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mgosdin
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Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:32 pm
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I'm liking this Gojira, clean, beefy, not heavily ornamented and definitely not a lizard.
I do believe this is going to be good.
Mark Gosdin
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mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
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Location: Katy, Texas, USA
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:34 pm
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Wow loving this Godzilla action figure!!! I can tell this film will be promising. 
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mak123
Joined: 02 Mar 2013
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Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:02 pm
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It seems better than the 2000 movie. I'd like to know why i watched that... thing.
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CCharmanderK
Joined: 08 Jul 2009
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:50 pm
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I believe I speak for all present when I say: Why isn't this guy the director for the live-action AKIRA movie as opposed to the talentless, racist hack we do have?!
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alf_lying
Joined: 19 Mar 2014
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:53 pm
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| Quote: | | so whenever we got stuck, or we ever felt like a sequence wasn't inspired enough, or we didn't know exactly how to give it that edge to made it feel as epic as we could, we would always thumb through the Akira imagery and suddenly get a wave of excitement or a new direction |
Well sorry, but that was lazy and uninspired.
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mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:12 pm
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| CCharmanderK wrote: | | I believe I speak for all present when I say: Why isn't this guy the director for the live-action AKIRA movie as opposed to the talentless, racist hack we do have?! |
I'll take that director over the one that racist who's going to direct Akira.
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CCharmanderK
Joined: 08 Jul 2009
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:15 pm
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| alf_lying wrote: |
| Quote: | | so whenever we got stuck, or we ever felt like a sequence wasn't inspired enough, or we didn't know exactly how to give it that edge to made it feel as epic as we could, we would always thumb through the Akira imagery and suddenly get a wave of excitement or a new direction |
Well sorry, but that was lazy and uninspired. |
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Wrong-o. Many famous filmmakers made some of their best films work by rewatching and taking inspiration from their favorite films.
Take PIXAR for example. They have an entire library of the crew's favorite films and a large, private theater room to watch them in when they need inspiration or are just killing time. When one of their movies was being made (I forget which one, I think it was Finding Nemo), the film crew filed into the theater room and put on Castle in the Sky. After the film (hell, after the opening scene, really), they became filled with inspiration and were able to create the wonderful undersea family adventure film we all know and love today.
Nothing today is ever original. Everything has been done. But what makes us keep going back and seeing new films and TV shows and other pieces of fiction is the way in which filmmakers take these elements we're familiar with and put a new spin on it. Watching one of your favorite films or reading one of your favorite comic books are both great ways of getting inspired. It's all about how you use said inspiration that makes a real difference.[/url]
EDIT: It was A Bug's Life, not Finding Memo. Still, excellent film, with inspiration taken from one of the creator's favorite films.
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alf_lying
Joined: 19 Mar 2014
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:51 am
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| CCharmanderK wrote: |
| alf_lying wrote: |
| Quote: | | so whenever we got stuck, or we ever felt like a sequence wasn't inspired enough, or we didn't know exactly how to give it that edge to made it feel as epic as we could, we would always thumb through the Akira imagery and suddenly get a wave of excitement or a new direction |
Well sorry, but that was lazy and uninspired. |
[url]
Wrong-o. Many famous filmmakers made some of their best films work by rewatching and taking inspiration from their favorite films.
Take PIXAR for example. They have an entire library of the crew's favorite films and a large, private theater room to watch them in when they need inspiration or are just killing time. When one of their movies was being made (I forget which one, I think it was Finding Nemo), the film crew filed into the theater room and put on Castle in the Sky. After the film (hell, after the opening scene, really), they became filled with inspiration and were able to create the wonderful undersea family adventure film we all know and love today.
Nothing today is ever original. Everything has been done. But what makes us keep going back and seeing new films and TV shows and other pieces of fiction is the way in which filmmakers take these elements we're familiar with and put a new spin on it. Watching one of your favorite films or reading one of your favorite comic books are both great ways of getting inspired. It's all about how you use said inspiration that makes a real difference.[/url]
EDIT: It was A Bug's Life, not Finding Memo. Still, excellent film, with inspiration taken from one of the creator's favorite films. |
How about you do me a favor. Look at what this director has done, and see if you could say the same thing.
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Mr Adventure
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:59 am
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| CCharmanderK wrote: | |
EDIT: It was A Bug's Life, not Finding Memo. Still, excellent film, with inspiration taken from one of the creator's favorite films. |
A Bug's Life is basically Seven Samurai. So yeah, inspiration comes from all kinds of places.
Thing Godzilla movie is going to be a thing of beauty I think. The director and crew seem to know where to draw all the right inspiration from.
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enurtsol
Joined: 01 May 2007
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:49 am
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From the source:
- Q: It’s clear that you have a strong love for the monster genre, as seen in your first film, Monsters. How were you first exposed to Godzilla?
A: The problem is, in the U.K. we all grew up with this Hanna-Barbera cartoon with Godzilla and Godzooky, which isn’t the most impressive first exposure. But then late every Friday on TV, they started showing these creature features, the Toho movies from the 60s and 70s. I was a massive, massive fan. I just devoured anything sci-fi, especially things from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Watching Spielberg movies they’d always put in little references to movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and This Island Earth and all these obscure b-movies.
On Friday night, they started showing Godzilla. I thought I’d hit my limit of all the movies you could ever get from that genre; then suddenly I realized that there’s this whole new world of Japanese sci-fi and fantasy. [Godzilla] wasn’t something that my friends were into, I didn’t really tell my mates that I stayed up late on a Friday and watched a Godzilla movie and recorded it. It’s the kind of thing you keep to yourself when you’re at school, but it’s quite funny now how all those same friends are so super excited that I’m getting to make this film.
Q: How psyched were you when Legendary Pictures approached you for Godzilla?
A: I had gone to see Legendary already. You go to all these meetings when you make a small film that gets on the radar of Hollywood. You get invited to a million meetings, and I literally saw and met 100 people in two weeks. It was a crazy period of time, and everybody was saying everything. They talk a really good game and make you feel like you’re going to make a lot of movies for everybody. You know that all of it is not going to happen, so you try and be realistic about it. I never really had any hopes that I’d get to make a major Hollywood blockbuster of any kind.
The meeting with Legendary went so well ... that when I left I photographed their building to remember it, because I thought “Oh, something just happened there. I think I’m going to end up doing something with them." That was such a great meeting that we had together. We’re all on the same page of the movies we want to make. But then six months went by and I started working on other things, then suddenly I got an email from my Hollywood agent saying “call this number now.” I went home and called the number at it was my agent and he said “Okay, are you sitting down?” And I said, “Why?” He said, “just sit down. Ok, so Legendary just called, and they want to know if you’d be interested in directing Godzilla?” And my honest reaction was “holy f***.” Then, they were saying, “are you a Godzilla fan?” because I was silent for awhile. I happened to have had the re-released 1954 version out on my shelf. It was right in front of me, and I was like “Yeah, I’m looking at it right now,” which they were very relieved about.
We met with Legendary and talked about how we didn’t just want to churn out some popcorn movie. This had to be as special as we could make it, and it took a year and half to get a screenplay that everyone felt good about. It’s a tough nut to crack, trying to do this sort of movie, especially an origin story. Once you’ve established everything, you can dive into that world. But for this, it was like setting everything up and explaining everything so that people who know nothing about Godzilla can come see it like it’s a stand alone movie.
Q: You mentioned in interviews that the 1954 Godzilla Toho film was a guide through your version of Godzilla. How much was Toho involved with the film, and how important was that source material when working on the script?
A: Toho was a partner on the movie, and I was very lucky that I got to go over there before we started pre-production and meet with the whole studio. I had the whole tour and even got to hold the Oxygen Destroyer, which is what killed Godzilla in the original movie. They even gave us the original sound files for his roar for us to base our roar off. My idea was: Imagine that this was a real animal that really existed and back in the 50s. Someone saw this creature and went to Toho studios and tried to explain what they’d seen, this real thing. Then they tried to draw it and then they built a suit and made a bunch of movies made off of that description. In our movie, the idea is that this is what they saw for the first time, so you understand when you see it how they arrived at that design and that suit and all those movies that you made. Hopefully in our film it feels like the real thing, because of the effects and CGI and the technology we’re able to use in this film.
Q: Do you hope that this film does for another generation of would-be Godzilla fans that the original Toho films did for you?
A: Nothing would make me happier than ... to find out that the sales of the original Toho movies went up triple or something. I feel like then I’d dust my hands and say, “My job is done.” I think he’s such an iconic character that he needs to be done justice. There’s a lot of closeted Godzilla fans out there. Everyday someone comes up to me and taps me and says “How’s it going?” Then in an instant they whisper in my ear, “I’ve always loved Godzilla. I’m a real big fan. Don’t f*** it up.” I think there’s more Godzilla fans out there than people think, and it’s going to be a big coming-out party on May 16.
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Catseyetiger
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:59 am
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I enjoyed the trailer and look forward to the new Godzilla movie!
may they make more!
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