KING KONG is #43 on the AFI's 100 best American films of all time. CITIZEN KANE is # 1. The first is about an ape and the second by a genius. KING KONG smashed box-office records while CITIZEN KANE was a financial flop. The 2nd KING KONG in 2005 proved even more popular and no movie producer has yet to contemplate revisiting Orson Welles' dark tragedy loosely based on the life of the newspaper magnate, W. Randolph Hearst. I used to joke with film people that I was working on a musical version of the 1941 classic. Some of them even believed in my project, although not enough to invest in a script or score.
The BBC has voted to follow the path of KING KONG by broadcasting a movie filmed by apes revealing how the primates regard one another. The BBC is calling the film 'CHIMPCAM'. The apes have yet to vocalize their choice. Some people are betting on DIRTY HAIRY.
The plot remains a secret, but it has to be better than AMELIA, which was the worst film I viewed in 2010.
Boring.
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