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Storyline
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. But Carl has another plan in mind. King Kong is the remake of the 1933 cult film. With a 200 million dollar budget director Peter Jackson was able to fulfill his childhood dream of directing a King Kong film. |
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Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his Lord of the Rings film trilogy, adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of King Kong and as the producer of District 9.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies, before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures, for which he shared an Academy Award Best Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003.
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Revisiting(ish) King Kong (1933) for the AFI Project
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!From January 6, 2009:
What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx
King Kong (1933) is on the following AFI lists:
The Original Top 100 (#43)
100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#12)
100 Years...100 Passions (#24)
100 Movie Quotes (#84 - Carl Denham: "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.")
25 Film Scores (#13)
The Revised Top 100 (#41)
10 Top 10's (#4 Fantasy)
I say revisiting(ish) in the title of this entry because I'm fairly certain that I saw this, the original version of King Kong, when I was a very little girl. I remember a time when I was 5 or 6 years old, and I got so sick with strept throat and some upper respiratory infection that I was out of school for weeks. And I remember that there were many movies and TV marathons, and I remember enjoying HBO quite a lot at the time. And I remember seeing two King Kongs in a row, this one and the surprisingly spades-lamer 1976 version with Jessica Lange. Because I was a very little girl, however, I couldn't tell you what I remembered from this film because it's literally been that long since I've seen it. Plus, if you haven't noticed, a few other versions of King Kong have come out since then, and I think I've officially seen them all.
I digress. After making use of the wondrous Netflix queue, I revisited King Kong, thusly, with an approach more akin to viewing it for the first time but also with a somewhat scientific veneer. After all, I've now been exposed to the incredibly protracted Peter Jackson version, which is basically a retooling of th...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 3rd of March 2010
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Peter Jackson's King Kong is an exciting adventure ride. Thrilling sequences all over Skull Island but it gets pretty dull once they leave the island.