<P> Kong escapes and climbs the Empire State Building, only to fall from the skyscraper after being attacked by airplanes with guns . Denham comments, "It was beauty killed the beast," for he climbs the building in the first place only in an attempt to protect Ann Darrow, an actress originally offered up to Kong on Skull Island as a sacrifice . (In the 1976 remake, her character is named Dwan .) </P> <P> A documentary about Skull Island that appears on the DVD for the 2005 remake (originally seen on the Sci - Fi Channel at the time of its theatrical release) gives Kong's scientific name as Megaprimatus kong and states that his species may be related to Gigantopithecus, though that genus of giant ape is more closely related to orangutans than to gorillas . </P> <P> Merian C. Cooper became fascinated by gorillas at the age of 6 . In 1899, he was given a book from his uncle called Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa . The book (written in 1861), chronicled the adventures of Paul Du Chaillu in Africa and his various encounters with the natives and wildlife there . Cooper became fascinated with the stories involving the gorilla, in particular, Du Chaillu's depiction of a particular gorilla known for its "extraordinary size", that the natives described as "invincible" and the "King of the African Forest". When Du Chaillu and some natives encountered a gorilla later in the book he described it as a "hellish dream creature" that was "half man, half beast" It was these stories that planted the seed of adventure in young Merian's mind . </P> <P> Decades later in his adult years, Cooper became involved in the motion picture industry . While filming The Four Feathers in Africa, he came into contact with a family of baboons . This gave him the idea to make a picture about primates . A year later when he got to RKO, Cooper wanted to film a "terror gorilla picture". As the story was being fleshed out, Cooper decided to make his gorilla giant sized . Cooper stated that the idea of Kong fighting warplanes on top of a building came from him seeing a plane flying over the New York Insurance Building, then the tallest building in the world . He came up with the ending before the rest of the story as he stated, "Without any conscious effort of thought I immediately saw in my mind's eye a giant gorilla on top of the building". Cooper also was influenced by Douglas Burden's accounts of the Komodo Dragon, and wanted to pit his terror gorilla against Dinosaur sized versions of these reptiles stating to Burden, "I also had firmly in mind to giantize both the gorilla and your dragons to make them really huge . However I always believed in personalizing and focusing attention on one main character and from the very beginning I intended to make it the gigantic gorilla, no matter what else I surrounded him with". Around this time, Cooper began to refer to his project as a "Giant terror gorilla picture" featuring "A gigantic semi - humanoid gorilla pitted against modern civilization . </P>

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