Why does King Kong walk upright like a man? Isn he supposed to be a gorilla?
Kong is not a gorilla. As in the original 1933 version, the 1976 Kong is an apeish monster – “neither beast nor man” – rather than the silverback gorilla as seen in Peter Jackson’s 2005 film. He walks upright like a man because he is related to hominids, similar to the Bigfoot or Yeti. Dino De Laurentiis believed it was important that Kong appear man-like so that the audience would empathize with him rather than merely feel the pity for a four-legged beast.
