| In the Movie |
In the Movie |
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The story is more condensed at 100 minutes. |
The remake with a longer running time explores older plotlines, develops new ones and adds new characters. |
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Carl Denham seems to have no trouble getting his movie financed. |
He flees the studio in fear of getting shut down and he flees New York on the Venture before the authorities can catch up with him.
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Jack Driscoll is the first mate on the SS Venture and keeps a rather sexist attitude towards Ann before falling for her. |
Driscoll is a successful playwright whom Ann is already infatuated with. Denham has to trick him in order to go on the boat trip with them when he hands him half a script. |
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Denham notices Ann's beauty after defending her from trying to steal an apple from a stand. |
It's right before he sees her outside of a women's club.
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Ann accepts Denham's offer for a leading lady reluctantly but quickly. |
She only agrees upon hearing that Jack Driscoll is writing the screenplay. |
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It's established that Denham and Englehorn have gone on expeditions before and mutually trust one another. |
This is the first expeditions and Englehorn shares doubts about Denham's plan.
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Ann and Jack share a kiss after arriving at Skull Island. |
It is during the trip getting there. |
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Denham hears of the legend of Kong through superstition. |
Lumpy and Hayes tell Denham about them finding a shipwrecked sailor who claimed to have seen the island, to which Denham is skeptical.
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The natives of Skull Island are tenacious but never deadly. The chief makes a deal with the Venture crew, trading six native women for Ann as a sacrifice to Kong, to which they decline. |
They are very lethal, killing a few crewmembers and try to force Ann into being a Kong sacrifice victim. |
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The night is calm on the Venture during Ann's abduction. |
The Venture crew struggle to survive through a storm.
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The natives get to the Venture via a canoe. |
It's done by pole vaulting over gigantic rocks next to the boat. A native kills a crewmember in the process. |
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Denham is a successful hunter as well as filmmaker. |
He's not as experienced and only cares about making his movie.
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The crew encounter a stegosaurus which Denham brings down with rifle fire and a gas grenade. |
It's a ceratops that Hayes kills by shooting with his tommy gun. |
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Ann is terrified of Kong throughout the whole movie. |
She and Kong develop a certain bond.
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This doesn't happen. |
The crew encounter a herd of brontosauruses that create a stampede. |
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The crew encounter a brontosaurus in the swamp that kills several crewmembers. |
It's a giant predatory fish creature.
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This doesn't happen. |
Lumpy shoots a giant bird-like creature in the jungle. |
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The crew cross the log bridge in a state of panic. |
They cautiously cross it before King attacks them.
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Kong knocks all the crewmembers off the log and into a deep ravine to their deaths. Denham and Jack both get to safety beforehand. |
Denham and Jack fall into the ravine as well and are soon having to fend against gigantic insects before being saved by Englehorn and Bruce Baxter. |
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Kong saves Ann from a T-Rex, which he battles and eventually kills. |
He battles three T-Rexes. Ann encounters some giant lizards beforehand as well.
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Ann is terrorized by a plesiosaur in Kong's lair, which Kong kills by smashing it into some rocks. |
This is omitted. |
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Kong and Ann are attacked by a pterodactyl while Jack and Ann escape Kong's lair by jumping from a vine and into a lake. |
Kong is surrounded by giant cave bats, one of which carries off Ann and Jack to safety.
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The natives help the Venture crew hold the gate shut from Kong getting into the village. |
They don't. |
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Kong kills several villagers while making his way to the beach. |
The natives aren't anywhere to be seen during his rampage.
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Denham knocks out Kong with gas grenades. |
He uses chloroform. |
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Jack and Ann attend Denham's show. |
They both decline going.
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Denham's show involves showing Kong off to the crowd and eventually the flashing lights of the cameras and Kong thinking Ann was under attack caused him to get loose. |
A live performance is involved, with an actress who looks like Ann sending Kong on a frenzy. |
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Kong breaks through the back door of the studio. |
Kong first jumps into the crowd and kills several bystanders.
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Kong mistakes one woman for Ann and drops her to her death. |
He does this to several women. |
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Jack tries to stop Kong from taking Ann again but is knocked out by his giant paw reaching into their apartment window. |
Jack lures Kong into a car chase to lure him away but is eventually knocked out by Kong punching his car.
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The military don't get involved until Kong climbs the Empire State Building. |
Military jeeps chase him all around the city. |
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This doesn't happen. |
Ann and Kong have a moment of whimsy when they ice skate on the frozen pond in Central Park.
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