King Kong (film, 1933)

King Kong is a American Film of 1933, carried out by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

Synopsis

Carl Denham is a realizer in bankruptcy which for making a film on mysterious Île of Cranium. He engages the Ann Darrow young person as main actor, and leave in boat towards the place with the Jack Driscoll sailor. During the voyage, Jack and Ann fall in love one with the other.

Arrived on the island, they discover a tribe of natives having built a large barrier in front of the Jungle. These natives venerate Kong, their god. They remove Ann to offer it in sacrifice to Kong which saw on the other side of the barrier. Kong proves to be a giant Singe. Seizing Ann, it falls in love with the young woman and share with her without him to make of evil.

The crew of Denham leaves to save Ann in the jungle, dealing with dangerous Dinosaure S also living on the island. Kong itself faces a Tyrannosaure to protect Ann. Jack, which had amouraché itself of Ann, manages to bring back it of Kong which had brought it to the point highest of the island. Whereas the other survivors return to the boat, Kong manages to pass through the barrier and of fury, the village of the natives ransacks. Denham manages to deaden Kong with a soporific gas bomb. The realizer has a better idea: to carry Kong in New York to expose it like the Eighth Wonder Of the World.

Arrived at New York, Kong is connected and exhibé with the public, under the presentation of Denham. The flashes of the cameras of the journalists frighten Kong, which finds enough force to release itself from its chains. Escaping, it causes disorder and destruction in the city, and leaves to research Ann. The latter hid in a building with Jack but it is made seize by Kong which will climb at the point highest of New York: the Empire State Building.

Arrived at the top of the building with Ann, Kong is however made attack by planes armed with machine-guns. It resists the attacks initially, arriving even to empoigner a plane and to reject it. But its force has limits; he succumbs under the balls, and fall from the Empire State Building, his corpse crashing to pieces himself in the street.

King Kong died. Carl Denham arrives and says: " In fact the planes, but the Beautiful one killed Bête."

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Fay Wray: Ann Darrow
  • Robert Armstrong: Carl Denham
  • Bruce Pooch: Jack Driscoll
  • Frank Reicher: captain Englehorn
  • Sam Hardy: Charles Weston
  • Noble Johnson: the indigenous chief
  • Steve Lenient: the wizard healer
  • James Flavin: the lieutenant
  • Victor Wong: Lumpy

Psychology of Kong

  • Kong is Amour them: it falls in love with beautiful which was proposed to him like meal.
  • Kong is careful: after having beaten another animal, it always checks the death of them.
  • Kong is Courage ux: it never moves back in front of the danger and always faces its enemies until the end.
  • Kong is nostalgic: in New York, he recognizes in the Empire State Building the height of his native mountain.

Around film

  • If one brings it back to his environment, the size of King Kong varies during film: one can estimate it at 6 meters in the island, a little more than 7 on scene with New York and almost 20 in top of the Empire State Building.
  • the aspect of Kong also changes: there exist notable differences between the monkey of Skull Island and that of New York.
  • the pilots of the planes are played by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, the realizers of film.
  • the film arose several times between 1938 and 1956, with often of new cuts to the key. It is only since 1971 that one can re-examine an almost complete film (with for example the stripping of Fay Wray by the animal which had been cut by the censure in 1938). However, at least a scene remains invisible, that where four sailors are devoured alive by a giant spider. This scene had been cut at the request of the producer after the first of film and one found only some bits of them. Also, at the time of the edition in DVD of film in 2005, the realizer Peter Jackson and a team of specialists in the special effects recreated the scene, now included in the no-claims bonus of the DVD.
  • Plus of 90% of film comprises fakings (Animation image by image, Composition of plan…).
  • the film exceeded its budget of more than 80%.
  • In the same year of 1933, Ernest B. Schoedsack carries out a continuation: the Son of King Kong ( Its off Kong ), where it is discovered that King Kong had left behind him a son. Exit too quickly, this following summer a success.
  • the film gave place to two Remake S:
  • Of other more minor films or series of television exploited the character, some being hidden remakes:
    • the Colossus of HongKong , film Hongkong board by Meng-Hwa Ho left in 1977.
    • The Mighty Gorga , film American by David L. Hewitt left in 1969.
    • King Kong returns! , Korean film américano- by Paul Leder left in 1977. It left to France with the famous one hangs " It returns and it is not content! " .
    • Yéti, the giant of another world , film Italy N left in 1977.
  • “grondement” Kong is built starting from the howling of a tiger passed to back with the idle, reproduced four times to reach one duration of 30s and mixed with a piece of barking of dog.

Quotations

See too

External bond

  • the French-speaking site on King Kong

  • the detailed card of film on SF-Story

  • a Krinein critic very provided of the film
  • the New Yorkean decoration
  • Analysis of the film
  • Card IMDB
  • King Kong FAQ

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