After reading about King
Kong until I felt dizzy and letting my brain digest all that in the juices
of my experience as ecologist and movie fan, I believe that all that
“scholarship” about the meaning of King Kong has less verisimilitude than the
island and village culture shown in the 1933 film.
The existence
of animals of huge body mass on such a small island is not biologically correct.
The behaviors of the reptiles, Kong and humans are actually more valid and
believable than those in more recent movies such as Jurassic World,
The director Jurassic World, refused to put feathers on his dinosaurs, citing something also
known to the makers of the original King Kong who changed the animal’s
size according to artistic needs: in
films, dramatic effect is more important than scientific accuracy (Phillips,
2015).
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