mine out of the lot has to be the t-rex kong fight. it was amazing the way he beat them down and ripped open ones jaw. cracking!

i have to agree with u and i also luv how he crashed the 2 airplanes together

yeah that was class after watching it again the stamped was good and the part where they fight them insects.

I love the T-Rex Fight the best also how King Kong manages too break the T-Rexes Jaw it is amazing.

great scene and when he tries to put the mouth back together rofl!

The insect scene, especially the leeches! Disgusting... but somehow fascinating.

Also when all the long neck dinosaures crash together and
the Kong VS. 3 V-Rexes fight!!!

Actually the whole Island-part is awsome. The ship and city parts are a bit lame...

I like the part when King Kong was fighting the planes and the T Rex fight was also pretty good.

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mine out of the lot has to be the t-rex kong fight. it was amazing the way he beat them down and ripped open ones jaw. cracking!

The T-Rex scene, insect scene,and just about any Kong scenes are my favorite.

The extract I have chosen to analyse for my coursework is taken from Peter Jackson’s remake of the massive monster classic King Kong which was released in December 2005.

The extract is taken from within the last hour of the film as the film begins to draw to a close and to its famous and timeless climax. The extract takes place between 2:05:24 – 2: 14: 20 in the film which is in scene 40.

The genre of the film King Kong is a Fantasy/ Adventure/ Monster. A film genre is what type of film it actually is. Other films that would fall in to the Fantasy/ Adventure or Monster genre are films such as Desmond Davis’ Clash of The Titans (1981), Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla (1998), the original King Kong directed by Merian C. Cooper Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933) and King Kong Lives by John Guillermin (1986).

The genre of a film can be found by looking at sets in a shot, such as Skull Island sets, costumes on characters, mainly the tribe’s people. Also types of characters can reveal the genre of a film, for example if an audience were watching a horror/ slasher film they would be expecting to see a psycho killer, an innocent young virgin and, for lack of a better word, a slut. These characters would clearly indicate that the film they are watching a horror/ slasher movie.

In this extract what would be considered the stereotypical characters of the genre are virtually none existent. The usual female character is called the “damsel in distress” but in this extract is anything but in distress. Also in monster movies the “monster” is made out to be a villain and portrayed as the bad guy. However, Peter Jackson superbly makes the audience sympathise with the giant ape and the human characters in the extract and leaves up to the audience to determine who the bad guy is and who the righteous man is between King Kong and Carl Denham.

The storylines and situations within the chosen extract indicate that the film is a Fantasy/ Adventure/ Monster film. The most obvious situation that reveals what the genre is is the appearance of King Kong on screen. This blatantly reveals that the genre is of the monster and fantasy. Storylines and situations that reveal the adventure genre are in the settings around the characters in the extract.

The narrative of all and any film is the manner in which the story on screen is told to the audience. The structure of the narrative is how the audience will follow and understand the story told to them. The narrative in this extract is omniscient as it is shown from all the main characters view points. The narrative is slightly restricted as you can only hear what Jack Blacks character, Carl Denham, can hear and the audience doesn’t know what they are looking at or even doing there.

The opening shot in the extract I have chosen is a high establishing shot of the main wall on Skull Island as a deafening roar from the mighty King Kong echoes out from the distance beyond the wall, followed by close up’s of Carl Denham (Jack Black) and the ships captain, Captain Englehorn (Thomas Kretschmann) with a look of anticipation crossed with a look of fear.

The audience is now provided with an enigma as to why Carl and the crew are still on the island. The shot cuts to Anne Darrow (Naomi Watts) and Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) swimming and splashing in a river. The non-diagetic sound of rapid paced music adds more urgency to the characters actions. The next shot is a short first person view from the giant ape King Kong as he bounds through the Islands forest chasing Anne Darrow (Anne Darrow) and Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), the non-diagetic sound of music has somewhat subdued and each loud thud of King Kong’s fist slamming in the floor can be heard as can the sound of his breathing. This connects the audience with King Kong which is what Peter Jackson wanted from the whole of the film and it comes across mainly in this extract.

The shot cuts again to Anne Darrow (Watts) and Jack Driscoll (Brody) running through the jungle, which is a convention to the adventure genre, with the sound of King Kong behind them and the non-diagetic music had gotten softer as they run away but kicks back when the camera pans around them to reveal the Great Wall of Skull Island with the bridge not lowered enough for them to escape. To add to their terror another huge roar echoes out from behind but is considerably closer than before.

As Anne (Watts) and Jack (Brody) stop staring slightly up, the camera pans around the pair of the to show that they are looking at the bridge which is not all the way down as King Kong closes in.

Mines the t-rex fight and the empire state buliding bit. As well

I have to agree on the scene of King Kong brawling with the three T-Rex's. The insect scene however seriously creeped me out. <///3