Road to Gojira Episode 6: King Kong (1933)
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2024
- Let's examine the timeless classic King Kong from 1933 in this episode. It tells the story of a fierce Giant Ape who fell in love with a tiny beauty and went on to become one of the most iconic movie monsters in Cinema history.
Sources
A Century of Stop Motion Animation: From Melies to Aardman
by Ray Harryhausen, Tony Dalton
Documentary: "RKO Production 601"
Documentary: "I'm King Kong! The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper"
From the Land Beyond Beyond: The films of Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen
by Jeff Rovin
KING KONG - 1984 Criterion Collection Audio Commentary by film historian Ronald Haver
King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson
by Ray Morton
Kong Unmade: The Lost Films of Skull Island REVISITED: Volume I (1925-1960)
by John LeMay
KONG: An Original Screenplay by Edgar Wallace
by Stephen Jones
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong
by Mark Cotta Vaz
Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema
by John Brosnan
The Making of King Kong
by George E. Turner, Dr. Orville Goldner
The Kaiju Transmissions Podcast : The Legacy of Kong with Author Ray Morton! 
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Can’t believe it inspired Godzilla with Toho originally wanting to do Stop motion. Now they’re running together in unison! 🤯
What a timeless classic King Kong still is!
One of the first films I’ve seen when I was a kid.
To be honest i couldn't live in a world without king kong
I love King Kong.
King Kong is one of my favorite Movies.
Classic, my favorite movie.
I share your frustration over the sorts of people who refuse to watch classic movies because "it's black and white" or "it's a silent film." These excuses are given by my younger brother all the time.
That and "it's too old" are pretty annoying.
People sure were different 90 years ago. I couldn't imagine going to see a movie at 10:30 AM.
One of the all-time greatest movies.
Thank you for the videos.
This film is one of the most iconic in cinema history and essentially created the template for a special effects driven blockbuster. They used every VFX trick in the book at the time and invented plenty along the way.
So true. I've seen this incredible movie 300+ times and I'm awed and captivated by it at each viewing, perhaps even more so with the passing years.
I have respect for Merrien C. Cooper for allowing Willis O Brien to do his magic, but given how much this film emulates O Briens work on the Lost World, and heavily borrowed from his unrealized projects, I feel this is his movie. Even Kong himself, is O Brien acting through the animation. People can say stop motion is dated, or it looks weird, but you cannot discount the artistry pumped into this film.
Its been one month since episode 5 is released
Thank god episode 6 is released♥️
This movie is incredible
For everything that has aged _very_ poorly (which I'm sure you'll come to) so much of this movie holds up as the genesis of blockbuster filmmaking
I love this series.
Love this series
I consider the original King Kong to be the Citizen Kane of kaiju films.
This series is one of the best things on youtube
Instead of being scared most of the time I laughed at how many dinosaurs tried to eat Ann. It reminded me of the character in King Kong versus Godzilla getting a close encounter with both. Ann needs therapy.
King Kong is one of the most iconic movie monsters. But Godzilla is my all-time favorite fictional character from my early childhood memories in the 2000s era after I was born on September 23rd, 1997. I always be team Godzilla whenever he has a Crossover movie with King Kong.
Another fantastic episode and presentation! I always loved the custom soundtrack Kong has to the "dums" of each footstep of the native chief approaching to the "duns" of Kong slamming the plesiosaurus, good stuff! The set pieces are amazing too and even inspired me along with Toho's miniatures to jam pack my stop motion projects with scenery to emulate the style
Absolutely loving this series! 🥰 Being able to cover such a well-worn topic and still make it fascinating is impressive indeed 🧐 Eagerly awaiting the next episode! 😁
Outstanding sir! The score was great in this film and I’m glad you pointed that out. Thank you for this series !
Looking forward to this.
I can understand if someone doesn't like a movie I like. But if you don't like Kong (1933), I don't know what to say to you.
I don't like the racism of it. Like the way they wrote and directed Charlie the cook and the blackface islanders.
@@jacobclark6002 it was a product of it's time, it's still a good film but the racism was sort of inevitable given the times
The natives in KONG are not blackfaced; they are actual African Americans. Primitive tribes still existed in the 1930s and depicting that fact isn't racist -- it's cultural. Charlie is comic relief; people of any race have the right to be funny. It just happens Charlie is Chinese since it was common for Asians to serve as cooks aboard freighters. Charlie's broken English isn't racist; many immigrants to this day are language-challenged.
@anthonycrnkovich5241 took me 30 seconds to find black and white images of blackface Islanders in the background.
Also, Merian C Cooper had several safe expeditions with Islanders. He did not portray them with the hospitality he was treated by them with: he portrayed them as mindless black savages who literally worship a giant ape as their God.
"Charlie is comic relief" if you think he's funny, you're just a racist who is afraid of the term.
@@jacobclark6002
I suggest you read up on Cooper and Schoedsack and brush up on the facts. If you have insecurities with the film you have the option not to watch it.😊
Great video! Favorite movie of all time
Found Kong on my black and white TV Maybe six or so, watching my, "Million Dollar Movie" five days a week. Black and white movie, black and white
tv. Loved it and longed for a day when I could watch it at will. Later I saw it on a big screen. A New York theater screen. series. The action set my heart pounding. All the creatures fought for life. Kong was no. gentleman.
Good
I recently picked up a copy of the modern mechanix magazine from April 1933 and the article on king kong in it is great! It says that Kong was a guy in a suit like Godzilla. I think it would make a great vid on how they lied to protect how they made the dinos and kong
Casual pickup or assembling a collection of film mags?
@@rayvenkman2087 Im rebuilding a collection I unfortunately had to sell last year I'm a huge Kong and Godzilla fan so I'm buying back what I was sad to part with. This issue is usually expensive and I was lucky to get it for $15 shipped off of eBay. I had never owned it before so it's starting a new collection I guess.
He talked about this misinformation in the previous video. You may not have seen it. It didn't show up in my subscriptions on RUclips for some reason, and only noticed it when this current video was released.
I can only wonder what "King Kong" would have been like had RKO fully developed the, "Spider Pit Scene." However, it would have been too shocking for 1930s film audiences. "Kong" is a classic in every respect. This is the film which got me interested in dinosaurs. I'm sure this film did the same for many others.
This was excellent. Look forward to watching more of these.
I'm happy to see this latest instalment. Love this deep dive into cinematic history.
One theme I especially like here is the defence of the 'old'. I read about the influence of Doré in 'The Art of Ray Harryhausen', which made me look up his black and white illustrations. The use of a spotlit point in the midground gives a lot of them a pretty unsettling feeling - used perfectly in those shots of the forest on Skull Island. You're creeping through the menacing darkness, looking towards the light, but the darkness is the only thing hiding you from the monsters waiting there...
Agreed that the more modern versions are kind of bland or even off-putting in comparison. The 'modernisation' of Kong, with that garish green everywhere, feels like an analogy to certain film trailers, with garish purple everywhere... running... in unison... 😮💨
What else? I have an almost complete collection of Laurel and Hardy films on DVD, so preaching to the choir about black and white, here. 😄 Even the silent films have some great gags in them. Just saddening that people won't watch anything more than 50 minutes old - they're depriving themselves of people like Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, John Huston and many others, including some guy called Ishiro Honda.
Lastly (and the only thing I was initially going to comment about): there can be bad, illusion-breaking stop motion, but even in cases like King Kong where you can 'see the wires' (or the steel rods sticking out of their feet), I always thought it gave a kind of unearthly vibe to these creatures, enhancing their strange and usually frightening nature. Goes well with those Doré sets, I think.
Now, I'm off to see if I can download a copy of that 1932 novelisation.
Your video is outrageously entertaining and informative. I'm glad I stumbled into it.
king kong pry my fav kaiju tbh
Cool 😎 King 👑 Kong video bro
FINALLY FINZ
Well worth the wait!
Great videos. I am really enjoying the Road to Gojira!
The romance between Ann Darrow and Jack Driscoll is sufficiently developed in proportion to the story. It may seem rushed from the standpoint of the film's running time, but remember narratively speaking the voyage to the island took six weeks, which is enough time for them to become attracted to each other. KONG is, among its many other merits, a terrifically well-paced film -- no padded out characters or subplots interfere with its main drive. This is primarily a beauty and the beast fairytale about unrequited love, and as such it succeeds brilliantly. To that end, Fay Wray's iconic portrayal perfectly balances with the larger than life Kong. Fay isn't 'almost' part of the film -- she is exactly half of it. As for the island's name? No mystery here, it's called Skull Mountain twice in the film.
I already love this review
Kinda surprised that there's never been an official colorized version of Gojira
There is something called codzzila which is an Italian version of the film which is in colour but I’m not sure if official
@@dinodogzilla2999 it's not
Ok, I wasn’t 100 percent sure but it’s the only version of it that I know that is in colour
Closest thing made was a colorized trailer from Godzilla Online Festival 2020 shown as a proof-of-concept. The full colorized movie hasn't been made other than the Italian version
Oh fuck jeah a video about one of my favorite movies of all time!
YOOOOOOOO NEW PAPER FINZ UPLOAD!
I'm just discovering this series. I wonder of any of these chapters there's been a mention of what's probably the first kaiju in film... Windsor McKay,'s "The Pet".... It's an animated short from I believe 1917... That features a giant mutant lizard ish monster attacking a city.
PJ's 2005 remake is like the best dinosaur movie EVER! more so then Jurassic Park
That’s a bold statement especially when early drafts of the film were literally just copies of Jurassic Park
King Kong the second best kaiju movie
Great research!
DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THAT KING KONG VOLKSWAGEN COMERCIAL YEARS AGO? STOP MOTION IN IT VERY WELL DONE IN MY OPINION. 🤗😎
I remember it. they have youtube videos of it too.
Love your content! Keep up the great work!
Andy Sirkis played Kong and Lumpy
love the 1933 king kong movie better than the awful 2005 remake
The original is unsurpassed. But I also prefer the 1976 version to Peter Jackson’s overblown mess.
@@OlympicLeprechaun The 1976 film is okay but as a suppose "remake" it acts more like it's own thing than as a remake. That's where Peter's own remake surpasses the 1976 film. There is a reason no one will likely try to remake kong's original story after Peter gave us the best remake of it.
That's precisely why the 1976 remake -- bad as it is -- still beats the 2005 version. The '76 at least showed some originality by updating the story whereas the '05 not only copied the original, but over-inflated it as well. However, both remakes made the mistake of having the girl warm up to Kong. In the original she is both damsel in distress and femme fatale. Cooper never intended his film to simply be another conventional beauty and the beast affair, but instead came up with his own 'Old Arabian Proverb' to put a dark twist to the tale.
@@anthonycrnkovich5241 My guy what do you think a remake is? Or what the word remake means? It's meant to be a modern retelling of the story, the 1976 film wasn't that when it was too different to even be a full on remake. Peter's film modernized entire scenes while adding in new ones, staying much closer to the 1933 film. Being original is fine but don't present your film as a remake if it's closer to being it's own thing.
The 1933 film is fantastic saying our main female protagonist warming up to kong is a mistake is a mistake in on itself. Kong simply wants companionship, if the story is beauty and beast then why have the beauty fear the beast and never try to understand said beast is a misunderstood individual?. This where the 1933 classic shows 1 specific flaw despite it being a good classic.
Women during that time were told to just scream and be the damsel in destress which is what our leading actress did at the time. You don't get that in the 76 and 05 remakes which instead of having the only human kong protects fear him, instead, she tries to understand him which makes kong's death all the more emotional in both films as not only we as the audience feel bad for him, but said beauty does too.
An updated version qualifies as a remake. THE KILLERS, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE are just a few films that were remade as updated versions. Jackson's KONG merely copied the original in a lot of ways and padded it out in many more ways.
As for the girl warming up to Kong, the whole tragedy in the original is that she doesn't do this. Her hero is Jack Driscoll, the surrogate 'beast' who is transformed by 'beauty' into her 'prince charming'. She only sees Kong as anyone -- man, woman or child in any era -- realistically would, a monster. In this way Kong dies broken hearted, which justifies the epitath "it was beauty killed the beast". This line makes no sense in Peter Jackson's remake since she returns Kong's affection. It should be understood that Merian C. Cooper conceived KING KONG as a darker beauty and the beast tale where the beast is destroyed by beauty. That's the whole point of the "Old Arabian Proverb" that serves as prologue to the film.
101 Years Old.
1933 is still the best King Kong.
I watched them all last year (2023).
King Kong 1933, 1976, 2005, skull island.
1933 is the best!!
2005 is too long, but still good, a love letter to the 1933 version.
1976.. I don’t like it.
Skull island pleasantly surprised, better than I expected.
Rise of the Monke
22:50 Actually, dinosaurs were already extinct during the ancient times.
Guys want an action story. Girls want a love story.
The floodgates will he open once king kong gets on public domain
I think the novel IS in the public domain, but the movie isn't. This came up when Universal sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong.
This might be a bit iffy, but it might be needed to mention the controversy this film received to address. Not just the removed scenes after the Hayes Code edit. It's the one that I'm fearing the upcoming Planet of the Apes film would also receive due to certain individuals who use media for destructive and alienating matters.
Ooooooooh. Both Omni Viewer and C Animus have talked about the controversy that I feel you are talking about. I recommend their videos about that.
@@vaggos2003 I have seen both and they are well made, but I was hoping to see what he thinks.
Isn't the island called Faro Island in one of the Toho movies?
Can you do the kong the animated series review please
is the island better than Peter Jackson version? I mean that came with a book that detailed the fauna, which to quote Unnatural History Channel: "the gold standard for speculative evolution."
Skull Island in Peter Jackson version is more believable and dynamic in terms of environment and creatures. However, the original does have its mystique, even if not as fantastical or grounded as Jackson’s..
The original island has that wonderful 'dawn of creation' ambience which stems from its being based on the engravings of Gustave Doré. The island in Jackson's version, like everything else about that movie, is overdone.
King Kong take place 1933
what a strange attitude.. so many memorable films from the silent era, Cabinet of dr Caligari, Nosferatu, Phantom of the opera, Metropolis, The Golum and The Lost World.
Am I shadow banned?
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