@plaidtron3000 @diazona yea, there's a fairly interesting (from the standpoint of "how does the movie industry work" anyway) history to how this particular piece of cinema came to exist.
Including a cute #Monsterdon-flavored bit of trivia: Cozzi wanted the rights to GORGO (1960) but couldn't get them, and he called up Toho after that.
https://markdavidwelsh.wordpress.com/2022/11/01/godzilla-1977/
FantastiCozzi, documentary about tonight's director Luigi Cozzi
https://eggplant.place/movie/73bmsT0TRbiByvoZYWQG9g
Legit free streaming:
https://flixhouse.com/video/5793/fantasticozzi
@ohiofi Yeah, IMDB says it was a directorial choice to put gels over the film.
Mind boggling.
@ohiofi @plaidtron3000 You can never really tell with a #Monsterdon movie
@plaidtron3000 It does at least seem to be a new movie for the most part, not a re-edit. Most of this wasn't in the OG.
#monsterdon #wrongfrogs #italianGodzilla so wait, is the American version just scenes of Perry Mason being inserted into Gojira as if it's Jimmy Stewart and the goofy angel in "It's a Wonderful Life?"
@plaidtron3000 Deliberate? We think?
#monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977 #cozzilla
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@klu9 Yeah, true.
So this is just an italian dub and re-edit of Godzilla, with ... are these color gel effects deliberate? Or is it that an effect from too many telecines? Or what?
It's a good thing Godzilla spared him, otherwise he wouldn't've been able to save a Mexican village from the infamous El Guapo.
Leave the color on? Or turn the saturation all the way down so it’s black and white?
#monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977 #cozzilla
@allanb Hmm now where have we seen that before 😉
wish i could stay up for the unofficial #monsterdonDoubleFeature because i've wanted to see this for some time! i might catch the first few minutes though
I had to bail to take a shower, but thanks @ryan for the miru special tonight, perfect choice, g'night everybody ^_^
Well that was a train wreck
Boat wreck?
Monster wreck?
...regardless, not the good kind
Thanks as always @ryan for hosting and everybody for posting! See you next week!
ahhhh not another "The End...?"
"Humanity is saved?"
no. Humanity was ruined by this movie.
Most dramatic bubbles ever
or, so says the soundtrack
And now he can be killed by artillery because we want to use all our amazing WW2 footage that goes bang. Eh. #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977
Godzilla being killed off by oxygen-deprived water that his head is sticking up out of 😵💫
@strangefour And the water turns orange, apparently
Is Cozzilla a “mondo” film?
TENTACLES!!!
Nothing like a children's choir for manufacturing drama /s
just amazing to see Cozzi's crude bullshit juxtaposed against like, actual filmmaking
the only strong reaction Cozzi's crude contributions to "gosh look how bad this is" elicit is disgust
#monsterdon
#monsterdondoublefeature
#italiangodzilla
Oof, Cozzi replayed footage from the same movie for a padded exposition.
"I told Ogawa and Steve" oof
one of these men is not like the other
one man's in it, one man's not
I gotta say, this focus on the injured and dead people in the aftermath of Godzilla's attack does not really fit with the vibe of the original movie
@diazona No, it's really not. It's a combination of surreality and blood, and... it kinda works.
Can't wait to see Burr doing standup and playing banjo.
That's going to happen soon, right?
@SnoopJ Me neither until I looked it up on IMDB
Definitely a possibility, although I'm worried it'd have a lot of the same issues as what we're watching now
Not the worst job with colorization of Godzilla's attack, honestly
@SnoopJ wait did you mean the 1957 French remake, or the 1954 original?
@SnoopJ It's the magazine publishing building. They get at least 30 stories out a month. #monsterdon #wrongfrogs #humorismypassion
"Was that an actual person set on fire? You can guess, but you'll never know!" - Cozzi
Godzilla has a jingle
I'll give it this, the grainy low-res footage of Godzilla does actually work - it feels like a historical documentary
Everything else in this movie, not so much
@SnoopJ that explains a lot
Hey look, actual people actually dying in WWII, thanks Cozzi, you piece of shit.
Toho's Godzilla didn't use footage from Hiroshima or Nagasaki out of respect for the dead and injured.
Cozzi had no such qualms.
Hey look, actual WWII footage
"Toho disliked this version of the film, considering it an 'abomination'. They even went as far as having references to it removed from the audio commentary for the Criterion DVD and Blu-ray releases of Godzilla (1954)."
"Cozzi wanted to give an old film an 'up-to-date and more violent look,' so the director added real footage of death and destruction from war-time and Hiroshima stock footage, as well as scenes from [other monster movies]" - IMDB
I wonder if 50m in original got translated to 150 feet in US version, and that became 150m in this
"How did your experiments into using radio nucleotides to giganticise and mutate lizards go? Very well? That's outstanding!"
y'know, with all the compression pixelation this thing gets kind of arty at times
"It was terrifying" he says in a monotone voice
It's Shimura Takashi from Kurosawa's Ikiru
"It's huge and terrible. Worse than anything I could've imagined."
Yes yes, I've also met your mother.
"Look at the size of those footprints!"
Ironically the radiation shrunk its package.
"Baby ring my bell!" - These guys. And also Anita Ward. She did it better.
"This well is contaminated...
... there appears to be monsterous footprints."
So... Godzilla took a radioactive piss in it?
@plaidtron3000 Yeah I figured it out after posting... I'm starting to remember more of this now
The way this is shot reminds me a bit of Throne of Blood. Just a little.
IMDB: "featuring 80 minutes of footage from the original Godzilla (1954) and the US version Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956) plus 25 minutes of WWII newsreel footage and clips from other monster 1950's movies"
in a 93-minute film
🤔
Nothing that was hidden will be revealed.
Pathetic fallacy? Or do monsters stir from their aquatic slumbers because of the bad weather and tides?
Why do girls always have to be the sacrifices? None of these monsters have a taste for boys? Or better yet, politicians?
@combatwombat Oh good point!
The love triangle may be the most interesting thing happening in the movie so far
So... Sounds like the dictum "show, don't tell" didn't make it to Italian repackaging of foreign films.
"Do you really think a monster could be behind these disasters?"
"That or John Candy trying to steal your cab. We'll have to see what happens on your coach-trip".
@combatwombat Looks like it was just slop-tinted so they could pass it off as a "color" film
Kinda trippy to see all the clearly non-Italian people in this movie speaking Italian
(I get why they do it, but still)
I am digging how the italian translator got some of Burr's speech manorisms in their dub.
Was this colorized with watercolors, then bleached? #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977
#monsterdon
#monsterdondoublefeature
#italiangodzilla
I keep hearing the Perry Mason soundtrack over this.
Feels like a Dash Shaw graphic novel
#monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature #godzilla1977 #cozzilla
Dr. Serizawa famously the kind of man who would have an assistant working with him
"Are you Steve Martin? Could you sign my dapper hat?"
#monsterdon #wrongfrogs #doublefeature "My name is Steve Martin" Perry Mason laying on a stretcher with an Arrow-through-the-head prop and mumbling in Italian. I know this is (WAS) a very serious film but between that and the "Window on the dick" credit I'm having problems staying with it
"A few days earlier, I'd been flying to meet my scientist friend. I was going to ask him about the possibility of transferring another brain into my good-for-nothing wife's body."
Oh I see, they still have 10 minutes of narration but they *waited* for it
@klu9 Jesus, that's government mandates for you!
No, but a lot of folks refer to it like that e.e uploads on Internet Archive & Youtube
https://www.qwant.com/?locale=en_GB&client=ext-firefox-sb&q=cozzilla&t=web
So... Our protagonist is the singer of "King Tut"?
@diazona Not our first rodeo
@klu9 wait is that its official title or something?
So, is this foreshadowing? Does Godzilla get defeated by clouds of cyanide gas this movie?
This opening is like the equivalent of 10 minutes of narration, except that, y'know, you don't have any
I'm so confused is this the movie or a preroll or what #monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature
Well, I'll leave y'all to enjoy the #WrongFrogs movie :)
I am using #ItalianGodzilla as the double feature hashtag and nobody can stop me
Thanks, wasn't sure if it was me or something else.
BTW the Miru stream was very good for me tonight, I watched it instead of Plex
oompa oompa oompa oompa
Here for #monsterdondoublefeature #monsterdon and how about somebody just let me know when the strobing stops