![]() ![]() In 1962, RKO licensed the character of King Kong to Toho Company Ltd., who produced a crossover film featuring King Kong and Godzilla. In King Kong Escapes, Kong is a legendary giant ape that resides on Mondo Island. Godzilla, Kong instead comes from an island called Farou Island, where he is worshiped by the local natives as their mighty god. ![]() He frequently utilizes environmental objects while fighting, and learns over the course of a battle. Kong demonstrates at least semi-sapience in all of his film appearances. Kong has a soft spot for human women, and will do anything to protect a woman that he likes, whether it be battling against another monster or battling military forces. Kong rarely attacks unless provoked, and is capable of causing mass destruction due to his size and strength, which causes human beings to fear and attack him. Kong lives a very solitary and difficult existence, constantly being attacked by the vicious giant creatures that live on his island. In all of his appearances, Kong is portrayed as a tragic and sympathetic monster. King Kong's roar in the Toho films was later reused for King Caesar. The suit is also called the ShodaiGorira (初代ゴリラ ?). Seven years later, the suit was reused in the series Go! Greenman for the kaiju, Gorilla. The suit also seems to be somewhat top-heavy. Its legs are somewhat shorter, but the feet show no considerable difference. The suit's arms are longer, and more hair covers the hands. The head is now bigger, with bigger eyes, mouth and a shorter neck. The GoroKongu looked much like the ShodaiKongu, still covered in brown fur except for the face, chest, hands and feet, and with the most noticeable difference being the suit's head. The GoroKongu (ゴロコング ?) suit was used in the King Kong Escapes, as well as the 1973 television series, Go! Greenman. The suit was returned to Toho the very next year for the film King Kong Escapes, where it was modified to resemble the new King Kong suit and used to portray Kong in water scenes. In 1966, the suit was loaned to Tsuburaya Productions, where it was slightly modified and used to portray the giant monkey Goro in Ultra Q. A puppet of Kong's upper body was used for close-ups, while a stop-motion model was used for a sequence where Godzilla drop-kicks Kong. The suit's head had several gorilla-like features, such as a large mouth lined with almost rounded teeth inside the lips, a short nose, regularly-sized eyes, and a pointy tip of the head. The ShodaiKongu suit used to portray Kong appears to have been adapted from the Snowman suit from Half Human, now with a new more gorilla-like head, gray skin, and thick brown fur over most of its body. Kong varies between knuckle-walking like a real gorilla and walking bipedally and upright like a human, sometimes utilizing both forms of locomotion in the same film. In all of his appearances, Kong mostly resembles a giant silverback gorilla, with either light black or brown fur. ![]()
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