In the original version, Kong is captured solely because he won’t take no for an answer: He angrily pursues Ann, only to be overwhelmed by Denham and his crew and brought to New York. Unimpressed by his prowess, she abandons her powerful protector without a second glance when shipmate Jack Driscoll (her love interest) shows up to rescue her. The next hour is an apes-are-from-Mars, women-are-from-Venus scenario: He boldly protects her from a T-Rex, pterodactyls, snakes, and creepy-crawly things she screams in horror. Captured by the tribal natives of a remote island while making a film with the infamous Carl Denham, she has been offered up to Kong as a delectable sacrifice instead, Kong, entranced by her beauty, takes a shine to her. In it, Ann Darrow, played by Fay Wray, is terrified by the oversized monkey. The original Kong involved no emotional reciprocity.
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