General Commentary About Critique Papers

• Watch careless mistakes. Proofread your work. Read your work out loud to catch missing words, or minor grammar errors. This can improve your grade. Use Grammarly or some other online grammar checker. 
• Proper nouns are capitalized. Skull Island is a proper noun, because it is a named, specific place. Other rules for proper nouns can be found here. 
• Learn comma usage. There is usually a comma before the conjunction "but". See other rules at this link.
• Analysis and critique requires a writer to go a little more in-depth from what is obvious to what a viewer may miss. As such, the best papers were able to analyze and critique the film based on the critical lens. In most cases this was "feminism" or "gender" issues. Typical questions you might have asked and examined in King Kong might have been:

1. How is the relationship between men and women portrayed? Since there's only one female character, how are the men's relationships different with Ann?
2. What are the power relationships between men and women (or characters assuming male/female roles)?
3. How are male and female roles defined? Why is Ann a weak character? Why is Jack Driscoll the only male who can save Ann? Denham doesn't save Ann--his concern is getting famous from his pictures--what gives?
4. What constitutes masculinity and femininity? King Kong is the quintessential masculine figure, but so, too, is Jack Driscoll. You could have discussed how the two characters compare. 
5. How do characters embody these gender traits? Use examples from the film to examine the issue and prove your point.
6. Do characters take on traits from opposite genders? How so? How does this change others’ reactions to them? When is Ann "masculine"? When is the captain or Denham more "passive"? When is Kong "passive"? 
7. What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically, socially, or psychologically) of patriarchy? What is the men's solution to every problem? Hint: NRA.
8. What does the work imply about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy? Since Ann is the only female in the film, except at the very beginning when we see women in a bread line for a homeless shelter--focus on that scene. How do the women treat each other? 
9. What does the work say about women's creativity? How or why might Ann be able to survive in the wild? How is she "creative"? She's an "actress"--how does "acting" help her survive?
10. What does the history of the work's reception by the public and by the critics tell us about the operation of patriarchy? This requires research into the articles and links I gave you. How was the film received by the public? How is it received today?
11. What role does the work play in terms of women's literary history and literary tradition? King Kong is not the only "dinosaur" story--consider what films or books came before this film. In particular, the silent film "The Lost World" would have been helpful to know about.

Finally, you MUST provide evidence for your statements or claims. Draw upon scenes from the film to back up what you state as true, but also try a little research to find out what life and attitudes were really like about females. We aren't getting the full reality of things or how people thought simply by watching a mass media film. There is, however, a male bias in Hollywood that has existed for a long, long time. Any contemporary connections you can think of?