Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The iconic Empire State Building scene in Peter Jackson's King Kong remake has received a low accuracy score from primate expert Mireya Mayor, who says the sequence only gets a few things right about how real gorillas behave. The 2005 monster movie features the titular ape falling in love with Ann Darrow, a human woman on an expedition to his home of Skull Island.
Gorilla's spend most of their time on the ground. I have observed them climbing trees, with a lot of skill and dexterity, but scaling the Empire State Building, especially an animal that size...not too probable. King Kong is depicted as being 25 feet tall, which is nowhere near even what we know as the largest ape from the fossil record, which is Gigantopithecus. It's estimated to be about 10 feet tall, and disappeared about 300,000 years ago, and is not even half the size of what King Kong is depicted to be.