King Kong (2005)
After Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Ring, he held in his hands, a golden ticket, allowing him to make any movie he wanted and the budget will be there. King Kong, the 8th wonder of the world, went into production and the result was ah… pile of turd for Jerfy, but an above average treat for me.
I don’t know the original story for King Kong, and I’m not worried about it. In Peter Jackson’s, Jack Black plays Carl Denham, a desperate movie director is trying to make it big during the era of Great Depression. When chance gave him a map to the “last uncharted island,” he took a chance and charterd a ship to take them there, dragging along Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and … the other people aren’t important, only sexy people count. After much voyage on the sea and weird character development, they find the island to be dangerously inhospitable.
One thing that left great distaste in most audience, is the lack of believable boundary for the physical capabilities of an average human being. With all the harms in their way, I had to pick my jaw up from the floor upon hearing the death toll. Are most of them superman deep down inside? I don’t know, but Ann Darrow is pretty indestructable if you ask me.
There are probably many other plotholes and faults that one can lay at Jackson’s feet, but people aren’t really looking at the big question Jackson is trying to answer: “Why did Kong take Ann all the way up to the Empire State Building?” For that, I’ll have to spoil the movie, so, let’s not go there just yet.
Overall, I thought the movie was well done. Albeit a bit long, I enjoyed most of it without any feeling of sleepiness. Everyone acted their parts well, the cinematography was beautiful, and the portrayal of Kong was great. A lot of patience is needed, to make a giant ape’s emotion to be seen and believed. It’s… beauty!
We don’t know why Kong is the last surviving member of his giant species, but we know Kong is the king of the island, and he hasn’t anyone to share it with.
In the beginning, when Ann meets Kong ~ Kong treated her like all the sacrifices before her. He was about to toss her into the pits when she did something that others didn’t do before her ~ stab him in the hand! Hell, they all probably died due to the rough treatments. But this allowed a moment in time, for Ann to show Kong something he hasn’t seen before ~ a beautiful doll that reacts to him ~ not just screams of terror, but something altogether different.
Living alone for so long, Kong sought after anyone willing to reach out to him. Like Aileen in Monster, Kong wanted someone. The moment of him sharing the sunset in the secret grove past his family’s remains, showed how much he cared for Ann’s companionship. Well, the Kong-fu against 3 T-Rex also showed how much he cared, but I think the sunset sealed it for poor Kong.
In Manhattan, when Kong came under fire from the heavy machinegun, he knew he was doomed to die in the foreign land of concrete and steel. Thus, he wanted to spend what’s left of his remaining time, sharing the light of the sunrise atop of the Empire State Building with Ann.
Ahh, too bad Jerfy didn’t like the bestiality!