QWhy did the natives build such a huge door in the wall?
AThe film doesn't answer that question (neither does the 1933 original), but most likely the door was designed as a sacred gateway into an "other world" rather than as a simple, utilitarian opening in the wall. Medieval cathedrals in Europe have similar "large" doors, pillars, artwork and high vaulted ceilings, which serve as a psychological device for the worshipers, as if to connect them to something much larger and greater than themselves.
QHow did they get Kong into the supertanker?
AHelicopters, most likely. Near the end of the film Jack Prescott makes a deal with the Mayor to send in helicopters with nets to capture Kong atop the World Trade Center. This suggests he was familiar with this mode of transport as a means of safely moving Kong. As heavy helicopters are capable of lifting 20 tons, 2 or 3 working together would have been sufficient to carry Kong's sedated bulk from the island to the supertanker.
QWhere is Kong's island located?
AThe film suggests two contradictory locations - either in the Indian Ocean, where the island was located in the original 1933 version, or in the Pacific Ocean in French Polynesia. The case for the Indian Ocean locale is as follows: 1) the map that Fred Wilson shows his crew in the briefing room aboard the ship shows a "magic circle" south of Java, 2) the Petrox Explorer leaves from Surabaya rather than a location closer to French Polynesia, and 3) Fred Wilson radios in an air drop of chloroform from Surabaya - indicating close proximity to that Indonesian port.The case for the Pacific Ocean locale is: 1) Jack Prescott mentions the diary of Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernando de Queiros who, in 1605, found the island just south of Tematangi - which is in French Polynesia, 2) Roy Bagley refers to the island as a "typical Pacific formation", 3) Dwan specifically says they are in the Pacific Ocean, and 4) screenwriter Lorenzo Semple wrote in the foreword to the script which was released as a novelization that Dwan was found "drifting in the South Pacific Ocean".There are many possible ways to rectify the contradiction, but an answer is left up to the viewer as the film itself does not specifically address the issue. It's even very possible that the contradiction was intentional by the filmmakers.
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