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Confession time: I like the Peter Jackson King Kong more than the 1933 one I love it; I can't help it. I cry every time I see it. And this particularly is what I like about it because I think this is what it got right - the relationship between Ann and Kong. In the original, she's scared the whole time and doesn't want anything to do with him. That's really boring. I won't even go into how uncomfortable the 1976 one makes me feel, with the waterfall and then back at Kong's lair... *shudder*

But anyway, the '05 movie has her fall in love with him and vise-versa, but not in a romantic or sexual way; it's more of a connection between two lonely souls. I heard in a review around the time the movie came out that Jack may love and want Ann, but he can't need her as much as Kong, which I really agree with. He needs Ann's compassion when all he's faced for maybe the last hundred and fifty years (one estimate of how old he was!) is loneliness and giant T-Rexes trying to eat him. I think she needs him, too.

Wanted to at least get a hint of the Gustave Doré Paradise Lost illustrations that inspired the look of the '33 film.

Check out more of my art on my Tumblr - emmamosier.tumblr.com/
Personal blog - whatwouldwaltdo.tumblr.com/

King Kong © Universal

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Description
Confession time: I like the Peter Jackson King Kong more than the 1933 one I love it; I can't help it. I cry every time I see it. And this particularly is what I like about it because I think this is what it got right - the relationship between Ann and Kong. In the original, she's scared the whole time and doesn't want anything to do with him. That's really boring. I won't even go into how uncomfortable the 1976 one makes me feel, with the waterfall and then back at Kong's lair... *shudder*

But anyway, the '05 movie has her fall in love with him and vise-versa, but not in a romantic or sexual way; it's more of a connection between two lonely souls. I heard in a review around the time the movie came out that Jack may love and want Ann, but he can't need her as much as Kong, which I really agree with. He needs Ann's compassion when all he's faced for maybe the last hundred and fifty years (one estimate of how old he was!) is loneliness and giant T-Rexes trying to eat him. I think she needs him, too.

Wanted to at least get a hint of the Gustave Doré Paradise Lost illustrations that inspired the look of the '33 film.

Check out more of my art on my Tumblr - emmamosier.tumblr.com/
Personal blog - whatwouldwaltdo.tumblr.com/

King Kong © Universal

This © me