KING KONG VS GODZILLA - Ishiro Honda (Godzilla vs. King Kong - 1962) 
Willis O'Brien will always be remembered for his excellent work in the field of special effects, for it was he who gave birth to the first King Kong film history (1933) and dinosaurs, the ape of the sequel, etc ... Later
technical supervisor was Mighty Joe Young (1949) known in Spain as the big gorilla, for which he received the Oscar for special effects.
In 1960 he had the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking a film in which King Kong will face off against a giant version of Frankenstein, but the RKO production had fallen into decline years before and in 1957 ceased its production capacity in 1959 was dissolved.
Other North American producers are not interested in the script and concept art O'Brien by the high cost of stop-motion animation.
And conversely across the world, Toho was very interested in the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking a film about King Kong. But they decided that instead of facing off against Frankenstein, the monster did the company star: Godzilla.
The idea was brilliant logic and rewrite the script after O'Brien, and buy the rights to use King Kong to RKO for $ 200,000 at the time, there was a film that cost a lot of million yen.
The film was to shoot in Sri Lanka, but for financial reasons it was decided to shoot the film in Japan, on the island of Oshima. By same reason the monsters were actors in suits, virtually leaving the technical side of stop-motion.
The success of the film was brutal in Japan. In fact the film in the entire history of the highest-grossing Toho, with 12.5 million entries and over 350 billion yen in revenue. Given budgetary benefits in a ratio of 1 to 70. This means that for every dollar invested in the film, only in Japan were collected 70. AWESOME.
A unique data courtesy of mine (I love to do numbers, not like other critics who speak with your mouth girl) Japan now has 127 million inhabitants. In 1960 the figure was almost 94 million. Half the current price of a movie ticket in Japan is 1800 yen (depends on film and in that room fires between 2000 and 3000 yen.) Applying rules of three, yes, in 1962 12.5 million people watched the film, like now they had seen in Japan, 13.75 million people, that the current price of cinema there have led to 24,750 million yen. Dollars now would be King Kong to Godzilla has raised in Japan (correcting for inflation as I did) about 305 million dollars.
Make no mistake with the monkey and the lizard, which may seem far more ancient than a wooden bicycle, because in those days were super-stars that filled the movie theaters around the world.
today are unhappy that these films qualify as shit, that if the special effects were pathetic, etc ... We're talking about films that are more than 50 years old, half a century, and in those days in the early 60's, were the ultimate special effects and fuck, was last seen sticking wafers to King Kong and Godzilla while razed cities that fell to pieces under their feet.
See the photo above the post, the model of the resort by the sea, and is sure the quality and handcrafted detail that these large models. Chinese Labor! Japanese say!
And nothing this film is one of the best of Kaiju Eiga (genus of giant monsters) and I find it charming and friendly. Shit yes you poneis this film to a child of five years in the LCD or plasma, it will bomb!
And best of these films is they are 100% suitable for children and families because they have no obscenities, profanity, insults, topless, etc ... They are completely reliable as healthy and harmless family entertainment and children.
comment some details of the movie quickly ...
octopus scenes were filmed with four real octopus that moved between models and miniatures. Then he built two mechanical octopus, one at a large scale. Besides tentacles and seizing the island, were animated with stop-motion. Pictured
1 we discovered that the island of monsters is north of the Solomon Islands, east of Papua New Guinea.
Godzilla In photo 2 out of the Iceberg, after meeting with the American submarine. To me it seems rather that Godzilla was rodándose in a pool of apartments and the actor under the suit could not hold on and peed. Came the famous yellow spot, but it could have gone green or pink.
Hahahaahaha Pictured
3 King Kong is pissed as a monkey. Did I say that? Hahahaha ... Godzilla Turns out he plugged his atomic breath and fuck his hairy chest ... He depilated! Now we know that King Kong is not to wax but with Godzilla. That bad joke! Hahahahahaha ...
a classic film of fantasy and one of the best exponent of Kaiju Eiga. The scene of King Kong to fight Godzilla in Atami Japanese castle is unforgettable.
finish commenting the alternate endings. Some say that there are two endings, one where Kong earns (U.S. version) and another in which Godzilla wins (Japanese version). That's on paper it makes sense but in reality there is only one final, in which the bugs fall into the water, and only comes to the surface Kong.
The hoax came two alternate endings, 1962, issue of Spacemen Magazine, sister magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, explaining that "story." But no one stopped to check if it was true or not, and the numbers 51 and 114 of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, republish this article as true. Hell, in the 80 to the board game Trivial Pursuit, had the question: "Who wins in the Japanese version of King Kong to Godzilla?" And it felt like Godzilla right question. It is, therefore, that the myth of the two alternate endings expanded and made "real" and accepted by all fans of fantasy films when in fact it never did.
Names in other countries:
Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira
キングコング 対 ゴジラ
The Return of the King Kong Godzilla
- hard battle of the giants Germany (video title)
Il Trionfo di King Kong King Kong
contre Godzilla King Kong returns
King Kong, o kyriarhos tis Gis
金刚 大战 哥斯拉
King Kong Godzilla contra
Кинг Конг против Годзиллы
