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A review by rimahsum
King Kong by Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace
3.0
Wow, I finished reading this book in 3 days. I could've finished it in 2 days but I wanted to savour it.
Ok well this is the original story (book). Bear in mind though that the 1933 movie came out first before its novelization - hence the idea of King Kong did not come out from a book (its the other way around). Nevertheless, this book is a 'classic' that the American Film Institute and the Library of Congress has give nit heightened status.
The book differs a bit from the 2005 adaptation of King Kong by Peter Jackson. The 2005 version pays tribute to the original 1933 spectacularly, and it was fun comparing what was in the book and not.
For one thing, there is a lot more character development in the movie than in the book. The book is quite short.
Points of interest : The Skull Mountain Island is actually somewhere near the south-western coast of Sumatra.
The legend of King Kong is a Malay superstition, as Capt. Englehorn recalled.
In the book, Ann Darrow DOES NOT like Kong at all. She screams and faints at all encounters with Kong - nothing like in the movie. In the book Kong is shown as very beastly and evil.
Ann makes a racist comment that they will be the first white people to Skull Mountain Island.
Ann is a beggar in the street, and not a vaudeville actress as portrayed in the 2005 version.
I haven't seen the 1933 version yet :P haha.
Anyways, I think that I read the book purely for the pride of it, for its cultural and visual heritage. The book itself is not really a great book. But it is a book about the great film.
Ok well this is the original story (book). Bear in mind though that the 1933 movie came out first before its novelization - hence the idea of King Kong did not come out from a book (its the other way around). Nevertheless, this book is a 'classic' that the American Film Institute and the Library of Congress has give nit heightened status.
The book differs a bit from the 2005 adaptation of King Kong by Peter Jackson. The 2005 version pays tribute to the original 1933 spectacularly, and it was fun comparing what was in the book and not.
For one thing, there is a lot more character development in the movie than in the book. The book is quite short.
Points of interest : The Skull Mountain Island is actually somewhere near the south-western coast of Sumatra.
The legend of King Kong is a Malay superstition, as Capt. Englehorn recalled.
In the book, Ann Darrow DOES NOT like Kong at all. She screams and faints at all encounters with Kong - nothing like in the movie. In the book Kong is shown as very beastly and evil.
Ann makes a racist comment that they will be the first white people to Skull Mountain Island.
Ann is a beggar in the street, and not a vaudeville actress as portrayed in the 2005 version.
I haven't seen the 1933 version yet :P haha.
Anyways, I think that I read the book purely for the pride of it, for its cultural and visual heritage. The book itself is not really a great book. But it is a book about the great film.