King Kong 1933

Fig 1 (Movie Poster) Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Screenplay by: James Ashmore , Creelman, Ruth Rose March 1993, Adventure Film.

King Kong Is an Adventure movie, where a photographer with his crew, and a female, adventure to new lands where they find the natives who worship the monster Kong, which the photographer, Carl Denham, had planned to get a shot of. The beast sets eyes on the female after being stolen by the natives and presented as a gift, and the whole crew fight to get her back, as well as the beast him self, where they exhibit him in Hollywood, but he breaks free, causing chaos around the city. The story is so simple and clich, but, why has it been idolised so much and still remembered even today? It has embedded itself in film history because of the way it looks, the beauty of the scenes,

and how initiative the scenes were made for the time, that even today they can be admired, despite the obvious lack of affects compared to todays cinema, and typical roles played in the movie. Most of all, the film survives the decades because it embodies an archetypal myth rendered so powerfully that it eclipses any dated dialogue and technical flaws. (S.Biodrowski:2007) Paintings in this time where still used as a back drop for the scenes, but now, they were painted onto glass to build depth, and they were layered with props and items in the fore ground, which would have never been seen before by the audience of the time. The characters were still very much dis attached from the scene they were playing in, but they could at least now seem as if theyre walking in the fore ground, with some depth to it, unlike before, for fantasy, made-up scenes. This would have been very convincing at the time, though today would not be as appreciated, but people still enjoy the pure artwork of the scene sets. Through multiple exposures, processed "shots" and a variety of angles of camera wizardry the producers set forth an adequate story and furnish enough thrills for any devotee of such tales. (M.Hall:2003)

Fig 2 Living Jungle The monsters were obviously made of figures and models, and when the humans interacted with the monsters, they also used dolls. Though this is too obvious for the audience of today, it would have been overlooked at the time, because of the beautiful imagery and images caught for the very first time. Though in some scenes, the models looked pretty poorly made, for instance, when the crew have been killed by Kong, and are falling to their death. The dolls are so flimsy and barely resemble the weight of a human body at all. Though that adds character and humour to modern audiences, the audience of 1933 would have been overwhelmed to criticize, also, no other movie had attempted such affects before. So purely an exhibition of studio and camera technology-- and it isn't much more than that--"Kong" surpasses anything of its type which has gone before it in

commercial film-making. The work has many flaws, but they're overcome by the general results. The errors will probably be overlooked. (J.Bigelow:2012)

Fig 3: On top of the world The movie is said to have been heavily influenced The Lost World, a 1925 movie directed by H. Hoyt, which is an adaptation of a novel, The lost world by A. Doyle 1912, King Kong over takes its mark in the course of history for the beautiful cinematic affects produced, the amazing use of props and layers and the advanced techniques for its time. The natives of the Island Kong reigns in may seem a bit too racist, a bit too primitive, but at the time, there wasnt as much mixed culture as there is today, and Africa was still a land to fully be explored, and was interesting to the public, but had a very racist stereotype branded to it.

Illustrations: Fig 1. (1933) [Film Poster] http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/king-kongposter.jpg (accessed 12/10/12) Fig 2. (1933) [movie still] http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?start=367&num=10&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=809&tbm=isch&tbnid =hJOY3zVCRHdseM:&imgrefurl=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395790457525 3141375792182.html&docid=ELjpmBNtxRcuWM&imgurl=http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ NY-AF708_MOVIES_G_20100519201550.jpg&w=553&h=369&ei=OgiHUMJFqOf0QXWiYHIAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=899&vpy=475&dur=1184&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=17

4&ty=107&sig=103366759825509371209&page=10&tbnh=132&tbnw=187&ndsp=33&ved=1t:429,r: 96,s:300,i:292 (accessed 12/10/12) Fig 3. (1933) [Movie Still] http://www.ita-usa.com/?p=1365 (accessed 12/10/12)

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