King Kong Rules
King Kong is one of the best films I have seen - EVER! I mean, ok, the end is tragic, but maybe that really made the film what it was. The director, Peter Jackson first makes you wait in terrified anticipation for the beast, then be horrified by it, root for it in the totally stupendous fight scenes, and then finally pity it. All that in a span of just 3 hours! Beat that Sam Raimi.I have never been a monster movie fan. I don't think I have seen Godzilla completely even when it was shown on TV. I just happen to know about Mighty Joe Young because of the stupid title. But you have to hand it to these Peter Jackson. He made a fan outta me.
The Japanese have always been rabid fans of monster movies. That probably explains why there have been 28 (no you read it properly, twenty eight) Godzilla films made in Japan till date. Starting from the 1954 original, there has been a film more than once in two years! According to me, thats crazy. How many times can you watch a man in a rubber costume destroy Tokyo? Well, it seems not many times. So the film makers decided 'lets have more than one man in a rubber costume destroy Tokyo'. And so almost every film after the first one had Godzilla battling other monsters in (where else) Tokyo. All along, denizens of Japan ran helter skelter screaming 'Gojira! Gojira!'. (The say 'Gojira' because the don't have an 'el' sound in there language. Thanks for that one abstractwhiz).
Anyway, so back to King Kong. He battles 4 T-Rex's single handedly (literally single handedly because he is clutching Naomi Watts in the other hand/paw). He climbs up the empire state building, destroys three airplanes, fights of bats the size of a car and enthralls you with his....Acting. Kong is played by Andy Serkis(who also played Gollum in LOTR). Though he is not wearing a rubber suit, he wears a digital one. Andy's movements are captured and shown as Kong's. It seems Andy went to Africa in order to study the movements of wild gorilla's. (Man! To have his job....). This guy also plays lumpy the cook in the film. This is the double role in which the two characters look least similar!!
Everyone should really really watch this movie. Its more than totally Paisa Vasool. I would have paid the admission price just top see the awesome fight scenes. And believe me, the movie in its entirety is better than the fight scenes. So this one is really worth a watch.
posted by karkaremtg @ 5:39 PM
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Incidentally, the Japanese don't say 'gojira' because they don't have an 'l' - the word means something like whale-monster if I remember correctly. The name 'Godzilla' was stolen by the Americans from the Japs - they heard the Japanese 'r' as an 'l', and Godzilla was born...
+1 to the movie recommendation, obviously.
Whoops, I seem to be a bit unclear in that last comment. What I meant was, the reason the Japanese say 'gojira' is because they invented the word. The 'l' came out of the blue when Americans heard some Japanese guy say 'gojira'. The Japanese fellow presumably pronounced 'r' as 'l', and so the whole thing got corrupted to Godzilla.
At least that's what the newspaper article I read said. It was years ago, so I don't remember exactly.
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