King Kong: Difference between revisions

* [[Moe Greene Special]]: How they take out the stegosaurus.

* [[Public Domain Feature Films]]: The original 1933 film is a famous staple of the [[Public Domain]].

* [[Tagline]]: "The Eighth Wonder Of The World!" for the 1933 release. Jackson's remake quotes it in dialogue.

 

* [[Made of Explodium]]: Rampaging through the city, Kong picks up electrically powered subway cars and tosses them from the trestle, making them explode dramatically.

* [[My Nayme Is]] ...Dwan.

* [[People in Rubber Suits|People In Hairy Suits]]: The 1976 film and ''[[King Kong]] vs Godzilla'' and the other Toho Kong film.

** It may bear mentioning that this style of creature making was practically invented for [[Godzilla]] because Toho didn't have the time or money to stop motion animate the Big G like Kong was.

* [[Climbing Climax]]

* [[Creepy Centipedes]]: Jackson's remake is infamous for various horrorific giant centipedes.

* [[Flanderization]]: The 2005 film goes out of its way to remove every positive character trait Carl Denham had in 1933, and replace them with something negative.

* [[Foot Focus]]: Both the '33 and '05 versions had Ann barefoot for most of the time on the island, but only the latter had repeated closeups of her muddy feet.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: It is implied that Kong is the last giant ape on Skull Island: the most telling evidence is a shot of him entering his cave and walking past multiple skeletons of giant gorillas. This loneliness, along with the hostility of Skull Island's environment, accounts for both his ferocity and his need for company, which Ann Darrow supplies.<br /><br />Furthermore, as stated in the background materials, Skull Island's entire ecosystem is dying because the island is submerging due to geological activity. Those ''V. rex'' that Kong killed, for instance, may just have been the last three members of their entire species.

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Not whole ''worlds'', but Carl Denham's tendency to unintentionally destroy the things he loves is [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]].

* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: The scene where Skull Island is being typed.

* [[Mythology Gag]]:

** There's also the unlockable bonus ending in which Kong ''survives'' , due to Jack and Captain Englehardt swooping in to save him in a bi-plane.

* [[Stock Scream]]: One sailor does a Wilhelm scream during the brontosaur stampede as he is knocked off the cliff.

** Possibly [[Justified Trope]]. Given the sheer amount of competition for food as a result of the...[[Did Not Do the Research|bizarre]] ecosystem discussed above, it's [[Wild Mass Guessing|possible]] the eat-everything-in-sight instinct is high on the list of priorities.

** And the raptors in the apatosaur stampede scene keep trying to get a bit of human instead of, you know, ''getting away from the stampede''.