Live Life Team
Genre: Horror
Director: M.Cooper & E.Schoedsack
Starring Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Sam Hardy
“King Kong” begins with a group of adventurous Americans, including stunning actress Ann Darrow (Wray), travelling to the isolated Skull Island. These travellers discover a giant gorilla while exploring the shores and landscape of the island. The poor beast is taken to New York for presentation to the public, but its confusion and terror cause it to escape and run wild in search of Darrow.
More than 75 years old, King Kong remains one of the most admired and fabled monster movies of cinema history. It took 73 years for a remake to appear, leaving this as the definitive version for a very long time.
Shot in the early 1930’s, “King Kong’s” extraordinary combination of live action and ground-breaking stop motion is a real triumph for a Hollywood only just moving into movies with sound. By modern comparison, the ape may lack some realism, but the persona expressed in his face still fails to be copied so charmingly in the day of modern computer imagery. These effects were realistic enough in 1933 to spark panic in whole audiences through utter bewilderment at the creature.
“King Kong” is only one of the legends to appear in the movie. Huge credit goes to Fay Wray, who is famous for her piercing screams of terror when faced with King Kong. The promotion at the time hailed “King Kong” as “The Most Awesome Thriller of All Time.” Though modern technology may make this not true any longer, it makes “King Kong” no less enjoyable and impressive.
