Re: Science in King Kong's World

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:09:56 GMT, throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop)
wrote:
>: "IsaacKuo" <mechdan@xxxxxxxxx>
>: From the skeletons, it seems that Kong wasn't the only one of his
>: kind, but it seems he was the last. However, the island was crawling
>: with all sorts of cool reptiles (and invertibrates, but who cares
>: about mere invertebrates?).
>
>Invertibrates? Ah. I haven't seen the new one,
>but I don't recall any in the old one. What sorts of invertibrates?
>Giant clams or something?

The modern film apparently has giant spiders and centipedes:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%282005_film%29#Bestiary>. The
original had a scene featuring giant spiders and crabs living at the
bottom of a ravine, but this was cut from the film and the footage was
subsequently lost. The "lost spider scene" became legendary and Peter
Jackson recreated it with great care using the original stop-motion
special effects techniques with models based off of X-rays of the
originals he had in his personal collection. I've heard it's one of
the special features on the DVD.

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