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Background
I did come by the Terry Morse directed Godzilla : King of the Monsters when I was much younger, but due to it being black and white and being a bit more sober [ had to be very small since it was TNT’s Monstervision]. I popped in the 1954 version and it really impacted me as a twelve year old back in 2006. The love triangle, the very sober and terrifying devastation of a giant monster attack, and how completely and utterly different it was from the Godzilla I grew up with, shocked me. After I seen Gojira a couple of times, I went to the American version. Fast forward when the recent Hollywood film came out. I was in college, and made me want to watch the films once more in my collection. I took a look at both films and thought to myself, “why not do it?” Originally I went for a cut that combined not only the American and Japanese cuts, but also the 1955 sequel. As much as I want to remake that cut, I want to do this one mainly because I love both cuts, but hated that I had to watch one or the other to get the best aspects of both versions.
Mission of this Fanedit
This fanedit is going to be an English-language attempt of the efforts of the original French cut of Godzilla -King of the Monsters, which combined both the original 1954 and the famous 1956 King of the Monsters cuts.I first wanted to merge King of the Monsters and Gojira, and in fact did so with DVD rips. Now, since I have the Criterion Collection that has both cuts at optimal quality, I wanted to re-attempt this cut once more.
Discovering that there was, in fact, a real honest cut , which I still have to watch in order to compare notes so to speak, that combined those elements made me want to do this even further. But there’s a dead-end online, so for right now, I will just make due with what I got in store. Think of this cut as
Changes of this edit
-Reordering of American scenes. I have yet to decide whether i want to follow the American or Japanese ordering for this iteration.Japanese to include missing footage, or American.
-Minimization of English dubbed dialogue, subtitles.
-Dubbed scenes left in are for Steve Martin’s insertion and when it makes sense story-wise [or I cannot cut it out]
-Reinsertion of all the cut Gojira footage.
-Digitally remove the shadows on the sky behind Steve Martin near the end. This is low priority, but if anyone could help with this part once the initial cutting is done would be a good help.