The Man Who Created King Kong Just Really Liked Gorillas (Self-Reflection on the Fact Fiend Format)

Everyone has heard of Kong: the gigantic ape whose story has been remastered, rebooted and parodied more times than can be counted. What is less known, however, is that Kong is so prevalent in today's media because, simply, one guy really liked gorillas.

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Original Article:
http://www.factfiend.com/guy-made-kin...

Sources:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...
https://www.peta.org/about-peta/learn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PG_Tips
https://www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/g...
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...

Videos:
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111361/
King Kong (1933)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/
Godzilla (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/
The Simpsons (1989 – present)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/
Commercial for PG Tips,
http://www.pgtips.co.uk/

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Merian C Cooper, Theater Magazine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Harambe, http://cincinnatizoo.org/news-release...
Komodo Dragon, Mark Dumont [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)], via Wikimedia Commons
Screenshot from Furious 7 (2015)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/

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