“King Kong is many things, but at the bottom it’s a lament for the end of the Age of Exploration. The westerners couldn’t be made until the closing of the West. And King Kong couldn’t be made until technology had domesticated nature. We scour the globe but only find ourselves, and like Alexander the Great, we despair. There are no new lands for us to conquer.” CinemaMovieKing KongAge Of Exploration Book:Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies Source: Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies