Bat Out Of Hell: The King Kong Connection
 

Throughout the albums of Bat Out Of Hell, you can literally take almost any song off it and put it to clips from King Kong and it would thematically work.

Off the top of my head: It Just Wont Quit, Two Out Of Three (from Fay Wray's perspective), especially Frying Pan could potentially make good videos. I already did a Monster Is Loose video based on Kong, I may tackle another in the future.

The songs themselves seem to be deeply inspired by the movie itself. The Intro to Frying Pan for example was described in some interview I cant locate at the moment as Meat in a cage like a giant monster ready to break loose. For Crying out Loud, is what I always thought Kong would sing if he could talk. All three albums have a beauty and the beast- type atmosphere. In fact The Hunchback of Dotre Dame also seems to have some essence with some of the tracks, especially Objects.

but now the covers I have realized are themselves inspired by Kong.

The first and second Bat Out Of Hells are obvious. The Bat's position \on the church on teh Bat 1 cover is the same position Kong is positioned in one of the post famous promotional shots in cinema history.

On the Bat 2 cover .... Its so obvious.

On the Bat 3 cover, it takes a little thinking but its there. In a famous scene in the movie, Kong puts Ann down on the ground and defends her against a pterodactyl. Thats what the Bat 3 Artowrk, at least in my mind, is trying to pay homage to.

You agree with my thesis?

http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/e...ATHELLKONG.png

I think you posted that before. It's interesting anyway, especially when it comes to the artwork. The composition is similar and I wonder if it's a coincidence that Julie Bell's rock looks a bit like the one in the 1933 King Kong movie. I'm not a big fan of her style of painting but her Bat cover seems the be the one of the three that includes the most action and indicates an upcoming fierce fight. The Bat I guy is getting away from the bat, the Bat II guy might just try to grab the blonde angel and drag her away from the monster as he passes the building but the Bat III is about to go into battle. It indeed reminds of Kong's fight with the pterodactyl.

Where does that bat wing in the background of the Bat III cover come from, by the way? I believe I haven't seen that on a cover or poster before and I don't recall it being a part of Julie Bell's painting.

It may have been a PM or something, as I remember discussing it with u after I posted my TMIL video.

hmmm. Never noticed that. It was a random Bat III cover I pasted so dunno.

Yup I saw it before, including the images ;)

Good catch, the pictures do look very similar here.:cool:

:twisted: Perhaps Crawford really landed the DOTV gig because he was Jim's original inspiration for Bad For Good :bleh:

http://media.mlxxfc.net/JSteinman_Bad.jpg

http://media.mlxxfc.net/Condormanposter.jpg


Note the moon on BFG and the silver eye on the dude on the Condorman poster.
They look just the same :yikes:

Condorman has a crazy backpack. :shock:

And it's yellow! :yikes:

WOW and they are mirror imaged. Look at the explosion at the leg of the Condor girl. Oposite side to the reflection on the guitar, Girl left, boy right and vice cersa. Same with the eye vs moon and... and... Darnit now I want to see Condorman again. Been ages :-P

:twisted:It's quite safe, Michael Crawford doesn't sing :lmao:

The accent is a wee bit dodgy though :bleh:

Iz he zee only one wiz an accent? :rly: