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Gorilla skull roaring2/17/2024 Animator Willis O'Brien created an oil painting depicting a gorilla menacing a hunter and jungle heroine for Cooper. But more terrifying is the head-a nightmare head with bloodshot eyes and jagged teeth set under a thick mat of hair, a face half-beast half-human". This is a monster with the strength of a hundred men. Cooper specifically stated in a 1930 memo that, "His hands and feet have the size and strength of steam shovels his girth is that of a steam boiler. When the film was greenlit by RKO, so came the time to design the monster. There are rumors that Kong would have been portrayed as a live action gorilla fighting Komodo dragons, and while there is not much evidence to support this rumor, Cooper was inspired by the Komodo dragon and wanted Kong to fight dinosaur-sized beasts. Cooper specifically developed the ending first before anything else in the story, a giant gorilla fighting warplanes atop the Empire State Building, as it was the tallest building in the world at the time. Cooper had been fascinated with gorillas ever since he was a child and while filming The Four Feathers in Africa, he encountered a family of baboons, which inspired him to create a film involving a giant gorilla. Prior to King Kong being decided upon, the titles "The Eighth Wonder" and "The Beast" were considered, the former of which would be extended to The Eighth Wonder of the World and used as a nickname for Kong within the film. The prefix "King" was later attached to the original film's title, and by extent Kong himself, after a complaint from executives at RKO who refused to accept the title due to it having "a Chinese sound" and being too similar to the name of Cooper and Ernest B. Douglas Burden, decided upon the name "Kong" due to his liking of single-syllable film titles with peculiar sounds and liking of the hard 'K' sound. Cooper who, after consulting with his friend W. When Skull Island was destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake and sank into the sea, Kiko gave his life to save Denham from drowning. Guilty for causing his father's death, Denham would befriend Kiko and brave the perils of the island with the young monster's help. While Kong was dead, Denham would return to Skull Island shortly afterward and encounter his albino son, Kiko. After succumbing to his wounds, Kong fell from the top of the skyscraper and plummeted to his death in the streets below. After kidnapping Ann once again, Kong climbed the Empire State Building, where he was engaged by several Curtiss F8C Helldiver planes and fatally wounded. Denham decided to bring Kong back to New York and put the beast on display, only for Kong to become enraged and break free from his chains, going on a rampage through the concrete jungle. Once Ann was rescued by Jack Driscoll, Kong followed them back to the village on the island, tearing down its protective wall and rampaging before being knocked out by gas bombs. There, Kong would defend Ann from the other savage denizens of the island, such as a meat-eating dinosaur, a cave serpent, and a Pteranodon. The crew's leading lady, Ann Darrow, was kidnapped by the islanders and offered as a sacrifice to Kong, who accepted his new "bride" and carried her off into the jungle. Revered as a god by the people of Skull Island, Kong was encountered by a film crew who traveled to the island in 1933 to shoot Carl Denham's next picture. He is the first incarnation of the character. King Kong is a giant ape monster who first appeared in the 1933 RKO Radio Pictures film King Kong.
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