KING KONG (1933)
The King Still Reigns Supreme I apologize if this sounds more like a gushing fan's praise-fest than an actual review, but frankly, the subject matter demands it. So, bear with me as I indulge...
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Just a footnote regarding what I stated about the Kong/Ann Darrow relationship: What we have in the 1933 original isn't a 'flaw', but rather a reversal of audience sympathy. In the first half of the...
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Casey62 wrote:Just a footnote regarding what I stated about the Kong/Ann Darrow relationship: What we have in the 1933 original isn't a 'flaw', but rather a reversal of audience sympathy. In the first...
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So true, Casey. It's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment in the film in which our sympathies transfer from Ann (and to a lesser degree, Denham & Company) to Kong. It's probably Kong's heroic...
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telegonus wrote:So true, Casey. It's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment in the film in which our sympathies transfer from Ann (and to a lesser degree, Denham & Company) to Kong. It's probably...
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This shift in audience sympathy, I believe, is key in understanding the superiority of the original over the remakes, yet it's hardly ever brought up. In both the '76 and '05 versions we're 'told' to...
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You nailed it, Casey . That's a perfect analysis of why the 1933 original is so great. It also, of course, benefits hugely from its having been made at a time when people didn't travel so much or so...
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telegonus wrote:It also, of course, benefits hugely from its having been made at a time when people didn't travel so much or so often, least of all Americans to such places as the Dutch East Indies,...
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Something else worth considering is that stop-motion animation didn't take off until Ray Harryhausen's films of the 1950's - 20 years after KONG. Before Ray hit it big, what animated giant monsters...
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telegonus wrote: It also, of course, benefits hugely from its having been made at a time when people didn't travel so much or so often, least of all Americans to such places as the Dutch East Indies,...
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