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| packmule | Jan 31 2006, 11:04 PM |
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In 1954 Toho Motion Picture Company released a film that would forever change the cinematic "landscape" of giant monsters in film. The movie, called Gojira, featuring an A-bomb spawned, 50 meter tall reptilian monster, was a hit in Japan, and is widely considered one of the greatest giant monster movies ever made. Shot in black and white, this film is grim, moody, melancholy, and deliberate in it's telling of the arrival of Gojira to Japan, and goes to great lengths to show the monster's devastating effects on both the denizens of the city, as well as the cataclsymic physical destruction the creature brings as it thunders through Tokyo, impervious to conventional weapons from the defense forces of Japan. This film was also released in the Unites States two years later, in 1956, edited, with insertions of American actors, most notably, Raymond Burr, who portrays United World News reporter Steve Martin. The title of the "Americanized" 1954 Japanese film was also changed, and was entitled Godzilla King Of The Monsters. Discuss either or both of these films here, including DVDs of these movies or anything else related to them. All replies welcome. |
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| Gojira(1954) and GKOTM(1956) · Showa Godzilla Films 1954-1975 | |
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