Thursday, May 28, 2009

Salute to the King of the Monsters

My favorite Godzilla movie line was: "Godzilla is attacking the city. This is no drill." Clearly, the authorities wanted to alert the public to a danger that might be confused with just another boring giant-fire-breathing-dinosaur-attack drill.



h/t:CinemaKaBang.

5 comments:

Keeper said...

An old friend of mine used to love a line he remembered from one of the old Japanese monster films. I've never seen a film with this line myself, but the line he loved was:

"Oh no! Half of Fujitsu is destroyed! Now we will have to order parts from America!"

Whether he made that up or that really was something he heard in a movie is debatable.

JP Mac said...

I think the guys that translated these for English dubbing had their little fun.

Keeper said...

Indeed. I wonder if they were actually translated, or merely re-written based on a vague synopsis, like the Japanese animated series Jungle Taitei in the '60s (known as "Kimba the White Lion" in the U.S., which apparently was full of conflicting plot points as a result).

One would have to listen to the original Japanese for a few scenes to compare to the English dubs.

takineko said...

Oh no! He is back!
I have failed to succeed! :C

JP Mac said...

Bad back.

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