| Posted by: Alric Knebel at April 14, 2008, 3:59 pm | | Topic: "King Kong" new v old Forum: groupsrv | Matt Barry wrote: Quote:"Rich T" <rich_tintera@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d51e3b50-3583-4fd7-802c-8f73b64319a8@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... After watching part of Jackson's Kong the other night, I decided to head over to Rotten Tomatoes and check out a few reviews. In the Time article, by Richards Corliss and Schickel I read this curious line: "In the original, Fay Wray came to sympathize with the beast. But Watts plays Ann as a seductress, consciously leading the big lug on." When, in the original, did Ann ever express anything but outright fear/horror? No one in the original sypathized with the poor guy, did they? My thoughts exactly. In the original, Fay Wray was absolutely terrified of that big ape, and couldn't have been more relieved when he fell to his death. After reading all the reviews that talked about the "romance" between them, I thought I had seriously missed something. Personally, I can see nothing but terror and fear in her every reaction to Kong. Then you must have missed something. First, it wasn't so much a "romance." She felt pity for him, and he was like this unmanageable pet. And she was his owner. There wasn't seriously a "romance." Quote:The remake, with the romance that blossomed between the two, culminating in a ludicrous "ice skating" sequence in Central Park, was too much. If you took the "romance" out if it, you can see it as just this ape discovering ICE. He was having fun. Like a big kid. It worked for me. --
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