He took that one lady and just tossed her aside 30 stories down like nothing.

home, put in chains and then on public display. The public in vast numbers came to see this captured animal.

I think he is entitled to a little payback.

I don't know who they cheered for in the 1930s, but when I watched it with my daughter, we definitely were on Kong's side.

Kind of like the bull that jumped out of the bull ring.

He was stalking Fay Wray, saw it wasn't her and dropped her to her death.

He's a creep.

she might have been about the only innocent one in the city. Everyone else is partying and enjoying Kong.

You are right about the woman.

Can't say I have a lot of sympathy for Ann Darrow (Fay Wray). She was part of the group that took him from the island, and saw nothing wrong with exploiting him in front of the masses.

The that should have gotten dropped was Denham.

A Philip Jose Farmer story explores Kong's motivations in greater detail.

"After King Kong Fell"

https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/3hwc71/after_king_kong_fell_philip_jose_farmer/

I suspect they were simply going to or from work, with not enough money to view or care about Kong.

Ann Darrow as a character changed over the three films....first movie, Fay, she was legit frightened. Jessica Lange was a bit spunkier but did care for him being able to live his life after Jeff Bridges (Jack) talked to her about it. Naomi Watts was flat out horny for Kong and in the end, boy, she looked at Adrien Brody and was like "Ugh, this guy?".

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

...you'd dislike a film after a newer CGI'd up version came out. The '76 version of King Kong is nowhere near the original IMHO, but I liked it better than the Jackson version which I felt was like watching a moving painting.

Also, the Jackson version had the Wilhelm scream.

And I actually don't think he was ever really meant to be sympathetic until the very end when he's being gunned down by airplanes. Even prior to be taken from the island he kills a number of people that didn't really deserve it. The sailors on the log come to mind. Not to mention he regularly kidnaps a sacrificed girl from the village and I'm guessing since he regularly needs new ones, they don't survive for very long.

Exploiting Kong for profit was wrong. But that doesn't make Kong innocent either. Granted he was an animal and not a person, but quite a viscous animal at that.

and who's to say he didn't have a very nice harem set up somewhere on the island, where all the island girls lived, that he had for a long time, and some of the harem members simply died of old age and needed replaced.