It really is impressive to see how far film makers have come since the original King Kong was released. They've come from using stop motion photography and moving figurines little by little to creating films as intense as Avatar. King Kong is a great example on how much movies have changed over an extended period of time because it was the gateway to the types of movies we have today.
I won't lie, the movie didn't really catch my attention but I kept watching it because it was almost comical to see how the scenes were done. What was lame to us over those two days that we watched the film was exciting and horrifying to the people who paid to watch the movie back in the 30's.
Another interesting thing that I found was how the scenes were taken out for being too violent or risqué. Our society today is used to more violent things than Kong stepping on a native, I mean, take Saw for example! What would the people back then think of that movie now? Every scene would be taken out. For the people back then, seeing a woman in a slip and her shirt practically hanging off was just too sexy for the public to see, therefore it was taken out. Today, women prance around in their bras and it's just a normal occurrence for a movie rated PG-13 or higher.
King Kong was the movie of it's time and although it was lame and boring to myself and probably to other students in the class, if I had been living back in the 30's I would be frightened by the idea of a giant ape coming here and killing people. That concept just seems silly to the things that film makers are making movies out of in 2010. King Kong also paved the way for the special effects that we use today. While most film makers don't use stop motion photography anymore because it takes too long and there is better technology out there now. Many movies have learned from King Kong and they will just continue to develop and adapt to new technology to make them even better!
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I agree, it was a little lame, but it's amazing what they could do back then. We just take most of it for granted. I thought it was funny that whenever we saw Kong he had to move his eyebrows to show he was moving.
ReplyDeleteI definitly agree with the whole idea of how movies have evolved since then. I think that was probably the most interesting thing about King Kong. It seems strange that something like that would terrify people back then. It really portrays how our society has changed, and how film-making has changed with it. :)
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you. Although it was a little lame I think it was an excellent movie for that time period. I would actually like to see the reactions of people from that time viewing the King Kong movie that was most recently made because of the way that they reacted with taking scenes out that had to do with just a little sexuality or being too violent like the spider scene. The amount of time that was put into the movie was also ridiculous and very tidious with every little movement they had to do compared to the technology today that does everything for you. It goes to show how determined people were back then and how times have changed.
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