King Kong

King Kong (2005)

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Correction: Yes it does. That's why scientists working with chloroform are advised to only work with it in a well ventilated area, or under a fume hood.

Corrected entry: When the Venture is trapped by the rocks, the captain orders, "Dead slow, both engines". The Venture is a coal-fired tramp steamer, and would never be equipped with twin engines and screws. This is brought out when the captain and mate discuss whether the propeller and shaft are damaged or not.

Correction: The Venture is referred to having twin engines throughout the movie. The captain possibly only discussed the one prop because it was on the side that hit the rocks. Coal is the fuel for the boiler, and the boiler can supply steam to more than one engine.

Corrected entry: In the scenes with Kong in the theatre, the bright green exit signs are visible several times, although you can tell that they tried to blur them out slightly.

Correction: Why would they blur them? It's more likely just a change of focus from the camera lens.

Corrected entry: When Ann is being lowered on the long construct (as a sacrifice to Kong), we can see that the thing was not made to be walked on- it doesn't have any kind of covering, and in fact is full of gaps. Then, when Ann's rescue party is going across the "bridge," they are simply running across, and seem to be having no problem keeping their footing on this seemingly very precarious surface. And then, when Ann and Jack are running back, escaping from Kong, the bridge has returned to its 'original design,' and they have to pick their way across.

Correction: Ann's rescue party does not run across the bridge. Watch the entire scene and you will see the rescue party is carefully edging its way along the right side, main support beam, while grasping the rope railing for support. When the camera pans up for an overhead view, all the gaps are visible.

Corrected entry: Just before Kong is about to fight the last dinosaur with Ann standing beneath him, he roars, bearing his gums. Then it cuts to a close-up of Kong, and he is not bearing his gums anymore, with no time to change between shots.

Correction: The gums are visible in both the far shot and the close up.

Corrected entry: When King Kong is chasing Adrian Brody, he leaves a path of destruction before hitting the car. However, when Naomi Watts walks down the road (which is the same street Kong came down) there is no destruction and all the cars are parked as normal.

Correction: At the moment when King Kong catches Adrian Brody he is running from the left side of the screen towards the right side of the screen. Therefore all the destruction is behind Kong to the left. Moments after he catches Adrian, Kong looks to his right (the right side of the screen) and we see Naomi Watts walking from right to left. This indicates she is coming from a direction where Kong has not been and as such should not have any damage. While Kong did rampage up and down several streets, he did not rampage up and down all streets.

Corrected entry: When Kong has killed the T-Rex and toys with it by moving its dead jaws, this is a tribute to "Son of Kong" from 1933 (the sequel to King Kong in that time), in which we saw Kong Jr. doing the exact same thing.

Correction: The jaw-playing scene after the T-Rex is killed actually appears in the original King Kong from '33, right before he pulls the trunk away from Ann and grabs her again. So this is a reference to the original.

Fex

Corrected entry: In the end of the movie when Kong falls and everyone is surrounding him. Mathematically speaking, with his size and weight and the height of his fall, he should have left some kind of crater or indentation in the pavement where he landed, and there should be some casualties who did not manage to get out of the way of his fall. Instead he left a nice clean corpse for everyone to marvel over and take pictures of.

Correction: A minor point, this mistake hasn't really got anything to with Math, its all about the Laws of Physics. These laws will show that Kong should have bounced when he hit the ground. We don't see it screen but it would have happened. So Kong would have bounced and landed again in another position from where he initially "landed". Who is to say Kong didn't make an impact crater of some sort, there are far too many people around to show the extent of damage of the ground. At that height (from the top of the Empire State building) the people on the ground should have seen him falling and moved out of the way accordingly. There were police watching the events above and would have seen Kong falling and warned people to get out of the way. As for the clean corpse, this may be the only true mistake, however showing a mangled giant ape on screen would hardly be appropriate.

XIII

Corrected entry: In the last scene on top of the Empire State Building when Ann touches Kong's arm, her hand goes through Kong's arm and pixelates.

Correction: Her hand goes under his hair, not through his hand.

Mortug

Corrected entry: In the scene where Kong is fighting the two T-Rexes, after they fall through the spider webs, Kong bites off the tongue of one of them and spits it out. In the next shot, when Kong is opening and closing its mouth, the same T-Rex miraculously has a tongue again.

Correction: Kong only rips out half the tongue, so he still has a bloody stump tongue.

Mortug

Corrected entry: When Carl Denham tells Jack Driscoll that they are going to Skull Island instead of Singapore, Jack Driscoll types "Skull Island" on his typewriter. But when he does that, it's already on his sheet, the page just moves from right to left and the typewriter bars are only touching the paper.

Correction: Wrong. The particular shot is played in slow motion and you are getting it all wrong.

Mortug

Corrected entry: Given Kong's massive size and weight, there is no way he could have been moved off Skull Island by the boat's crew members, let alone be transported to NY on the ship. In a similar vein, how in the world could they have gotten Kong into the Broadway theater, and how could the stage have supported his incredible weight?

Correction: They show Kong knocked out. They show Kong in New York. They do not show anything in between. They could have called for more ships since Skull Island was now found or any number of possibilities. As for the stage, it could have been reinforced.

Rlvlk

Corrected entry: The behaviour of the carnivorous dinosaurs in the film is completely false. T-Rexes would never use so much effort to chase after Anne and Kong. They are scavengers. T-Rexes never hunted because they couldn't risk falling down - they would never be able to get up because of their small arms and would subsequently die. Also, they were so territorial, they would have been more apt to kill each other during the chase.

Correction: 65 million years of further evolution may have changed their behavioural patterns. And the question of whether or not T. Rex were hunters or scavengers has not yet been resolved with certainty, there are evidence and arguments supporting both theories.

Twotall

Corrected entry: There are errors in the way Kong uses facial expressions - he should never have laughed similarly to humans. An ape laughs with his lips sticking out like a "huh huh" sound. Anytime the lips are pulled back indicate a sense of fear.

Correction: Kong does not need to use the same facial expressions as regular apes. He is an entirely different species, who has evolved by its' own for thousands (if not millions) of years. This might as well also have changed the way they use their face to express emotions.

Twotall

Corrected entry: On the island when Driscoll tells Denham he's going back for the girl, he says something like, "Leave the gate open for us." But the gate is in the 1933 version. It's a drawbridge in the new version.

Correction: When he says "gate" he is referring to the two huge doors, not the drawbridge.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: Wireless framed glasses were not available during the supposed time era of the film.

Correction: They most certainly were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimless_eyeglasses.

Jon Sandys

Corrected entry: In the end, Anne climbs to the top of the Empire State building on a ladder that breaks where Kong then saves her once more and gets her up the rest of the way to the top. After Kong falls however, Jack some how makes it to the top despite the broken ladder.

Correction: No reason there couldn't be another ladder on the other side...

Jon Sandys

Corrected entry: The aircraft attacking Kong are Sopwith Camels. These Aircraft were retired out of service in 1922 and were never used by the USA.

Correction: They are Curtis Helldivers. They date from 1933 so are completely appropriate for the setting of the film. There are none still flying, so the filmmakers obtained the original designs from the Smithsonian Institute to base the CGI images on. See Peter Jackson confirming this himself: ttp://www.empireonline.com/interviews_and_events/interview.asp?IID=408.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ann is looking at herself in the mirror prior to meeting Jack Driscoll, it keeps changing to her wearing a wrap around her white under garment and then not wearing the wrap.

Correction: The frequent cuts during that scene are deliberate. There's a time lag between each cut as she practices how she's going to introduce herself to Jack. Plenty of time between cuts to drop the wrap and put it back on.

K.C. Sierra

Corrected entry: The show where King Kong was being showed off at occurred at night according to the signs, however when King Kong gets to the top of the Empire State building the sun is coming up. We can tell it's not the sun going down because during the final scene the sun has fully come up. This means he must have been rampaging around the city for about 10 hours, even though the camera was with him the whole time.

Correction: Kong does more than rampage through New York. After Ann has come to him, he goes wandering off very quietly through the streets, before ending up in a park. And since the camera does NOT follow him around on this whole trip, we have no way of knowing for how long they simply walked around in the streets.

Twotall

Factual error: Denham is obviously shooting a sound film - he has a sound recordist with him along with the bulky and awkward recording equipment typical for the era, and they discuss the problems of recording dialogue on board. But not once do we see him filming with sound. We see the crew recording dialogue - synchronised sound, recorded on location, which is utterly impossible given the equipment they have and the circumstances under which the fim is being shot. We never see a microphone, a boom pole or a tape recorder. His camera isn't even 'blimped' - soundproofed - and it's handcranked, which makes a racket. They can't be planning on adding the sound later - why have the sound recordist and his bulky and heavy equipment there with them if they are? We see the crew recording dialogue - synchronised sound, recorded on location, which is utterly impossible given the equipment they have and the circumstances under which the fim is being shot. The whole point of post dubbing dialogue is that you don't need a sound recordist in the first place.

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Trivia: In the escape from the dinosaurs, one of the ship's crewmen lets out a Wilhelm scream when he is knocked off a ledge. (01:24:40)

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Question: If the wall around Skull island was built to keep Kong and presumably other creatures such as the dinosaurs in, why was the gate made large enough for them to get through?

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Chosen answer: The original creator of King Kong, Merin C. Cooper, wrote a novel adaption of the movie in which it was explained that the gates were built by a earlier culture of islanders that were friends with the "Kong" race. The "Kongs" helped the original islanders to build their village and the wall (thus meaning the gate had to be big enough for the giant gorillas to walk through). By the time of the events of the movie, the original islanders have "died out" and their old village had been taken over by a race of more primitive natives who became enemies with the Kongs, and were trying to use the gates for safety.

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