King Kong Taxidermy

[AndyC]

Back to Ash's question, accepting the unlikely situation that half of Manhattan isn't painted with Kong, I would think he'd be mounted roaring, with his arms over his head. Then he could be rented out to car dealerships for special promotions.

[Flangepart]

odinn7 Wrote:
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> You're not the Devil...You're practice.

Classic indeed! And one of the few Greel lights given by Snopes.com. When ya got film to back it up!...Did the state ever pay the guy/gal who's car roof was smashed by the blubber chunk?
Must have been a laugh riot at the Insurance company!

[dean]

I always just assumed he'd be too bullet riddled and disease ridden to be kept whole, and would just be a skeleton 'guarding' an archway in some musuem.

This is of course after all those who came in contact with him succumbed to a severe case of 'monkey-jungle-fever.'  Well that's the hope at least!

[Ash]

To change the topic slightly...
Did any of you notice the resemblence to the end of Titanic when Kong finally slipped off the edge of the Empire State Building?

Kong was like DiCaprio slipping into the icy water while the girl watched.

[Dr. Whom]

I'm with the mounted skeleton idea, but you'd need a really big hall to put it in.

[plan9superfan]

So now Kong is King of the World?

[AndyC]

ASHTHECAT Wrote:
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> To change the topic slightly...
> Did any of you notice the resemblence to the end
> of Titanic when Kong finally slipped off the edge
> of the Empire State Building?
>
> Kong was like DiCaprio slipping into the icy water
> while the girl watched.
>

Except that it was tragic when it happened to Kong  :D

[odinn7]

AndyC Wrote:
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> ASHTHECAT Wrote:
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> > To change the topic slightly...
> > Did any of you notice the resemblence to the
> end
> > of Titanic when Kong finally slipped off the
> edge
> > of the Empire State Building?
> >
> > Kong was like DiCaprio slipping into the icy
> water
> > while the girl watched.
> >
>
> Except that it was tragic when it happened to Kong
>  


Excellent point!

[plan9superfan]

What about in the Museum of Natural History of New York?

The movie DID take place in NY, after all.

[Just Plain Horse]

odinn7 Wrote:
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> AndyC Wrote:
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> > ASHTHECAT Wrote:
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> > > To change the topic slightly...
> > > Did any of you notice the resemblence to
> the
> > end
> > > of Titanic when Kong finally slipped off
> the
> > edge
> > > of the Empire State Building?
> > >
> > > Kong was like DiCaprio slipping into the
> icy
> > water
> > > while the girl watched.
> > >
> >
> > Except that it was tragic when it happened to
> Kong
> >  
>

The thing that cracks me up about our society is after all the sailors went through on the island, all the natives had to endure, all the abuse Kong takes throughout his movies, we're supposed to feel sorry for the blonde woman whom basically gets a front row seat to all the carnage. People are dying left and right in horrible ways and we're supposed to care if this one person becomes a dinosaur's afternoon snack.

[LH-C]

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I know what you are talking about. The person I actually felt the most sorry for was Hayes. I honestly didn't see that coming, and thought that he would be one of the survivors.

[plan9superfan]

I liked Jamie Bell's character, and I was sorry to see him go.

But, to think about it, EVERYBODY died except Carl Denham, Anne Darrow, and Kong himself (who ends up dying anyway).

[Mofo Rising]

dean Wrote:
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> This is of course after all those who came in
> contact with him succumbed to a severe case of
> 'monkey-jungle-fever.'  Well that's the hope at
> least!

Er.  "Jungle fever" has a different connotation than what you are thinking, at least here in the States.  I can tell you if that was the case, KING KONG would have been a VERY different movie.  Although, some of those scenes with Naomi Watts and the ape. . .

I'd like to think that Kong exploded and the people of New York took chunks of his meat and ate it.  This was during the Great Depression after all.  People were starving.  The killing of chimps and other apes for food is a growing problem in Africa.  "Bush meat", as it's called.  Pesonally, I don't think I could eat a fellow primate.  Of course, I didn't think I could eat a fellow plane passenger either, but that crash in the Andes took care of that little scruple.

Does anybody else wonder what happened to all the other giant apes?  Kong is clearly shown walking through a graveyard filled with giant ape skulls.  He's not immortal, so there must have been ancestors, which means there must have been females, social units and whatnot.  Idea for sequel.  Female ape found on island.  Named Ms. Kong, spends movie running around island eating pellets and fruit while being chased by ghosts.

Well. . . maybe not.

[plan9superfan]

Mofo Rising Wrote:
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>  Idea for
> sequel.  Female ape found on island.  Named Ms.
> Kong, spends movie running around island eating
> pellets and fruit while being chased by ghosts.
>
> Well. . . maybe not.

That was already done, in "King Kong Lives".

[dean]

Mofo Rising Wrote:
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> dean Wrote:
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> > This is of course after all those who came
> in
> > contact with him succumbed to a severe case
> of
> > 'monkey-jungle-fever.'  Well that's the hope
> at
> > least!
>
> Er.  "Jungle fever" has a different connotation
> than what you are thinking, at least here in the
> States.  I can tell you if that was the case, KING
> KONG would have been a VERY different movie.
> Although, some of those scenes with Naomi Watts
> and the ape. . .
>

Oh I know what I meant [hence the 'monkey' at the start,] but Kong has been, and to a degree always will be [unless they change some of the basic storylines] a story with a subtext of inter-racial romance.  That being said, succumbed is probably not the best word to have used there!