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"Kong rappresenta tutto il mistero e la meraviglia che ancora esistono nel mondo. Ecco perchÊ è intramontabile... 'King Kong' è legittima storia del cinema e quando ho visto per la prima volta il film del 1933, sono rimasto sconvolto dalle sue infinite opportunità cinematografiche. à stato il primo film ad aver trasportato il pubblico in un mondo selvaggio ed inesplorato. Anche se ambientato nel nostro pianeta, ci siamo confrontati con qualcosa che, a detta di molti, non sarebbe mai potuta esistere qui".
Il regista Jordan Vogt-Roberts
"Sono molte le cose che definiscono Kong: la sua dimensione, la sua potenza, la sua natura animale, ma anche il suo cuore e la grande profonditĂ d'animo. Insinua la nostra naturale affinitĂ con gli altri primati e i suoi gesti e le sue espressioni sono molto piĂš simili all'uomo rispetto alle altre scimmie â cosa che ha sempre contraddistinto Kong dagli altri mostri. Anche se è un terribile predatore, è impossibile non fare il tifo per lui. In un certo senso, è stato considerato piĂš come un classico eroe romantico, che un cattivo".
La produttrice Mary Parent
(Kong: Skull Island; USA/VIETNAM 2017; Avventura Fantasy; 118'; Produz.: Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros.; Distribuz.: Warner Bros. Pictures Italia)
Sceneggiatura:
Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly, John Gatins e Dan Gilroy
Soggetto: Tratto da una storia di John Gatins.
PRELIMINARIA - Il soggetto /La Natura Primordiale e l'uomo:
Nel film, un gruppo eterogeneo di scienziati, soldati ed esploratori si avventura nelle profonditĂ di una mitica e sperduta isola del Pacifico, tanto pericolosa quanto affascinante. Al di lĂ di ogni loro aspettativa, la squadra procede inconsapevole di entrare nel dominio del potente Kong, innescando la battaglia finale tra uomo e natura. Nel momento in cui la loro missione di scoperta diventa una lotta per la sopravvivenza, dovranno combattere per sfuggire da un Paradiso primordiale dove gli uomini non sono contemplati.
PRELIMINARIA - Locations in 3 diversi Continenti:
Le riprese del film si sono effettuate in tre continenti differenti per piĂš di sei mesi, catturando i paesaggi primordiali ad Oahu, presso le isole Hawaii, sulla Gold Coast in Australia e, infine, in Vietnam, dove le riprese si sono svolte in piĂš location, alcune delle quali non sono mai apparse in un film.
PRELIMINARIA - Onore al Re! Sua MaestĂ King Kong:
Maestoso. Ultimo della sua specie. Re di Skull Island. Apparso per la prima volta piĂš di ottantâanni fa, King Kong si è imposto sul grande schermo e nel nostro mondo con una forza che risuona ancora nella coscienza collettiva. Ora è giunto il momento di restituire la corona alla piĂš grande e leggendaria creatura della cinematografia.
Con Kong: Skull Island - e prima ancora con Godzilla - la squadra della produzione ha gettato le basi per un vasto universo popolato da mostri che fa parte del nostro mondo, e lo ha amplificato per permettere l'esistenza dei MUTO (Massivo Organismo Terrestre Non Identificato, in gergo "MonsterVerse"). Ma per rendere giustizia, bisognava non solo orchestrare la collisione di due mitologie cinematografiche di vecchia data, ma anche fondere due linee temporali distinte.
Cast: Tom Hiddleston (James Conrad) Samuel L. Jackson (Preston Packard) Brie Larson (Mason Weaver) John C. Reilly (Hank Marlow) John Goodman (Bill Randa) Corey Hawkins (Houston Brooks) John Ortiz (Victor Nieves) Tian Jing (San) Toby Kebbell (Jack Chapman/Kong) Jason Mitchell (Mills) Shea Whigham (Cole) Thomas Mann (Slivko) Eugene Cordero (Reles) Marc Evan Jackson (Landsat Steve) Will Brittain (Il giovane Marlow/Il figlio di Marlow)
Musica: Henry Jackman
Costumi: Mary E. Vogt
Scenografia: Stefan Dechant
Fotografia: Larry Fong
Montaggio: Richard Pearson
Effetti Speciali: Bruce Bright (supervisore Australia)
Makeup: Bill Corso (direttore); Carlton Coleman (direttore 2a unitĂ ); Jordann Aguon, Chantal Boom'la, Mahealani Diego, Tomasina Smith e Debbie Zoller
Casting: Sarah Finn
Scheda film aggiornata al:
03 Aprile 2017
Sinossi:
In breve:
Nel 1973, grazie alle prime tecnologie satellitari, una nuova società segreta nota come Monarch scopre l'esistenza di un'isola non ancora conosciuta ed inesplorata. Viene cosÏ mandata una spedizione composta da reporter e soldati, che una volta sull'isola vengono attaccati da un gorilla gigante bipede alto 31 metri e pesante 10.000 tonnellate noto come Kong. Bloccati sull'isola dovranno riuscire a sopravvivere alle infinite insidie dell'isola e tentare di tornare a casa con le prove dell'esistenza di questi mostri. Intanto, Kong è impegnato in una battaglia personale con i superpredatori dell'isola, gli Strisciateschi antiche creature rettiloidi, che hanno sterminato la razza di Kong.
Synopsis:
A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, unaware that they are crossing into the domain of monsters, including the mythic Kong.
It's 1971, a team of explorers with a company of soldiers are following myth ,legend in the Pacific amindst runors of an island where creatures both prehistoric and monstrous are supposed to live. Soon they come across Skull Island , the very island of lore and legend. The creatures they soon come across make the soldiers and explorers running for their very lives. Soon Kong shows up to let all know that He is King of Skull Island and top of the food chain. Will they survive to tell their story? Will beauty win the heart of the beast?
Commento critico (a cura di Owen Gleiberman, www.variety.com)
A reboot set entirely on the great ape's jungle island proves to be a better creature feature than either of the previous remakes.
Two years ago, âJurassic Worldâ came out and made a staggering $652 million at the domestic box office, even though it was a messy and unimaginative piece of thunder-lizard junk: a movie so impersonal it felt genetically engineered. It was a depressing reminder of what blockbuster movie culture can get away with if the monsters are big enough and the franchise strikes enough reptile-brained chords of recognition. On that scale, âKong: Skull Islandâ would seem to have a lot going for it commercially, even if it was just another shoddy and cynical reboot of a reboot â which is what a lot of people are probably expecting it to be.
The surprise is that âSkull Islandâ isnât just 10 times as good as âJurassic Worldâ; itâs a
rousing and smartly crafted primordial-beastie spectacular. The entire film takes place on Kongâs jungle island home (he doesnât scale any skyscrapers â in New York or Dubai), and you could say that itâs more action-based and less ambitious than either of the âKing Kongâ remakes: the snarky, overblown, justly reviled 1976 knockoff or Peter Jacksonâs good but still not good enough 2005 retread.
Yet in its jungle-stranded B-movie way, âKong: Skull Islandâ may come closer in spirit to the wide-eyed amazement of the original than either of those remakes. Thatâs because itâs more casually willing to be its own thing. The 1933 version of âKing Kongâ is still definitive â the most awe-inspiring and emotionally transporting giant-monster movie ever made. Part of the problem with both remakes is that they were straining to live up to what could never be equaled. âSkull Islandâ is more modest, but by staying on Skull
Island and updating the place, it takes you somewhere you havenât been. The movie updates Kong, too â heâs a true savage and nobodyâs sweetheart, and though heâs been brought to life by motion capture, it takes a while before his outsize âhumanityâ kicks in. But when it does, it feels earned, and youâre grateful to the movie for not milking it.
âSkull Islandâ is set in 1973, just as Watergate is heating up and the Vietnam War is winding down, and that means that John Goodman, as an irascible Bermuda Triangle conspiracy theorist named Bill Randa, gets to step out of a cab near Capitol Hill and say, âMark my words, thereâll never be a more screwed-up time in Washington!â The line comes off as an overly Trumped-up nudge in the ribs, but the period setting, which seems arbitrary at first, actually works for the film in a topical way.
Randa,
with his nose for bizarre events that are covered up by the establishment, has gotten wind of rumblings about something hidden away on an uncharted South Pacific island. He convinces a senator (Richard Jenkins) to bankroll a field mission there, an exploration on which heâll be backed by a pair of troubleshooters: Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), a U.S. military commander who is smarting from the humiliation of America in Vietnam, and James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), a renegade British mercenary tracker. Coming along to document the proceedings is Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), a free-spirited âantiwar photographer.â
The crew approaches Skull Island, an archipelago of giant jutting mossy rocks, in a handful of choppers, which get tipped and tossed by an electrical storm. But they really find out what itâs like to be batted around when theyâre smacked, out of nowhere, by a gorilla hand the size of a tank. They respond
by bombing the island (to the well-chosen strains of Black Sabbathâs âParanoidâ), goosed along by Jacksonâs gung-ho officer, who rasps, âKill this son-of-a-bitch!â Itâs a shock to hear anyone refer to Kong that way, and if this were 1973, the antiwar commentary would be clear as day. In 2017, though, it feels less didactic and more prescient. Jacksonâs seething, vengeful, kill-or-be-killed ethos is the real enemy in âSkull Islandâ â the film faces his squinty glare off against Kongâs â and given our post-Vietnam track record in Iraq, and whatever military master plans are now being drawn up in the White House, itâs galvanizing to see an action movie full of guns and hardware that comes down on the side of not blowing sâ- up.
A âKing Kongâ movie should, first and foremost, be a fairy tale of primeval wonder, and this one is. The director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, takes much of
his inspiration from the original Skull Island sequence of the 1933 âKing Kong,â with its storybook dinosaurs, and you may also detect the influence of âThe Mysterious Island,â the 1961 Ray Harryhausen classic that featured an eye-popping array of giant creatures. In âSkull Island,â the island is brimming with oversize species, from sad-eyed yaks to a giant stick-bug to swarms of blue-blooded pterodactyls to a towering spider that hovers over a forest to the octopus whose tentacles Kong battles and makes a snack of. The creatures keep the rather elemental story popping; we never know what weâre going to see next.
The other thing that keeps the movie popping is John C. Reilly, who shows up as Hank Marlow, a World War II soldier whoâs been stranded on the island since 1944. Heâs been living with the native tribe there (they suggest Buddhist monks with faces painted like designer chocolates), and
heâs a bit of a Rip Van Winkle in his bomber jacket and long curly gray beard, but if that makes the character sound like a deadly clichĂŠ, rest assured that Reillyâs performance is terrifically dry and sly. He plays this man who should have lost his mind long ago as a stubborn paragon of flaked-out common sense. Itâs Hank who can help guide the crew to the north side of the island, where theyâve got just two days to rendezvous with a rescue team. But to do that, theyâll have to fight off the worst creatures of all: the gnashing corrosive exoskeletal thingies, all speed and tongue â think raptors, but uglier and meaner.
In many ways, âKong: Skull Islandâ is a âJurassic Parkâ movie â and if viewed that way, itâs the best since the first. The characters may be a touch minimal, but that doesnât mean theyâre boring;
the actors fill them in. Hiddleston, while top-billed, never takes over the movie, but heâs crisp and hearty (though that accent of his is too posh). Goodman has become a more forceful presence by playing down his goofy humor, Jackson scores as a humanized bad guy, and Brie Larson takes a generic role and infuses it with vibrance. Sheâs the one actor on hand who really looks like sheâs from the â70s (she has that desert-flower earthiness), and the movie offers its coolest updating of the âKongâ mystique by connecting her to the big guy in a way that winks at the girl-in-the-ape-fist âromanceâ of old, minus the coercion (or the tearing off of dress tops). The connection between Mason and Kong seems all the more touching for being so understated. Kong emerges as just the hero we want him to be: noble but raging â a primate god who
will rear up and destroy, but only when threatened.
As a Marvel-style sequence at the end of the closing credits makes clear, âSkull Islandâ has been planned, in league with the powerful and evocative 2014 âGodzilla,â as the second film in Legendaryâs MonsterVerse, the elaborately linked series of creature-feature reboots from Warner Bros. (The teaser hints at a new âMothraâ and âGhidorah.â) That might be enough to bring out the anti-franchise cynic in you. But if the upcoming films prove to be as winning as this one, then audiences eager to get their old giant movie monster on should have nothing to fear.
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