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...third game was closely contested, but eventually the offensive dominance of junior co-captain Justin Denham and senior outside hitter Brian Stevenson thwarted Southampton's attempt to gain the lead...
...Denham, standing by Kong's corpse on 34th Street: "Well Denham, the airplanes got him." "Ah no," says Denham, hands in pockets, "it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." Fade up "Kong" theme...
According to Fay Wray the characters of Denham and Driscoll are modeled on Cooper and Schoedsack, who as a documentary filmmakers would go anywhere for a picture. They scored big with "Grass" in 1925, its setting the wind-swept plains of Persia. They followed-up with the Siamese jungle picture "Chang" in 1927, their first foray into spectacle: a climactic (and staged) elephant charge decimates a native village. The more sensational scenes in the picture were projected in "Magnascope", a process which enlarged the size of the image to Imax proportions. (Cooper and Schoedsack went out the way they came...
...Wray says Cooper handled the more technical sequences - Fay screaming from the top of a tree as Kong and the Tyrannosaur battle in the background, for instance - while Schoedsack helmed the human-to-human passages. She remembers Cooper telling her to "Scream! Scream for your life, Fay!" just as Denham instructs Ann in the memorable scene on shipboard. He later bragged to a friend at the Brown Derby, "I just finished making Fay Wray work for 22 hours...
...keep it distant, difficult and dangerous. He and Schoedsack forged a style of storytelling that simply doesn't exist anymore, a style that is hard to define yet quite distinct. It is evident in all of all their productions together. What distinguishes the style? For one thing, speed. Denham meets Ann Darrow; seconds later she is on her way to Skull Island. Kong escapes in New York; within five minutes Ann is in his hand as he climbs the Empire State Building. Her love affair with Driscoll is sketched out in a few lines. There is not a wasted frame...