King Kong 1976 & 2005 Semiotic Data

King Kong (1976)
 Time Period - Current / 1976.
 King Kong strolls through the downtown streets of New York City.
 In 1976 the world was in the midst of an oil crisis, so instead of a filmmaker we have a greedy capitalist oil executive Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) who is lead to believe that there is oil on the island. So on one hand we a have Denham who actually finds what he was looking for and brings it back to New York, and on the other we have Wilson who finds out that the oil on the island is worthless so he settles on taking Kong back home as some kind of consolation prize. - Promotional purposes for Petrox Oil.
 King Kong’s USA Arrival - locked in the tankers hold.
 Fred Wilson finds Dwan (Jessica Lange) adrift in a life raft. Right off the top it appears that the 1976 version is just relying on luck and happenstance to move the story forward opposed to organic storytelling.
 Village Native - More human like (Domesticated).

 King Kong fights a snake.
 King Kong keeps woman out of animalistic boredom tendencies?
 King Kong’s Demise - Busts through the door, then immediately falls for the old pit trap trick, and quickly succumbs to the gas placed inside.




King Kong (2005)

 Time Period - The Thirties (how originally written) - heart of the depression.
 Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a film producer who forms an expedition to seek out Skull Island, to find the fabled beast known as Kong, and make a motion picture.
 Carl Denham had hired Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) to be in his picture.
 Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a film producer who forms an expedition to seek out Skull Island, to find the fabled beast known as Kong, and make a motion picture.
 Village Natives - Green / Bewitched

 King Kong fights three T-Rex Dinosaurs.
 Keeps Woman for love / friendship? Favorite pet because “this one’s unique”?
 King Kong’s USA Arrival - ? Hint of chloroform in earlier scene.