pringly wrote:
You saw it differently then what the director intended, like mostly everyone. I love the tidbits of information you post here but sometimes things are subjective.  

Definitely. William Friedkin, for example, insisted that THE EXORCIST was not even a horror film, yet regardless of his point of view and best intentions while making it, people see it as a horror film and the ends over-rule the means, so to speak.

If King Kong was indeed planned to be the "victor" in the battle, it obviously was not realized perfectly to the point where all viewers arrived at the same conclusion. Some of them mistook it to be a tie... others maybe thought Godzilla won and Kong was running away. Sometimes a director tries to make a deadly serious film, and it winds up being an unintentionally hilarious comedy (like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE).  So what a filmmaker intends and what his finished work conveys to the viewer can be two separate things.  

Yeah, "facts are still facts" where intentions are concerned, but without directors explaining themselves afterward, most moviegoers perceive things as they perceive them.  
    

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