Gojira / Godzilla (1954 Japan)
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Gojira / Godzilla (1954 Japan)
TAKE A LOOK AT THE POSTER BELOW. EYE-CATCHING, IS IT NOT?
It strikes me now, looking at a large version of this poster, that a lot of Godzilla's success back in the fifties was due to such impressive marketing. I mean, how could anyone (at least, of a certain age) resist going to a film which promises such carnage, such a monster? This suggested a new scale back then in the fifties. It was a step up from The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
It's ironic that the poster doesn't suggest what a moody film the first Godzilla really was. Moody? A Godzilla film? Yes, the first one definitely had a different tone from the ones that followed. Godzilla was a gloomy force of nature in this first one; the audience doesn't even see it in the early scenes, just a suggestion of a hurricane-like force, and most of the scenes are dark. I refer, mostly, to the original version, before Raymond Burr's scenes were added.
GOJIRA, the 1954 version, was a haunting, chilling experience -
especially, I believe, for Japanese audiences. BoG's Score: 7.5 out of 10
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