2005 King Kong Review

Authough this King Kong was a remake of the original, Peter Jackson changed the story a bit. I liked the changes though. In this remake Ann is made more sensible, she refused Carl Denhems request more than one time while in the original Ann seemed giddy and Naieve. A big difference between the two was that in the original movie Jack Driscoll was a sailor on the boat while in this movie Jack was the writer of Carls movie screenplay. I think the director changed this piece because it allowed more emotion into the story. Jack was just a regular guy, not the most handsome, but he wrote Anns favorite play, it was almost destiny that they would meet up and fall in love. Also in the new movie the natives were scary and mean, which again I think the director did this for stronger emotion, he really wanted the audience to hate the natives, to get the vibe they were savage. Which in the original you never really got that vibe. I think the most major difference between the two movies is that You really got to see how much Kong loved Ann, and how much Ann loved Kong. The emotion between them was clearly shown with the scene of Ann sleeping in Kongs arms and her tears when all those cruel men went to harpoon him and capture him. My favorite part was when Kong and Ann were on top of the Empire State building at sunset and Kong tapped his chest referring back to the scene when Ann did the same to tell Kong how beautiful the view was. All and all the movie was excellent, a good protrayl of the original in my book.