Silver Screen Science – King Kong (2005) and Kong: Skull Island (2017)

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Science, Education, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Part 4 of 5 in this month’s series: KaiJune! There’s a new Godzilla movie, and that means it’s time for more movie science! All June, we’ll be exploring giant monster movies, specifically looking at two of the most famous examples of all time: King Kong and Godzilla. How do these movies handle such subjects as prehistoric creatures, the science of paleontology, and the portrayal of scientists? This episode, Kong in the 21st century: King Kong (2005) and Kong: Skull Island (2017) The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, David. Hello, Will.
0:21.2	And hello, listeners.
0:22.8	Welcome to episode four of Silver Screen Science Kaijun.
0:27.3	Back to Kaijun.
0:28.3	One more to go after this.
0:29.5	One more to go.
0:30.1	And we are back after our intermission to the main features of our Kaijun special.
0:36.4	We are discussing today the new King Kongs.
0:41.3	Now for this series, anyone who's checking in now, we've been discussing some Kaiju movies,
0:46.1	some giant monster movies, in how they connect to paleontology and science and their representation, and we decided to do that
0:55.7	because a really good kaiju movie came out this month.
0:59.2	So we are timing it, so the last episode, next episode, we'll deal with the new Godzilla
1:04.7	King of the Monsters.
1:06.0	Yes.
1:07.2	But today, we are discussing the new King Kong.
1:10.9	Now, there's only one King Kong movie associated with the new Godzilla films, but there's also a 2005 version that we were going to discuss.
1:18.9	We have two different updates for the Giant Ape to discuss in this episode.
1:24.1	But, of course, spoiler warnings.
1:27.1	Yes.
1:30.3	We always give our spoiler warning, because to discuss these movies, we have to spoil them. So you've been warned. And what movies are those?
1:34.6	The movies we are discussing today is King Kong 2005's version by Peter Jackson from Universal
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