Aaarrrgh! That damn monkey suit!

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magickbox — 10 years ago(August 15, 2015 01:54 AM)

No doubt Rick Baker put a lot of effort into designing his King kong costume, but the set design and camera work are also factors that can affect how well it all comes across onscreen.

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magickbox — 10 years ago(September 12, 2015 10:57 AM)

I admire Rick Baker for his artistic enthusiasm. I believe he was just getting started when the 70's King Kong was produced. Safe to say any gorilla costume I designed would be unrecognizable.

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jmillerdp — 10 years ago(October 01, 2015 03:02 AM)

What they most needed to do was shoot in slight slow motion, overcrank the camera just enough to give the Baker-in-a-suit scenes more presence. They seem to have shot them at normal 24fps, which is too realistic, pointing out his being in a suit.
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magickbox — 10 years ago(October 04, 2015 02:31 PM)

That sounds about right. I'm assuming this method would have required a bigger budget.

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jmillerdp — 10 years ago(October 13, 2015 10:31 PM)

It would've taken more film, but that's about it.
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magickbox — 10 years ago(October 14, 2015 04:10 PM)

Thanks for that technical information. Do you know if that method was in use prior to KK '76?

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jmillerdp — 9 years ago(November 11, 2016 10:23 PM)

Oh yeah! Overcranking is a common technique, and has been for many decades. Still just so strange that they didn't use such a simple method here.
I'm watching it again, and still just plain do not get it.
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magickbox — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 09:55 AM)

Perhaps if they had used the overcranking technique that jmillerdp had described along with some other cinematic techniques it would have been more tolerable for me.

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GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 01:46 PM)

I disagree. I actually liked how Kong looked in this film. Also stop motion would not have looked better imo. Always looks too cartoony and not real.
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