King Kong: Ranking The Terrible To The Epic
Grab the popcorn and soda, because monster movies are bigger than ever. There isn't much that is more ingrained in American cinema culture than the monster flick. Thousands of filmgoers have memories of staying up past bedtime, dimming the lights, snacking on some candy, and turning on a monster marathon or tw, perhaps the Universal Studios monster flicks or even massive monster blockbusters like Gamera and the iconic Godzilla — who has become an icon in American cinema just as he is in Japan. But no giant monster is more iconic in American cinema than the king of American monsters, the massive ape himself,King Kong.
Kong has found new life with Legendary Pictures' Monsterverse with Kong: Skull Island and the remake of Toho's King Kong vs Godzilla. However, not many younger fans know the classic Kong three-act structure that has been used and reused for almost a century at this point. A film crew goes to a mysterious island, the protagonist gets abducted by the local tribe and is offered to Kong, the film crew subdues Kong and takes him to New York to present the monster to audiences all over as the eighth wonder of the world — only for everything to come crashing down off of the Empire State Building. It's the skeleton that almost all renditions of the story have used from movies to Broadway. But which Kong is King?
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The first and the worst among the films is Dino De Laurentiis and John Guillermin's King Kong remake from the 1970s. Although Laurentiis and Guillermin wanted to bring something new to the King Kong story, for the most part, this movie is the same as the original with nothing different about the skeleton. Still, it does get points for
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