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Godless Godzilla and Godzilla at 50
pjones writes " Monster Zero reports that Toho has taken the God out of Godzilla leaving us with the affectionate if diminished name of 'Zilla.' But only the American Godzilla will become godless. 'Godzilla' is reserved for our suitmation favorite, while his rival, now called 'Zilla,' is the name for the computer generated star (?) of Godzilla 98. And yes we will see the two in mortal combat with 10 other monsters in Godzilla: Final Wars. In the meantime, Godzilla at 50 events are beginning world-wide. Leave it to Kansas to hold an academic conference, 'In the Footsteps of Godzilla'. In San Francisco, the plans are more gala where more films and more Godzilla involved personalities are part of the plans for GodzillaFest which will feature 20 films (not all feature Godzilla). Any other Gojira/Godzilla/Zilla events?"
I'm surprised the OP didn't mention that Godzilla is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the U.S. premiere of Godzilla: Final Wars on November 29.
After reading the article a couple of times, I believe they are trying to separate Suit-Up Godzilla from the Computer-Generated Godzilla.
If you think of it as the opposite of USB 2.0, it all makes sense.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
...the "Godzilla: Final Wars" page, the (possibly incomplete) list of other monsters appearing is:
- Gigan
- Rodan
- Minilla
- Mothra
- Kamacuras
- Kumonga
- Manda
- Ebirah
- Anguirus
- King Caesar
- Hedorah
- Monster X
A couple of interesting links showed up while I was lloking for this, too. It seems that the holders of the *zilla copyright are about as uncouth as Godzilla itself: square-zilla and davezilla.
See what I've been reading.
We all know about the tension between the owners of the godzilla name and mozilla. Given the latter is a knockoff of the formers name and also uses a giant (at one time green) lizard as its symbol, it is unsurprising that the following comment is in the article:
"In America there are imitation products on the market that have the name"Zilla."
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Here's the basics:
2004 is the 50th anniversary of Godzilla's first film. Toho says Tokyo:SOS is the last planned film in the series for the foreseeable future.
Connected with the silver anniversary is a series of events in the US, similar to the roadshow the uncut sub-titled print of the first film had earlier this year.
Tokyo:SOS, as the last G-film, is something of a gala, similar in nature to Destroy All Monsters. In this one, G is traveling the world and fights somewhere around 10 monsters, one of whom is the American Godzilla from G'1998. G'98 will be done in CGI, whereas Godzilla and the other monsters will be suitmation.
That's pretty much what the blurb was saying.
It's all Krista's Fault.
This is the final movie before that semi-retirement. The retirement is reported to last at least 10 years.
In Japanese, the name is gojira, which is half gorira (Gorilla) and half kujira (Whale), so if anything, they have taken the Gorilla out of Godzilla, which leaves us with a quirky movie about a whale that fights other mutants over Tokyo and millions of screaming Japanese people.