Contexts of Practice - 28th February

Sunday 28th February 2016                          Contexts of Practise                         Lucy Leake

King Kong Notes 

Carl Denham heads out to find a woman for his next picture, the public wants to have a pretty face to look at, have a love interest, make the picture worth twice as much. Whilst Denham is searching, he comes across a woman in the shop he’s at, the Shopkeeper catches the same lady stealing a piece of fruit, Denham steps in, gives the girl a job as an actor, she pleads to know what it is for, he says he has picked her for the lead in his next picture. (Lady’s name is Ann Darrow).

Once on board the motion picture ship, Denham gets Ann to dress up so he can take some cut away shots on board before they reach the island, showing her screaming and in fear, petrified as too what Denham hopes to find at Skull Mountain/Island.

The crew set out on a smaller boat with the camera, ammunition and gas bombs, to find out where the drumming noise is coming from. They spot the colossal Egyptian wall, over hear the tribes language as they chant kong (type of tribal dance). Denham seizes a chance to take a picture so steps out of cover with his camera to take a picture. The gang are spotted, approached by the tribes leader, he offers to trade 6 of his women for Ann, wants to give Ann to kong as a gift.  The whole crew flees back to the ship pretty sharpish.

Once dusk falls, the tribe people come on board the crews ship to take Ann back to the island. They open up the gates and tie Ann to the top of the steps outside the wall, she screams as Kong takes her back into the woods. The leader summons Kong by banging the drum. The crew enter the island but its too late, they can’t open the door in time, once they open the door they head into the woods in search of kong and ann. Denham uses gas bombs and ammunition to take out beasts along the way.

They decide to make a raft so as to get across the lake, they come across a second beast which destroys the raft and kills some of the crew. Kong wrestles a beast to save Ann, only two of the crew remain, Carl Denham and Jack Driscoll, Carl heads back to tell the skipper what he saw whilst Jack heads in search for Ann and Kong.

Jack takes Ann back behind the wall, they shut the doors but kong breaks through scaring everyone and destroying the natives village, Carl uses a gas bomb to stun kong, brings him back to his show all chained up, however whilst the press takes pictures of the capturers and kong, Kong suddenly escapes the chains and goes on a mad rampage to capture Ann, once he has her he climbs to the top of the empire estate building, they order in planes to take him out. They do so and Denham tells everyone that it was the beauty who killed the beast. 

Reference:

King Kong (1933) Directed by Merian C. Cooper. Radio Pictures