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King Kong Theme

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The film King Kong, 1933, directed by. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
The main stars include the following, Fay Wray as Ann Darrow, Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham, Bruce Cabot as John Driscoll and Frank Reicher as Capt. Enhlehorn. A brief summery of the plot is in 1933, in the New York Harbor, Carl Denham is a very powerful and popular film director. He is known especially for shooting animal pictures in exclusive locations. His new film required a group of people to cast off to sea. Their expedition aboard the Venture landed them in Indonesia. During the expedition, Ann and Jack begin to fall for each other. The island Denham is looking for, the indigenous people refer to the beast they are looking for as ‘Kong’. Upon arrival, …show more content…

In many ways this phrase can come off as meaning multiple different things. Some of the themes that support this idea is the way Kong protected her and did not try to kill her just because of her being beautiful. Another slight purpose could be that everything has a weakness. Although the film was made in 1933 there were a lot of special effects used in this movie and from my personal opinion, I feel they did an outstanding job for what they had. The fighting scene with the dinosaurs were done extremely nicely. The actors play suitable roles, and do a remarkably pleasant job. The sound in this film, I would say is decent; the form overall has a fairly strong flow to it, there are no abrupt changes, and it does not go too slow or too fast. I feel the pace of the scene transitions were done just right. For example, the dinosaur fighting scene, they seriously could have dropped the ball on this part, like moving between cameras way too fast, which I believe happened in the present 2005 King Kong film. Another scene would be, the fight at the top of the Empire State building. This battle is a immensely wide look at New York city, something I would find extremely difficult to do in the 1930s. They do a truly pleasurable job keeping it steady with only a few camera angles rather than trying to capture all of the action and every single detail. The narration of the film that this movie used was a mixed type of narration. They used more of a restricted type of narration, provided, the way they had to show certain scenes like the one where Jack saves Ann, you knew that he was going to be there and Kong did not they had used an unrestricted type of narration. They did an exceptionally good job, succeeding using a mixture of the two types of narration I

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