Merian C. Cooper

film is completely unrated. King Kong was the 3rd highest grossing movie in 1933. The film was directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Merian was an American aviator, United States Air Force officer, Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. He fought in multiple wars including the polish-soviet war, World War I, and World War II. Merian also won several awards for his service such as the World War I and World War II victory medals, the Cross

King Kong was first released on April 7, 1933. This version was directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack. The lead female role, Ann Darrow, was played by Fay Wray, and the lead male role, Carl Denham, by Robert Armstrong. At the time, this movie was classified into three genres: adventure, fantasy, and horror. Most importantly, the composer of this film was Max Steiner. 72 years after the original King Kong was released, a new, three-hour long version was released on December 14, 2005

A film on how love knows no bounds, where love happens in unexpected ways, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack’s King Kong introduces the element of surprise within the plot that leaves many to feel flabbergasted at the unravelled events. A gorilla worshiped as a god by many, that goes by the name of Kong is inhabiting an unknown island where a film is set to be produced within the movie. Due to the crew’s admiration of the gorilla, they offer their star actress Ann Darrow as a sacrifice to appease

The Complexities of Kong The original King Kong, directed and produced in 1933 by Merian C. Cooper, set a groundbreaking decades-long precedent for all subsequent thriller, horror, and animation films made in Hollywood. Three versions of this movie spanned several decades. King Kong tells the story of an attractive woman and a frightening gigantic ape-monster who are immersed in a beauty and the beast type tale. Through Cooper’s visual imagery and specific dialogue, he conveys themes of racism

King Kong is not only one of the first classical attempts to produce pre-science fiction films, but also arguably it has become a classic in the development of film history. From its opening, showing us the emerging industrialized city of New York; to its greedy protagonist driven to produce his best film; its exploration and finding of a different parallel world; to its adventurer portrait of American society and obsession for discovering new mysterious lands —and its encounter with a giant deity

Both King Kong and Godzilla are films about the modern world coming in contact with an unstoppable foreign force. Furthermore, both movies, like all classic horror, are eerily reflective of the times. It’s hard to watch Godzilla and not imagine what it would have been like to watch it in a 1950s theater in Japan, surrounded by people who less than a decade prior experienced near-devastation and destruction firsthand. It’s sobering to imagine their thoughts and fears as they projected their experiences

The 1933 film King Kong directed by Carl Denham came out during the Victorian era of the exploration of exotic lands. This film is cinema’s most famous “monster movie”. Cinematography contributes to this films theme of otherness and sympathy, shallow focus, tight framing, and confined movement. Also, the sound within this film emphasizes what the audience/viewer should pay attention to. The importance of sound within this film was critical as it created this effect that was developed through the

musical pieces that he had already created because they were not financially stable enough to afford new music, but after the importance of good music composition in film was recognized, Steiner was given fifty-thousand dollars by film producer Merian Cooper out of his own pocket to be put towards the music score for “King Kong”. Steiner was able take the film to the next level with his creative leitmotifs for each individual character and musical scores that helped to prove that non-diegetic music

For my journal I will be talking about the 2005 movie King Kong. I will be giving a little synopsis over it and also give an analysis on the primate behavior and how I think we are related. The movie starts off in New york where a sketchy movie director wanting to make a movie but ends up taking a different route. The director sets for sail with his crew and an actress he just picked off of the side of the streets. With not much of a plan and him being wanted by police the captain plans on stopping

The cultural differences represented in King Kong (1933) and King Kong (2005) In the original, Bruce Cabot portrays Jack Driscoll who is the first mate of The Venture, the ship that Carl Denham hires to sail to Skull Skull Island to film a feature film. Driscoll is the hero that, upon falling in love with Fay Wray’s Ann Darrow, He is the one most determined to save Ann Darrow after she is sacrificed too Kong. 33's Driscoll is honorable, courageous, and strong, all these virtues are all represented