Film Synopsis

Ding Dong is a comic parody of Beauty and the Beast.  A big tough guy with a voracious appetite for Hostess ding dongs encounters a vision of beauty in the park and is hopelessly struck by Cupid’s arrow.  The ill-fated meeting precipitates a desperate chase, which is comically intercut with scenes from the 1933 classic film, King Kong.

"Ding Dong" is a man who prides himself in his masculinity.  He bristles at any hint of “effeminate behavior,” like watching a black-and-white movie.  He is cynical about love and thumbs his nose at the idea of beauty, until he unexpectedly comes across a beautiful young woman doing yoga in the park.  Suddenly, his entire tough guy façade and romantic cynicism melt away in the face of this Botticelli Venus, in the same way that King Kong falls under the immediate spell of Fay Wray’s beauty.

As in King Kong, the young woman’s natural instinct is not to be charmed by her beastly new admirer, but to take horrified flight from him.  In the ensuing chase, the story of Ding Dong becomes seamlessly intertwined with the story of King Kong.  Both become victims of an impossible love.