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King Kong: Don't Mess With the Monkey
Noodles22 writes "King Kong: Don't Mess With the Monkey began as an audition piece for Eden Phillips. After adapting some scenes from Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh's 1996 King Kong screenplay, the natural appeal of the Kong story attracted more and more enthusiastic volunteers who generously gave of their time to make Kong a rich, funny short film. We are honoured to dedicate it to Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Wingnut films, and all those involved in the Lord of the Rings films, and upcoming King Kong remake."
he'll climb to the top of the building and throw the ring to it's doom.
King Kong was one of Hitler's favourite movies. The other one was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Posted AC for obvious reasons..
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The Story
KONG: Don't Mess with the Monkey is essentially a prequel to King Kong the feature film. They year is 1933. A party of three adventurous archaeologists make a first foray into the depths of the previously unexplored Skull Island which, rumour has it, is home to the dreaded great ape known as King Kong.
Our film opens on a youthful and attractive Ann Darrow, an aspiring archaeologist on a Sumatran dig site. She is accompanied by her father, Lord Darrow, a world renowned archaeologist and leader of this first expedition to Skull Island. Walter Douglas, Lord Darrow's assistant, is the reluctant third member of the expedition.Douglas appears to be much more at home in the comfort and safety of the Oxford University Library than out in the field. Our expeditionary team is also supported by two jovial Sumatran natives, Motumbo and Mentawei, who are all too familiar the feared Cult of Kong.
Kong: Don't Mess with the Monkey shows British science's first foray into the mystical and savage world of Skull Island. Our intrepid archeologists are stunned to discover the first evidence confirming rumours of the Kong cult and the ritual sacrifice employed by the natives to appease the beast; they are on the cusp of the archaeological discovery of a lifetime!
Jack Driscoll, an unsavory American entrepreneur, is on Skull Island to fulfill a forestry contract. Driscoll recruits a workforce from the Sumtran natives of the island, and sets to work clearing one hundred thousand acres of rainforest.
Once evidence of the re-emergence of Kong is revealed by our archeologists, the terrified natives abandon their villages and flee to the mountains to escape the return of the Wrath of Kong!
An enraged Driscoll, blaming our archeologists for the loss of his workforce, demands they leave the island within an hour. Driscoll's expulsion threat follows immediately on Ann's unearthing of an ancient map revealing the location of the Sacrificial Site. Legend holds that at this site the great Kong ripped sacrificial victims' flesh to ribbons.
In spite of Lord Darrow's stern protestations, Ann shows herself unable to resist the discovery of a lifetime when she compels an unwilling Douglas to join her desperate search for the Sacrificial Site. The clock is ticking on Driscoll's threat - but a mysterious roaring emanating from the jungle presents a far, far greater one...
Pathetic karma whoring attempt. You didn't even point out the high-quality 137 MB version at http://www.kongmovie.com/Kong-Full-(DivX-HQ).avi.t orrent
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The guy really should have taken a break after the massive effort that was LOTR filming and cutting. There are so many great ideas for movies that haven't been made and we have to go back to King Kong? I hope this doesn't ruin the reputation he's acquired.
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I was so worried about the King Kong remake like with Planet of the Apes, but Tim Burton's epic masterpiece proved me wrong. I suspect I'll be just has surprised with this remake. The scuttlebutt I hear is that they've hip-hopped up the new ape by 10% and added a new companion character called poochie or something so it will be great.
Hey, now, this is Slashdot! Where are all the computer-related stories? NO MORE MONKEY BUSINESS!
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Thank goodness as for a second I thought this was yet another single geek advice article on valentines... !
I'll see your pathetic karma whoring attempt, and raise you one! High-quality Clicky.
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not only was that not "rich" or "funny" but those were the LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF MY LIFE
I keep thinking "Donkey Kong" and not "King Kong" while reading these comments. Maybe I spent too many happy hours as a young child with a SNES controller in hand.
Mod "Overrated" instead of replying "I disagree with you," you coward.
It should be noted that these are the same people who did Fanimatrix.
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The DVD for Finding Nemo has some interesting extras. One of them is with one of the directors (or someone in charge). He talks about how they went scuba diving and took video. They then gave the video to their CG people who recreated a scene from underwater looking to the water's surface. When played side-by-side, it was hard to tell the two apart, and so they had to work on making it believable that it could exist, while also making it obviously not real.
I also recall something along the same lines with the princess in Shrek, they made her too realistic, and then had to make her more "fake".
But, it really depends on what you're animating, though. I saw the Final Fantasy movie that was supposed to look all real, and it was good animation, but just "not right."
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
I am pretty sure King Kong can't handle /. traffic himself. ;)
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Slashdot killed the beast!
This is going to be a big dissappointment for fans of LOTR expecting more of the same from Peter Jackson.
It seems to me that there is an inherent contradiction between the title of your post and the first sentence. Jackson made his career with edgy genre-busting films. In fact, LotR is in many ways his worst work in the last 10 years. That does not mean that it's not a fine pice of work, but compared to Dangerous Creatures and even The Frighteners the story is lacking. Really not any fault of the writers, it was just the naure of that wondrous hydra of a narrative that Tolkien created, that you really can't condense or summarize it successfully.
The nice thing about Kong (70 years old, not 50 years old), is that since it was written as a story to be told from start to finish in 100 minutes, it is the perfect size for a film adaptation. There is enough there to fill the attention of the audience for an afternoon, with enough wiggle room for Jackson to put his own stamp on it.
LotR fans are not necessarily Peter Jackson fans and Peter Jackson fans are not necessarily fans of LotR. I'd much rather see him do another Dangerous Creatures or Forgotten Silver (that managed to bamboozle fair number of New Zealaders into thinking that he really did discover that all of the major inovations we take for granted with film were invented in New Zealand and lost.) In fact, Jackson quipped that he promised Fran Walsh, his partner (professionally and personally) a low-budget, low-stress art film.
Don't forget what a flop the remake of Godzilla was.
The big problem with Godzilla is that the original Godzilla was a product of a specific time (post-WWII reconstruction) and place (Japan). Godzilla just does not translate well.
But on the other hand, we see a remake of The Wolfman about every 10 years, a remake of Dracula every 10 years. A remake of Hamlet ever generation. Why not do the Gilglamesh of monster movies, King Kong?