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King Kong (DVD)
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King Kong (DVD)
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Loot Price R87
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To my pleasant surprise, this 201-minute epic proved to be a most acceptable remake of the 1933 original – due in no small measure to the superb musical score by James Newton Howard. And of course modern-day technology and special effects have brought Edgar Wallace’s classic adventure yarn to the screen with vivid and thrilling reality that was not possible seventy-odd years ago.
Obsessive film director Carl Denham (Jack Black) has a map to Skull Island – and intends to film it as part of an adventure story he’s working on. Denham’s resemblance to the late Orson Welles is by no means coincidental. He signs up struggling vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) as the female lead; and she and playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) promptly fall in love! Denham also casts established adventure movie actor Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler – remember him from the old TV series Early Edition?) as the male lead.
The party eventually sails to Skull Island where they encounter the giant ape King Kong – and many other dangerous creatures as well. Denham conspires to capture Kong alive, and bring him back to America where people will pay admission to see this “freak of nature” in captivity.
And don’t worry – I cry during this kind of movie too!
Epic remake of the adventure classic from acclaimed director Peter
Jackson. In Depression-era New York, unscrupulous filmmaker Carl
Denham (Jack Black) is desperate to find a leading lady for his new
picture. After a chance encounter, naive actress Ann Darrow (Naomi
Watts) takes the role, and travels with Denham and sensitive
scriptwriter Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) to the mysterious Skull
Island, deep in the Indian Ocean. There the filmmakers discover a
secret, savage civilisation that time forgot, and that worships a
terrifying, gigantic ape called Kong (a motion-capture performance
from Andy Serkis). When Ann is captured to be sacrificed to Kong,
the ape becomes obsessed with her. Denham uses this obsession to
help capture Kong and transport him back to New York, where he
hopes he can make a fortune from exhibiting the creature. But after
Kong escapes, the ape unleashes his awesome power against the city
in an attempt to find Ann, the woman he truly loves, leading to a
tragic conclusion atop the Empire State Building.
General
Studio: |
Universal
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Release date: |
March 2007 |
Movie released: |
2005 |
Directors: |
Peter Jackson
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Actors: |
Naomi Watts
• Jack Black
• Adrien Brody
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Dimensions: |
192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
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Running time: |
3 hours, 1 minute |
Region encoding: |
Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
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Audio format: |
Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Video format: |
Widescreen 2.30:1 |
Languages: |
English
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Age restriction: |
12 PGV |
Categories: |
DVD >
Adventure
DVD >
Fantasy
DVD >
Feature Film
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LSN: |
XNS-H2V-BNE-7 |
Barcode: |
5050582485349 |
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