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Does anyone not like how they changed it from movie making, to oil?

posted 8 years ago by RynoII
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I found the movie making greed angle of the original, and of the 2005 version much more interesting, than going to find oil. I mean I don't know... filmmaking has an extremely ambitious artistic passion to it. Maybe it's cause I want to be a filmmaker myself one day.

But changing to finding oil, just doesn't feel right to me. I don't find Fred Wilson near as interesting of a character to get behind compared to Carl Denham.

[–] SenseiHoots 8 years ago

I liked it. Personally, I like how different the 76 remake is from the original (as well as the 2005 one). Don't get me wrong, the original is and will always be my favourite, but I enjoy how this is just as much it's own movie as it is a remake.

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[–] tyrexden 8 years ago

the movie-making idea is probably cooler, but the oil idea definitely 'works'. First of all, this was the 1970's, in which there was a major oil shortage, so it was a commodity.... Hence, the Grodin character really portrays capitalism.

Thats kinda what the Kong film is about... Grabbing this monkey out of his home, to profit on it..... Very much works with Big Oil.... Them some shady muthereffers.

[–] NYG11 8 years ago

I'm just the opposite- I've always thought the oil company looking for a big strike on an uncharted island made more sense plotwise than a Depression era movie director traveling thousands of miles to film a movie on a uncharted island.

[–] Aylmer 8 years ago

I'm with you there... though maybe I'm biased somewhat because I saw the '76 version years before the '33 and as a kid didn't find it too campy and actually (comparatively) realistic as a giant monster movie.

[–] [email protected] (2017) 7 months ago

That was common though in the 20s and 30s, just read Errol Flynn's autobiography when he was in Papua New Guinea for 6 years. He claims he took a couple of film makers down the Sepik River, an uncharted part of PNG. He later did an Australian film where lots of footage were taken by an ambitious director traveling thousands of miles for nature and native shots.

[–] GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 8 years ago

What are you talking about? The original and the 2005 were all about greedy men. It was greedy of them to kidnap Kong and make money off him. That's the point of the story.

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[–] Oretlab2017 (16) 8 years ago

I think it was a cool idea. Plus it plays a role in anchoring it in the 70s the same way the first one was quintessentially a movie reflecting the birth of the film industry.

[–] millsey72 (10244) 2 years ago

It makes sense today to look for an uncharted island in search of oil, since we are not allowed to drill for it here anymore, thanks to the democrat voters who elected their politicians

[–] TheArgentinian (7062) 2 years ago

yeah, invading people's country for oil is so much better. Thank you Repubs!

[–] millsey72 (10244) 2 years ago

Oil is the most important part of the world economy. The cheaper it is, the better. Democrats and their voters suck

[–] TheArgentinian (7062) 2 years ago

Oil is in its way out. Even the sheikhs know it. That's why they are investing in tech.

[–] millsey72 (10244) 2 years ago

Oil is on its way out because of special interest groups/elitists who stand to make billions from Green energy instead. And they need people like you to behave like sheep to gain political power

[–] TheArgentinian (7062) 2 years ago

you're one of those anti-enviromentalism morons because conservatives that are in big oil pocket say green bad.

[–] Whom (528) 2 years ago

The oil plot helped explain how they transported Kong to NYC. Oil tanker! That was always a big plothole in the original and 2005 versions.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 2 years ago

I think it was a result of the energy crisis facing the west in the '70s. Thematically it still lines up with the 1933 movie but it is a tad less interesting.