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Just saw it...and noticed something...

posted 4 years ago by HAL 9010 (906)
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I haven't seen it in ages. And upon watching it just now, I realize the Kong is a monster in the movie. Sure he doesn't really harm her, but she never connected with him as the remakes make her... To her, he was just a monster.

I wonder if it was an accident that we, the audience, ended up rooting for him and not the humans?

Truth be told, the reason for his success nearly a hundred years later still, is that we want him to win... Does anyone know if the original storytellers wanted to portray a mundane monster or the antihero he has become?

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

Fay Wray’s character Anne was as dull as dishwater. She had no personality, nothing to say, no thoughts. She just screamed a lot. They could have stuck a blond mannequin out for Kong and he wouldn’t have known the difference.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7801) 4 years ago

I think they wanted him less sympathetic in the original. He kills the natives on the island that worship him! That makes him kind of a jerk!

[–] millsey72 (10585) 2 years ago

Kong was only an antihero in King Kong Escapes, Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla vs Kong. In all the other versions, Kong is a mundane monster

[–] TheArgentinian (7189) 2 years ago

The 2005 gets a lot of shit but it has the better development between the girl and Kong of all the KK movies.

[–] DirkOff (336) 2 years ago

Check out the 1975 version of Kong where he gives Jessica Lange a bath in the waterfall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk34RXMFgM0