Ann Darrow, in subtle ways, is far more outgoing and direct than her more Neutral Female counterpart from the original 1933 movie (she also screams far less).Abduction Is Love: Despite the fact that beauty and beast met when Kong took Ann as his latest sacrifice, they still end up bonding to the point Ann wants to do whatever she can to protect Kong.She does, though, show up in time to halt his rampage through the city, and from there.
And, as with the 1976 film, a good deal of attention is paid to the unusual "romance" between the girl and the primate, which is strong enough that Ann would rather stay on the island with him than see him captured and later she refuses to participate in his exhibition in the United States. The natives are much more brutal than past portrayals. Further, Driscoll is changed from the ship's first mate to a playwright, and a narcissistic Hollywood actor ( Kyle Chandler) is added for comic relief. Jackson's film diverges from the original by providing more of Denham's and Ann's respective back stories.
Peter Jackson's 2005 take on King Kong returns to the original story as propounded in 1933: Depression-era filmmaker Carl Denham ( Jack Black), dodging debt collectors, hires an out-of-work actor Ann Darrow ( Naomi Watts) and successful playwright Jack Driscoll ( Adrien Brody), charters a ship and quickly leaves on an expedition to find a certain uncharted island.