King Kong Review

I thought the original movie of King Kong was a terrible movie overall. I wasn't interested in the movie from the start, especially because it was in black and white. The special effects were so crude. But then I had to stop and think this was film making in its original form. It was easy to tell that King Kong was a miniature figurine. The visualization of his movements were choppy due to having to take pictures of the figure for every millimeter they moved it, but that was the best technology for film making that they had at the time. Plus the gas bombs and bullets being fired out of guns were so fake because the gas bombs just had ordinary smoke come out when they threw them. And you did not see any bullets being fired because it just showed smoke whenever they fired a weapon and they used sound effects when the planes were firing their weapons at King Kong on top of the building. It does show you, though, how far technology has come for film making since the 1930s. It was obvious whenever they were in front of a background screen. You could tell by the way the background looked and the way the props and people looked whenever a background screen was used. You could also tell when a scene was filmed separately. When Anne was going to be sacrificed to King Kong you could tell that was filmed separately. I also thought the acting was terrible. The actors were overly dramatic. It was like they took stage acting and brought it into film making. They used dramatic gestures, and were too dramatic with the way they talked and spoke to each other. But this movie helped to start special effects that led to how great special effects are today. At this time period people probably thought the special effects were amazing and were probably sucked into watching the movie. Even though I didn't like this movie, it is a great movie for this time period. One thing I thought they did a great job with were the shot angles they used in this movie. They pointed the camera up to show fear and intimidation, they pointed the camera down to show whatever is looking down is bigger and more powerful. Plus whatever they look down at is shown as smaller, weaker, or possibly even a character with a smaller and weaker personality. Overall I did not like the movie, but the technology in that movie was the latest and greatest of its time.