GODZILLA 1954 - A MASTERPIECE OF MONSTER CINEMA
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2023
- My fair use review and analysis of GODZILLA directed by Ishiro Honda
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Shin Godzilla has such a terrifying design really makes you wonder what he would turn into in a sequel
Great movie
The concept art showed the further evolution of Shin Godzilla which includes wings as well as an omnipotent god like form.
I had just rewatched this movie on my birthday last month and shown it to my sister for the first time and we both really enjoyed it. Godzilla is truly a beautiful and disturbing movie, even with the occasionally ropey effects everything else from the monster design, acting, cinematography, sound design, and especially score are fantastic. As someone who love’s history, nature, paleontology, and fantasy Godzilla is my third favorite movie after Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and Princess Mononoke, with Godzilla being my favorite monster and at least one of, if not my favorite fictional characters. It also helped get me into film as an art form so there’s a lot of nostalgia with it.
Agreed! 😎
Despite everything else that 'Godzilla- Minus One' has going for it (including the modern Fx's), the original film is STILL the GREATEST GODZILLA MOVIE EVER. The ENDINGS are the main reason. In 'Minus One' it is made clear that Godzilla has only been stopped for the time being (as a part of him is shown regenerating), where in the original film he is unquestionably killed. In addition, the sacrifice made by Dr. Sarazowa is epic. Then I feel that EVERY Godzilla movie since the first owes too much to it... The monsters design... His epic roar... The music that is still used in damn near every other film... 'Gojira' (1954) still reigns supreme, but 'Minus One' is unquestionably the second best!
Just watched the 1954 movie a few days back but I still think minus one was way better.
I'm ashamed to say as a Kaiju fan that I hadn't watched _Gojira_ until very recently. My best friend told me he had a rare DVD set that had a lot of BTS and reference media which was awesome. I was a junior in high school and watched it Wednesday, October 13, 2021, two days before going to my first music festival too. Despite his parents not understanding what we were watching and wanting us to get out of there lol, he stayed firm and we watched until the very end. It was beautiful, like watching a piece of cinema history. The way you describe Godzilla, in the beginning, is so true to what I was feeling, he is a force of nature. I now own that DVD set because my best friend gifted it to me because I gave him the first eight deluxe volumes of Berserk that Haloween.
Seeing the first movie in this franchise was something of a milestone in my life as a G-Fan watching all the ones before it as it was me seeing the origins of the monster I grew up loving as if he were an old friend. And as my friends & family now know I could-and most likely would- talk about this franchise for days. And I have no desire to stop.
Glad you shouted out Beast From 20,000 Fathoms; a lot of Godzilla fans haven't checked it out, but it's an important inspiration just like King Kong was! I also appreciate how you point out that this was the first monster movie with this level of destruction; Kong and the Rhedosaurus were both far smaller and less powerful than Godzilla was, so it was really the first instance of a true 'city destroying' monster. Fitting, since he's meant to represent nuclear destruction. Fantastic review, hope it does well so you make more!
Indeed! The Tokyo destruction scene would have been a big deal back then. Now it’s just taken for granted in Kaiju films haha
@@RealLifeRyan That they did it with practical miniature sets instead of just CGI like all the city destruction done in movies today makes it even more impressive
I actually like "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" more than King Kong because of how interesting the plot is to me and how vicious the Rhedosaurus is.
Ah yes, the Oppenheimer sequel
Yes 😎
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It's fascinating that theres many ideas of how Godzilla and Godzilla movies can be. You got Godzilla being a villain, Godzilla being a hero, Then most of the movies are all about fantasy, Ancient tales and popularly Monster battles while some of the films cover the problems with war, Nukes, the incompetence of Humanity and other subject it's dedicated to talk about.
I absolutely love the original Godzilla, got the Showa Era box set from Criterion this past Christmas and I’ve become an absolute fanatic. Even the campiest sequels are awesome
I'm a huge Godzilla fan, super stoked for this review.
There's actually 4 eras now. Shin Godzilla, the Netflix anime trilogy, and Minus One are part of what's called the "Reiwa" era.
In regards to Ishiro Honda being a veteran and bringing his knowledge of the horrors of war to screen, I wouldn't be so sure about that. Honda was stationed and oversaw a "comfort woman" station. Which is to say he oversaw and accommodated the SA of many women. I know he wrote an essay about his experience in a Japanese magazine in the 60's, but I've yet to find it, let alone a translated version of it. I'd be curious to see it's contents.
The introduction of the oxygen destroyer is a reasonable fear in what comes after nuclear weapons and in a way was ahead of it's time in realizing the potential of mutually assured destruction. This theme was hilariously pooped on in 2019's KOTM.
While the film did pioneer suitmation, it was initially a concession. Originally they wanted to have Godzilla done in stop-motion, a la King Kong and Beast from 20k, but they didn't have the talent/budget and went with suitmation as an alternative which unintentionally spawned an entire sub-genre.
Great video Ryan, thanks for all your hard work.
Appreciate it man, thanks for watching! 🙏
Alamo did screenings of the 4K restoration in November of 2021 for the film's 67th anniversary (plus a handful of others like Hedorah, Return, Biollante, and Shin of which I was able to catch all except Hedorah). It was a joy to watch the film with my father, surrounded by fans both young and old, and overhear all the reverence everyone gave the film as the credits rolled.
Also, if you have the Blu-ray, I highly recommend listening to David Kalat's commentary. He made one for both versions of the movie so you get around three hours of behind the scenes information if you listen to them.
We were two seconds away. Two seconds away from having this video's length be just perfect
The first Godzilla movie I ever saw was Godzilla vs Megalon. My uncle bought me a vhs for my birthday when I was like 4 or 5. I was also a fan of dinosaurs at this age so naturally I loved it. I've watched every Godzilla movie to come out. As a kid I loved the action and the monster fights. As an adult it's pure nostalgia. I understand the stories better for sure and can appreciate the darker tones. But I also enjoy everything else about it. To this day nothing makes me happier than to sit down and watch some Godzilla.
I watched this movie for the first time yesterday, and its also my first Godzilla movie lmao.
And honestly i LOVED it from start to finish.
Just as a Godzilla fan since childhood and got to Berserk thanks to you and seeing this never fails at making me exciting!
Awesome video Ryan! I 100% agree with you about how important and just a how much of a masterpiece Gojira is! It truly does feel like a horror film as well. Gojira does deserve to be in the same breath as so many other cinematic classics!
Yes! 🙌
One of my all time favorite franchises and one hell of an awesome video.
Fun fact: when I was enlisted in the Navy, the nickname I earned was Godzilla, thanks in part to being angry at the job and constantly watching the older films
Atheists raging that Godzilla is named Godzilla and not Sciencezilla
This is one of those movies you have to watch subbed. The American version dubbed it, added an extra character and cut some scenes
I agree. Haven’t seen the American version in forever and don’t care to
exactly I prefer the originals I don’t like dubbed films
There’s smth I feel everyone should really appreciate about Gojira. It isn’t just your normal monster movie like your Dracula or Frankenstein. Sure he’s a giant monsterous lizard, but also a literal metaphor of the atomic bomb and radiation. This, at least imo, makes Gojira probably the most terrifying monster in history, as it really makes you imagine the tragedy and devastation Japan faced back in the 1940s-50s but in the form of a titanic reptilian beast, way scarier than any medieval dragon….
Awesome film, just watched it the other day. Found it really dark. Truly a classic and important historical film
“Godzilla means ‘Terrible Lizard” - Tim, from BRAINPOP: The Adventures of Tim & Moby
An absolutely terrific review of the greatest monster horror movie of all time, I love the version with Raymond Burr, but besides that, the 1954 and 1956 Godzilla monster is the best and scary as Hell!!!!!
It’s such a classic! One of the best early kaiju movies ever. 🤘😎💗
1954 version is an awesome film in my opinion. I live in Japan now and people here seem unaware of its importance and excellence if they know of it at all. Nice video!
Man, if only this video was just 3 seconds longer. It would’ve been the perfect amount of time. It would’ve been a 19:54 video about the 1954 Godzilla.
Watched it recently and it's really impressive how well it has aged.
Go go Godzilla
I’d like a Godzilla Monster Manual with the same spooky vibe the Berserk Monster manual has.
I watched one of the other gojira movies before this one (color, don't remember which monster it was fighting), I loved how they looked. As a kid, everything that was retro immediately captured my attention. Don't know why, maybe it was a sense of discovery.
so growing up, my parents were the same way, but my father ultimately got me into Godzilla. when i watched this film, it was the 1956 american made film. it was on VHS, and i probably watched it at least 100 times? now i had never seen the original after seeing that film, because to me, that was the film that i thought started it all, and boy was i wrong!
i watched that original film in high school, specifically in my study hall class. i was bored and had nothing to do, so i watched the 1954 film. i remember scaring some class mates when Godzilla attacked the train after i gasped a bit.
1:16 Actually, the Showa era ran from 1954 to 1975, not 1974.
Till this day i wonder did they legit tell the little girl her family really died in a fiery death,then showed the corpses and told her its all her fault , cuz bruh her screams were intense af lol
Yo ryan, if you don't mind for some suggestions. I would like to hear your review for some classic movies flesh & blood (1985), 7 samurai, yojimbo, og blade runner, and 12 angry men. I think it is going to be great for your channel to have more varieties on your classic movies/series/franchise segment
Bro, I just wanna say I love the content you create and you have impeccable taste
I am huge Godzilla fan and kaiju fan too that is a masterpiece of monster cinema
I just watched this and although it may very well be a masterpiece of monster cinema I gotta say:
THE REAL MONSTER WAS NEVER GODZILLA!
Thank you for this video. I really appreciated your insight and commentary. Like you I have loved Godzilla since a child. I loved almost every one of the movies. But I will never forget watching the original Japanese version for the first time. It is a masterpiece. The acting, the cinematography, the music, and that story. It transcends movies of its kind. It never gets old, it ages like a fine wine, and each time I watch it, I appreciate it even more.
Bro we definitely had "the same" childhood hahaha. This is my first of your videos I watched can't wait to check out some more of your essays
I recently saw this movie for the first time on a old time cable channel , it was a surprisingly good watch , and much more than godzilla
Can’t wait for the inevitable deep dive of Invasion of Astro Monster with the OG chad Glenn!
I just watched this for the first time. Minus One has sent me spiraling down the Godzilla rabbit hole and I love it
My first exposure of the big G was Godzilla 1985. One of my classmates in 1st grade was into it, and told me to check it out. The only one tgat was at my video store was 1985. Starting with the "Godzilla vs Bambi" cartoon, I was hooked immediately. I have distinct memories of watching him follow the seagulls after he sucked the nuclear power plant dry. Then came TNT Monatervision, and oh man did I eat that shit up! One Christmas I got the NES game, and the 12 inch rubber Imperial Godzilla, and watched the movies with him next to me. I watched the 56 movie as a kid, and didn't think much of it. I was grumpy it was in black and white, no monster fights and there was too much talking and not enough Godzilla. As an adult, my feelings towards Gojira 1954 is identical to the letter of what you described in this video. A work of art indeed. With all of the content that's coming out, its the best time ever to be a Godzilla fan. Long live the king!
are you gonna review all the Godzilla movies like cinemassacre did back in 2008 if so awesome
I’m down for more Godzilla reviews
Love the Godzilla stuff
I was never a big fan of any Godzilla movie I seen, but I’ve never even seen this old movie.
Ryan, I only watch black and white movies during Netflix and chill. When the movie is so boring, there’s nothing else to do but to make your own entertainment.
The legend continues… 👀
amazing rewiew , helped me knowing something more abaut the monster, not the king of the monsters
Watching before Minus one!
A true Masterpiece. Thank you for sharing this review with us.
I would love a godzilla retrospective
1954 - 2024 70 years of the King Can't wait for Godzilla Minus One, and Godzilla X Kong
The original is why I can enjoy Legendary Godzilla but never love it. I don't think it's possible for America to have the same emotional weight to Godzilla. The original is brutal on the heart.
i was nine i only cared about the godzilla scenes now im 13 and watched it it was horrible in a good way it was sad and depressing i nearly cried and i want to make a story about americas mistakes and worlds and godzilla is in it but not the star mr shadow is meaning he is the shadow of us he is so powerful he can end every universe like that
I do like this movie, although Shin Godzilla will always be my favorite. The original reminds me of in some ways of the first Rambo movie First Blood in the sense that i went in expecting something else and being surprised by the end. Gojira ends not with huge battle but a murder suicide to destroy all knowledge of the next big doomsday weapon. First Blood is very similar in how different it is to its sequels. If you haven't seen it and know nothing about it go see it, stop reading. I saw Rambo 3 first and assumed the first would be similar, gun porn with a heavy body count. Not only does Rambo only kill one person in First blood (it was an accident) it ends with him having an emotional ptsd breakdown crying on the ground.
I had nearly the same experience with the Rambo films. Had the perception of the overly 80s action hero and then saw the first and wasn't expecting it
YAAAAAAASSSSSS LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO GOJIRA!!!!!!!
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A fellow godzilla fan?!
Absolutely 😎
Awesome review. I love this movie so much and I can’t wait to see Minus One.
Gojira is a pure masterpiece of film making and one of the most important pieces of art in modern times.
It's an anti-war film. Emanating from the deep pain and horror of post ww2, it of course is a stark warning regarding nuclear weaponry, but it goes beyond that and the monster can be seen as a representation of the human races tendency towards self destruction with warfare. A monster that rises again and again from deep in our psych just as godzilla rises from the ocean depths.
This message has been obscured over the years as the memories of ww2 have faded and have been replaced with a more romantic and surface Hollywood version. Emphasis has been placed on the nuclear aspect but it obscures the stark representation of the fire bombing of Japanese cities. The scenes of the destruction of Tokyo are starkly the experience of conventional fire bombing and not a nuclear detonation. Even down to the sound effect of the monsters foot steps echoing the sounds of an approaching bombing run.
Serazowa's character directly places the blame for the horror of war on all of us as a single race, not one of us can be trusted. His confrontation with the monster at the end is our confrontation with the monster deep within ourselves and the final message of "this horror is coming again" is chilling. Particularly as we watch with detachment the news of today.
I just flat out love this f'n movie
Godzilla may be the king of monster but King Kong is the grand daddy all monster movies.
Moar rlr godzilla ftw
How about a Godzilla verse retrospective?
This movie is what is known as a metaphor, for if humanity keeps testing the nuclear devices that created gojira another one might come up from the depths and terror on Tokyo, leaving it again land of burning buildings, rubble, burning corpses that mirrors, the destruction of the atomic bombs that laid waste to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the movie put it Godzilla is not a good guy or a bad guy. It has no personality. It’s a deity a God that has came to waste to Tokyo for our sins of the atomic bomb. He can only make peace with the demons and the demons. Want to make peace with us if we do not another, Godzilla could rise up from the depth.
So the American localizers just made up the name Godzilla because it sounds similar to Gojira?
Say it with me "Nu-cle-ar" There is only one "U" in that word there, Dubbya.
I did not enjoy the new one in the least. This original is so much better. Long extended Godzilla scenes, serious/realistic tone. Masterpiece? Without any doubt:)
Wdym the new one? Monster verse movies arnt suppose to be well written it’s suppose to be fun and action packed unless you are talking about minus one then you have no taste at all. It surpasses any Godzilla movie ever made. 1st one was the second best
@@nirogalactoid8398 Hardly any Godzilla scenes...no big armed forces battles. Saw his atomic breath what, like 4 times in the whole movie? It sucked and if you liked it that's just fine. We all have an opinion 😜
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It’s about time that the Gman got his well deserved recognition and respect. Since I was 5 wayyy back in time I loved Godzilla. I don’t agree with biologists that a Godzilla can’t exist. They forget or take into account that life & nature find a way to go on. Minus one Godzilla is not ridiculously big, the radioactive death breath is absurd & the fast regeneration process is questionable but I believe that if the conditions were right ( cuz radioactive mutation IS possible) Godzilla could possibly exist. Call me crazy idc, that’s just one dudes opinion.
How bout a Godzilla retrospective? Just sayin, I'd watch it from start to finish.