Anaconda (2025) And The Power Of Sequels
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Anaconda (2025) and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this comedy featuring Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, and a giant snake, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby REALLY loved Anaconda, the 2025 comedy love letter movie to the 1997 movie of the same name. I enjoyed it mostly because he enjoyed it so much.
(smiles)
We immediately watched the 1997 movie due to all of the references to it in the 2025 movie.
And that is the power of sequels. Yes, Anaconda (2025) is billed as a reboot. But it builds on the original movie, happens later in time, and that, in my mind, makes it a sequel.
Sequels should attract new viewers (or readers). So they should be watchable (or readable) on their own.
But they also prompt people to watch (or read) the works that went before them. Anaconda (2025) made us interested in watching Anaconda (1997). Book 2 should make us interested in reading Book 1.
Sequels, I believe, are HARDER to create than the originals for this and other reasons.
So if you’re struggling to craft book 2 in a series, know that this is expected and you’re not alone. (big hugs) Most book 2s are more challenging to write.
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King Kong (2005)
Being a romance reader, I always look for the hero in every movie, whether or not that movie is a romance. In the 2005 version of King Kong, my favorite character, the man I think is the hero is Captain Englehorn, played by the hunky Thomas Kretschmann . I know, I know this sounds like a bizarre choice but just hear me out.
At first, the sexy Captain doesn’t seem like a hero at all. He’s taking the film crew out to sea for the money, to pay his bills (not just his bills, his crew’s bills). He resists being a hero at every turn. Carl Denham, Jack Black’s character, has to bribe him to leave port quickly. When he hears Carl is wanted by the police, the Captain decides to turn back. He threatens to leave Skull Island without the film crew when they go ashore without his permission.
But he doesn’t leave. He sends his own crew to save Ann Darrow, Naomi Watts’ character. His crew is extremely loyal to him. People aren’t loyal to a leader unless they believe that leader cares about them. The Captain has clearly earned their loyalty in the past. Yet he risks the people he cares about to save a woman he barely knows.
The Captain arms his crew with weapons he owns. He then figures out how to down Kong. Does he profit eventually from the venture? Yes. At least, I hope so (we don’t see this onscreen). He’s also a big game hunter and receives a personal pleasure from bagging this VERY big game.
That’s not why he aids in the rescuing of Miss Darrow though (without the Captain’s crew, Jack Driscoll, Adrien Brody’s character, has no chance at rescuing the heroine). He’s assisting in her rescue because he believes this is the right thing to do and, in my eyes, that’s heroic.
My favorite line from the movie is…
Carl Denham: I’ve risked everything I had on this film.
Captain Englehorn: No Denham, you risked everything I have.
Who do you think is the hero in King Kong?
Nathan Lawford, Blaine Technologies’ chief financial officer, is known as the Iceman. He conducts his personal and business affairs without emotion, never allowing himself to become involved with anyone. When Nate sees something or someone he wants, he negotiates, paying a simple, set monetary price.
Now he wants Camille, the company’s green-haired intern.
Camille Joplin Trent never expected to be paid to pleasure the man of her dreams. She can’t quite figure out why this is a bad thing. Nate is intelligent, handsome, sophisticated, everything she’s ever wanted in a lover and never thought she could have. Their contract is for a month, thirty lust-filled days of making every sexual fantasy they’ve ever had come true. At the end of this month, the rules state their relationship will end.
Of course, Camille has never been good at following rules.
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