Word: laurentiises
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While De Laurentiis' technicians pay lip service to the original special effects of Willis O'Brien, their disdain for the old stop-motion techniques is thinly disguised. It saddens me that many superb technicians of stop-motion animation have found it increasingly difficult to work. The rationale has...
How ironic that when a big-talking film mogul comes up with a King Kong remake with 50 times the budget of the original, the only way he can think of to do the monster is as a full-size model clumsily driven by 20-odd motors that keep breaking...
I must pronounce a blessing on Dino de Laurentiis for allowing an old Kongophile the chance to view the second coming of the King [Oct. 25].
Listening to Dino de Laurentiis, one gets the distinct impression that this master of sensationalistic tripe would re-make Michelangelo's David and build it 500 ft. tall if he thought there were a buck to be made. The late Willis O'Brien, who expressively animated the original...
But then, so does the whole crazy venture. Perhaps the craziest thing about it is that it finally works not merely because De Laurentiis spent money on it like a man possessed but because he had, besides unlimited nerve, an unsuspected cultural impulse driving him.