7 Movies That Secretly Give Away The Plot At The Very Start

4. King Kong - The Film Won't Stop Making The Beauty And The Beast Point

It may have really been the airplanes that got King Kong (no pathologist is going to chalk that ending up to inter-species love), but that whole "t'was beauty killed the beast" spiel is a pretty succinct summary of what happened in the surprisingly emotive creature feature.

It's not a line that's picked out of thin air at the end by film director Denham though. The film opens with what it calls an "Old Arabian Proverb" (although it's really just a totally fictitious saying made up for the film) that tells of a beast who was totally tamed by indescribable beauty.

But that's not the only place where King Kong gives itself away early on (whacking the moral of the film at the start is hardly unheard of). When travelling out to Skull Island (whose gorillas are bigger than both Ape and Candy Apple Island, FYI), Denham says to Driscoll that the sailor's seeming interest of actress Ann Darrow is mirroring the set-up of the film he's currently shooting; a film about a great beast who's downfall is his love for beauty. All of this comes moments after the director's said he isn't a fortuneteller - can't get much more clearer than that.

This slight moment of self-reference likely served as creative justification for the full-meta nature of Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, which went as far as making the film Denham (Jack Black variety) was filming an approximation of the original.