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King Kong (1933) In 1933, the bold and successful filmmaker Carl Denham travels by ship with a large crew, his friend Jack Driscoll and the starlet Ann Darrow to on the remote Skull Island to shoot a movie. Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent of all the unusual and exotic creatures is “King Kong,” a fifty-foot gorilla. The local natives worship Kong and abduct Ann to offer her in a sacrifice to him. Jack Driscoll, who is in love with her, Carl Denham, who aims to capture the animal for an exhibition in New York and part of the crew hike into the jungle, where dinosaurs live, trying to rescue Ann. King Kong falls in love with Ann and protects her against the dangers. But the gorilla is captured and brought to New York. In the middle of a show on Broadway, King Kong escapes, brings panic to the city going on a rampage, destroying everything in his path and kidnapping the beautiful young actress.
While the creature King Kong is, in most scenes, only an 18-inch studio model, the stop-motion special effects are so intelligently accomplished and lovingly detailed that the animated gorilla manages to be as expressive as a human. No man in an ape suit could convey such a complex variety of emotions—only a fine actor such as Willis O’ Brien, was able to create one of cinema’s most unique and memorable characters from an inanimate 18-inch stop-motion model. Source: RottenTomatoes, Wikipedia, IMDB |
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