Behind the Scenes:
The 1933 version of "King Kong" has a great deal of popularity among movie fans. More than just a simple movie, it has been remade many times, and in 1976, John Grier's King Kong, which used the most advanced special effects of its time, was dismissed by audiences as a "simple fantasy". Moviegoers who revel in special effects tend to put the cart before the horse, making CG the main character and reducing real people to props. Peter Jackson's "King Kong" in the CG is indeed the main character, but the other characters did not become a companion, especially between King Kong and the heroine of the emotional exchange reached the heights of "Beauty and the Beast". Even without CG animals in the picture, Jackson's wild imagination still makes the picture change, expanding the dramatic tension without stealing the show. It's the pinnacle of the special-effects genre.
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-Alpha Male The first "man": If you take for granted that the "man" here refers to the first male protagonist of the movie, King Kong, I'm sorry to say you're only half right. I'm sorry, but you're only half right. In the 1933 original, the oversized gorilla was actually "played" by puppets of various sizes that could be manipulated at will and then composited using stop-motion animation techniques; the 1976 version was a little less humane, as the man behind the scenes, Rico Baker, was nearly smothered to death in a heavy, almost airtight gorilla prop suit. airtight ape prop suit. As for the 24-foot-tall beast, created by Peter Jackson, it definitely represents the smartest of movie technology. First, Jackson modeled the 24-foot-tall gorilla on a real-life adult male gorilla that can't walk upright and is about six feet tall, and then used the latest in movie technology, motion capture. That's why we see Andy Serkis in the studio, wearing a "capture suit" full of sensory contacts that mimic the movements and expressions of a gorilla (Serkis, by the way, did the same thing for the hairless Gollum in the Lord of the Rings series). (Serkis, by the way, did the same thing for the hairless "Gollum" in the Lord of the Rings series). Moreover, Serkis also doubles up as the mean-looking chef in the movie, so who else could be the "first man"?
-Bugs Bugs: Don't be too busy to get goosebumps, because Peter Jackson is a perfectionist who does not do anything that is not good enough, so when the bugs are in his hands, he has to do everything he can to make it as disgusting as possible. First of all, our blonde Ann Darrow in the "Skull Island" in a section of rotten heart of the rotten wood, by a pair of huge centipede-like multi-legged bugs scared to death; Secondly, when the dinosaurs and King Kong is fighting happily, the camera swept to the team of sailors intending to rescue Ann Darrow, they were all King Kong into a deep pit, where the six-legged spiders are located. They are all driven by King Kong into a deep pit, which happens to be a gathering place for aggressive creatures such as six-legged spiders, crustaceans, locusts, etc. - it must be noted that Skull Island is so well nourished that the insects here are at least ten times larger than normal. The "Weta" is a type of locust, native to New Zealand, with long whiskers and no wings, and is a smaller version of the insect that wraps Adrien Brody up alive in the movie ...... Weta Workshop Ltd. Weta Workshop Ltd., from which it takes its name, is not only creative but also patriotic in naming itself after this New Zealand "specialty".
-Curtiss Helldivers Biplane Bomber: The fighter style used in the original 1933 version, and "King Kong's battle with the biplane on the Empire State Building" is one of the core scenes that Peter Jackson made sure to keep, but the problem is that this one is called "Curtiss Helldiver". "The problem was that the old Curtiss Helldiver, a popular model during World War I, was long gone. However, that elite-level team at Vita Studios were no slouches, and they built two actual-sized biplanes out of a few sketches - except that there was no way for them to take to the air, and scenes such as the aerial battle and being knocked to pieces by King Kong were all CGI composites. Here, Peter Jackson gave the pilots a few close-ups of their faces, one of which is Rico Baker, the aforementioned guy who almost "died of boredom"; the other several are the behind-the-scenes production staff who have been following Jackson for a long time, just like the "Lord of the Rings" series, Jackson led them into the "front stage" in a seemingly unintentional way. "Front Stage".
-Director's Cut:The Lord of the Rings series has a legacy of old rules that have everyone looking forward to the extended DVD version of the movie that will be released a year after the movie's release. Although the distributor has switched from New Line to Universal this time around, it would be foolish not to make money, depending on whether or not Peter Jackson has the material to fill the DVD with this extended edition. Although the theatrical version of "King Kong" is a whopping 187 minutes long, that's not enough for Peter Jackson to "splurge" on, according to reliable sources: Because of the time constraints of the theatrical version, more than 300 finished CGI shots were cut -- all of which would be perfect for the extended DVD.
What is known is that:
1. When director Karl and Ann Darrow first boarded Skull Island, they filmed Ann sitting on a rock and screaming with a video camera;
2. When King Kong was being gunned down in New York City, army soldiers once "rescued" Ann from the city. "rescued" from the raging beast, but Ann herself ran back to King Kong ......
-Early Havoc as a young Havoc:Ann Darrow and Joan Havoc had no similarities except that they were both vaudeville performers. similarities, one of them living in a fictional movie world and the other in the real world. However, screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Francis Welsh borrowed many of Joan Havoc's acting traits and personality traits in order to bring the character of Ann Darrow to life. There is also a jokey little detail planted in the movie:The romantic slapstick stage play written by playwright Jack, played by Adrien Brody, is called Weeping Havoc. King Kong is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression, so that would make Joan Havoc, then in her early twenties, a precarious little actress who couldn't even fill her belly.
-Fay Wray:Though Canadian actress Fay Wray interpreted more than 50 female roles in her lifetime, and appeared in director Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March, her most notable and unforgettable role was in the original 1933 King Kong. "Scream Queen" Ann Darrow. Peter Jackson wanted Fay Wray to make a cameo in the new King Kong, and the final line of the movie, "Beauty kills the beast," belonged to her. ...... However, Fay Wray died in August 2004 at the age of 96 - before the movie had even begun filming. However, Faye Wray died in August 2004 at the age of 96 - before the movie had even started filming - so the line ended up belonging to Jack Black.
-Green Screens: "Green screen technology" is not new to Hollywood these days, but it's not often that a movie like King Kong is shot in front of a "green screen". The The Vita Studio art team created two places that didn't exist: Depression-era New York and Skull Island. The actors did all their filming in a studio with green knitted curtains in the background. This all-green environment would be filled in with CGI colors in post-production to complete the geography of the time. The same can be said for "blue screen technology", which is often used as an alternative because of the roughness of the edges where it meets the characters. For Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the hardest part was Skull Island, where she saw bugs in a rotting tree trunk. Peter Jackson only told her where the bugs were, but not how big or what shape they were, so Watts had to use her imagination. ......
-Homages Tribute:You can see a lot of other old classics in "King Kong," which is Peter Jackson's tribute to those early Hollywood sci-fi directors. So it seems that Jackson's most profound influence was Steven Spielberg ......'s dinosaurs; in addition, he stole a couple of tricks from James Cameron's Alien series and Titanic; and, finally, Jackson blended the more iconic, skating-on-the-frozen-water-of-a-pond scene from Disney's Bambi into the But it doesn't add up to the original King Kong, which is a carbon copy of the original, from the backstory to the dialog to King Kong vs. the dinosaurs.
-I'm Sitting on Top of the World:A song from Al Jolson's 1920s album was used by Peter Jackson in the opening sequence of King Kong, and along with the upbeat melody, he showed the world that Depression-era As the song moves into the lyrical section, it subtly foreshadows the doomed fall of King Kong, who sits on top of the Empire State Building, the "top of the world".
-Juggling: Ann Darrow's little ploy to calm a cranky King Kong. Since Naomi Watts isn't from the circus, her fake-waving hands are actually nothing - CGI technicians would synthesize small rocks in later.
-Kong's Kin Kong's House:In Kong's lair, there are several pairs of giant white bones strewn about - the remains of other members of the Kong family, and Peter Jackson was trying to convey a kind of nostalgia for the dead from the living:There are other giant gorillas on Skull Island, who may have been Kong's parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. ...... But now, King Kong is the last bloodline of this once huge family.
-Laser Surgery:In early 2004, Peter Jackson had just received an Academy Award for Best Director for The Lord of the Rings III: The Return of the King, and as a reward he went to the hospital for laser surgery on his eyes to officially say goodbye to his myopia. Also, Jackson lost 70 pounds of fat during the filming of "King Kong".
-Meat-Weasel flesh-eating mollusc:The name comes from the nickname of one of the painters in Vita's studio ...... But its disgusting appearance is entirely imaginary, and the creature doesn't exist in the real world:Flimsy, covered in slimy liquid, and slow, it once attacked the ship's chef in a deep pit. The chef of the ship was attacked in a deep pit. Additionally, the artists have given the creature an even more disgusting physiology: it is eyeless, faceless, and its head's outer skin retracts to reveal a mouth full of sharp teeth.
-Natives: In the original King Kong, the natives on Skull Island were a hilarious parody of an African tribe. In the new version, Peter Jackson depicted them as savages with primitive savagery, bloodshot red eyes, a combination of African, Asian, Maori, and Polynesian pronunciation, and spray-painted their skin in a sinful alternative color, black, and the modern-day Natives of Skull Island were freshly minted. Jackson's reason for doing this was relatively simple; he didn't want to cause some unnecessary ethnic strife over the appearance of these natives. Other than that, Jackson has continued other depictions of the natives from the original book: the rituals of the gods that required human sacrifices, the specific dance movements, costumes, and the impressive Max Steiner music during the ceremony.
-Orson WellesOrson Welles:He caused great consternation among listeners by producing the 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds, and confused and even overwhelmed Hollywood with 1941's Citizen Kane - but what did he have to do with King Kong? Wilson is, in fact, the real-life incarnation of Carl, the movie director played by Jack Black. Not that Black specifically borrowed some of Wilson's habitual verbal gestures, but he captured Wilson's soul as a director: reckless, reckless, and capable of telling big lies in order to pull in sponsorship and investment.
-Period Fashion:Ann Darrow's bell-bottomed bonnet, which she wears at the beginning of the movie, was so popular in New York in the '30s that almost every young woman owned at least one, showing the distinctive feminine flavor of the Depression.
-Quasimodo Clocktower Monster:King Kong's face was supposed to be ugly yet dignified, and the artists who created Skull Island based King Kong's face on Charles Laughton's portrayal of the clocktower monster, Quasimodo, in 1939's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, who gave him the look of a big-eyed, big-nosed, crooked man with a big face. with big eyes, a big nose, and a crooked mouth. King Kong's climb up the Empire State Building to seek refuge coincides with Quasimodo's use of Notre Dame's bell tower as a place of comfort.
-Rat Monkey: When you see a cage with the words "Sumatran Rat Monkey" hanging in the cargo hold of the SS Adventure in King Kong, it feels like England's Hobo ("The SS Adventure"). "Captain of the SS Adventure) had walked into another Peter Jackson movie ...... The Sumatran Rat Monkey was kept in a New Zealand zoo in Jackson's "The Walking Dead". The Sumatran Rat Monkey was kept in a New Zealand zoo in Jackson's "Zombies Playing in the World" and once bitten, it becomes a zombie that feeds on fresh flesh and blood.
-Shore, Howard: Howard Shore, who won an Oscar for his outstanding score for the Lord of the Rings series, eventually quit the cast of King Kong two months before the film's release because of irreparable differences with Peter Jackson over the film's stylistic score. Replacing him was six-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard ...... Howard Shaw, however, agreed to retain his portrayal as a guest orchestra conductor in "King Kong".
-Toilet BreaksToilet Breaks:It's not uncommon to have a large can of Coca-Cola ready to go when you watch a movie, so you may often run into the embarrassment of having to go to the restroom in an internal emergency but being afraid of missing the exciting part of the movie....... And a movie like King Kong, which is more than three hours long, is more of a test of your bladder's capacity and The movie is a test of your bladder capacity and endurance. So, here is a precise "toilet time", you can jump up and rush to the restroom to solve your personal problems, because missing them will not affect your viewing mood.
35 minutes in:Ann and Jack cut to flirting with each other by discussing the script. ...... You have ten minutes before you reach Skull Island.
At 101 minutes:The Big Bug on Skull Island makes his first appearance...... This is when you can get ready to leave the table, because what follows will be a two-minute long period of uninteresting dialog.
114 mins in:Being besieged by all sorts of big bugs ...... for four minutes, this time rushing to the toilet probably isn't because of an internal emergency, it's because you're so nauseous you want to throw up.
At 139 minutes:Jack is in a trance as he watches a stage play written by himself ...... But you'll have to hurry, because in two minutes, the prelude to King Kong's Manhattan Mayhem kicks off.
-Universal Pictures:You'll have noticed a big neon "Universal" billboard in the background of the movie as it shifts to Times Square - you may have smiled and thought it was Universal advertising their own release. But that's not what it looked like. According to special effects artist Joe Lighty: In 1933, that was supposed to be Columbia's advertising space, but Columbia wouldn't allow them to use their logo unless they paid ......, so he had to fill it in with CGI and use Universal as a substitute. as a replacement.
-V. Rex upgraded T. rex: The evolution of creatures on Skull Island is never-ending, so Peter Jackson upgraded Peter Jackson's T. rex from 1933's King Kong to a larger, more terrifying beast - Universal gave it the new name of V. rex, but no one told Jackson or Vita about it. No one told Jackson or Vita's workmates, so they still call it "T. rex" in behind-the-scenes commentary interviews.
-Wire Deadline:It wasn't until the fall of 2005 that Universal decided on a three-hour theatrical run for "King Kong" -- forty minutes longer than originally planned. That kept the film's post-production busy, with Vita Studio's special-effects team working around the clock, some even bringing sleeping bags into the office. By the time the last two CGI shots were completed, the calendar had flipped to November 28th ...... less than two days before the film's press screening.
-Xmas Lights:Central Park was decked out with twinkling holiday lights, accompanied by King Kong and Ann Darrow frolicking on a frozen pond....... After this part of the scene, Naomi Watts was done with all the filming, and she was ready to pack her bags and head home. But King Kong's "real" Andy Serkis was suddenly inspired to convince Peter Jackson to reshoot a series of scenes of King Kong running through the streets of New York City, because Serkis felt that running through a thin layer of snow on the streets should be just as difficult as running through slippery ice.
-Yeah, Right explains what doesn't make sense: Why didn't something as big as King Kong crush the thin ice on the pond? Why didn't Ann Darrow's lips turn purple or she exhale a white haze when she was wearing a sleeveless, low-cut white dress in sub-zero weather the moment she met King Kong?Was King Kong really towed back to New York in the original 1933 movie by the not-so-sturdy-looking freighter (there's no indication of how King Kong was brought back to New York in the remake)? On this point, Peter Jackson is adamant that the original story is correct, and he and his crew have experimented with the idea that it wouldn't make King Kong feel any discomfort, given his thick skin.
-Zemeckis, Robert Robert Zemeckis: He had produced Peter Jackson's 1996 comedy-drama The Frighteners, a flop that nearly destroyed Jackson's fledgling Vita Studios, and was hired by Zemeckis at a time when the studio had run out of funds to run it. The studio had no money to run, Zemeckis hired him to do the computer effects for 1997's Contact - without Zemeckis's help, Vitae would have had to disband, and naturally there would have been no more Lord of the Rings series or King Kong, long live Zemeckis!