The director demonstrated with ‘King Kong’ his ability to create a good cinematographic spectacle. It is available on SkyShowtime.
Peter Jackson is irremediably linked to the lord of the rings.
Whether the filmmaker likes it or not, he will always be the director who made the best possible adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s novel and this means that the rest of the titles in his filmography remain a bit in the shadows. That’s why it’s never a bad time to claim films like King Konga work by Jackson that we easily forget and that is a good example of how the filmmaker has great skills for cinematographic spectacle.
If you want to see it again or discover it, you should know that it is available on SkyShowtime.
There is little to say about the plot of King Kong. The film released in 2005 revisits the 1933 film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack in which a giant gorilla from a prehistoric island is captured and brought to civilization, with the disaster that entails.
This production was one of Jackson’s most personal. The filmmaker has acknowledged that he dedicates himself to this because of the King Kong of the 1930s, which he fell in love with when he was still a child: “I was 8 or 9 years old. The impact was such that I decided on the spot to become a director.. I said to myself: ‘I want to make movies, I want to be able to make movies like King Kong,’ according to the sister website of SensaCine, Allocin.
“I saw the original Kong on TV when I was nine on a Friday night in New Zealand. That weekend, I took some clay and made a brontosaurus and got my parents’ super eight home movie camera and started shooting. trying to animate the clay dinosaur. So it was really a moment where I just wanted to do special effects and make monsters and creatures,” he revealed in an interview with Dark Horizons.
Universal Pictures
Jackson began working on this project more seriously in 1995, when Universal Pictures first approached him. They had to wait for the first two films of the lord of the rings were released to be able to get fully into the gorilla story and, when production began, it ended up becoming one of the most expensive films ever produced.
Initially set at $150 million, the budget eventually reached $207 million.of which 32 are entirely dedicated to the production of special effects. Luckily, it grossed more than $550 million at the box office. It also received recognition from the Academy, as it won three Oscars: Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.
Despite its long duration – it reaches 3 hours -, Jackson puts forward a very entertaining action show, maintaining at all times the tone of homage to the original film. The visual effects are one of the great points in the film’s favor, but, luckily, the director does not focus on that and also builds interesting characters that are played by actors of the caliber of Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Jaime Bell and Kyle Chandler.
