Written: Wednesday. August 12, 2020.
- Early Stop-Motion Animation at its finest.
- this film had a great use of stop-motion for King Kong and the dinosaurs in Skull Island.
- the melding of live-action and stop motion was the key element to this film, giving it that greater level of quality in every scene King Kong was in.
- especially when it came to shooting scene in New York. The shift from Jungle to Concrete Jungle was something to be deeply appreciated with this film.
- the difference between the two locations was also something creatively done in this film. Skull Island was a place filled with trees, vines, logs, and other things, but all of those were miniature sets in real life. The great wall of the Kong Worshipers looked very real. I still don't know if all of it was entirely exact to scale as human height, or if parts of the wall was a miniature prop set.
- The Human Characters were close to being Great.
- Jack Driscoll and Ann Darrow's awkward dance-routine relationship was a nice touch for this film. It gave reason for the men on the ship to rescue Ann from King Kong, once she's captured by the Kong Worshipers. Driscoll didn't like Ann upon early scenes, but their awkward conversations with each other led to a very cute and wholesome relationship, which drove Driscoll's character to be a pro-active force in dealing with King Kong humanistic lust for beauty. He is also a character so primal and basic, yet is made interesting and relatable, once he gives in to his senses, and announces how he feels for Ann being on their ship, and being used for Carl Denham's unreasonable movie motif.
- Carl Denham's character didn't much turn out to be the main focus of the story, which is caused by Driscoll and Ann's love team. But his role was also still a much needed force in this story. He represents man's eagerness to capture the wonders of the unknown, and to show it to the whole world once he does capture it, and how that action leads to very dire consequences.
- This film was BIG.
- ironically in scale, in characters, and in world-building.
- the scale of this movie was beyond my expectations, since the story took interesting turns in each beat.
- The use of native worshipers present in the island is a great way to provide visual to the idea that there is an island somewhere in the world where there is a giant ape roaming around it. Adding in the worshipers was a nice touch for those looking to find religious or superstitious depth or reasoning to this otherwise ridiculous tale of a giant gorilla.
- King Kong, in the movie, is a subject of murmurs or folklore in this film.
- there's a specific scene, while they were still looking for Skull Island, where King Kong is described as a god, a spirit, or a superstitious belief of the natives. That small detail alone brings strong impressions/depth to the world of the story.
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