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    Godzilla Reborn On DVD

    From the SciFi Wire:

    Godzilla Reborn On DVD

    Tara DiLullo
    01-SEPTEMBER-06

    Steve Ryfle, author of Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of Godzilla and commentary contributor on the new Gojira (aka Godzilla) DVD, told SCI FI Wire that the release of the original Japanese film will surprise fans who thought they knew Godzilla. "It's like a rebirth for Godzilla in a way," Ryfle said in an interview for the release of the new DVD set. "It's my hope that now a lot of people will see that the cartoony Godzilla movies of the '70s weren't the original intent of the character and the franchise. In truth, the Godzilla from 1954 is a different creature than the one in the later films that did the flying and the corny antics. They are two different beasts with the same name. Now we finally are getting to see these films as they were intended. On these discs, in particular, you get the American version we grew up with and the Japanese version. That's really exciting to finally see how you remember it, and then see it as it was originally intended, and compare and contrast and finally draw your own conclusion as to which is better."

    Gojira, filmed in Japan in 1954, was shot as a serious film inspired by a real-life nuclear accident involving a Japanese fishing boat contaminated by an American nuclear test site. The film's original anti-war message has long since been forgotten. "Unfortunately, a lot of the people who made the original film have died, but the interesting thing to me is that the director, Ishiro Honda, was fully aware that his film has been reconstructed for America," Ryfle revealed. "He was a very polite and reserved man and never expressed any displeasure about that. And, on the contrary, he expressed he was just happy that it was shown abroad. But because of the fact that he was so committed to the pacifist message of the film and the anti-nuclear sentiment, you have to assume deep down inside he was very disappointed that the film was so drastically altered, and much of what he was trying to say was taken out of it. I think he would be very happy now." Gojira is available on DVD Sept. 5.
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