King Kong is a business movie, like the Big Short and that one about Beanie Babies

The real monster in this movie is the entrepreneur.

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Long shot of the top half of the Empire State Building against a cloudy sky. King Kong falls from the very top, bouncing on the way down.

This post is from my free email newsletter GROSS, in which I’m climbing the Hollywood ladder, from Traffic in Souls, 1913’s top-grossing movie, to the present day. King Kong was 1933’s biggest film and the first feature-length stop-motion

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Grizzled web old-timer (some say just grizzled), a trustee at the brilliant Poppy Academy Trust in the UK, a crummy poet and a volunteer at Watford Refugees…