Luigi Cozzi making GODZILLA (1977): nobody ever gonna forget the name of Luigi Cozzi. oh! I'm gonna make a movie about it
well, you're not wrong pal, people *are* going to remember this work you're about to excrete onto the market
Steve Martin: βItβs these cans! He hates these cans!β
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and sometimes the gel effects just straight up work
anyway, time for an extended sequence of real wartime sub-hunting footage cut together
Watching an Italian Guy's idea of an American Guy watching the events of GOJIRA (1954) and also some snuff footage, the GODZILLA (1977) experience
the horror of the fish getting all oxygen destroyed kinda hits different after the dickhead director has shown you footage of actual wartime corpses
trampling all over the original film's art of leaving the worst of the horror *implied*, inviting the viewer to reflect on that horror and draw comparisons for themselves
fuck you Cozzi
GOJIRA (1954) is such a moving film that even this cough-syrup recut is not able to suppress the chilling power it contains
"he's as tall as a 30-story building"
[cuts to footage of Godzilla next to power lines for a very well-deifned scale reference]
film-making!
the military march part of a Godzilla movie is a hard thing to resist enjoying
it's just such a good theme
Luigi Cozzi made his Godzilla version under the COZZILLA s.r.l. production company. Heh.
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Perry Mason vs Godzilla
Still a nice shot (in motion, where you can see him more clearly). #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977
distributors apparently would not touch a movie that was any shorter than 90 minutes, so Cozzi had to pad the runtime of the American cut of the original film
Itβs a shame Cozzi didnβt bring back the ominous synth track from the Hiroshima title sequence. Maybe he re-uses it later?
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As it goes on, you get used to the color.
The editing and pacing on the other handβ¦
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"150m". Three times taller than in the originl already. They will probably keep that in mind in the city scenes. #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977
okay this is where I admit I haven't seen GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS! (1956) so some of my disorientation here is the rewriting of the story that is at the core of *this* version of the movie
so some of my "WTF" is really attributable to the American cut of the original film, and some of it lies with Signor Cozzi's reinterpretation of same
"reporter was there" is not a bad way to re-spin a film for a different audience at the time of the original film, and by 1977 Toho was well-aware of the value of their brand, so they had no strong compulsion to sell off the original film, I'm sure
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Excessive credits, no?
Re: WWII footage in Cozzilla
The year before, the film All This and World War II was released, then pulled from theaters. It combined WWII newsreel footage with covers of Beatles songs.
All prints were rumored to be destroyed, but thereβs a copy on YT. How bad was it? Well, the opening credits introduce the Nazis, perpetrators of the Holocaust, set to βThe magical mystery tour is coming to take you away.β
How did this get made?
@patioboater Honestly, if you haven't seen the OG (original Godzilla, 1954) I would recommend stopping this travesty as soon as possible to avoid spoiling the experience.
I mean, there are movies that are interesting despite being terrible, and movies that are interesting because they're terrible, and this is neither. The interesting parts (IMO) mostly come straight from the OG, and it seems not worth putting up with the terrible parts when you could, y'know, just not.
That was interesting, thanks @ryan :)
I wonder, for someone in the 70s or 80s with limited access to foreign films, is it better to watch this or not bother with Godzilla at all. #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977
cutting in WWII footage does make the failure of the military to respond to Godzilla more prominent
like yea guys, AA into the clouds is not very effective with a kaiju who is decidedly not up in the clouds
"Why stop at incomprehensibly bad, when it can also be incomprehensible?" - Cozzi
The 1954 music still whips
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