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King Kong (1933)
If this film is not one of the 100 AFI100 In this movie, I won't watch it. In order to enrich the breadth and depth of my viewing, I bit the bullet and finished watching it.
This is an adventure film, or a disaster film, but not a product of the beginning of the last century. A filmmaker with the purpose of hunting for novelty gathered a team of men and horses, and they sailed to a mysterious place, a place that no one but him knew. In addition to the crew and the producer on board, there are also a capable assistant of the producer and a beautiful blonde woman who was found on the street. The beauty came to the boat entirely to repay the producer for his rescue. While sailing, the beauty and the assistant developed feelings for each other. After arriving at the destination, the crew knew that they had come to an island that no one knew, and there were mysterious creatures on the island. When they arrived on the island, they were frightened back by the attack of the indigenous people on the island, and the indigenous people robbed the beauties in the middle of the night. The beauty will be given to the mysterious creature-the gorilla as a sacrifice by the indigenous people. Halfway through the sacrifice ceremony, the gorilla can't wait to capture the beauty. The assistant found that the beauty was missing, so he summoned the crew to rescue her. Afterwards, people fought fierce battles with gorillas and other creatures on the island such as dinosaurs. In the end, the gorillas won. Many humans died, and the dinosaurs were also injured. The heroic assistant found the beauty and rescued the beauty when the gorilla fought the dinosaur. After the beauty came back, the gorilla also followed. The producer and the crowd used gas bombs to subdue it and brought it back to New York. The gorilla was regarded as a spectacle for people to admire, but on the first day the gorilla lost control because of seeing the blonde beauty. The gorilla first made trouble in New York, then grabbed the beauty and climbed the Empire State Building. It flaunted the Empire State Building, and the army sent planes to attack it. After the loss of an airplane, the gorilla was finally shot in the heart and fell off the building. This farce is over, and the movie is over.
This movie is painful to watch for two reasons. First, after watching the 2005 remake of "King Kong", I found that the remake is almost the same as the plot of the film, which made me lose the interest in watching the film. Now that you know the ending, what else is there to watch? Second, the age of the movie is too old, and the special effects in the movie screen are really unsightly, too fake and too rough! How can I continue to watch the scenes that are more mentally retarded than the cartoons I watched when I was young? So, I bite the bullet and watched this film, and haven't done so for a long time.
Although this movie is not good-looking now and has been surpassed by a lot in the 2005 version, it is still a classic movie with epoch-making significance. First of all, the creativity of the film is very advanced. In the 1930s, you could imagine creatures such as giant chimpanzees and prehistoric dinosaurs, and even let them fight a battle, it is very remarkable. Today's film and television works will still have such themes, but the filming of this film is about 80 years in the morning compared to them! In any case, this film is the originator of monster movies. Secondly, with the technical level of that era, movie special effects have been done perfectly. From the current point of view, although various creatures such as gorillas and dinosaurs are fake, and there are many background images in them, these fake scenes, creatures and their fights are very real, and even the blood shed by the dinosaurs is very realistic. . In an era when airplanes were only available for more than a decade, it was not easy to have these pictures. Third, the scene design is very exciting. Aside from special effects and plot, the big scenes in the movie alone are shocking. There are dinosaurs fighting giant gorillas, people fighting gorillas, gorillas climbing up the Empire State Building, gorillas fighting airplanes, these scenes are also eye-catching scenes in today's Hollywood blockbusters, not to mention that era? At that time, there was such a rich imagination, which made many uncreative and bad movies feel inferior. In short, the film still has a classic status, and there are certain reasons why the film can be selected for AFI100.
As for the setting of the characters in the movie, such as the producer who wants money without life, the heroic assistant and the heroine with little brains, these roles are completely in line with the Hollywood genre film model. Their image has become the usual setting of movies. For example, the brain-disabled must be the blonde and the big girl, the hero must be tall and handsome, etc. They also laid the foundation for the later development of Hollywood movies. It's just that the existence of these characters in this film is entirely a supporting role. Their existence is meaningless, just to elicit gorillas. So, the protagonist of this film is the gorilla. From this perspective, is this film still the first real-life film featuring non-human beings as the protagonist?
Since the protagonist of the film is a chimpanzee, the other actors are supporting roles, and the choice of actors is indeed so-their looks and acting skills are indeed average. Fay Wray, the heroine who made the chimpanzee enamored, is not beautiful, but it is completely in line with the character characteristics of the character, and she is stupid. The other two actors are neither handsome nor handsome, and they are even more so-so. One is the producer actor Robert Armstrong, and the other is the assistant actor Bruce Cabot. The choreographer made such a choice, for fear that the actor and actress would steal the gorilla's limelight!
In general, the film is very classic, the trend it is leading the classics, and the reference meaning it brings to later generations of movies. In terms of film alone, it is much worse than the 2005 version of "King Kong", whether it is special effects, plot, or actors, it is not an order of magnitude.
Fay Wray
Fay Wray
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IMDB.Top194. King Kong.King.Kong.1933.D5.MiniSD-TLF
2011-09-12
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