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The monsters of Peter Jackson’s King Kong • Journal • A  Magazine • , Life in canada

As Wesley observes, “The heart of this Kong is Jackson’s love for cinema. The director treats us to a full hour of Old Hollywood moviemaking before we get to Skull Island.” Jackson’s love for the original, and filmmaking in general, manifests in many ways in King Kong, not least in how he depicts Denham as an Orson Welles-esque zealot. (Welles showed up as a character during fantasy sequences in Heavenly Creatures.) At one point, Black’s Denham even references the (actual) original production, lamenting the unavailability of “Fay” (Wray, star of the original) because she’s working on an RKO production with…

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