Requesting feedback on my first count

[ikantspelwurdz]

I really like the idea of this site, and would like to contribute to it, especially with older movies. But I'm afraid that if I do more than one count at a time without feedback on the first, then if I make any mistakes with the first, I'll make the same mistakes on every count afterwards.

I submitted my first count about 12 weeks ago, but what I'm really waiting for is feedback so I can submit more counts and be confident I'm doing them right. Can someone give me feedback on my count?

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King Kong, original 1933 release

[Amie]

1933
Horror/Thriller
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Top-billed actors: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot

Total body count: 28
- Sailors: 10
- Villagers: 11
- New Yorkers: 4
- Biplane crew: 2
- King Kong: 1

Misc:
- Various prehistoric reptiles: 5
- MIA sailors: 2


Kills by character:
- Brontosaurus: 4
- King Kong: 23
- Air superiority (Ernest B. Schoedsack): 1


Bodies by chapter
- Ch. 17: 4
- Ch. 18: 6
- Ch. 25: 11
- Ch. 29: 4
- Ch. 33: 3


Scene-by-scene breakdown:

Ch. 16: Stegosaurus
The sailors shoot at a Stegosaurus. It's unclear if it survives the wounds or not. (Not counted)

Ch. 17: Watery menace
4 bodies
A brontosaurus capsizes the raft and bites three of the sailors. It pursues them onto land and mauls a fourth sailor.
Note: You can confirm that the brontosaurus bites three different sailors (as opposed to biting the same sailor three times) by counting the number of sailors. There are 14 at the beginning of the chapter, and when they are chased onto land, there are 10, followed by one straggler who gets et.

Ch. 18: Log bridge
6 bodies
King Kong shakes six sailors off the log bridge, plunging them into the rocky chasm below.

Ch. 19: T-Rex battle
Captain Driscoll cuts a rope, dropping a desmatosuchus into the chasm. (Not counted)
King Kong snaps a T-Rex's jaw bone. (Not counted)

Ch. 21: Cave serpent
King Kong bashes a elasmosaurus against the rocks. (Not counted)

Ch. 23: Pterodactyl and rescue
King Kong wrings the neck of a pteranodon. (Not counted)

Ch. 25: Village rampage
11 bodies
King Kong tosses a hut at two villagers and then tramples them.
There are five villagers on a palisade tossing spears at King Kong. He swats one of them off with a branch, then tosses the branch at a fleeing villager. He then bites the spearman, and demolishes the palisade, crushing the other four other spearmen.
King Kong flattens a hut, then grabs a fleeing villager and bites him. Another fleeing villager is stomped on, and a third is grabbed from his hut, thrown, and stomped on.

Ch. 28: On stage
Note: Carl Denham says here that twelve of their party met horrible deaths. The jungle expedition started with 14 sailors, and as far as we know, only Carl Denham and Captain Driscoll survived, so this makes sense. But I only counted 10 sailors killed. What happened to the other two?

Ch. 29: Flashy escape
4 bodies
King Kong bites a New Yorker. He then grabs an awning, and throws it at two others.
King Kong grabs a sleeping woman from a high-rise apartment bedroom, and drops her after realizing he got the wrong one.

Ch. 31: Train takedown
King Kong de-rails a commuter rail and smashes it in. It's unknown how many commuters are killed, but it's clear that some survive, because a few escape. It's also unknown whether or not the survivors who didn't escape are rescued. (Not counted)

Ch. 33: A mighty fall
3 bodies
King Kong swats one of the airplanes, killing the pilot and gunner.
Kong is mortally wounded by the machinegun fire, and plummits from the top of the Empire State Building.

It looks good to me. I can see you've done some research on the site. As far as I can see you did the count by site guidelines. And you've also explained why you counted or not counted the kills. Not necessary but very nice to know.

Also, since this is one of many versions of King Kong, maybe you can change the Subject of the post to include the year of this version. I know you've included it in the post itself, but those searching for particular versions will find it easier to find this or skip this in search of the others.

Re: Chapter 28---
This happens a lot in the editing process. They might have accounted for those two in a scene that was cut out for some reason. I had that happen in The Mummy Returns.

[davethejew]

I honestly think Kong killing the assorted dinosaurs should be counted because they're seen as threatening creatures, so you should count those.

[ikantspelwurdz]

Ok, and I've also counted the stegosaurus and the desmatosuchus on the same grounds.