Cinema Brewers hebben dit jaar weer een nieuw bier uitgebracht: King Kong (8%). Het bier is gebrouwen bij brouwerij Troost in samenwerking met Bombata. Het is gebrouwen met hoge gisting en de ingrediënten water, gerstemout, hop, gist en cocos en is geïnspireerd door de gelijknamige film uit 1933 (dus niet die van 1976 of 2005).
De kleur van het bier is niet goudgeel, maar doet wat koperkleurig aan. Niet zo donker amber als Palm (Bavaria), maar wat ook opvalt is het schuim. Dat is niet kraakwit, het is wat bruin. Mijn smaak is niet zodanig geoefend dat ik banaan of kokos herken. Met een beetje fantasie kan ik het mondgevoel wel duiden als tarwebier en de daarbij behorende zijdezachte gevoel met banaansmaak.
Cinema Brewers brouwen speciaal King Kong bier
De Cinema Brewers zijn filmmakers en bierbrouwers die diverse filmklassiekers omtoveren tot een smaakvol bier.
Dit keer komen de brouwers met een bier gebaseerd op de film King Kong.
King Kong is de naam van het nieuwste bier van de Cinema Brewers. Het bier is gebaseerd op de film King Kong uit 1933. Dit tripel bier wordt gelanceerd op 21 februari 2016.
De Cinema Brewers hebben al meerdere keren een film vertaald naar een bier. Zo hebben ze ook klassiekers als Back To The Future en Pulp Fiction 'verbiert' (www.biernet.nl/nieuws/cinema-brewers-brouwen-speciaal-king-kong-bier).
King Kong
Brouwerij Cinema Brewers
LandNederland
Gebrouwen sinds2016
SoortTripel bier
Alcohol8%
GistingBovengisting
KleurOnbekend
Drink temperatuurOnbekend
StamwortgehalteOnbekend
Websitewww.cinemabrewers.com/
Smaak & beschrijving
Smaken van kokosnoot en banaan.
King Kong Tripel is een bier gebaseerd op de filmklassieker 'King Kong' uit 1933. De Cinema Brewers vinden het bier zelf 'het 8e wereldwonder' door de toevoeging van kokosnoot, banaan en het fermenteren op hoge temperatuur (www.biernet.nl/bier/merken/king-kong).
Dit bier van de Cinema Brewers zit verpakt in twee verschillende soorten flesjes. De een heeft een afbeelding van King Kong op het etiket staan, de ander heeft een afbeelding van Ann Darrow, het meisje dat ontvoert werd door King Kong.
Wanneer de twee verschillende flesjes naast elkaar worden gezet, kijken King Kong en Ann Darrow elkaar recht in de ogen.
Vijf cent van elk bier gaat naar de Cinema Brewers Fund. Dit is een fonds die korte films ondersteund (www.biernet.nl/bier/merken/king-kong).
Het gebruik van twee etiketten is ook gedaan bij Bock to the Future. Daar kocht ik er wel 2 (zelfs 3) van. Maar deze tripel kan mij helaas niet bekoren. dat komt deels door de plakkerige nasmaak die ik na een tijdje beleef van dit bier. En het feit dat mijn palet geen kokos en banaan kan herkennen.
King Kong is a fictional giant movie monster, resembling a colossal gorilla, that has appeared in various media since 1933. The character first appeared in the 1933 film King Kong, which received universal acclaim upon its initial release and re-releases. The film was remade in 1976 and once again in 2005. The character has become one of the world's most famous movie icons, having inspired countless sequels, remakes, spin-offs, imitators, parodies, cartoons, books, comics, video games, theme park rides, and even a stage play. His role in the different narratives varies, ranging from a rampaging monster to a tragic antihero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong).
Origin of the name
Merian C. Cooper was very fond of strong hard sounding words that started with the letter "K". Some of his favorite words were Komodo, Kodiak and Kodak. When Cooper was envisioning his giant terror gorilla idea, he wanted to capture a real gorilla from the Congo and have it fight a real Komodo dragon on Komodo Island. (This scenario would eventually evolve into Kong's battle with the tyrannosaur on Skull Island when the film was produced a few years later at RKO.) Cooper's friend Douglas Burden's trip to the island of Komodo and his encounter with the Komodo dragons there was a big influence on the Kong story. Cooper was fascinated by Burden's adventures as chronicled in his book Dragon Lizards of Komodo where he referred to the animal as the "King of Komodo". It was this phrase along with Komodo and C(K)ongo (and his overall love for hard sounding K words) that gave him the idea to name the giant ape Kong. He loved the name as it had a "mystery sound" to it.
When Cooper got to RKO and wrote the first draft of the story, it was simply referred to as The Beast. RKO executives were unimpressed with the bland title. David O. Selznick suggested Jungle Beast as the film's new title,] but Cooper was unimpressed and wanted to name the film after the main character. He stated he liked the "mystery word" aspect of Kong's name and that the film should carry "the name of the leading mysterious, romantic, savage creature of the story" such as with Dracula and Frankenstein. RKO sent a memo to Cooper suggesting the titles Kong: King of Beasts, Kong: The Jungle King, and Kong: The Jungle Beast, which combined his and Selznick's proposed titles. As time went on, Cooper would eventually name the story simply Kong while Ruth Rose was writing the final version of the screenplay. Because David O. Selznick thought that audiences would think that the film, with the one word title of Kong, would be mistaken as a docudrama like Grass and Chang, which were one-word titled films that Cooper had earlier produced, he added the "King" to Kong's name to differentiate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong).
King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews. It has been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time.
The film tells of a gigantic, prehistoric, island-dwelling ape called Kong who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman. King Kong is especially noted for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and a groundbreaking musical score by Max Steiner. In 1991 it was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It has been remade twice: in 1976 and in 2005 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film)).
Appearances and abilities
In his first appearance in King Kong (1933), Kong was a gigantic prehistoric ape, or as RKO's publicity materials described him, "A prehistoric type of ape." While gorilla-like in appearance, he had a vaguely humanoid look and at times walked upright in an anthropomorphic manner. Indeed, Carl Denham describes him as being "neither beast nor man". Like most simians, Kong possesses semi-human intelligence and great physical strength. Kong's size changes drastically throughout the course of the film. While creator Merian C. Cooper envisioned Kong as being "40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m) tall", animator Willis O'Brien and his crew built the models and sets scaling Kong to be only 18 feet (5 m) tall on Skull Island, and rescaled to be 24 feet (7 m) tall in New York. This did not stop Cooper from playing around with Kong's size as he directed the special effect sequences; by manipulating the sizes of the miniatures and the camera angles, he made Kong appear a lot larger than O'Brien wanted, even as large as 60 feet (18 m) in some scenes. ....
In 1975, Producer Dino De Laurentiis paid RKO for the remake rights to King Kong. This resulted in King Kong (1976). This Kong was an upright walking anthropomorphic ape, appearing even more human-like than the original. Also like the original, this Kong had semi-human intelligence and vast strength. In the 1976 film, Kong was scaled to be 42 feet (13 m) tall on Skull island and rescaled to be 55 feet (17 m) tall in New York. 10 years later, DDL received permission from Universal to do a sequel, King Kong Lives. Kong more or less had the same appearance and abilities, only he tended to walk on his knuckles more often and was enlarged, being scaled to be 60 feet (18 m).
Universal Studios had planned to do a King Kong remake as far back as 1976. They finally followed through almost 30 years later, with a three-hour film directed by Peter Jackson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong).
Legal rights
While one of the most famous movie icons in history, King Kong's intellectual property status has been questioned since his creation, featuring in numerous allegations and court battles. The rights to the character have always been split up with no single exclusive rights holder. Different parties have also contested that various aspects are public domain material and therefore ineligible for copyright status.
When Merian C. Cooper created King Kong, he assumed that he owned the character, which he had conceived in 1929, outright. Cooper maintained that he had only licensed the character to RKO for the initial film and sequel but had otherwise owned his own creation. In 1935, Cooper began to feel something was amiss when he was trying to get a Tarzan vs. King Kong project off the ground for Pioneer Pictures (where he had assumed management of the company). After David O. Selznick suggested the project to Cooper, the flurry of legal activity over using the Kong character that followed—Pioneer having become a completely independent company by this time and access to properties that RKO felt were theirs was no longer automatic—gave Cooper pause as he came to realize that he might not have full control over the figment of his own imagination.
Years later in 1962, Cooper had found out that RKO was licensing the character through John Beck to Toho studios in Japan for a film project called King Kong vs. Godzilla. Cooper had assumed his rights were unassailable and was bitterly opposed to the project. In 1963 he filed a lawsuit to enjoin distribution of the movie... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong).
Zouden ze bij de Cinema Brewers dan copyright moeten betalen over de naam van hun bier of het etiket? Of nog erger... zou ik dta nu moeten, vanwege het vertonen ervan?
In 1920, Merian C. Cooper was a member of volunteer of the American Kosciuszko Squadron that supported the Polish army in the war with Soviet Russia, where he met best friend and producing partner Ernest B. Schoedsack. On 26 July 1920, his plane was shot down, and he spent nearly nine months in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. He escaped just before the war was over. He was decorated by Marshall Jozef Pilsudski with the highest military decorations: Virtuti Military. He had a successful career in the military and in the movie business. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Marcin Kozlinski
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He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But, his name is misspelled as "Meriam C. Cooper." (www.imdb.com/name/nm0178260/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. Then he's captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition (www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3).
KING KONG remains an unparalleled horror-fantasy whose gargantuan reputation is much deserved. An expedition exploring a remote island captures a gigantic ape and brings him back to New York. A beautiful actress who accompanies them provokes feelings of love in the mighty Kong, causing him to break free from his chains and bring terror to the streets. The ending is amongst the most memorable in movie history, guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye (www.fact.co.uk/whats-on/king-kong-1933).
Trivia:
The "Old Arabian Proverb" opening the film was actually written by director Merian C. Cooper.
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Merian C. Cooper's first vision for the film was of a giant ape on top of the world's tallest building fighting airplanes. He worked backward from there to develop the rest of the story.
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Merian C. Cooper was partially inspired by W. Douglas Burden, who brought the world's first captive Komodo dragons to the Bronx Zoo in 1926. Cooper was intrigued how the once mythic, massive predators quickly perished once caged and displayed for the public.
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King Kong's roar was a lion's and a tiger's roar combined and run backwards but more slowly.
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This film was successfully reissued worldwide numerous times; some claim it was the first ever re-released film. In the 1938 reissue, several scenes of excessive violence and sex were cut to comply with the Production Code enforced in 1934. Though many of the censored scenes were restored by Janus Films in 1971 (including the censored sequence in which Kong peels off Fay Wray's clothes), one deleted scene has never been found, shown publicly only once during a preview screening in San Bernardino, California in January 1933. It was a graphic scene following Kong shaking four sailors off the log bridge, causing them to fall into a ravine where they were eaten alive by giant spiders. At the preview screening, audience members screamed and either left the theatre or talked about the grisly sequence throughout the subsequent scenes, disrupting the film. Said the film's producer, Merian C. Cooper, "It stopped the picture cold, so the next day back at the studio, I took it out myself."
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The project went through numerous title changes during production, including "The Beast" (original title of draft by Edgar Wallace in RKO files), "The Eighth Wonder", "The Ape", "King Ape" and "Kong".
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After Kong has been successfully gassed on the beach, and just before the break to New York, Denham yells that they've captured "Kong! The Eighth Wonder of the World!" He says "Kong" rather than "King Kong" because at that point in the script development, the picture's title was simply "Kong".
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The remakes - King Kong (1976) and King Kong (2005) - show Kong with the same temperament as in the original film. In the less popular sequel The Son of Kong (1933) and the successful "distant cousin" Mighty Joe Young (1949), the Production Code of 1934 was a strong influence on "the script" for the central characters, as they were friendlier and less destructive.
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Body count: 40.
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Close-ups of the pilots and gunners of the planes that attack Kong were shot in the studio with mock-up planes. The flight commander is director Merian C. Cooper and his observer is producer Ernest B. Schoedsack. They decided to play the parts after Cooper said that "we should kill the sonofabitch ourselves" (www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv).
In the wide shot of Kong climbing the Empire State Building, he is climbing the western face of the structure. The financial district is visible to the south in the background. The shot of him atop the tower shows the Chrysler Building directly behind him. That building being to the ESB's north east, that puts Kong on the southern face of the building. When he falls, in the closer shot, he falls back to the south east. Back in the wide shot, he falls off the western side.
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Being located in the South Pacific north of Java and Sumatra, the island on which Kong lives should be inhabited by Asian people. Instead, the natives and their costumes appear to be African.
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Despite being a huge gorilla Kong is seen walking or running on two legs. Gorllias like all great apes apart from humans actually knuckle walk most of the time (www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/trivia?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf).
King Kong (1976)
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla. ... An expedition of the "Petrox" company, is exploring in search of petrol. A strange island where they arrive is the home of a giant ape, King Kong, that is captured by the expedition in order to make money exhibiting it to the world. When in the U.S. the huge gorilla becomes restless, trying to return home... Written by
Universal had originally planned to make a more faithful remake of King Kong (1933) to be entitled "The Legend of King Kong", which was going to be a period piece set in the 1930s. However, they backed out when this modern remake was announced.
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Employees of the Empire State Building expressed their displeasure at the producers' decision to stage the remake's climax at the World Trade Center by picketing the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building dressed in monkey suits.
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After the events of 9/11 Paramount Pictures issued a voluntary recall of all retail DVD copies of King Kong, That showed Him atop the World Trade center towers with planes all around him.The DVD was later re- issued with a different cover (www.imdb.com/title/tt0074751/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv).
Goofs:
When Kong first comes in during the "sacrifice" ceremony, he knocks down trees all over the place. During later shots of this same area during the movie, there are no downed trees. In fact, downed trees are not seen anywhere on the island after this initial scene.
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(at around 1h 4 mins) In the early scenes of when Kong is first becoming acquainted with Dwan after taking her in the sacrificing ritual, when they show Dwan from behind sitting in Kong's hand and she is wearing an arm bracelet. When she is shown from the front sitting in Kong's hand, she isn't wearing the arm bracelet. It happens during the scene where she calls him a "chauvinist pig ape" then starts punching him in the nose and then she apologizes for it when he gets angry at her.
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(at around 1h 23 mins) Jack and Dwan jump off the precipice into the water to "escape" from Kong. If they could make the jump and survive it, wouldn't the jump be a mere step for a 50 foot gorilla?
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(at around 2h) When Kong leaps from one World Trade Center tower to the other, wires can be seen holding him up.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) There are a total of three helicopters in the finale atop the World Trade Center. After one of them is destroyed, long shots still show all three helicopters firing on Kong.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) The helicopters that attack Kong on the top of the World Trade Center are armed with high rate of fire Gatling guns (Miniguns) which make a "whirring" sound while being fired rather than the more familiar lower rate of fire recoil operated machine gun noise that is heard in the film.
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(at around 2h 5 mins) When Kong falls off the World Trade Center, we cut to a shot from below looking up at him as he heads down towards us, except that he's not there. A split second later he appears in the middle of the frame and continues to fall from that point on.
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The ship's radar is used to track the position of King Kong on the island. There are a number of errors in how the radar is depicted. A ship based radar simply measures how far away objects are from the ship as it rotates. What the radar would show of the island is the shape of the coast line - which is where the radar first hits a solid object and is reflected back. However the radar screen shows a topographic type view, as if you were looking at the island and seeing the height and thus silhouette of the mountains. Ship radar does not work that way. Further, it would be impossible to track King Kong on the island with radar. There are obviously many mountains and hills between the ship and King Kong that would reflect the radar signal back before it reaches him (www.imdb.com/title/tt0074751/trivia?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf).
King Kong (2005)
Nieuw-Zeeland / Verenigde Staten / Duitsland
Avontuur / Fantasy
187 minuten / 201 minuten (extended edition)
geregisseerd door Peter Jackson
met Naomi Watts, Jack Black en Adrien Brody
De jaren '30. Een groep filmmakers reist af naar een legendarisch eiland om een film op te nemen. Eenmaal aangekomen blijken alle geheimzinnige verhalen over het eiland op waarheid berust: het eiland wordt bevolkt door mysterieuze inboorlingen en vele gigantische beesten. Hoofdrolspeelster Ann Darrow wordt de gevangene van één van deze beesten: de 8 meter grote gorilla Kong. De filmcrew trekt er vervolgens op uit om haar te redden (www.moviemeter.nl/film/25863).
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow (www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/).
Jackson opted to make Kong a gigantic silverback gorilla without any anthropomorphic features. Kong looked and behaved more like a real gorilla: he had a large herbivore's belly, walked on his knuckles without any upright posture, and even beat his chest with his palms as opposed to clenched fists. In order to ground his Kong in realism, Jackson and the Weta Digital crew gave a name to his fictitious species, Megaprimatus kong, which was said to have evolved from the Gigantopithecus. Kong was the last of his kind. He was portrayed in the film as being quite old with graying fur, and battle-worn with scars, wounds, and a crooked jaw from his many fights against rival creatures. He is the most dominant being on the island; the king of his world. Like his predecessors, he possesses considerable intelligence and great physical strength; he also appears far more nimble and agile. This Kong was scaled to a consistent height of 25 feet (8 m) tall on both Skull Island and in New York.
Jackson describes his central character: “We assumed that Kong is the last surviving member of his species. He had a mother and a father and maybe brothers and sisters, but they’re dead. He’s the last of the huge gorillas that live on Skull Island, and the last one when he goes...there will be no more. He’s a very lonely creature, absolutely solitary. It must be one of the loneliest existences you could ever possibly imagine. Every day, he has to battle for his survival against very formidable dinosaurs on the island, and it’s not easy for him. He’s carrying the scars of many former encounters with dinosaurs. I’m imagining he’s probably 100 to 120 years old by the time our story begins. And he has never felt a single bit of empathy for another living creature in his long life; it has been a brutal life that he’s lived.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong).
The film takes place in 1933. This was the year that King Kong (1933) was released.
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(at around 27 mins) Jimmy (Jamie Bell) is seen reading 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad and even has a conversation with Hayes (Evan Parke) about it. Both the book and the story of King Kong have similar themes.
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The tyrannosaurus has hands with three fingers (instead of the scientifically correct two) as an homage to the original King Kong (1933) in which the tyrannosaurus also had an extra digit, and is explained by the idea that the dinosaurs on Skull Island have evolved in the 65 million years since the two-fingered tyrannosaurus went extinct elsewhere in the world.
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The billboards that appear in Times Square are the same as the ones found in King Kong (1933).
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At the very end of the closing credits the movie is dedicated to "The original explorers of Skull Island..." followed by the names of the actors who played major roles in the 1933 original.
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at around 12 mins) Fay Wray was in negotiations to appear in the film before she died. Peter Jackson wanted her to deliver the legendary last line: "Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." Instead, Jack Black's character now makes a reference to her as he is searching for a leading actress for his film, suggesting a "Fay" as a possible candidate. Colin Hanks's character responds by saying, "She's already filming something for RKO," which in reality was the original King Kong (1933). Black responds, "Cooper. I should have known," a reference to original Kong director Merian C. Cooper.
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Several pieces of dialogue in the movie are taken from the original 1933 King Kong (1933): * When Ann Darrow and Bruce Baxter are filming a movie scene on the deck of the S.S. Venture (with Carl Denham operating the camera), their "movie dialogue" (about "women on ships") is taken verbatim from an on-deck conversation between Ann Darrow and Jack Driscoll in the original film. *In a deleted scene, while filming Ann on the island, Denham instructs her, "Scream Ann! Scream for your life!" *Denham's "We're millionaires, boys" speech, after the capture of Kong. *Denham's "He was a king in the world he knew" speech, just before Kong is revealed in the Broadway theater. *And of course, the final line, "It was beauty killed the beast."
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In the Broadway show, where Kong is the unwilling star, the "native dancers" are dressed in the same costumes as the Skull Island natives in the original 1933 King Kong (1933). (The men wear furry gorilla costumes, and the women wear grass skirts and coconut brassieres.) The theater orchestra (led by composer 'Howard Shore (I)') plays sections from Max Steiner's score from the original film. During the "native dance" number, the orchestra plays the music from Steiner's score that is heard in the original film during the Skull Island natives' sacrifice dance. When the fake "Ann Darrow" (played by Julia Walshaw, Naomi Watts's stand-in) appears on stage before Kong, the theater orchestra plays the music from Steiner's score that is heard in the original film when Kong first appears before Fay Wray.
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WILHELM SCREAM: (at around 1h 24 mins) During the brontosaur stampede, as a sailor is knocked off a cliff.
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By comparing the King Kong (1933), King Kong (1976), and King Kong (2005), Kong appears older film by film.
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There are few changes in this film from the 1933 version. Jack Driscoll is a famous play writer instead of first mate. Mr Hayes an African-American is first mate instead and along with Lumpy the cook, Bruce Baxter an actor , Preston Carl's assistant , Mike the sound editor, Herb the camera man and Jimmy a sailor are original characters in the film. In this version both Mr Hayes and Lumpy mention the legend of Skull Island and it is implied that Denham never heard of Kong in this adaptation but did in the 1933 version. Also the natives are more vicious and it is implied they mistook Ann angering their 'God' Kong after he roars when she screams after Mike gets killed.
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Kong kills 41 people throughout the film, one more than in King Kong (1933).
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Ann Darrow and Kong have different personalities from their 1933 counter parts. Ann in this version is much more braver and confident than her 1933 counter part. Even though Ann is scared of Kong at first she soon befriends him and treats him like a pet. She is also stubborn as she refused to work for Carl Denham until Jack Driscoll is mentioned. Plus she refuses to do more tricks for Kong which angers him and it is implied she resigned from her job after seeing the way Carl Denham treated Kong on Skull Island and refused bribery from him. Kong is much more aggressive and frightening than his 1933 counter part. Kong in this film does not warm up to Ann at first but befriends her after saving her from the dinosaurs. It was implied Kong was going to kill Ann as he took her to a part of the island where there were remains of other victims which suggests they were sacrificed to Kong in the past. But like a normal gorilla he is a vegetarian as he is seen eating bamboo and like other male gorillas is a silver back.
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at around 2h 55 mins) Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, the producer and director of the 1933 version, planned on creating a single shot of Kong falling into the distance from the top of the Empire State Building. Unfortunately, technology at the time didn't allow for this shot and it looked unrealistic. The idea was scrapped. Peter Jackson paid homage to Cooper's original idea by creating this shot at the end in his honor.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2).
Goofs King Kong (2005):
(at around 18 mins) In one scene, it is shown that there is a name of the town of 'Surabaya' (Indonesia) under the name of S.S. Venture. Some people have noted that it was still written as "Soerabaja" in 1933, but in fact the spelling "Surabaya" was already accepted in English at that time. (source: The Times of India New Standard Encyclopedia and World Atlas, 1936)
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(at around 23 mins) As the ship is leaving its dock in New York the captain orders "dead slow ahead both". This indicates that the ship had two engines and two screws; however, every shot showing the stern of the ship has a propeller wash coming only from the center of the ship, showing that it has just a single screw.
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(at around 1h 11 mins) When Ann "meets" Kong for the first time she is bound securely with some very large pieces of rope around her wrists. Kong hoists her up her waist, snapping the ropes very easily. Given the size of the rope this would more than likely rip her arms completely off (or cause her serious injury). (Unless the natives were really bad at knot tying.)
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(at around 1h 15 mins) At the end of the sequence where Kong carries Ann through the forest, there is a very brief scene where you can see that Ann is wearing pantyhose (not invented until 1959, twenty six years after this movie took place). In all other scenes on the island she is barefoot.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) When Ann slides down a muddy slope, her back is covered with very dark mud. When she gets up, her back is clean.
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(at around 2h 20 mins) In New York, Carl Denham states that 17 crew members died on Skull Island. The actual death count is 27.
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(at around 2h 25 mins) Peggy Lee did not begin her recording career until the early 1940s. Her recording of "Bye Bye Blackbird," used in a nightclub scene, dates from 1955, more than twenty years after the time of the film.
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(at around 2h 45 mins) When Driscoll enters the elevator at the Empire State Building during the film's climax, he reaches over to select a floor, revealing that the elevator features self-service. Elevator operators were still employed in the Empire State Building during the early 1930s.
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(at around 2h 50 mins) When Jack Driscoll goes up in the Empire State Building elevator, he watches an old-fashioned dial-and-arrow indicator as it sweeps upward through the floor numbers, from "1" to "101". However, the building's structure does not allow for direct elevators from street level to the very top. The metallic tower topping the limestone façade above the 86th floor observation deck is served by only one small elevator shaft and one narrow staircase - that's all that will fit. A change of elevator is necessary on or about the 86th floor for anyone going to the very top. Also, the top floor is officially "102", not "101".
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When Kong is carrying Ann during the fight with the dinosaurs, Ann's legs are facing one direction and her torso (including her head) is facing the opposite direction.
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When T-Rex is chasing Ann he drops the half of carcass out of his mouth when it tries to eat her. Then in the next cut he has it back in its mouth.
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Skull Island is apparently near Singapore but the ship only takes a few days to get there. However the voyage should really have lasted several weeks as Singapore is thousands of miles from New York.
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While discussing bringing Kong back to America in the ship's hold for fame and profit, not one person even mentions or considers bringing back a living dinosaur.
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At the end the soldiers are using M1 Garand Rifles. These rifles were not adopted by the military till 1936. The M 1903 rifle would be the one they would be using (www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/goofs?ref_=tttrv_ql_2).
General: [Riding in a truck full of troops on its way to deal with Kong] Listen up. This is New York City, and this is sacred ground. You hear me? It was built for humans, by humans. Not for stinking lice-infested apes. The thought of some mutant gorilla crapping all over the streets of this fair city fills me with disgust. So this is how it's going to be: We find it. We kill it. We cut its ugly head off and we ram it up...
[the truck is immediately trampled by Kong] (www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/quotes?ref_=ttgf_sa_3)
[last lines]
Carl Denham: It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/quotes?ref_=ttgf_sa_3)
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