King Kong
King Kong released in 2005 is a Universal Pictures remake of the original by Academy award-winning New Zealand director Peter Jackson, best known for directing the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The most recent incarnation of Kong is also the longest, running three hours and eight minutes. Winner of three Academy Awards for visual effects, sound mixing, and sound editing.
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer convinces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow
A young and starving actress named Ann (Naomi Watts) is recruited off the streets of Depression-era New York City to shoot a film on the aptly named Skull Island, which turns out to be populated with all sorts of monstrous creatures .Chief among them is a 25-foot-tall ape known as Kong, and he's immediately enraptured by the blond Ann, who is offered to him as a sacrifice by the humans living there. Instead of eating her, he adopts her as a sort of pet and plaything, and Ann slowly finds that she has some kind of affection for Kong, too. Of special mention are the action sequences which are definitely the main attraction of the picture.
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