King Kong vs. Godzilla
Posted by Skrud at Thursday, August 4th 2005 at 11:05am
How to convert a Japanese movie to American:
- Cut apart the original movie into short clips.
- Add a random satellite/space-station floating in space really badly (you can see the strings)
- Have reporters from the NBC (or something) discuss events in the movie, “live via satellite” (see #2), while observing the movie events on their monitors.
- Add commentary from American “experts” to discuss with the reporters, conduct interviews on the events of the movie.
- Dub over whatever remaining original footage there was in English.
- Mispronounce “Hokkaido”.
- The latest American masterpiece movie!
Despite all that, King Kong vs. Godzilla still retained plenty of hilarious, cheesy, badly-dubbed moments, and is worth watching for the sake of ridicule. There also a bunch of random dancing natives and their King-Kong song. The Japanese movie is 7 minutes longer than the American version, and the American version has all these extra reporter scenes. It makes me wonder what they actually cut out… I hope it’s not the fight scenes. I mean, King Kong and Godzilla really duke it out well!
In the American version, the original Godzilla theme song by Akira Ifukube was cut. I think it’s one of the best theme songs in movie history. I want to see the original Japanese uncut version.
Ah, the Americanization of perfectly good non-American movies….