King Kong contra Godzilla

Título original: King Kong vs. Godzilla

1963
A
1h 37min

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Un periódico y una estación de televisión financiada quieren causar sensación, que resulta ser el descubrimiento de King Kong en una isla. Es capturado y llevado a Japón, donde escapa del ca... Leer todoUn periódico y una estación de televisión financiada quieren causar sensación, que resulta ser el descubrimiento de King Kong en una isla. Es capturado y llevado a Japón, donde escapa del cautiverio y lucha contra Godzilla.Un periódico y una estación de televisión financiada quieren causar sensación, que resulta ser el descubrimiento de King Kong en una isla. Es capturado y llevado a Japón, donde escapa del cautiverio y lucha contra Godzilla.

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King Kong versus Godzilla: Battle of the Titans!!

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) was the meeting of the silver screen monsters. Who would win the championship title of "KIng of the World"? Will Godzilla squash King Kong or will he job to the old master? Can King Kong win fair and square or will he throw in the towel? Godzilla is back from it's last film. The people of earth are shaking in fear because no matter what they do to it, the mean mutated radioactive breathing lizard keeps coming back for more (and flattening Tokyo). Some unlucky people have landed on Skull Island and have awoken the slumbering King Kong. King Kong was at peace with himself (and the painted up natives) until he felt the presence of Godzilla and wants to squash the lizard. A hopped up Godzilla awaits the challenge and the two titans duke it out, the world awaits word on who's will be the winner.

I totally marked out for the movie when I was a kid. I was disappointed when I saw King Kong, he looked so paper mache and nothing like the original. The fights the two had looked like a pro wrestling match. They even put in the posing, sneak attacks, cheating, use of foreign objects and what not. I wished they would release a digitally remastered version of this film in the original language. Now that would be cool!!

Highly recommended.

Curiosidades
The unedited original Japanese version of the film remains the highest attended Godzilla film in Japan. It is also one of the most attended films of all time at the Japanese box office as well as the most successful live-action science fantasy film with admission numbers surpassing Hollywood blockbusters such as Star Wars and Avatar. To this day it remains as the 13th most attended film of all time in Japan. The heavily re-edited US version that inserted new actors and deleted several scenes from the original was just as much of a success at the US box-office as well.

Pifias
When being hauled around by the balloons, Kong's right leg is twisted around painfully and sticks out of him at an odd angle. When it cuts to the suit with an actor inside it, the leg is back to its normal shape.

Citas
Mr. Tako: King Kong can't make a monkey out of us.

Créditos adicionales
In the credits for the U.S. version, actor Kenji Sahara is listed as "Keji Sahaka."

Versiones alternativas
This USA version is re-edited from the Japanese original, Kingu Kongu tai Gojira (1962), and is vastly different. New scenes featuring Eric Carter as a United Nations reporter were inserted for the USA version, replacing some footage from the Japanese release. Most of the comedy bits featuring Shôichi Hirose and Ichirô Arishima are deleted in favor of bland action, screeching to a halt U.N. news reports which are completely dissociated from the story. In the USA version, Harry Holcombe recites a ludicrous idea that Godzilla is a cross of a tyrannosaurus (while pointing to an allosaurus in a children's book) and a stegosaurus. Most of Ifukube's magisterial score is deleted and replaced with themes from the score of La mujer y el monstruo (1954).