Auteur Theory

I think the problem with Kong is that no one wanted to tell Peter Jackson that he didn’t need to use every single frame of footage. Sure it’s all great footage, but I actually found myself thinking, maybe an hour and a half in, that the story would work better as a television series, because I was getting antsy. We didn’t even hear the monkey roar for a whole hour.

But it wouldn’t really work on TV, because the TV commercials made my brother think it looked like a cartoon, but on the big screen, I found Kong pretty realistic looking. There were a couple of scenes when it didn’t really seem like he was holding Ann Darrow, but for the most part, good monkey.

I didn’t get though, why he sat there shaking her like a salt shaker and roared for a seemingly very long time when he first met her.

We did not need three hours of this. Easily could cut out five minutes by editing out the slow-mo bits. What was that about?

First we have the battles with the natives, then meet Kong, then the dinosaurs, then Kong and dinosaurs, then more of Kong and the dinosaurs, then giant bugs…I mean, someone, tell Peter we didn’t need 10 minutes of the bugs.

Seems like he fell in love with the footage and could bear to leave any of it out.