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In Reply to: Re: "twice as long as it should have been" posted by halfnote on December 24, 2005 at 22:36:08:
Ironic, too, that in such a bloated production filled with unnecessary backstories, subplots and details, the one thing I would have wanted to see - how the hell they get Kong back onto the ship and into New York - was completely left out. We spend an hour on the ship without Kong and not one minute on what would surely be a precarious trip with him aboard?Also, what happened to the natives after the first encounter? They just disappeared? Surely, on an island with stampeding dinosaurs, insects the size of automobiles and a ferocious 25 ft ape, the natives weren't going to be driven off by a handful of men with guns for long. Should they really have abandoned their walled village (the only relative safe spot on the island) without staging a counterattack later in the film?
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I think Jackson was just mimicking this 'Kong-size' plot hole from the original.
The amazing thing is that, with the film so chock-full of diversions and self-indulgent flourishes, he managed NOT to explore the two things you mentioned.I didn't miss the natives, though. But I agree that getting Kong onto the ship and back to New York would have been much more worthy of exploration than the trip to and arrival at Skull Island.
Perhaps Jackson realized that he better gloss over getting Kong on the ship since it was already bottomed out on the rocks and the crew had jettisoned even furniture and kitchen utensiles during a high tide in an attempt to float the ship. I suppose the crew could have found deeper water, but it would have been further from shore and they would still have the problem of floating Kong safely out to the small, damaged ship and balancing the craft to prevent capsizing when attempting to crane him aboard. I'm not saying it couldn't have been done within context of the film's fantasy premise, but it would have been more interesting to see than, say, that playwrite typing for 5 minutes. Perhaps the details will show up in a 4 hour director's cut on DVD.
Good points! There are so many things that strain credulity in this film -- and ship's condition is one that I didn't realize -- that you almost have to wonder if Jackson is playing with the audience, perhaps with some intention. I haven't gotten comfortable with the notion, but it keeps coming up.
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