It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here with Keith Phipps.

Genevieve Koski. Tosh Robinson. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists

in a vacuum, that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week, we get together

to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates

to a current movie.

This week, we're setting course to an uncharted island of the South Pacific, a land that

time forgot and the movies periodically remember when they want to empty the studio coffers.

It's money and adventure and fame.

It's the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. Tasha, where the hell are we going? This week we're headed to Skull Island,

where many a foolhardy crew has come in search of adventure and left with its ranks diminished,

and sometimes with a giant gorilla in tow. With the new Kong Skull Island, the latest reimagining

of the King Kong story in theaters now, we thought the time was

right to look back on the 1933 version, one of the most significant and influential

spectacles in movie history. Produced by David O'Sullsneck and directed by Mirian C. Cooper and

Ernest B. Shodzac, who had worked together on adventures like The Four Feathers and the

most dangerous game, King Kong was a blockbuster decades before the term was even conceived.

Opening with a trip to an exotic island that evolution forgot, and closing with the Great

Beast swatting at plains atop the Empire State Building, the film sought first and foremost to

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