventure fantastique et puis Kong qu' ont emmene dans un monde moderne la fin ma bouleversé. Ce film est celui que j'ai vu le plus dans ma vie de cinéphile et il est mon film de ma vie.
À 63 ans quand j'ai envi de me trouvé dans un monde mysterieu avec des dinosaures je me passé le célèbre king Kong de meriam c Cooper et Ernest shoedsack de la rko je ne m en lasse jamai . Ceci dit jai aimé le remake du grand peter Jackson émule du king Kong original a qui il a rendu tout le long de son remake des hommages et mêmes des objets de l original hommage aussi a max steiner il aurai aimé que fay wray face une apparition malheureusement la grande est décédé. Voilà un grand film qui m'a fait devenir un cinéphile confirmé dans tout les styles.
As a kid in the 60s I beleived Kong was real...I still do
Kong vs Joe Young. Place your bets.
Kong is Obviously Bigger.
Its not any sort of contest
The Question is was Joe a Fully Grown Gorilla ?
Yes!
King Kong is just as famous as Godzilla as Kong was the original the very first Giant Movie monster even though the original Kong (1933) was an 18in. Maquette covered in rabbit fur and they built a full sized bust of Kong's head and chest for the close ups and a full sized hand for the close ups of Anne Darrow (Faye Raye).
KING KONG 1933 best movie ever and of course best adaptation of kong.
-it inspired people like Spielberg and Jackson to do films
-2005 let me down a little bit with its length during irrelevant scenes, and how Kong was more of a gymnist rather than a powerhouse gorilla. I mean he jumped through the wall - such a missed opportunity
-as much as i don't like the toho Kongs, I am happy to see the character alive and appearing on screen in the 2020's. He's almost 100 years old and is still on screen.
Guillermo del Toro did a fantastic stop motion Pinocchio movie. I would love to see his team do this for a modern stop motion 1933 King Kong movie.
Kong is great, but I liked Godzilla more... but the King Kong remake in the 70s is one of my all time favorite movies! But as a kid, i also liked the creature from the black lagoon and loved the wolf-man !!
Godzilla was impersonal and way too big.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I was a kid...he had plenty of personality for me!
@@1wickedgroove
I was a kid too. But even then I thought it was not a great FILM like King Kong.
@@lyndoncmp5751 ok then.
One of the modern, sort of abstract, criticisms I have read of the 1933 King Kong is that the filmmakers were not kind to Kong, and the attitudes back in 1933 did not allow for sympathy for a creature taken out of its natural environment. Maybe... Nevertheless, EVERYONE ended up sympathizing with Kong anyway. Even audiences in 1933 understood it wasn't his fault. I suspect that's one reason they made Son of Kong so sympathetic.
Thats an insightful observation
Kong is supposed to be a monster. Jackson lost the plot totally in the last third of his movie, when he transformed Kong to larger version of Mighty Joe Young...
King Kong is the eighth wonder of the world. King of the beasts! The O.G 💯🦍
The 2005 DVD restoration further details the risqué liberties of a 1933 pre-code film release in two scenes. The first is when Ann is on the ship's deck while Charlie is peeling potatoes, and the second is where Denham is shooting some test footage of Ann ("Scream for your life, Ann, Scream!"). The thin material used for Ann's dress and gown in both scenes makes it obvious that Fay Wray is not wearing a bra, a wardrobe decision that may not have made it past the Breen Code the following year.
I wonder if films of this current generation will hold the same sway over audiences and have documentaries like this in the future.
Still King after all these years too 🦍👑
Anyone remember the "sequel" King Kong Lives, from the '80s? So good
It's available here on YT, for free.
I must share my Son of Kong Theory. It wasn't his son, I believe light Kong was actually Dark Kong's twin Brother, when the two young Kong's were playing one day hundreds of years before, Dark got a little too aggressive and shoved Light into the Quick Sand and he went into suspendid isolation, then was awakend by the Rumbling Earth Quakes at the start of Son of Kong!
I never thought of King Kong as a monster. I always hated how he was captured, exploited, then killed by greedy, heartless men. I would always have to cover my eyes and block my ears when Kong was being hurt, and I just left the room when the planes show up to the Empire State Building.
Me too
He WAS a monster. He totally obliterated the men on the log for no reason. They weren't even shooting at him. Then he rampage through the native village, brutally killing everyone he got his hands on. This was before he was captured. They had to knock him out to put a stop to his rampage.
Kong was not an innocent victim. He didn't have to come chasing after Ann and smashing through the gate etc.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Unless you know otherwise, it has always been my understanding that Kong is a wild gorilla, albeit a fantastically large gorilla. Therefore, Kong is incapable of reason. Kong, or any wild animal, could never be considered guilty or innocent with regard to any killing of a human.
@@twinkle2679
In the original King Kong he is never once refered to as a gorilla. Denham even says "neither beast nor man".
His puppeteer Willis O'brien deliberately gave Kong some humanlike mannerisms, even in the way he walks. He's not a quadruped like a gorilla.
Kong is mean and malicious at times. Look at the way he purposely and cruelly drops that brunette woman to her death in New York after pulling her out of her bedroom.
He was like Frankenstein or Jesus in a way
I remember years ago a long time ago, when i was a young kid, me and my brother would sit in front of the tv and my father would prepare the Turkey 🦃 on Thanksgiving Day while our mother was preparing the table then she would watch it with us, “No Fair I’m Making The Turkey, I want too see the Movies Too!” 😂 Pop was going back and fourth seeing and cooking 🥘 Great times. I also remember King Kong Movies Thursday/Thanksgiving Day & Friday was Godzilla films, which on Friday the first Godzilla film would be KING KONGGG VERUS GODZILLAAAAAA! 🦍 VRS 🦖 WOOOOOOO!
I preferred Mighty Joe Young to Son of Kong .
Mighty Joe young had the animation of the master artist Ray Harryhausen
The scene at 10:25 showing that much of Fay Wrays legs back in 1933, wasn't that a bit taboo for audiences?
I like it, but just saying.
Also, at 59:38 the 3 Burger Chef glasses from Kong '76! I had those, need to find them again.
Hollywood has no rating code or censorship board for films until 1934, there were a lot of risque silent films and many in the early 30's.
Jessica Lange was my Fay Wray .
when i first saw king kong about 50 years ago, it tought me how vile and corrupt and cruel human beings are... and i still feel the same unfortunately
09:13
Jack Driscoll wasn't the captain of the Venture, he was the first mate, The Captain was the old man Englehorn.
Rookie mistake.
King Kong 1933 is my all tine favourite movie.
Kong was my introduction to Monster movies, and he inspired me to collect movies.