Ignorance Is Funny
During much of the the final act of Peter Jackson's King Kong, I enjoyed a running commentary by two teenagers sitting directly behind me. Jackson spends considerable time making Kong sympathetic, so when the airplanes try to knock him off the Empire State Building, they kept going "that's just wrong."
Jackson decided to re-use the original's classic curtain line, "it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" (#84 on the AFI greatest movie quotes list). I don't think the teenagers were aware of its fame. When Jack Black as Carl Denham says these words, and the credits start, one of the teens said "no way is he gonna end the film with a line like that!"
posted by LAGuy @ 12:52 AM
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I actually watched the original version today, which was a huge hit in its day. You can see why. It has all the excietment of the new film and takes 90 less minutes. Though I suppose kids today would reject the black and white and the old-fashioned special effects.
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