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Behold the Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day, the Eighth Wonder of the World!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Yesterday’s Ghostbusters pic got me all nostalgic for model work, so I took it a step further and chose to follow it up with one of the towering achievements in creature creation in the history of flicker shows.
Below is Willis O’Brien’s Kong hanging out on a miniature cliff side. You can see the set above and to the left and I love the shot. Crisp, high contrast and it captures the real character of Kong as well as the loving detail Obie put into it. Not just Kong, either, but the miniature cliff. Even the rocks have a personality!
Here’s the pic:
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare, the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes pic features a well known rebel. See ya’ then!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
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love this movie
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...what with talkies, King Kong, the rise of Hitchcock and Capra, Universal horror, and the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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hope i'm not the only one who was thinking of andre the giant though. too much goofy pro wrestling in my younger days.
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Just wondering. Another 365 days would be cool. And speaking of models, any word on Metropolis at Con?
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looks like one of mine.
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And I don't think there were many behind-the-scenes pics taken as they wanted to preserve the mystery of how Kong was brought to life.
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but woozlewuzzle beat me to it. I was thinking of a Princess Bride behind the scenes pic.
Great stuff Quint, I love everything you've put here so far. Everything has been fun, informative,and well fun! Thank you for sharing! -
Wow.
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My father, a child of the 40's, used to "brag" to me how he'd seen it as a kid. For a quarter each, he and his friends could buy a single ticket, popcorn and candy, and stay to watch the movie as many times as they wanted. My how times have changed.
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There I said it!
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so totally awesome. I liked Jackson's version. But it suffered from being the director's favorite movie. It needed a good deal more editing. Two hours would have been perfect.
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AKA 'shit'.
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..but I've never seen this one before. Congratulations guys, great work, I'm loving this series.
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kong rules
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...the terrible mis-casting of Jack Black.
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...don't forget that Marcel Delgado was a big part of actually creating the models.
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was Jackson's ego.
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was that he was creating it with a serious LOTR hangover. Tolkein's world is dense, interesting and invites the reader/viewer to soak up as much detail as possible. The problem is that Jackson tried to stretch a 90 minutes story and less then interesting characters into a 90 minutes epic. I don't hate Kong, but would like it much more with a shorter cut.
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meant to say "Jackson tried to stretch a 90 minute story and less then interesting characters into a 3 hour epic."
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from Into the Blue
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amazing how that chubby actor was able to carry film equipment AND run from dinosaur's and not get squashed!amazing ,now that's the 8th wonder of the world!
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Love it! Pic of the day has won me over.
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is better than the original wants taking out back and shooting.
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Jackson's version was ok..dumb in parts but got to give WETA credit for work on Kong himself (forget the dino stampede that they had no time left to refine).
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If the model still exists, I wonder who has it?
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Not that she's in this picture, but she's in the movie.
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We have to remember that the vfx in this film, for a 1933 audience, was like watching Jurassic Park, when it came out 1n 93. At 100 minutes, it moves well. Jackson's version was way to long, some parts were miscast and one subplot(Billy), that went nowhere.
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utilizing the stop-motion of king kong but it somehow never happened.
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I love the expression on his face too; he looks hysterically happy. Original Kong is so great. King Long, on the other hand, was crap.
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The original will always have a timeless charm, while PJ's version was a real let down due to the poor miscasting of BRODY and BLACK...and it's overlong running time.
Weta's work was great, but the movie really needed to get to the island an hour sooner!
I still have a soft spot for the 70's remake too, especially John Barry's score.
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Jackson's version had it moments, I liked it when I saw it in the theater, but upon repeated viewings not as much. It's too long and over bloated. Awesome to look at though.
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Jessica Lange in the wet dress barely held up as she is captive in Kong's hand. But this one's cool, too.
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Jul 25, 2010 5:52:27 PM CDT
Best. Pic. Ever. No hyperbole. Where did you get that?
by the reluctant austinite
I'm a hardcore classic horror/fantasy nut. I've seen pics from "War Eagles" test footage that only a few people have ever seen, and I've never seen that pic!
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You mean something like this HapaPapa72... http://tinyurl.com/2fkjazu
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It's so much fun to see these pictures. Great moments and just so cool.
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I love this column! Keep up the good work!
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Really nothing more to say.
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that was good too.
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I don't recognize that shot. And King Kong was just awesome. PJ's didn't disapoint either, but I HATE Dino's Kong from the seventies. I just HATE IT SO MUCH!!!!
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Jeff Bridges' character. Bridges' character was the voice of reason.
"We stole their god. In a year that place will just be an island full of drunks". PJ's King Kong had no such character or gravitas. It was an overlong effects reel and not much else. I wasn't thrilled that the 1976 version was a man in a suit, but at least there was a human story underneath it all. I found PJ's version to be very tedious. -
Right clicking my arse off! Thanks aicn.
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Not the right actor for that role.Actually,I like him in comedy( good voice work in Brutal Legend)But action hero? Adrien Brody was a little better casting(not much).
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SCOTTPILGRIM SUCKS MY BALLS!
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I dinnae get it...
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Yeah...something like that! Thanks!
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thats all.
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..... a huge framed fucking print of the original Kong ontop of the Empire State Building fighting the planes. This is sooo fucking cool I wish it was right next to it. I think that one of the majorissues with Jacksons Kong is that he made it after LOTR and the expectations were SO fucking huge, it was a massive let down for all involved. Doesn't mean its a bad movie, just inferior to the original. The 76 version with Jessica Lange sucked huge hairy donkey balls.
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The first is The Quiet Man.
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While I appreciate the visual FX work, at the end of the day, it's a film about a 50' gorilla. I mean, c'mon, you'd feel a little silly trying to convince the other half to sit down and watch it, wouldn't you? "What's it about?" "Giant monkey!" "Um, no thanks."
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Someone sends in a Howard the Duck photo.
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It's a great picture. I pretty sure that's the same mountain of shit that "Thor" is pounding with his hammer.And fuck off spammer.
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is it just me or are old fashioned models as special effects a zillion times better than any of the CGI that is done a lot nowadays.
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Long live stop motion, OBrien and Harryhausen
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The eighth wonder of the world title was ganked by the Astrodome.
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The eighth wonder of the world title was ganked by the Astrodome.
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That's one of the reasons I'll pop in the Lord of the Rings docs on the extended editions more often than the films. It's also one of the big reasons the original Star Wars trilogy holds up and the prequels don't.
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You don't have to like KK, but you're obliged to *say* you like it in order to be a "cinephile" (whatever that is)...
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I'm gonna put this one on an iron on decal and let my little boy Miles (all of 2 1/2) wear it with his other King Kong shirts. His favorite things in life are King Kong (1933), Dinosaur Train & UH-OH juice (trans: Apple Juice).
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My daughter (four and a half) absolutely loves Dinosaur Train. Thanks to that show she'll ask "why aren't we nocturnal?" or "T-rex's have forward looking eyes". And of course correct me when I say a dinosaur's name wrong.
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Jul 26, 2010 12:00:01 PM CDT
1976 Kong, while not great, is one of my guilty pleasures
by kentucky colonel
Remember folks, it won a specail Oscar for it's effects which were truly amazing at the time. It would be another year before "Star Wars". One of my favorite childhood memories is of going to the Kenwood Drive in and seeing King Kong, Star Wars and Superman one one screen. I think my mom took us every night for a week. Kudos to whomever did the programming back in tha day!
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My son dosen't know Frog from Toad, but he sure knows what a Paleopatrachius and a Therapod are! I have to admit, I love it, too. Learned more about Dinos there than in school. If you have DirecTV the is a great show that runs occasionally on HD net callede "Dinosaur Planet" that will get her attention, too. And it even has segments featuring Dr. Scott (in his real lab setting). My favorite character in "Mr. Buzzkill" ("Dinosaurs did not sing rock and roll...thank you, thankyouverymuch"). And the Tank Triceratops is just a big whiner. I know they are teaching kids manners & all, but Tank is just a pud. I think I could hang with Don & his collection. He's make a dino-poop if he saw my collections.
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I mean c'mon, Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange?
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if your son at that age already likes king kong 33 than that is a good start. i remember around taht movie too.
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Yeah, I was assuming as much. I'm actually surprised that nobody has at least tried to defend it as some sort of sharp metaphor, in the same way people perpetually do with Romero's zombie films.
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In the 2005 iteration of King Kong was one of the WORST effects sequences I have ever seen on film. Did they even try and fix it for the DVD?
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Hey, there's always got to be a douche around, so they created Tank.Abom, thanks. She had to do some dusting and laundry over here.Emily Blunt will be over soon. She likes to bark like a dog.
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Only if they cut it out would it be fixed. Useless scene.
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Even after Star Wars came out in '77 I still used to love to watch King Kong whenever it was on TV.
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