Cute, killer, singers… there are many monkeys in the cinema. The proof with this quiz where you will have to find in which films you could see these nine primates.
Monkeys being the animals closest to humans, it is not surprising that the cinema has granted them a place of choice for more than a century. One of the first to appear on screen, and perhaps still the most famous to this day, is the giant gorilla King Kong, whose first film was released in 1933.
The story of director Carl Denham, who left with his team to shoot a film on a lost island, which turns out to be populated by many prehistoric creatures. Among them, King Kong who falls under the spell of actress Ann Darrow, and who will end up being captured to be brought back and exhibited in New York.
The film has had many sequels and reboots. Among these, we can cite the 1976 version by John Guillermin with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange, and also the Peter Jackson film released in 2005 with Jack Black as the director, Naomi Watts as the actress, and the use of motion capture allowing Andy Serkis – who had already used this process to interpret the Gollum of Lord of the Rings – to slip into the skin of the giant humanoid.
Another film franchise that has featured monkeys since the 1960s is Planet of the Apes. Adapted from the novel by French writer Pierre Boule, the first film was released in 1968, with star Charlton Eston in the lead role, and had four sequels until 1973.
A new version by Tim Burton was released thirty years later in 2001, before Rupert Wyatt and then Matt Reeves took up the torch with a new prequel trilogy recounting the origins of the story.
But beyond these two cult cinema franchises, monkeys have appeared in many other films, as you will be able to see with this new quiz dedicated to our closest cousins.