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John C Winfrey

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Of course H. Rocco will know this, so give the others a chance.When Godzilla breaks out of the ice when the helicopter flies over, what does the helicopter pilot yell?
Now remember, in the last movie before it was called Gigantis, the Fire Monster. Now its back to Godzilla. And the pilot has no idea what is in the ice. But when he sees it he yells "_____________!" One word, what is it?
Good luck. John.
posted 02-04-2001 03:21 PM PT (US) 
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Gojiro?(This was the title of a surreal book by Mark Jacobson which was about Godzilla. I recall this was what Godzilla was also referred to as...)
posted 02-04-2001 03:55 PM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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That was a great guess. And close. The pilot was an American. John.
posted 02-05-2001 05:10 AM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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On second thought it was a Japanese pilot, although the Americans in the sub got slaughtered by G. If I was the pilot I would have said "Look, what is that?" JW.
posted 02-05-2001 05:14 AM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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He might have really said this in the movie:"Look, its __________________!"
posted 02-05-2001 05:15 AM PT (US) 
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Bob?
The only other thing I can think of is "Dinosaur!". I mean, that was what would instantly come to my mind if a huge reptilian monstrosity had come out of an ice block.
posted 02-05-2001 02:11 PM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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He yelled "Godzilla". The point I was trying to make was that in the last film it was Gigantis and the pilot got a quick look and yelled out. He must have been real familiar with it and instinctively knew what it was. In other words it makes no sense. Best, John.
posted 02-05-2001 03:58 PM PT (US) 
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quote:
Originally posted by John C Winfrey:
He yelled "Godzilla". The point I was trying to make was that in the last film it was Gigantis and the pilot got a quick look and yelled out. He must have been real familiar with it and instinctively knew what it was. In other words it makes no sense. Best, John.
...so...deceptively...simple...ARRRRG!!!
:head explodes:
posted 02-05-2001 04:00 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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In the Japanese version, he yells "It's Gojira!" As, somewhat inexplicably, does the old American fellow in the prior submarine sequence. (How could he know? They had no way of seeing him, although the roar is indelible.)GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER, subsequently given back its proper title of GODZILLA'S COUNTERATTACK and GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN (the Japanese title could be translated as either) was called "Gigantis" in the United States because Warners (which distributed) was under the impression that Joseph E. Levine owned the word "Godzilla." Additionally, they were not that interested in representing it as the direct sequel that it is: Ib Melchior was drafted to write "The Volcano Monsters," which I've read and been underwhelmed by. In this version, the monsters would have been shipped to San Francisco, where the original's Osaka miniatures were to be represented as that city's Chinatown (!) New suits for Godzilla (Gigantis) and Angilas ("Anguirus" in the new version) were built for additional American shooting as well, which never came to pass.
The original GODZILLA'S COUNTERATTACK isn't a great film by any means, but it's WAAAAAY better than the horrifying American GIGANTIS that WAS produced, shot through with stock footage from older movies and newsreels that don't match at all, and an appallingly funny narration read (very earnestly, considering how bad it is) by Keye Luke. As it happens, I saw the Japanese version well before the American (for some reason, it NEVER played on TV in New York), and while I was disappointed by much of it, still, I would NOT have known what to make of the American version. They are NOT the same films at all.
Oh yes, one detail in KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962, not 1961) that I liked: Godzilla bursting out of the iceberg (since he was sealed in ice at the end of the previous film in 1955.)
KING KONG VS. GODZILLA was the most popular Godzilla film ever, in terms of sheer volumes of tickets sold -- even more tickets than the original (GIGANTIS sold nearly as many tickets as the first one, despite being rather inferior.)
posted 02-08-2001 12:02 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
