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The roar of King Kong is a mixture of the roar of a lion and a tiger.
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After the heroine of the film, Fay Wray, finished filming at the end of the film, the producer hoped to add a shot of "King Kong" clutching the heroine to the highest point of the Empire State Building. Because Fay had other schedules in England, he made it. The film crew chose Pauline Wagner's substitute Pauline Wagner to put on a golden wig and re-shot the shot . Pauline Wagner finished the shot in four hours .
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At the beginning, the movie was named "Kong: The Jungle King", then it was renamed "Kong" on the eve of its release, and finally met with the audience under the name "King Kong" .
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The King Kong model on the island is 18 inches tall. Director Merian C. Cooper believes that the King Kong that appears in New York should be taller, so he increased the height of the model to 24 inches.
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The two directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schödesack have both worked as wrestlers, and they personally completed the fighting between Tyrannosaurus Rex and King Kong for the special effects company.
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Merian C. Cooper was inspired by the dream of giant gorillas attacking New York City. Cooper’s obsession with gorillas began when he was a child by the French explorerChaillu. "Equatorial Africa Expedition".
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According to the director’s original vision, the height of King Kong in the movie is about 12.2 meters to 15.5 meters, but the special effects artist O'Brien made some differences in the model of Skull Island and New York buildings, which led to King Kong in the movie. According to different reference objects, two different heights appeared before and after. As a result, some lenses of King Kong in the movie were only 5.5 meters high, and some were even more than 18 meters high .
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Two days after the heroine Fay Wray passed away, the Empire State Building in New York once turned off the lights for 15 minutes to commemorate her .
King Kong behind the scenes gags
2021-12-09 08:01
Extended Reading
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Dagmar 2021-12-09 08:01:20
Humans’ early imagination of animals shows that primitive people and King Kong are symbols of barbarism, while modern people are symbols of civilization. Animals are objectified, and humans think they are superior to animals. What is more worth mentioning is that the female image inside, as a victim of violence, is portrayed as an image that needs to be redeemed by men. In addition, women always wear white skirts, which symbolizes the purity of femininity.
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Fidel 2022-03-27 09:01:06
To be a man is to be a man like King Kong, to jerk off a woman you love in the tallest building in the world
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Carl Denham: Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, Ann. Scream for your life!
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Carl Denham: [observing the natives dancing] Holy mackerel! What a show!