Por cierto, que la escena se puede ver CON CALIDAD DE PENA (grabada con cámara de vídeo de una tele :>: ) aquí:
http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/kvtrex.avi
o aquí:
http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/kvtrex.mov
Versión para imprimir
Por cierto, que la escena se puede ver CON CALIDAD DE PENA (grabada con cámara de vídeo de una tele :>: ) aquí:
http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/kvtrex.avi
o aquí:
http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/kvtrex.mov
Decir que el CD de la banda sonora durará más de 74 minutos. Siendo publicada por Decca, ¿habrá un "More music from King Kong" en el futuro?
Podían sacar también la partitura rechazada de Howard Shore...
Estas rarezas me encantan
Tal vez aparezca algún día, pero no sé si será posible. Howard Shore llevaba grabados nueve días con orquesta y no había acabado, así que solamente estará grabada una parte.Cita:
Podían sacar también la partitura rechazada de Howard Shore...
Que lo acompañe de otros temas "inéditos", o algo así...
Más reviews:
Daily News
This gorilla of a film is blockbuster of the year
by BAZ BAMIGBOYE, Daily Mail 09:45am 2nd December 2005
King Kong: The film stars Naomi Watts
Just over a year ago, Oscar-winning film-maker Peter Jackson stood on the mammoth Skull Island set he had built on a peninsula in New Zealand and told me why he loved King Kong.
Speaking about Merian Cooper's classic 1933 movie, Jackson said: "The original Kong is a wonderful blend - probably the most perfect blend - of escapism and adventure, mystery and romance. It does everything an escapist movie should do: it takes you places you are never going to see and gives you experiences you are never going to have."
Jackson's words came back to me as I sat in the back row at the Loews Cinema complex on New York's West 68th Street this week, watching the first screening of his new version of Kong.
He may not have known it at the time, but Jackson could just as well have been talking about his own extraordinary remake of the movie that inspired him to become a director when he saw it one Friday night on TV when he was just nine years old.
The very next morning, Jackson started creating stop-motion films using Plasticine.
This time round, the director had some much bigger toys - 21st-century humdingers - to play with.
And he has made a picture I can only describe as jaw-droppingly brilliant: the most entertaining blockbuster movie this year.
But all this monkey business wouldn't amount to a hill of beans if the movie didn't have a heart, and boy, does it.
Kong's the last of his race. He has withdrawn into himself, and the occasional sacrificial native (he plays with them for a while and then tosses them away like chicken wings) is merely a distraction from the pain of his lonely life.
Then along comes beauty, in the shape of Ann Darrow, a Depression-era vaudeville performer living on the breadline, who lands a role in a madcap director's fantasy feature.
Ann, as played by Naomi Watts, is pretty weary herself. And somehow, the great ape and the lovely, lost woman recognise they are kindred spirits under the skin. Or, in his case, fur.
There's a beautiful moment with Kong sitting on top of a mountain, Ann in the palm of his hand, both watching the sunset. I actually heard one tough broad of a movie executive sobbing. Jackson evokes such a sense of empathy for his beast that Kleenex should be sold along with the popcorn.
King Kong truly is an 8,000lb gorilla of a movie. I'm still marvelling at a scene where a herd of brachiosaurus stampede as they are pursued by predators with teeth the size of carving knives.
Then, just when you think such a sequence can't be topped, Kong pounds to rescue his damsel in distress when some hungry velociraptors mistake her for a snack.
An almighty battle ensues and it's at this point Kong goes from super monster to super hero in Ann's eyes.
Jack Black, who plays preening, self-promoting movie maker Carl Denham, told me that, in the original movie, his character was older and more of a "kick-ass action hero".
"This Denham is darker," he says.
"He has an obsession with accomplishment. He's got insecurities and has this fear of not accomplishing something great before he dies.
"Fran Walsh [Jackson's life partner] told me my Denham has to have a little bit of Willy Loman from Death Of A Salesman to him. There's fear and arousal on my part. Certainly that's what Denham is feeling when he captures Kong on Skull Island."
Jack tells me all children - "at least all boys" - love King Kong.
"He is the king of all the monsters, even better than Godzilla. Kong is stronger and smarter than Godzilla, who's just a stupid, slimy lizard."
He was referring to the original Kong and the gormless 1976 remake with Jessica Lange.
But I think Jackson's version, which he wrote with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens (the trio also adapted The Lord Of The Rings for the screen), is accessible to all.
I don't know what the rating in the UK will be for the film - which also features Jamie Bell, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Kyle Chandler and Colin Hanks - when it opens in the UK on December 15. (It will have its London gala next Thursday, December 8.) But it might be a bit much for tiny tots.
As I write this, I'm getting shivers thinking of the moment when Andy Serkis - who plays a double role, but more of that later, as they say - encounters a giant insect that extends itself horribly and slurps him down head first.
It terrified me, but then I'm the guy who, years ago, ran from a Manhattan apartment I'd rented because there were cockroaches in the oven. Forget roaches - the bugs in this movie are the size of Agas.
Serkis was at the screening, along with most of the cast. The Londonbased actor told me the final version had only been wrapped up this Monday.
Andy's two roles are that of ship's cook (his speciality is porridge al la walnuts) - and Kong.
He went to Rwanda for a few weeks to study the gorillas - in particular, to observe how they moved and communicated with each other.
Jackson had Andy act out Kong's role and then digitalised it, using the same technique employed with Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings films. Richard Taylor, Jackson's long-time technical collaborator, explained: "Today, as an audience, we crave an emotional relationship, so we used Andy to drive Kong. To make him convey the toughness of this giant silverback, but also to give a sense of empathy.
"In Lord Of The Rings, we used an orange ball to denote something the actors would be acting to, and we added the special effects later. Here, we used Andy or a series of sculptures of Kong's face."
The Kong busts took a long time to make. Just punching in the 40,000 yak hairs took three-andahalf weeks for each one.
Monday will be the world premiere of King Kong, with cinemas around New York's Times Square showing the movie.
Some critics will carp about its length - three hours - but for me, the time sped by.
Jackson opens his movie with Al Jolson singing I'm Sitting On Top Of The World. And that's where the director is - with the competition far, far below.
Toronto Star:
Lonely creature just looking for a hug
Dec. 2, 2005. 01:00 AM
PETER HOWELL
NEW YORK—Peter Jackson's King Kong looks to be as big a cultural behemoth in 2005 terms as its sainted 1933 ancestor was in its day.
If moviegoers respond as positively to the film as the press did Wednesday night following its world-premiere screening here, the new, $207-million (U.S.) Kong could be the 500-lb. gorilla that wrests the year's box-office crown from Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia and all other challengers to the blockbuster throne.
It runs an epic three hours that rarely flag, with special effects that will be the talk of schoolyards and around office water coolers.
The only thing missing is the sex, and how odd it is to be saying this. In a year when Harry Potter discovers his libido, King Kong has been tamed from a wild sensual beast into a lonely creature just looking for a hug.
He's still as violent as ever, causing enough head-ripping carnage to call into question the PG-13 rating the movie will receive in America (the rating in Ontario hasn't been determined yet) when it opens wide Dec. 14 across North America.
But director Jackson, still riding a high from his Oscar-winning success with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said yesterday he decided to downplay the sexual heat that was so much a part of the 1933 original and its 1976 remake because he frankly didn't feel comfortable with it.
"I think it's up to personal taste," he told a press conference. "As a King Kong fan, it's not really what I'm interested in as a story.
"I think I made the King Kong I would have liked to have seen as a 9-year-old."
A 9-year-old who would rather watch the big ape wrestle with dinosaurs than get all icky about some girl, the blonde thespian Ann Darrow who captures the beast's heart.
Unlike Fay Wray in 1933 and Jessica Lange in 1976, whose nipple-revealing attire got Kong pounding his chest like a sailor on shore leave, the new Darrow played by a more demure Naomi Watts doesn't wish to monkey around. She just wants to be Kong's friend, albeit a very loyal one.
The human sex angle has been pushed even further into the background.
Unlike Bruce Cabot in 1933 and Jeff Bridges in 1976, the new two-legged suitor for Darrow is just a humble movie screenwriter, not a he-man sailor or scientist.
Adrien Brody's boyfriend character Jack Driscoll is still very brave, but there is far less of the three-way romantic pull of the other movies, and it's clear that Darrow's attentions are firmly fixed on Kong, not him.
Jackson said he wanted Brody's Driscoll to be "more of a writer-intellectual type" than a sexy leading man.
"We were very wary of the love-triangle aspect of the story."
So wary, in fact, that Brody seemed a bit on the defensive yesterday when answering questions about how Watts's Darrow seems more emotional about Kong's loneliness than she is about Driscoll's romantic overtures.
Isn't the leading (hu)man supposed to be the stud?
"The three of us are very lonely. She didn't choose (Kong) as a lover, right?" Brody said.
Ironically, Jackson is looking like more of a leading man himself these days, have shed the excess pounds (through dieting) and nerdy glasses (through laser surgery) that had him describing himself as a real hobbit during his Lord of the Rings phase.
But when he talks about making a King Kong for 9-year-olds, he means that more figuratively than literally.
Now 44, he was 9 years old when he first saw Merian C. Cooper's original on an old black-and-white TV set in his parents' basement in his coastal New Zealand small town of Pukerua Bay.
`I think I made the King Kong
I would have liked to have seen as a 9-year-old.'
Peter Jackson, director
Jackson was so excited by the special effects in the movie, which are still a marvel by today's standards, he decided then and there he wanted to become a filmmaker. The next day, he borrowed his father's Super 8 camera and began making small films, using the painstaking stop-motion animation technique made famous by King Kong effects wizard Willis O'Brien.
At age 12, Jackson made his first abortive attempt at a remake of King Kong, a film he calls "the most wonderful piece of escapism ...
"I cried when I was 9, and I was also thrilled he was beating up the tyrannosaurus."
Jackson tried once again to remake King Kong in 1996, when he was known in Hollywood for a Michael J. Fox horror film called The Frighteners and in cult-movie circles for a ghastly zombie movie called Braindead (a.k.a. Dead Alive), but he couldn't get the studio backing he needed.
The multi-billion-dollar and multi-Oscar success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy gave Jackson the clout to make the King Kong of his dreams, one that fully employs the technology of today and also restores the visceral horror that was excised from the original movie.
Jackson and his special effects gurus at Weta Workshop Ltd. in New Zealand spent two years and millions of dollars working on a recreation of the fabled "spider pit" sequence that was cut from the original King Kong after its 1933 premiere, reportedly because it made some audience members vomit.
It's the scene where crewmembers of the ship carrying Darrow, Driscoll and crazed movie director Carl Denham (Jack Black) to remote Skull Island for their date with dinosaur destiny fall into a pitch of slimy giant slugs and insects.
Many moviegoers will watch it through their fingers, especially at the point where a huge tapeworm with giant fangs bites the head off a sailor with a single snap.
Jackson said he deliberately put two of his main characters in the scene, so he wouldn't lose his nerve and cut it from the film.
He was so fired up about the spider pit sequence, he and his Weta crew also painstakingly created an all-new black-and-white version that is included as a special feature on the new DVD of the 1933 King Kong.
Jackson's inner 9-year-old also prompted him to insist that the denizens of Skull Island be rendered as realistically as possible, including the native humans who are way more savage than their brethren of yore.
A companion picture book to the film, titled The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island, reveals how seriously everybody took the job of making creatures that seemed as authentic as possible, although Weta director Richard Taylor, also the film's effects designer and supervisor, said it was more important for the critters to look "cool" than to be based on strict scientific fact.
Like the boss man of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, which King Kong will be compared to, no expense was spared on bringing Jackson's childhood dream to the screen, Taylor said.
"If he's liking something, then heaven and Earth will be moved to achieve it — and often it is."
Jackson was also hoping to arrange a cameo appearance by 96-year-old Fay Wray, whom he met in 2004 in New York just three weeks before her death.
He said Wray at first said "absolutely not!" to his proposal of remaking King Kong. But after she talked to him and realized his sincerity to pay homage to a revered classic, she seemed ready to change her mind. She said goodbye to him that night with the teasing comment, "Never say never!"
Wray died before Jackson could pursue her further, but actress Watts said he at least got a chance to meet a beloved movie icon, as did she — Wray approved of Watts playing her, after expressing initial doubts.
"Peter had clearly been in love with this woman since he was 9 years old," Watts said.
"I think she was his first crush."
It's this geekish attention to detail that is sure to endear Jackson to King Kong fanatics and fan boys the world over.
No matter what they think of the new movie — and it's likely they'll love it — they won't be able to dispute the fact that Jackson is as devoted to the big ape as he was when he was still thinking of girls as nuisances and dinosaurs as way cool.
Boston Herald:
Monster smash.
That was the reaction to ”King Kong,” which at $180 million and three hours would still be the season’s biggest entry even if it didn’t have a 25-foot-tall leading player.
”King Kong” is Peter Jackson’s bold update of one of the world’s most iconic movies. Under security that rivaled an airport check-in, the film was shown for the first time Wednesday night in Manhattan before an international press corps and the film’s stars, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, Andy Serkis and Germany’s Thomas Kretschmann.
The film officially opens Dec. 14.
Beyond the state-of-the-art special effects, what will moviegoers see for the extra 77 minutes beyond the original? Plenty! This ride is too intense for kids younger than 10, and unlike the 1976 remake that put Jessica Lange and the giant ape on the World Trade Center, Jackson has kept the period and the classic three-act structure of the original.
A dazzling montage opening to jazz age crooner Al Jolson’s ”I’m Sitting on Top of the World” instantly sets the story in the Depression. There are soup lines, hobo tents in Central Park and Prohibition era cops smashing an illegal liquor still while Watts’ Ann Darrow is introduced as a spunky vaudevillian doing her acrobatic act.
Skull Island is where ”King Kong” springs to ferocious, scary life. After a spectacular stormy landing on rocky shoals, movie director Carl Denham (Jack Black) brings Ann and a crew to explore. They encounter a tribe of nearly naked cannibalistic natives, their faces horribly pierced, who attack and behead some visitors and capture Ann, whom they offer as a sacrifice to the jungle beast on the other side of a great wall.
Giant, ugly Komodo dragons are thwarted in having Ann for dinner only to have her realize she’s in far worse straits when a trio of T. rex try to bite. Her rescue by Kong drew applause at the screening - the outnumbered ape is forced to hold Ann in his hand, then foot.
Jackson offers the scariest and most repulsive bats imaginable; their bared teeth resemble fangs. Also here to haunt your dreams: giant spiders, flying grasshoppers and, most gross, wormlike succubi that come out of the mud and, like the monster in ”Alien,” devour their victims’ heads first.
CNN Showbiz Tonight
My initial reaction is that Kong will be king at the box office. It really will. I mean, Peter Jackson did an amazing job in this movie. The effects, it just kept you at the edge of your seat for three hours
I would say all the special effects, the scenery. He grew trees for Skull Island. I mean it was just unbelievable to see how much detail. The New York City streets in 1933, vintage cars, it was just -- it`s just extreme.
I just think seeing the enormity of "King Kong" on the screen and the way he looked so realistic and his empathy. And you see the way he plays off with Naomi Watts, you feel like he`s a person almost. You forget that he is this giant gorilla on screen.
Yes. He raised the bar, because he created New York City. He created Skull Island. He didn`t come to New York to do this. He did this in New Zealand on his own property, on his own lot. So it`s just amazing to me that all that was done on a stage.
¡Qué Fisher te oiga! A mí también y más de Shore, que encanta. A ver cómo está la de Newton Howard.Cita:
Iniciado por Bela Karloff
Un saludo :hola
Parece que a los criticos se les cae literalmente la baba. :atope
bueno Arcanoid, no te fíes, sabiendo inglés y buceando seguro que encuentras todo lo contrario...puro marketing...
No son telarañas son lianas y es donde cae el último V-Rex junto a Ann y KOng. Se ve en varios de los "cómo se hizo"Cita:
Iniciado por Mo Cuishle
Lo de Naomi Watts en las telerañas y balanceándose se ve en el video este de "look inside" que salió un poco antes del trailer definitivo.
Vivo en Albacete, y tanto los yelmo cineplex recién inaugurados y los abaco anuncian la peli (con su consiguiente reserva de entradas) para el día 13 :!
Ya, las criticas suelen serlo, pero como tengo tantas ganas de que la peli sea buena, uno se alegra. Ya veremos, hasta que no la veamos no se sabra.
En los Yelmo Cineples de Coruña (en el Centro Comercial de Los Rosales) también venden las entradas para el día 13. Es más, SOLAMENTE para el día 13 y una sesión a las 21:30. Sin embargo, en el resto de cines de la provincia empiezan a vender para el día 14.
¿Será algún tipo de pase especial, algo que han contratado en exclusiva? :?
Pues sí, supongo que será un pase especial para esa hora y en sesión única ese día. Creo recordar que con Sin City hicieron algo parecido.
Lo habeis comentado antes sobre la duración de la bso: 74:27 - 21 tracks
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1. King Kong 1:09
2. A Fateful Meeting 4:16
3. Defeat Is Always Momentary 2:48
4. It's In The Subtext 3:19
5. Two Grand 2:34
6. The Venture Departs 4:03
7. Last Blank Space On The Map 4:43
8. It's Deserted 7:08
9. Something Monstrous... Neither
Beast Nor Man 2:38
10. Head Towards The Animals 2:48
11. Beautiful 4:08
12. Tooth And Claw 6:17
13. That's All There Is... 3:26
14. Captured 2:25
15. Central Park 4:36
16. The Empire State Building 2:36
17. Beauty Killed The Beast I 1:59
18. Beauty Killed The Beast II 2:22
19. Beauty Killed The Beast III 2:14
20. Beauty Killed The Beast IV 4:45
21. Beauty Killed The Beast V 4:13
¿Alguien me puede explicar a que se debe el nombre de los últimos cinco cortes? :! que ganas!!!!!!!!!!!
P.D. ¿Alguien ha visto el video que está rulando de 3 minutos de la pelea?
Si, he visto el vídeo, y a decir verdad es impresionante...
Mi inglés es malo...¿está confirmada entonces por fin la escena de las arañas? Creí leer que sí...
Pues parece que la escena final de Kong en el Empire es de 14 minutos porque supongo que La Bella mató a la Bestia se refiere a eso, aunque además hay un corte más del Empire. Tb puede ser que todos esos cortes son los que tienen en común Kong con Ann.Cita:
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Ya se pueden escuchar 30 segundos de la bso de tres cortes: www.james-newton-howard.com/main.html?/discography/kingkong.html
A mi me ha gustado los 30 segundos del corte "Head Towards The Animals" :atope
No suena mal.
La-ruina-de-la-familia
En El País han publicado un interesante artículo sobre King Kong, con entrevista a Peter Jackson incluida.
Me han dado esto paseando por la calle...
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...Pero no me garantiza un sitio en la sala, así que ya os contaré si consigo entrar.
:8))
Pues me comunican por mail que ya está lleno el aforo para este pase (hay sitio para un pase matutino, pero no creo que pueda ir), así que tendré que esperarme al estreno como el resto de los mortales...
:((
De verdad, que vivir en USA es la hostia, vas por la calle y te dan un pase para ir a un "screening". Que suerte
Coñe los cines Loews de Broadway!
Yo estuve hace 3 semanas en Nueva York y como nuestro hotel estaba en Broadway con la 94 oeste, al coger el bus M104 de regreso siempre pasabamos por ahí. Por aquel entoces no ponian ninguna peli interesante que yo conociese, o sí.... la de Walk the Line.
Roy, no me digas que vives en NY. Estas estudiando cine por un casual en la escuela que esta en el Downtown (en Lexintong ó la 4 Ave.)
Mi post numero 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :amor
Saludos
Me imagino que te refieres a la de Union Square, ¿no? Pero no, qué va, ojalá... pero ya no tiene uno edad para según qué cosas.Cita:
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Y sí, vivo aquí, pero un poco de "paquete", porque es mi novia la que trabaja en la ciudad.
Pero, para no irnos demasiado off-topic y hablar un poco del tema que nos ocupa, os diré que por aquí la campaña publicitaria está siendo bastante intensiva, con anuncios paralelos de no sé qué coche (con la escena de Kong en Times Square) y, sobre todo, de una mega-lotería de esas. Amén, claro, de multitud de carteles en paradas de autobuses, anuncios en taxis, y piezas especiales en varias cadenas de televisión. ¡Ah! Y los juguetes ya han invadido las tiendas, claro.
Yo, la verdad, a la vista del trailer me espero lo peor –me parece todo muy excesivo, demasiado bicho y demasiada pelea imposible rodada con planos vertiginosos, y no entiendo por qué el diseño y la paleta de color de la Isla tiene que parecer un descarte de EL SEÑOR DE LOS ANILLOS–, pero ganas le tengo a la peli, porque Kong es Kong, y eso de ver un mono gigante moviéndose por las calles... siempre me pone.
:agradable
Pues al final, como me temía, no pude ir a la preview de la mañana, y tampoco pillé a Jackson y su troupe en Times Square, pero al menos llegué a tiempo de ver cómo desmontaban el muñeco...
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