The origin of king kong

1. From concept to film: As the first giant monster to appear on the screen, King Kong came from the idea of film director merian Cooper. Like many shocking artists, Cooper also has many quirks that are different from ordinary people. When he was a child, he read many books about African exploration, and he had an unusual interest in orangutans. Later, he even went to Africa and spent some time with a group of orangutans. Not only that, with his fame in the film circle, he also met a group of real jungle adventurers-William Burton is one of them.

2. King of Congo: Here, many readers may ask why the gorilla in the play was named "King Kong". This is related to the director merian Cooper's quirks. Cooper has always believed that English words beginning with "K" have a mysterious magic, which is powerful and unforgettable to read. Not only that, in the book recommended to Cooper by adventurer William Buden, the Modo monitor lizard of the monitor lizard family is called "King of Komodo", which makes Cooper think that maybe his favorite gorilla deserves a similar title, such as "King of Congo, the word Congo is often written as Kongo".

3. The production team of "King Kong" adopted two methods, one is to superimpose the frame-by-frame film of the behemoth on the camera shooting dynamic scenes in a certain order. Another solution is "background projection": specifically, the actor will perform in front of a huge rear projection screen, on which the scenes shot frame by frame before appear, with monsters.

After such complicated treatment, Cooper's dream finally came true, and the story of beauty and the beast attracted all the audience from the beginning.

5. Of course, in Japan in the1930s, there was another movie that obviously went further, and that was King Kong in Edo. Published by Zensho Cinema, the poster shows the great ape grabbing the beautiful woman with one hand and trying to attack the rescuers with the other.

6. In the story, King Kong's appearance in Edo is also very different from the original King Kong: at the beginning of the film, the daughter of a wealthy businessman disappeared, and he sent his men to look around, but one of them-Sun Xiang Zhicheng-was the murderer behind the kidnapping. Many years ago, Sun Xiang Zhicheng's father was killed by a wealthy businessman because he used counterfeit money to do business with wealthy businessmen. He planned the kidnapping in retaliation for the tragic death of his father.

7. Some people may ask, where is King Kong? Sun Xiang Zhicheng raised a great ape and kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy businessman with it. The name of this great ape is "King Kong"-according to the description of film history researchers, this great ape is not as good as the American one in the film in terms of size, appearance and shock-the only thing they have in common is the name.

8. The key reason for this situation is that Quansheng Film Company is very short of money and can't afford the necessary props at all-a record at that time wrote that during the period from 1936 to 194 1, Quansheng filmed a total of 173 films, but they were all silent films because they didn't have the money to buy them at all.