King Kong, 1933

I thought that King Kong, the original was an extremely well put together piece of work. In this movie not only the story line but the visual effects are so ahead of their time it’s unbelievable. In this time when this movie was created, movies like this were unheard of. Most of the movies in this time were shorter films with not much of a plot or setting. In King Kong, the producers took the time to create many different scenes both small and large for every single part of the movie. They used many different screens to put images overlapping each other on the movie. Not only was the setting and the way they produced the setting so amazing for their time, the way they created Kong himself to move like a real gorilla and even give him emotions was also way ahead of their time. I’m also very impressed with the time they spent creating scenes for the movie using stop animation for Kong. Each minute of shooting took around an hour to use stop animation for Kong. I think that they did a great job creating the first visual effects in a movie, creating a whole new approach onto how to create movies.
If I were to compare this to movies now, I personally wouldn’t consider it very well produced. I think that the last line of this movie that was supposed to be a huge thinker, is kind of cheesy. However, if you take into consideration when this movie was actually made, there were no rules to go off of to create a successful movie. Looking at that perspective then I would have to say this was an extremely good movie. Just the fact that they spent years creating all of the behind the scenes work itself is a reason for this to be one of the best produced movies. In a time when special effects and animation like that was uheard of, the producers of the movie did a great job creating this piece of work. This movie opened doors for almost every other movie that is being produced today.