King Kong (1933) Missing Scenes Re-creation When Peter Jackson took on the CGI Orgasmia Remake of the original King Kong, there were many critics pro & con. At the time, I was leaning towards the con. Many of us Stop Motionists at the time, thought it was somewhat sacrilegious to remake Kong with CGI and we had foolish hopes that Peter Jackson might consider using modern State of the Art Stop/Go Motion. Because Peter Jackson very much admired & was passionate about the original King Kong, in addition to directing the CGI 2005 King Kong re-make, he did something extra that NO other director would have done. As sort of a tribute or homage to the original King Kong, the Weta Studio crew in New Zealand re-created the infamous lost Spider Pit and some other missing scenes. If you are not familiar with the Kong fokelore ... many years later after the original 1933 King Kong was released, film historians & fans have generated much mystery surrounding the missing scenes. You can look that up on the internet. The Weta Workshop studio re-created the missing spider pit & other scenes, specifically, a Styracosaurus dinosaur chasing the sailors through the jungle. They were edited into the original King Kong scenes, trying to be as seamless as possible. Some people/fans are sometimes too serious and have even negatively criticized these re-recreated scenes. Peter Jackson and the Weta crew were likely having so much fun using the ol school classic special effects techniques that Willis OBrien and his crew used way back in the 1930s circa. https://youtube/watch?v=SOMKnhN7ABs __________________________ For you die-hard special effects technical geeks, some behind the scenes, of the Kong re-created missing scenes. If you do not have time ... save this for later or Friday night ... enjoy with your cheese loaded & pepperoni topping pizza, or heavily buttered popcorn, and plenty of sugar infused soda pop :) Stop Motion in Kong criticalcommons.org/Members/pcote/clips/king-kong-stop-motion.mov/view Stop Motion Acting criticalcommons.org/Members/pcote/clips/king-kong-stop-motion-acting.mov Dunning Process & Large Rear Projection criticalcommons.org/Members/pcote/clips/king-kong-duning-process-and-rear-screen-projection.mov Miniature Rear Projection criticalcommons.org/Members/pcote/clips/king-kong-miniature-rear-projection.mov/view Matte Work criticalcommons.org/Members/pcote/clips/king-kong-matte-work.mov/view The clips/video links listed above were available online, however, for the hard core Stop Motioners, ALL the behind the scenes & extras are available Uncut & in Continuity on a 2 disc set DVD. I purchased that 2 dvd special edition years ago. I just looked and I cannot believe the LOW cost now, for the King Kong (2 disc special edition) re-mastered & digitally restored ... much more affordable compared to when I bought it .... amazon/King-Kong-Two-Disc-Special-Edition/dp/B00003CXAW
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:30:00 +0000
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