[Movie Script]King Kong

                                          KING KONG




                                          Written by



                        Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson







                                     Based on a Story by



                             Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace










                                                                   1.

          EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY



          CLOSE ON: A scrawny MONKEY scratches.



          ANGLES ON: Defeated, listless ANIMALS, in the bleak environs of a

dilapidated ZOO.
WIDER: It is CENTRAL PARK ZOO in depression era NEW YORK. The PARK

itself is like a GARBAGE DUMP, dotted with squalid SHANTY TOWNS.



          Against these BLEAK IMAGES, the SOUND of a BRIGHT, BRASSY SONG

fades up: Al Jolson, singing "I'm Sitting on Top of the World".




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