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| G2Kmaster | Oct 25 2008, 12:27 PM Post #1 |
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NOTE: Thiese articles originaly posted on Gojiras Sanctuary. Plus due to the size of this ducument, I wish this not to be merged with the Godzilla vs. Mothra thread, and the fact that thiese documents are my proudest work I have ever done. Pics:    Chapter One: Daikaiju Royale Following off of the success of the dismal King Kong vs. Godzilla, another kaiju team up was in order, only all Japanese and no humor. And with Mothra still popular since her debut film in 1961 based on a book, Mothra was brought back to do battle with what many call the best film in the Showa series besides Gojira. Godzilla was was desighnd by Teizo Toshimitzy and was played for a 4th time by Haruo Nakajima, but except for the Kiryu (Machine Dragon) Goji siut, this one had the most on screen damage. Godzilla's head had the fallowing damages: missing teeth (all of them) loss during filming of the destruction of the Nagoya Castle and Godzilla was actualy cremated during the army attack with the high voltage electric towers. All thiese events were by accident, as said by Nakajima in an interview. But for some reason, Eiji Tsuburaya liked the toothless maw of Godzilla. This was also the first time that te claws on the siut wee made of Fibre-reinforced plastic. Mothra is in comparison to her 1961 version, a midget. In 1961, she was this: Length: 80 meters Wingspan: 250 meters Mass: 15,000 tons now, this: Length: 65 meters Wingspan: 135 meters Mass: 15,000 tons But the marionette was still big, bigger than her 1961 counterpart. This change in size had let the new mothra twist her head, move her legs, and flap her wings more often. Making her the most realistic mothra till GMK... The mothra larva are more deformed looking this time around, but were still nice props and kick Godzilla's butt.     Chapter Two: Production The original script for Mothra vs. Godzilla was done by Shinichi Sekizawa and turned in Dec. 31 in 1963. From a basic viewpoint, the first draft of the screenplay is like the end product. But on closer inspection, there was alot of crap that was cut out. First was the fictional city of Rosilica from Mothra(1961) was going to be mentioned, giving continuity to the original Mothra film. Saddly, no continuity from that film to this film survived. The Roslicans were also scripted to use the frontier missles. Another alteration was the abstience of Mothra Lara. Instead, it was a Final War between Mothra and Godzilla, with Godzilla having loads more screen time and Mothra comming only at the nick of time.   The finished film was released on April 29, 1964. The film was criticaly and publicaly a success. Meanwhile, Toho were still working on the film with the one man that decided the fate of the Showa Godzilla even before Jun Fukuda: Henry Saperstein. Saperstein, being a fan of the original Godzilla and being lucky to see the original version before the sixties even began, would lead to the golden age of Toho's film with the main film in this era was Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, Monster Zero, Frankenstein Conquers the World, and War of the Gargantuas. Before Saperstein actualy got involved with the making of Godzilla films, he was the distributor who worked at American International Pictures. Reported by Variety on May 6, 1964, Saperstein bought the theatrical and television rights to Motha vs. Godzilla in America. Early American titles for Godzilla vs. The Thing were such as "Godzilla vs. The Giant Moth". Salvaged from the first draft of the screenplay, the Frontier Missles (now being used by the Americans) were filmed in Toho and the negatives given to America International Pictures for editing into the film and international distribution outside Japan. To increase sales, signs like thiese showed up everywhere:   The film was released in America in Sep. 17, 1964. The box office success in America was saddly never recorded (subject to change) but it was a success. In Japan, the attendance total was 3,510,000... But that was not the end of the terror... "New York Times film critic Eugene Archer reacted to the film and its title: "Well, there are three things, not counting the movie. One has wings and looks like a big bee. The other two are hatched from the first Thing's egg, after quite a bit of worshipful kootch dancing from a pair of foot-tall native goddesses..."." -Wikipedia Chapter Three: Return of Godzila vs. the Thing Godzilla vs. The Thing was released in Korea July 1964, making for big distribution. But for West Germany, they waited till Apirl 5, 1974 (10 years since)to see the film, and France waited 31 years to see theatrical distribution in Jan. 25, 1995.  a late release with a megaro-goji siut... Back in Japan, Godzilla vs. Mothra was edited again to the length of 62 minutes (26 minutes was taken out of the film) and was re-released in Japan on Dec. 19, 1970 during the second Godzilla 2+year absence. The attendance to this re-release was 730,000 tickets. The eighties were also an almost Godzilla-less year and so re-released on March 15 1980 using the same 62 minute cut as the previous re-release, Mothra vs. Godzilla was released again. Double billed with Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur, this re-re-release begot a friutfull atendance of 2,980,000 tickets and with new information, $10,000,000 (that is including distribution earning) total in box office. So, in Japan alone the film got a total atendace of 7,220,000 from 1964 to 1980. The film has since gained respect and has been criticaly acaime everywhere. Through numrous releases and the most current release giving the americans american and Japanese versions, this film is going to be loved by kaiju fans young, old, and older... May I note that the Japanese DVD release does have the 62 minute version of Mothra vs. Godzilla. Check it out! 
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| packmule | Oct 25 2008, 01:58 PM Post #2 |
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I'm not exactly enamored with this not being in that topic thread but I will allow this post of yours to remain as its own topic. Note: I would like to either reduce the image sizes of some of the pics or change them to clickable "thumbnails". I'll do this later today(or tonight) or you can. Enormous images like these can cause the page to bulge out(like these are doing now). I wanted to give you a heads up about this so you wouldn't be surprised(or possibly offended) by my modifying of the pic sizes here. Interesting behind the scenes info for what is one of my favorite Godzilla movies. Good post.  Hopefully Matthew, who is not as fond of this film as I am, will find your post interesting as well. 
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 25 2008, 05:33 PM Post #3 |
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He has already read it. It was on Gojiras Santuary AKA John's forum. If the people here like it enough, I also got one on biollante. And how do you reduce the size of images? |
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| packmule | Oct 25 2008, 06:28 PM Post #4 |
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Assuming you're using either Imageshack or Photobucket to host your photos you would select one of their pic "resize" options that are displayed for those using their service. I'll reduce the size of these images using Adobe Photoshop 7.0(in my computer) and repost them in your original topic, either tonight or tomorrow AM. 
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 25 2008, 07:20 PM Post #5 |
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These aren't my photos. I got them from other websites, like Kensforce, a German site, and the official Ishiro Honda site.
Edited by packmule, Oct 25 2008, 10:23 PM.
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| Rodan70 | Oct 27 2008, 02:17 AM Post #6 |
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 27 2008, 04:49 PM Post #7 |
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^Like it enough I will post the one on biollante also. |
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| packmule | Oct 27 2008, 05:28 PM Post #8 |
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If you do please do so with accompanying images that are smaller. If you cannot make them smaller then send them to me as email attachments and I will. You can use this email address: merritt.84@hotmail.com or packmule84@yahoo.com |
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 27 2008, 08:46 PM Post #9 |
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^Ok will do in a week. In case gojimatt comments, he would most probably tell you I have more of these. I got one for Destroyer but, it is big and it was sloppily written. Edited by packmule, Oct 27 2008, 09:04 PM.
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| packmule | Oct 27 2008, 09:06 PM Post #10 |
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Let me add that my stipulation about the pictures is in no way meant to be a form of discouragement from you posting these articles and other content. I know many members around here will enjoy reading the articles. |
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 27 2008, 09:08 PM Post #11 |
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I know. I understand. You have more than logical reasons as to why to scale down the photos. |
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| G2Kmaster | Mar 15 2009, 06:19 PM Post #13 |
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varrious sites. May I note that I wrote this back in 2007 around January. From my Yonggary paper, you will see that I wrote that around January 1st this year and ever since I have been writing good quality stuff. To note, I have remade this paper and I am half way through a project I have done called the "Mothra vs. Godzilla restoration", which I have half way made a book with a 7 page booklet and over 55 giant photos of the making of Mvs.G, including some only I own, thoes on the internet, and the Godziszewski text. The second part, which I have done completely is make a tape of the Japanese version of the film w/ the frontier missile scene, increasing the running time of both versions (both are 88 minutes) to 91 minutes. It is awesome and by way I compared the Simitar DVD quality vs. the Japanese print quality on the CM disc, and the Simitar DVD is perfect. |
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| packmule | Mar 15 2009, 06:33 PM Post #14 |
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Evan I always enjoy your "Making Of" submissions but I cannot understand why you post such enormous images as part of these submissions. Is it really necessary to use images this gigantic? Because of one of the images above the entire page has bulged out and I have to use the scroll function of my my nav bar at the bottom of my browser's screen image in order to see everything and also just to read some of the posts in this thread. Downsize that gigantic image or I will. Thanks. Note: I'm referring to the "Seat Selling Slants image".
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| G2Kmaster | Mar 15 2009, 06:35 PM Post #15 |
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^I have already told you this once and I shall say so again even though people spare me the embarrasment: I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. |
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