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Mar 18 10 10:45 PM
Tim Smyth wrote: I don't believe for one second, that Cooper ever had a conversation with Selznick, about his gorilla picture, at RKO, before seeing the Creation footage. He was not brought to RKO to make movies, just help pick out the rotten apples. Creation was the new spark of inspiration which made Kong possible. Cooper stated that the first time he told Selznick about the Giant Terror Gorilla, was when he told Selznick to dump Creation, and then showed him the Kong painting by OB and Crabbe, and told him that this is the picture we ought to make. Not that I believe everything that Cooper ever said either, but I do think that Creation played a far bigger role in Kong than Cooper admits. O'Brien's ideas run rampant though Kong as well. Tim
I don't believe for one second, that Cooper ever had a conversation with Selznick, about his gorilla picture, at RKO, before seeing the Creation footage. He was not brought to RKO to make movies, just help pick out the rotten apples. Creation was the new spark of inspiration which made Kong possible. Cooper stated that the first time he told Selznick about the Giant Terror Gorilla, was when he told Selznick to dump Creation, and then showed him the Kong painting by OB and Crabbe, and told him that this is the picture we ought to make. Not that I believe everything that Cooper ever said either, but I do think that Creation played a far bigger role in Kong than Cooper admits. O'Brien's ideas run rampant though Kong as well.
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