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- From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:23:12 GMT
- Subject: Re: GODZILLA NEWS
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- Actually, its GOJURA.. Godzilla is half gorilla GO and half whale JURA...
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- "Terrible Creature of the Hydrogen Bomb"...his brutal ways are cover
- for a pacifist, anti-nuke past.
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- He was born as Godzilla, King of the Monsters (starring Raymond Burr)
- over 30 years ago. This is not the recent remake starring Burr by the
- way.
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- Toho studios transformed Gojura into Godzilla....losing the schoolgirl
- choirs singing about peace, and his Hiroshima dialogue (First the
- radio-active rain. Then the evacuation. What's next?)
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- In the original flick, he took down Tokyo, and everyone knew who he was
- --not just a consequence of the Bomb, but the Bomb itself. He was the
- enemy, and he was our fault.
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- Yet when he came west, Gojura became just another monster--"some
- parvenu creature," as snobbish critics said. In later flicks, he was
- even "defender of the Earth"--our chum, battling interstellar
- cockroaches, dragons with chain-saws in their bellies, the Smog Monster
- and the Thing. Mothra, a bionic version of himself, and King Kong.
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- But Old Godzilla never dies..he just simply wades away.
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- Now Godzilla is seen in soft drink ads on television, and has a cute
- publicist.
-
- Gojura was "anti-materialist," says his producer, Tomoyuki Tanaka,
- unsmiling. "Everyone is so concerned with material things, and Gojura
- rips them apart."
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- all disclaimers apply
- "And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was
- full of huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving all around
- the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour..."
- -Hunter S. Thompson
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