History Film / KingKong2005

* AwesomeMcCoolName: The ''Vastatosaurus Rex''. Literally translated, it means "Ravager Lizard King".

* SceneryPorn

** A reference to an actress, "Fay", who is working on a film over at "RKO".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: FayWray delivering the last line in the film. [[AuthorExistenceFailure She died during pre-production.]]

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Ann spends most of the movie without shoes due to losing them in the jungle.

* AllThereInTheManual: The "Natural History of Skull Island" documentary, explaining how various species of prehistoric animal evolved to better suit the Island's hostile climate and terrain, as well as history of the once grand human civilisation on the island.

Jackson's film diverges from the original by providing more of Denham's and Ann's respective back stories. Further, "Jack Driscoll" is changed from the ship's first mate to a playwright, and a narcissistic Hollywood actor is added for comic relief. The natives are ''much'' more brutal than past portrayals. And, as with the 1976 film, a good deal of attention is paid to the unusual "romance" between the girl and the primate, which is strong enough that Ann would rather stay on the island with him than see him captured; and later she refuses to participate in his exhibition in the United States. She does, though, show up in time to halt his rampage through the city, and from there... well, [[ItWasHisSled you know how this one ends]].

** Presumably not ''quite'' the last, as the tie-in book describes something of their life cycle and behavior, including juvenile behaviors, as observed by naturalists who investigated the island shortly after the "Kong" incident. They were probably the parents of the species' last generation, however.
** The Natives are actually TheRemnant of the former grand civilization that once occupied the center of the island. As the Island began sinking into the sea, the wall surrounding their city ended up being breached and they were forced to evacuate to the other side of the wall, making refuge in the barren landscape containing the catacombs outside their city. Ironically, the wall once meant to keep predators out now became the only thing that was keeping them ''in''.

* RaptorAttack : A pack of "raptors" appear in the brontosaurus stampede, but more resembles a miniature ''Allosaurus'' than known raptors like ''Deinonychus'' and ''Velociraptor''.
** They're ''Venatosaurus'', a fictional genus (even so they do have a lot of anatomical errors).

* SuperPersistentPredator: The vastatosaurs. One of them spots Ann and decides to give chase -- despite having just eaten a large reptilian Komodo-dragon thing. And then two more join in. Every time they're given a chance to go for Kong instead of Ann, they go for Ann anyway. And then the last one keeps going after Kong kills the other two...
** Possibly {{justified|Trope}}. Given the sheer amount of competition for food as a result of the...bizarre ecosystem discussed above, it's [[WildMassGuessing possible]] the eat-everything-in-sight instinct is high on the list of priorities. The tie-in book also suggests that the reptilian Komodo-dragon thing was actually a scavenging creature that only the most desperate of predators would feed on, because it tastes ''extremely'' foul and has a gut full of toxic bacteria.
** And the raptors in the apatosaur stampede scene keep trying to get a bit of human instead of, you know, ''getting away from the stampede'', or feasting on the tons of dead bronto-meat now before them.
*** The tie-in book also explains that the raptors actually specialize in hunting the enormous ''Brontosaurus''. Really. Apparently running them off cliffs in a panic is a normal hunting tactic for them.
** There's one aversion: in the same scene a raptor chases Jack. When Jack gets in between a Brontosaurus' legs, the Raptor goes for closer, less protected prey: Carl.

* [[PapaWolf Papa Silverback]]: If you're a ''Vastatosaurus'', don't even '''think''' about sneaking a nibble from Kong's new surrogate child, Ann.

Interestingly, the 2005 version of the film makes a show of Denham filming scenes and dialog lifted from [[Film/KingKong1933 the original 1933 movie]].

* {{Flanderization}}: The 2005 film goes out of its way to remove every positive character trait Carl Denham had in 1933, and replace them with something negative.

** It's very difficult to see during the 2005 film's fight with the final ''Vastatosaurus rex'', but Kong actually '''bites the rex's tongue off''', then spits it out and resumes fighting. The film covers it up by cutting from a close-up view to a mid-range shot from an obscured angle so fast it's nigh on impossible to spot. Look closely in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-f5iMDXvcA&feature=mh_lolz&list=HL1313702947 this clip]], though, about 48 seconds in.

!Tropes:

Creator/PeterJackson's take on ''Film/KingKong'' returns to the story as propounded in [[Film/KingKong1933 1933]]: Depression-era filmmaker Carl Denham (Creator/JackBlack), dodging debt collectors, hires an out-of-work Ann Darrow (Creator/NaomiWatts) and quickly leaves on an expedition to find a certain uncharted island...

Interestingly, the 2005 version of the film makes a show of Denham filming scenes and dialog lifted from the original 1933 movie.

!!Tropes:

!Tropes for 2005 remake
* AdaptationExpansion: Considerable: Peter Jackson's version was 87 minutes longer than the original, or a full 101 minutes longer in its extended cut – ''twice as long''.

* GoryDiscretionShot: It's very difficult to see during the 2005 film's fight with the final ''Vastatosaurus rex'', but Kong actually '''bites the rex's tongue off''', then spits it out and resumes fighting. The film covers it up by cutting from a close-up view to a mid-range shot from an obscured angle so fast it's nigh on impossible to spot. Look closely in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-f5iMDXvcA&feature=mh_lolz&list=HL1313702947 this clip]], though, about 48 seconds in.

* HollywoodEvolution: Evolutionary biology and ecosystems don't work that way. Creatures trapped on an island tend to select for smaller size, not larger – and yet if you read the natural history of Skull Island or watch the relevant documentary on the DVD, that's exactly the opposite of how the film makers designed the animals. Also, with that many apex predators in such a tiny area (the vastatosaurs, the raptors, plus the various giant arthropods), the island would've been devoid of life in no time as the ecosystem fell apart. It is implied in the film (and explicitly said in the "Natural History" tie-in book) that the island used to be much larger and was sinking into the sea/breaking apart. Still, for animals that large, the break-up would have to have been of a very large land mass and would have had to only been happening for a very short period of time, geologically speaking, which makes it something of a VoodooShark.

* JerkassHasAPoint: In the 2005 version, Jack has absolutely no kind words for Bruce Baxter once the latter leaves the rescue party, citing how utterly pointless the whole thing is. However, being as said party had already been mostly destroyed, with dozens of men dying to try and save ''one'' woman, his point of view can come across as very understandable.

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* ClimbingClimax

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