The title card says "King KING versus Godzilla". It goes by so quick I thought I was hallucinating.

Godzilla isn't a villain, but rather being a destructive force of nature, without any malicious intent.

6:01. Not sure if someone else has spotted this, but that's Akira Toriyama, not Osamu Tezuka.

When he mentions the "Salaryman genre" makes me think that it's basically a slapstick version of The Office.

That final monologue makes me want to see Chuck do Shin Godzilla.

Wow. Merian Cooper was awesome

after the 1st 2 minutes I'm already like "I can't believe I could hate hollywood anymore than I already did"

you are gonna get this so i might as well be the first to say it. that picture is not of tezuka. it's a pic of akira toriyama, creator of dragonball.

Once heard that Ray Harryhausen was apprenticing under O’brian during the making of King Kong

Aaaaand there should be a new MonsterVerse version of this classic next year if it all works out.

8:00 Wait, how would working on Agon (filmed in 1964, first aired in 1968) get Sekizawa a job on 1958's Varan?

Godzilla: “King Kong ain’t got nothin on me!!!”

I wonder when this was originally requested and if Chuck decided to release it at this time, shortly after the release of the polarizing 2019 King of the Monsters and with the promise of Godzilla and Kong fighting again on the big screen, this time with Godzilla taking top billing.

This was amazing! Thank you so much for this. I love how thorough it was. I need to go back and watch both the JP and US versions again now.

Using a giant gorilla for advertising? I don't think it'll catch on...

Why did you show Arkita Toriyama 6:02

Cooper was not only thinking of a color remake for King Kong, but thought of doing it in the new Cinerama process. That would have been something as well as challenging for O'Brien (no stop-motion feature had been done in any widescreen presentations), but I reckon that O'Brien would have welcomed that challenge!

At the end of the Japanese version we hear both monsters roar in the American we hear only King Kong. In case of Japanese version there's probably no double meaning connected with the choice but I'm sure American version tried to imply that Kong won even though we don't see the ending of the fight (or even if there was some action underwater) and it goes against Tanaka's opinion. In reality Honda was just satirizing the sensationalism and detachement from tragedy. Some guy's dumb mistake ended in tragedy even if Kong was supposed to be less aggressive we see him as danger. He destroys buildings and captures a woman. Reminds me of Godzilla in the next movie. He's just clumsy and doesn't belong.

The grandson of the original Frankenstein? How abby normal

>When you put your actors in blackface in order to AVOID racial insensitivity

6:02 that picture wasn't the artist you mentioned, the picture was akira toriyama

"here's King Kong versus Godzilla" Video ends. Nice.

Count Pulaski? Is that Casmir Pulaski that Illinois has a holiday around? 25:04 That’s the poster for 1992’s Godzilla vs. Mothra not 1964’s Mothra vs. Godzilla.

And then she killed the kids well that escalated rapidly...

Thus.. King Kong vs Godzilla was made

Light hearted in no way means disrespectful bad cinema. Much of the early showa films especially maintained a message to them mothra vs Godzilla and invasion of Astro monster are the examples. From critics on consumerism/capitalist society to allegories for gunship diplomacy, most Godzilla films maintained that political or social messaging to them but chose to do so with different tones. The ability to craft a film that can be enjoyed both on the surface for its entertainment as well as it’s deeper thematic qualities is something that many critics aren’t willing to praise. Personally I never understood why many fans say the only film to have any meaning was the original. I say they just aren’t looking.

I can't wait to godzilla vs kong on the big screen next year. I'm hype

i stopped at 13: 50 for a second...it's too bad they didn't put it "all together" for KK vs Godzilla like they did for Mothra vs. Godzilla even though to this day KK vs G 62' still holds the record for most tix sold for a G movie in Japan.

This is very well researched. Thank you.

Wow can’t wait to see this in theaters :p.

Those O and I keys are just so darn close together...

would it be entirely unreasonable to think, that obrien's version of the frankenstein monster, owes it's origin also to the story "the colossus of ylourgne" by clark ashton smith, which is basically about a kong-sized frankenstein monster?

Great video, SF!

It's ok to have fun if you came back to your roots from time to time.

"VERrin" again...

I really dislike the Americanized version. Too bad it's the only version available in the US for official release.

I once read an essay about how art made for patrons is fundamentally different from mass audience fare, and critics exist only because of the former, which is why their opinions on the latter seem so clueless and out of step. This would explain why critics tend to give a pass on the MCU, maybe they shouldn't even be reviewing those movies in the first place.

Kong and godzilla fought to a draw toho studios said Kong swam back to back to his island then made his next and last movie king Kong escapes while godzilla swam away under water and made more movies

Wasn’t there a Godzilla vs. Frankenstein concept and that is why King Kong is powered up by electricity? And said concept resulted in Frankenstein Conquers the World/Frankenstein vs. Baragon.

As of this post, the opening panel says "King King vs Godzilla".... intentional, or just a mistake (I've heard KZfaq algorithms are weird nowadays)?

Lots of stuff I knew, but I didn't know about the racism in Half Human and Varan.

So this guy is supposed to be an expert on science fiction films, but he doesn't know of his own knowledge what Famous Monsters of FIlmland is?

0:52 did you mean apex instead of zenith?

Interesting editorial like always! I never know that there was some connection between creator of King Kong and my country, Poland - it's nice to know! Also I don't like changing history, editing movies for the sake of political correctness - it stinks of "1984". As for Godzilla being a comedic character, I look at this like I look at Batman being a comedic character - I don't like it, because those who portray Batman as goofball are missing the point of a character, but there is a way to tell funny Batman story without making him look silly. For example I always hated campy Adam's West Batman and Joel's Schumacher Bat-movies, because in those works Batman is shown as a clown, but recently I watched little, animated film called "Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and it convince me that you can have funny Batman movie WITHOUT making Batman look stupid - it mentioned fim Batman is a serious character and Turtles are goofballs! I think the same can be done with Godzilla - don't make him dance after he wins a fight, don't make him use his atomic breath to fly...Godzilla don't have to be a bad guy but he should ALWAYS be formidable and threatening, not a silly goofball !

18:47 "source of shame for modern Japan" that's not true

ha ha "might have survived?" Godzilla falls into the ocean...his home...unhurt...didn't realize gorillas or apes were such great swimmers???? what did Kong do underwater..choke G-MAN out?? HA HA PLZ!!!! IT WAS A DRAW just like in "Invasion of the Astro Monster" when Rodan AND Godzilla fall in the ocean and King Ghidorah flies away ...did G and Rodan lose??? of course not!!!! plus the Japanese version has both roars signifying a draw..period. Even tho the English "version" deletes Godzilla's roar. How did Kong get so tall too!!??? oh well fun movie but I will ONLY watch the Japanese version.

Not sure about KKvG but in Mothra, there are all manner of various tints of blackface. Thing is, African actors weren't too thick on the ground in Japan, on account of them not kidnapping millions of poor sods from Africa centuries earlier. Honda literally uses something we perceive now as racist, purely to demonstrate Infant Island is a paradise of racial harmony (the couple at the centre of the big dance ritual are even mixed race). Just by the by......I'm not sure African actors would have been quite right either as I believe what (again, at least in Mothra, but probably here too) is being depicted is the skin tonal range of the various Polynesian peoples......perhaps Australians would have been a good fit for the darker ones. I do recall the "comedy negro" character in KKvG...... "look mummy, aren't dark skinned people funny", a nauseating trope wherever it rears its hooded head. It's surprising Ifukube went along with crappy Ainu depictions......I'm fairly sure it wasn't a black chap composing for Song Of The South.

If kong wins it will be bullshit legendary godzilla has tanked the meteor that wiped out the dinos at ground zero and tanked multiple nukes with no damage and can with stand ghidorahs storm which was stated to be the strongest storm ever seen ultra causally walks threw it and is able to throw hands by the fucker thats making it he's about country+ in pure tankyness and pure DC and you could high ball him to continental