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Kaijubait wrote: Uchujin65 wrote: It was a very smart business move, however. Only 10 years prior to 1954 Americans were sitting in their theaters watching Know Your Enemy: Japan and the military recruiting offices had posters hanging on the wall like "stay on the job until every stinkin' Jap is DEAD!". That's true, but the Japanese were being shown in, if not a sympathetic light, a not so black and white 'evil' one before Godzilla in Hollywood cinema - probably due in part to the occupation and zeitgeist of MacArthur, etc... There was Humphrey Bogart's 'Tokyo Joe' in 1949, for instance... And a year after the American release of Godzilla we had Marlon Brando in 'Sayonara', featuring two cross-cultural romances.... True, that. But I often wonder how many people got all bent out of shape over the WW 2 Lagos Island scene in the 90's version of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. The scene depicts a prehisitoric Godzilla killing off the American Marines while the Japanese garrison goes untouched. That was left in both the American and Japanese versions.
Kaijubait wrote: Uchujin65 wrote: It was a very smart business move, however. Only 10 years prior to 1954 Americans were sitting in their theaters watching Know Your Enemy: Japan and the military recruiting offices had posters hanging on the wall like "stay on the job until every stinkin' Jap is DEAD!". That's true, but the Japanese were being shown in, if not a sympathetic light, a not so black and white 'evil' one before Godzilla in Hollywood cinema - probably due in part to the occupation and zeitgeist of MacArthur, etc... There was Humphrey Bogart's 'Tokyo Joe' in 1949, for instance... And a year after the American release of Godzilla we had Marlon Brando in 'Sayonara', featuring two cross-cultural romances....
Uchujin65 wrote: It was a very smart business move, however. Only 10 years prior to 1954 Americans were sitting in their theaters watching Know Your Enemy: Japan and the military recruiting offices had posters hanging on the wall like "stay on the job until every stinkin' Jap is DEAD!".
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Edkkakumon wrote: From sources I've read, US producers liked Gojira, but thought it too much like an art film. To expand the audience factor they added Burr and a couple of scenes. They created a film that American audiences ate up. Gojira is superior, but most of us started our love of Godzilla with King of the Monsters.
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Saturday8pm wrote: I think the edited American version has its merits, but the original has more impact ... this has nothing to do with Burr, but rather the exclusion of key scenes where the science butts against moral considerations.
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