King Kong Taxidermy

[Ash]

I bought King Kong the other day on DVD.
I missed this film while it was showing in theaters so I figured, "What the hell?" and picked it up.

I wasn't disappointed!
Peter Jackson has outdone himself...this was a fantastic movie!
I've watched it twice so far.

You all know that Kong eventually falls from the top of the Empire State Building after being shot up pretty good by the U.S. Army Air Corp.

An enormous crowd gathers in the street around his lifeless body.

If this really happened, I think the powers that be would most definitely want him stuffed and placed in a museum in New York City.
I mean, you wouldn't want to cremate a specimen like Kong would you?



Kong's body would be taken away and then it would fall on the top taxidermists in the city to get to work stuffing him.

I was wondering...
What would they use to haul his body off the street?
How many people would they employ to stuff him?
How long do you think it would take to get the job done?
What museum would they place him in?
If a placard were placed next to his stuffed body in the 1930's, what do you think it would really say?
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I used to date a girl while I was in high school and her father was a professional taxidermist.
He had a seperate den in their house that Ace Ventura would call, "A lovely room of death!"
This guy had stuffed almost every animal you can think of.  (well, everything except jungle animals like tigers, lions, elephants etc...)
I remember him telling me that, depending on the animal, it can take quite a while.
He had roughly around 100 animals he stuffed himself in there.
(I can close my eyes and still see that room after all these years)

More info on taxidermy:
WWW.TAXIDERMY.NET

What do you think?

[odinn7]

Eh...I just like the idea of them taking chainsaws to him and cutting him up to feed the homeless...but that's just me...

[Ash]

I was also wondering:
What pose would they put him in?

Roaring with his arms above his head?
Or forearms forward, mouth closed & knuckles down?

[trekgeezer]

I always wonder why he's in such good shape after taking that high a fall. Don't you think he'd be pretty busted up and there would be gallons of blood everywhere on the street?

[LH-C]

I posted in the 'Recent Viewings' thread that I had watched it myself lastnight.

[Flangepart]

Well, if they can't save the whole body, major orgins would go into huge jars, and the skeleton would surely become the hit of the town.
The tourists dollars would help pay for the repairs to the city, don't 'cha know...

[Fearless Freep]

The skeleton could probably be reconstructed for a museum ubt I think most of the body would be destroyed in the fall and even if not, would be serioulsy decomposing before they could get it hauled away

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I always wondered about this.  What do you do witha dead Kaiju/Kong?  A ghidora corpse has got to be pretty whiff after a while.  
-Ed

[Derf]

If this really happened, it would be quite messy. I can't remember now where I read it, but the physics of falling animals (or objects) is fairly straightforward: a mouse falling from a height of, say, 50 feet, would walk away because its body mass doesn't allow it to reach a high enough speed to injure it (theoretically, a mouse cannot be killed by a fall from any height for this reason). A man falling from the same height would break bones and most likely die. A horse would splash. King Kong, falling from the top of the Empire State Building, would fill the streets with enough gore to make a zombie puke. His skin wouldn't be strong enough to hold his innards in, and his skeleton would most likely be nearly pulverized. Like Fearless Freep says, Kong would be destroyed and the streets would flow with the blood of the infidels (OOPS! I mean the blood of the poor, lovestruck beast).

Sometimes, poetic license in movies is a good thing.

[trekgeezer]

To get rid of the body, if it weren't already pulverized to bits, you could blow it up into smaller chunks so the birds could eat it like the Oregon highway department tried with the  Infamous Exploding Whale.  

Make sure to watch the video (Quicktime required). If you haven't seen it before, be prepared for the  insuing hilarity of truth being stranger than fiction.

[raj]

Couldn't they just make Kong burgers?

[plan9superfan]

So, you would eat a burger made of monkey meat?

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Hey the exploding whale!  That happend about an hour from here.  I was rather young at the time, and didn't live here.  But its a proud moment.  
-Ed

[raj]

plan9,
have you ever eaten a hot dog from a street vendor in NYC?

[odinn7]

I love the exploding whale...that's classic.