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King Kong vs. Godzilla
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The 8th Wonder of the World vs. The King of the Monsters.The third entry of the Showa Godzilla series. After going on to helm numerous science fiction and kaiju films in the intervening years after the original movie, King Kong vs. Godzilla is the second film to be directed by Ishirō Honda. Known in Japan as Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira.King Kong vs. Godzilla, is notable for many things. First, it was the first movie to feature both King Kong and Godzilla in color and widescreen. Second, and this is really important, it had both King Kong and Godzilla sharing the screen at the same time. Thirdly, because of how much things had changed in the studio production-wise in the seven years after Godzilla Raids Again, it can be considered somewhat of a "soft reboot" to the franchise as a whole.Seven years after Godzilla's defeat, Mr. Tako, a television executive bored of a science program show with very low ratings, decides he wants to raise his ratings when he discovers a creature known as King Kong living on a charted island known as Faro Island, and so enlists TTV to find and capture the creature in order to do so. However, outside of the former Kamiko Island, a nuclear submarine is set to investigate an iceberg with high radiation. To the horror to many, the iceberg contains the radioactive creature Godzilla. With two monsters on the loose, Japan decides King Kong should be the one to defeat Godzilla, but which of these monsters will emerge victorious?Originally released in 1962, Toho's 30th anniversary, King Kong vs. Godzilla was the most commercially successful film in the franchise until the release of Shin Godzilla in 2016. The Japanese version of the film had a satirical tone, while the American version excised it in favor of a more conventional approach. The biggest difference between the two versions of the movie is the removal of most of Akira Ifukube's score, which is usually regarded today as one of the maestro's greatest works ever. The only pieces of music to survive this alternate edit were the natives' chants and a brief piece that plays during the jungle trek. It was in this film that Godzilla's theme would be properly introduced, although it was first heard by American audiences in 1964 with the release of Mothra vs. Godzilla, although the Godzilla theme in that film was also a modified version of the theme heard here. Fortunately, La-La-Land Records released the original Japanese version of the score, in its original stereo along with two bonus tracks, in America in 2005.The original idea for the film was actually conceived by Willis O'Brien, although it didn't feature Godzilla at all. It was only through numerous rewrites that Godzilla eventually became King Kong's adversary, and that was only after the script was bought by John Beck, who then sold it to Toho. The differences between the Japanese version of the film and the American version are discussed on the trivia page. The plot description in the recap page will cover the Japanese version of the film.The film was a commercial success back in 1962, and made over 350,000,000 yen at the box office, with a budget of 5,000,000 yen. At the time the movie was made, King Kong was still more popular than Godzilla. The Godzilla suit used in the film, named the KinGoji suit by fans, remains very popular, and the design was used for some of the earliest Godzilla merchandise stateside. In the following installment, the costume was reused for a few "big pool" scenes, namely when Godzilla is seen swimming towards Iwa Island, and later when Godzilla falls into the sea, covered in the webbing of Mothra's larvae.King Kong vs. Godzilla also remains notorious for being one of the most poorly preserved Kaiju Films from the 1960s and has had a rough history on video. In the 1970s, the film was edited down to 74 minutes for the Toho Champion film festival... on the original negative. As consequence, the cut 24 minutes went missing. In the 1980s, Toho's first video release used an awful 16mm print for all cut shots, but in 1991, the cut portions magically reappeared in 35mm, which Toho used for a marginally better restoration. Then those elements went missing again, somehow, and Toho's DVD is just an upscale of the laserdisc master. For Toho's Blu-Ray release, most of the rediscovered segments were finally integrated again along with footage from the U.S. cut. Finally, in 2014, the uncut version of the film underwent a serious digital 4K restoration that finally used the entirety of the available Japanese camera negative, as the shots from the first reel were uncovered again. The restoration was simulcast on TV and in Toho-owned theaters in the summer of 2016, and was met with very positive reception from audiences.Followed by Mothra vs. Godzilla.See also 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, a modernized take on the showdown that's part of the MonsterVerse. | |
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Genre Shift: The first two films were essentially horror films (and the first film being a literal metaphor for the nuclear holocaust and the events of the nuclear bombings and the Daigo Fukuryū Maru incident). This film becomes Lighter and Softer with satirical elements for both Godzilla and King Kong films. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Mentioned above when Mr. Tako's trying to gain publicity. In the U.S. version, Prof. Onuki is the one who drops it much later during the third act. | |
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Evasive Fight-Thread Episode: The reason why this movie exists is to show the two most famous giant movie monsters from America and Japan duking it out. In terms of who is actually stronger, Godzilla's atomic breath gives him a ranged edge and he holds the upper hand in most of the slugfests the two engage in, Kong's intelligence and use of Godzilla's kryptonite factor helps turn the tide. While the ending is ambiguous to a degree, Kong is officially the victor. Notably, the American version doesn't do this, clearly showing the Big G as the winner. | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Fujita's super strong thread comes in useful for lifting King Kong up to Mt. Fuji. | |
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Aborted Arc: From this film to Terror of Mechagodzilla (or chronologically, Destroy All Monsters), the events of Godzilla are never brought up again (The Heisei series did it as well, except in certain cases). In Honda-specific entries, he always reminds us that Godzilla's a radioactive dinosaur. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: On European posters for the film, Godzilla was often greatly reduced or completely absence, and even the titles were changed to omit mention of Godzilla completely, becoming The Return of King Kong in Germany, and The Triumph of King Kong in Italy. | |
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Widescreen Shot: King Kong and Godzilla first share the same frame in such a composition. | |
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Fantastic Drug: What prompts the expedition to Faro Island is a type of medicinal berry known as Farolacton (or Soma), which acts as a potent oneirogenic narcotic that knocks out Kong. This allows the humans to capture Kong relatively easily, to take him to Japan and then to fight Godzilla. | |
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat! | |
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: How the first rampage scene goes. All the tanks hightail back to the hangar after Godzilla roasts just one. | |
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Dumb Dinos | |
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Dumb Dinos: Dr. Johnson claims that Godzilla's brain is the size of a small marble (as in the marble that he's literally holding in his hand) while Kong's brain is about 10 times the size of a real gorilla's. This is playing into the stereotype that the dinosaur is a dumb brute while the primate is a thinking animal, never mind the astonishing claim that a marble-sized brain can properly handle a 50-meter tall radioactive Kaiju. | |
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Pit Trap | |
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Pit Trap: The Self-Defence Force's plan to defeat Godzilla, coupled with Stuff Blowing Up and Deadly Gas. Naturally, neither the explosives or the gas work and he simply climbs out of it. | |
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Fun with Homophones | |
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Fun with Homophones: Furue is puzzled when Sakurai alerts him about the octopus (tako) during the village attack. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: While he does kill a few people, Kong is less destructive than Godzilla and most of his rampages were due to confusion over some strange land he doesn't know or aware of. This actually makes his victory over Godzilla easier to swallow, since Godzilla remains a villain until his Heel–Face Turn in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Just as Kong is being finished off by Godzilla in the Final Battle, a random bolt of lightning strikes Kong, giving him the strength he needs to fight Godzilla evenly now. | |
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Recycled Soundtrack | |
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Recycled Soundtrack: With Ifukube's score almost entirely out of the picture, the Gillman's three note leitmotif now serves as both monsters' theme. Some cues go back as far as 1941's Man-Made Monster. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Fumiko, who is menaced by both monsters, each time while on board a train. | |
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Human Popsicle | |
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Human Popsicle: Kaiju Popsicle, rather — years after being buried in ice at the end of Godzilla Raids Again, Godzilla emerges from the ice completely unharmed. | |
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Screaming Woman | |
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Screaming Woman: Fumiko, although Mie Hama's Japanese performance is considerably subdued compared to the English version and dubs based on it. | |
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Stock Footage: In addition to the U.S. produced scenes, footage lifted from The Mysterians is thrown in for good measure. The invaders' otherworldly orbiting mothership stands in for the U.N.'s International Communications Satellite, scenes of panicking civilians obviously not tinted to match the rest of the scene pad out Kong's rampage through the suburbs, and by far the most notable usage occurs during the ending, where scenes of entire villages sinking into the ground and tidal waves flooding valleys were used to make Godzilla and King Kong's fall into the water and the following tremor seem more climactic. | |
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Harmless Freezing | |
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Harmless Freezing: Godzilla breaks free of the "iceberg" he was trapped in (originally Kamiko Island) at the end of Godzilla Raids Again and immediately resumes his rampage like nothing happened. | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology: Dr. Arnold Johnson, curator of the New York Museum of Natural History, classifies Godzilla as a dinosaur "possibly crossed between the tyrannosaurus and the stegosaurus". A carnivore and a herbivore separated by millions of years of evolution can interbreed? What!? Made worse when the doctor holds up a children's dinosaur book to support his theories. It seems he couldn't even afford a copy of Anguillosaurus, Killer of the Living. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: A small example, but this is the only known Godzilla film where the English speaking cast pronounces Godzilla as the way it’s spelt in Japan (Gojira). Later entries would keep his name as Godzilla. Also, in this film, Godzilla is not immune to electricity. In later films such as Ebirah: Horror of the Deep and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Godzilla actually draws strength from electricity. | |
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Hong Kong Dub: The ADR for the helicopter pilots is not particularly well done. The U.S. version appears to be closer to what was said on set. | |
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Inconsistent Dub: General Shinzo (who is unnamed in the Japanese script) is called Kenzo during one loop. Almost every dub actor repeatedly pronounces Hokkaido as "Hokka-yahdo". The only individual to pronounce it properly is James Yagi during the added U.N. scenes. | |
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Curiosity Killed the Cast | |
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Curiosity Killed the Cast: The crew of the Seahawk investigate the glowing iceberg containing Godzilla, and get killed for their trouble. | |
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Sealed Badass in a Can | |
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Sealed Badass in a Can: Godzilla, who's been trapped in ice for several years and finally emerges to begin his rampage again. | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: Being a relatively early, pre-Dolby film, the theatrical stereo mix has sparse centered dialogue or sound effects. Everything is directional. The monaural mix has a different center focused recording of the score and a few less sound effects (Godzilla doesn't growl when he gets the tree down his throat, for instance). | |
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Bumbling Sidekick | |
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Bumbling Sidekick: Obayashi, Mr. Tako's secretary, who is regularly chewed out by his boss. | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
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Dub Induced Plothole: In a cut subplot, Fujita is running experiments on his tensile strength wire aboard a ship, departing at Nemuro shortly before Godzilla destroys the same ship off screen. A plane crash is what motivates Fumiko to look for him in Hokkaido in the English script, even though the newspaper she's reading clearly shows a ship. | |
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Punny Name: Tako is a homophone of Octopus in Japanese and Furue literally means "trembling". | |
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Behemoth Battle | |
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Behemoth Battle: The entire point of the movie is to get King Kong to fight Godzilla. They both face other obstacles in their path before they meet. | |
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Everybody Smokes | |
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Everybody Smokes: In an effort to win over the tribe, Sakurai hands out cigarettes to all in reach, even handing two to a persistent boy. His mother grabs one away, seeking to light it up. | |
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Godzilla Threshold | |
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Godzilla Threshold: Crossed the first time in the series when the JSDF effectively uses Kong to finish off Godzilla. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: Justified since the original Kong would stand no chance against Godzilla, barely reaching the height of the average buildings at best and easily killed by regular machine guns. To make it a fair fight, Kong is beefed up to Godzilla's height, immune to bullets, and can harness the power of lightning. | |
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Mobile Shrubbery | |
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Mobile Shrubbery: Sakurai and the others attempt to sneak past the JSDF to film King Kong and Godzilla by hiding in the grass and holding branches over their heads. | |
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| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: Kong and Godzilla both have one. Godzilla trashes a nuclear submarine and attacks a military base, where he melts tanks and sets the entire complex ablaze with his heat-ray. Kong battles a giant octopus that is terrorizing a native village, which sets him up as the "hero" and also shows that he is indeed powerful, but clearly outmatched by Godzilla. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_7febc23b | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_830b0ac9 | type |
Final Battle | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
Final Battle: Godzilla and King Kong battle it out in one of the most physically taxing and carefully choreographed fights of the series. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_830b0ac9 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_838270b7 | type |
Slurpasaur | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_838270b7 | comment |
Slurpasaur: In addition to being portrayed by a set of props, the Giant Octopus was played by several real octopuses. Trying to get them to move around the set was quite difficult, but this was eventually accomplished by using lighting equipment and a pin filter to shine light on them. After the filming was complete, most were set free, but a few of them were cooked and eaten by the crew. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_838270b7 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The plot of the film is, sure enough, King Kong having a fight with Godzilla. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8409a385 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_85680fb6 | type |
Primate Versus Reptile | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_85680fb6 | comment |
Primate Versus Reptile: The Trope Codifier — King Kong, the primate, fights Godzilla, the reptile. It's even deliberately engineered in-universe. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_85680fb6 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_86f4f393 | type |
Stating the Simple Solution | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_86f4f393 | comment |
Stating the Simple Solution: A soldier points out when the military is preparing to fight Kong that their attack isn't going to work and will do nothing but make him mad. He's unfortunately ignored by his superior. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_86f4f393 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_89a17726 | type |
Spell My Name with an S | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name With An S: In the Japanese version of the film: To note this, he says this in English. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_89a17726 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8bb8d21f | type |
Big Budget Beef-Up | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8bb8d21f | comment |
Big Budget Beef-Up: Production value for special effects films had changed dramatically at Toho in the intervening years between 1955 and 1962. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8bb8d21f | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8cb844c6 | type |
Mr. Exposition | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8cb844c6 | comment |
Mr. Exposition: The U.S. version adds newspaper reporter Eric Carter and his interviewees, Yutaka Omura and Dr. Arnold Johnson, who spend a lot of time talking about King Kong and Godzilla and explaining things to the audience. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8cb844c6 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: Mr. Tako orders his subordinates to capture Kong and bring him back to Japan as a publicity stunt to boost their company's ratings. As they're shipping the unconscious Kong to Japan, the JDSF stops them midway because, unsurprisingly, they don't want Tako bringing a giant monster to Tokyo. | |
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1.0 | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_8d0785d5 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_91495e52 | type |
Heads or Tails? | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_91495e52 | comment |
Heads or Tails?: Mr. Tako habitually does this to make decisions. He even does it when the two monsters first confront each other in an attempt to predict the winner. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_91495e52 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_964ea66c | type |
A-Team Firing | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_964ea66c | comment |
A-Team Firing: In the Arctic base scene, the military really missed Godzilla. Only two shells hit him, but to no avail. | |
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1.0 | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_964ea66c | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_979f41a | type |
Continuity Reboot | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_979f41a | comment |
Continuity Reboot: Despite a helicopter pilot clearly identifying the monster, the U.S. version ignores the previous two films completely (also note that Gigantis wasn't really considered a Godzilla film in those days for obvious reasons), presenting Godzilla as a generic frozen dinosaur with no connections to the H-Bomb. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_979f41a | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9ae8eea9 | type |
Character Tics | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9ae8eea9 | comment |
Character Tics: Godzilla's "clap" seen throughout the course of the two battles. It even has its own sound effect. This was improvised by Haruo Nakajima in imitation of the gestures used by professional wrestlers during those days. | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9ae8eea9 | featureApplicability |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9ae8eea9 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Godzilla is shown to be weak against prolonged exposure to high-voltage electricity. The following film would take it a step further and had the JSDF nearly kill him with it. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_aac4eeae | type |
Same Language Dub | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_aac4eeae | comment |
Same Language Dub: The original voices of the Seahawk's crew were not retained and Harold S. Conway was given a foreign accent for whatever reason, again. A bit of dialogue changes occur too: In the Japanese version, the captain utters "Oh my god" after the engine fails, while in the dub he says "Oh, great" instead. The helicopter pilots' dialogue was changed as well. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_aac4eeae | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ac320c0e | type |
Nuke 'em | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ac320c0e | comment |
Nuke 'em: This standard B-movie plan is considered by the authorities, but is dropped in favor of the film's title. This is also touched upon in the Japanese cut, albeit more briefly. It should be noted that during the first scene with Shigezawa (which was shifted before Godzilla attacks the army base), he is talking about how no one should really be surprised about Godzilla's return. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ac320c0e | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_acecb17d | type |
Chekhov's Skill | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: During the making of a commercial at the beginning of the movie, Sakurai is playing the drums. This comes in handy later on when rescuing Fumiko from Kong's clutches. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_acecb17d | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b2283870 | type |
Retool | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b2283870 | comment |
Retool: Ishiro Honda originally did not want the monsters in a Lighter and Softer approach, as most of his kaiju films are serious in nature. From this film onwards, he chose to not direct anymore films after Terror of Mechagodzilla. | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b2283870 | featureApplicability |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b2283870 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b6de94d1 | type |
Executive Meddling | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b6de94d1 | comment |
Executive Meddling: In-universe. Mr. Tako enlists TTV to replace the boring low viewer count science show with a documentary program about Faro Island and Kong to gain his competitive pharmaceutical company more advertising revenue and publicity, and he wants Kong brought back to Japan as a mascot... | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b6de94d1 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b9c673a6 | type |
Market-Based Title | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b9c673a6 | comment |
Market-Based Title: Was released in Germany during 1974 as Die Rückkehr des King Kong, while Mechagodzilla was released as King Kong gegen Godzila later in the same year (in which Mechagodzilla actually is called King Kong). Italy similarly changed the title to Il Trionfo Di King Kong to avoid confusion with the earlier King Kong contro Godzilla (Gamera vs. Guiron). | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_b9c673a6 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_be03ba89 | type |
Lost World | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_be03ba89 | comment |
Lost World: Although it's easily accessible and has been mapped and charted, Faro Island is certainly one. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_be03ba89 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_be2a5b42 | type |
Anthropomorphic Shift | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_be2a5b42 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Shift: This film started the trend of making the kaiju more human-like than bestial, a trend which would continue for the rest of the Showa Era, with Godzilla and Kong having somewhat humorous body language (such as Godzilla's gleeful "clapping" and Kong scratching his head in confusion), and fighting more than wrestlers than animals. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_be2a5b42 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_bf67c13e | type |
Opening Monologue | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_bf67c13e | comment |
Opening Monologue: Parodied. It's revealed the ominous narration was only part of the show Tako was sponsoring and the host laughs before shifting focus to the Arctic Ocean. Played straight in the U.S. cut, complete with the same fake spinning globe and a stock quote from Hamlet. Averted in the Champion Festival edit, which begins with Tako watching the show on TV instead. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_bf67c13e | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c26e2b1 | type |
New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c26e2b1 | comment |
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Kong conveniently gains the ability to harness electricity to put him more on par with Godzilla, who severely outclasses him otherwise. At the same time and just as conveniently, electricity becomes Godzilla's Achilles' Heel in this film. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c26e2b1 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c30593f3 | type |
Helicopter Flyswatter | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c30593f3 | comment |
Helicopter Flyswatter: Although he doesn't actually touch it, Godzilla does down a helicopter with his heat-ray. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c30593f3 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c4b0faae | type |
Can't Hold His Liquor | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c4b0faae | comment |
Can't Hold His Liquor: Kong appears to be quite a lightweight when it comes to the Farolacton juice, as within a few minutes of drinking it, he's fast asleep. However, he bounces back quite quickly. | |
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| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c75df49a | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c7aacef7 | type |
Waist-Deep Ocean | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c7aacef7 | comment |
Waist-Deep Ocean: Captured by bumbling corporate executive Mr. Tako, King Kong is en route to Japan from the Solomon Islands when the dynamite on the raft he's secured to is blown up. The 45-meter-tall Kong stands upright waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean — a fair distance outside of Japanese maritime boundaries — and wades the rest of the way to Japan. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_c7aacef7 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ca81eae7 | type |
Hollywood Darkness | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ca81eae7 | comment |
Hollywood Darkness: Some scenes that originally took place during the day were tinted to match surrounding shots, but for some reason, in foreign prints no color grading was applied. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ca81eae7 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_cb5a0181 | type |
Where's the Kaboom? | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_cb5a0181 | comment |
Where's the Kaboom?: A classic example occurs during a scene aboard the ship, when Tako tries to wrestle Sakurai free of the plunger before accidentally operating it himself, to no avail as the wires had already been cut. So when that doesn't work, Sakurai and Kinsaburo try blowing up the charges with rifle fire, and succeed. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_cb5a0181 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ce6555f0 | type |
Lighter and Softer | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The first two films, Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla Raids Again, were more or less intended to be Horror films, with the former having a greater emphasis on tragedy of post-war Japan, the aftermath of Hirohima and Nagasaki's destruction of two nuclear bombs, and victimizes Godzilla as a victim of the same nuclear warfare Japan did. This film whisked the series off in a more whimsical, fantasy driven direction, and fewer moments of entirely serious drama are seen throughout the film. Godzilla himself has moved from being a tragic monster villain to just more of a general jackass. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_ce6555f0 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d129e13e | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d4df1797 | type |
Cowardly Sidekick | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d4df1797 | comment |
Cowardly Sidekick: Furue is initially more confident in going to Faro Island than Sakurai, but immediately loses all courage upon arrival. | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d4df1797 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d4df1797 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d71d51fd | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: General Shinzo at one point mentions that according to the U.N., Godzilla's continued existence would eventually lead to this. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d71d51fd | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7639dba | type |
Achilles' Heel | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7639dba | comment |
Achilles' Heel: Showa Godzilla's aversion to high-voltage/lightning-based attacks started with this film. | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7639dba | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7639dba | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7a92919 | type |
Indecisive Parody | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7a92919 | comment |
Indecisive Parody: The film contains numerous, humorous homages to the original Godzilla and King Kong, but at the same time tries to plays itself as its own thing. An example of this is the scene where Kong ascends the Diet Building, Fumiko in tow. It’s an obvious reference to the climax of King Kong, but Kong's performance is more in the vein of a confused animal instead of a jungle king asserting its dominance. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d7a92919 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Godzilla melts a tank with his heat ray, the rest of the tanks head back the way they came. At their first meeting, after Godzilla lets off a few blasts of atomic breath at King Kong and the ground in front of him, Kong realizes he's outmatched and executes a strategic withdrawal. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_d9cf40fa | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_da75a16f | type |
Monumental Battle | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_da75a16f | comment |
Monumental Battle: Kong and Godzilla duel to the death atop Mt. Fuji before working their way to the Pacific. | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_da75a16f | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dba1f5b5 | type |
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dba1f5b5 | comment |
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: King Kong and Godzilla are quite possibly the two most famous giant cinema monsters ever, and this is a movie about them fighting. | |
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1.0 | |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dba1f5b5 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dddbdc26 | type |
Monumental Damage | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dddbdc26 | comment |
Monumental Damage: Godzilla and Kong do their best to smash the Atami Castle to rubble. Kong crushes the front entrance of the National Diet Building in his drugged descent from the structure. | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dddbdc26 | featureApplicability |
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King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dddbdc26 | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dfb77c08 | type |
Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla / int_dfb77c08 | comment |
Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: The script never really makes it clear what Prof. Shigesawa's profession is (in the Japanese script he seems to be just a civilian scientific adviser). In one scene, he's the Minister of Defense, and in another he's given the vague title of premier. | |
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11th-Hour Superpower | |
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Eleventh Hour Super Power: Kong's ability to harness electricity against Godzilla. Ironic, as Godzilla would gain an electricity based power in a later film. | |
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Dub-Induced Plotline Change | |
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Dub-Induced Plotline Change: The "corns" exchange only serves to coverup the fact that the scene has been shifted. In the Japanese version, Furue is talking about Godzilla's sudden return, which took place after the expedition party reached Faro Island. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Godzilla, or at least the closest thing the movie has to one. Has good fun taunting Kong with his superior firepower. | |
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Popularity Power | |
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Popularity Power: At the time, King Kong was definitely the more popular of the two monsters, so of course he ends up winning the climactic duel, despite being much weaker (necessitating bulking him and giving him electricity powers, and giving Godzilla more of a weakness to electricity, to make it more of a match, but even then Kong's clearly the underdog). | |
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Translation Train Wreck | |
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Translation Trainwreck: The common old bootleg subtitles convey about 0% percent of what the characters are actually saying. Half of it seems to have been made up on the spot. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: While not the first it popularized movies with giant monsters fighting each other and one of the earliest examples of two popular icons duking it out. but the movie feels like a parody of these two tropes. The entire joke of the movie's crossover is a greedy businessman by the name of Mr. Tako brings King Kong to Japan to fight Godzilla for ratings but when Kong and Godzilla first meet Godzilla just shoots Atomic breath at King Kong, and the ape leaves seeing no point in fighting another strong monster for no reason, like most animals would. The only reason they do fight is that humanity slides King Kong down a hill into Godzilla. Also unlike most crossovers fights, there's an actual winner: King Kong | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Kong walks past a conspicuously placed Bireley's Orange Drink sign. This kind of sponsorship was something Toho started doing around Mothra. | |
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Global Warming | |
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Global Warming: The reason the Seahawk was sent to investigate the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas and the initial focus of the Pacific Pharmaceuticals sponsored Wonderful World Series. Everyone at the beginning of the film is in a tizzy from the bizarre temperature changes occurring there. | |
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Non-Malicious Monster | |
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Non-Malicious Monster: King Kong is disoriented from being thrust into civilization and in the end mainly just wants to go home. | |
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Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe | |
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Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Harold Conway is seen with one aboard the submarine at one point. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The first Godzilla movie in color, it makes perfect sense on why Godzilla's Atomic Breath is blue rather than red or green. Cherenkov Radiation is blue when radiation is ionizing the air, which gives its visible light the color blue. | |
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