A lush and lavish contemporary retelling of the classic cinematic fable that originally appeared across six of the American Film Institute’s lists of the greatest films of all time, director Peter Jackson’s KING KONG (2005) takes audiences into the primordial world of Skull Island – earning recognition in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD in 2005, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “KING KONG is why we go to the movies. It’s a love story. It’s funny. And it’s also a chest-thumping, larger-than-life, thrill-a-minute adventure tale that knows no equal in its use of digital effects to tell a story. And though Peter Jackson continues to awe audiences with his imaginative use of new technologies, it is his great love and respect for the original film that both preserves and expands upon the themes that have made it a classic. In that sense, KING KONG is not only a valentine to American film history — it is American film history.”
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