By italian standards, this one is not that bad at all, at least
there's a SIMILARITY to a monster that's actually in the movie. In
Italy, they usually mixed the monsters up completely, so it's almost
impossible to tell the movie from looking at the poster. Plus, they
would mix Godzilla (Toho Productions) and Gamera (Daiei Productions)
up, with Gamera showing on a poster for a Godzilla movie and vice versa.
Last, the names of the actors stated on the posters are usually
completely fictitious. Still, they sure made some fun posters.
And of course, having been raised in Germany, where ALL japanese
monsters were announced as either 'FRANKENSTEIN'S WHAT-EVER' or KING
KONG, I should probably not be too critical...
Helmut
I'd say your analysis is dead on, Steve. But I sure would have been
disappointed to see THAT poster and then go in and see a completely
different monster that looked nothing like the poster. Shades of
the Wasp Woman, when it comes to wild "creative license" that
borders on flat-out lying. Kind of like making a yellowed lobby
card look pure white through "creative lighting"!
Bruce
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Steve E
<[email protected]> wrote:
I think you are correct Bruce that the Italians used creative
license to make a creature in the movie look like Kong and named it
Kong, but I believe the creature is not Godzilla but an alien
called Titanosaurus.
In the movie there is Godzilla and 2 evil creatures from another
planet set on destroying Earth (Mechagodzilla & Titanosaurus).
Maybe why the creature in the poster is destroying the Earth (I
don't think Godzilla would). Titanosaurus I believe has been made
to look more like Kong (note the spikey hair). Here is an image of
Titanosaurus (on the right) (and Mechagodzillaon the left):
http://www.spaziofilm.it/content/archivio/win.asp?
id=6313&foto=5&tipologia=dvd
Some reference info...
I believe the Italian movie name (Distruggete Kong! La Terra รจ in
pericolo!) translates to:
Destroy Kong! The Earth is in danger!
Here is a plot summary:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073373/
Here is a trailer:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?
fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=21720905
Hope this is info of some use...
Steve (50s)
--- On Sat, 20/3/10, Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]>
Subject: [MOPO] The wackiest Godzilla poster I have EVER seen!
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, 20 March, 2010, 3:50
I was grading some Italian one-panels I have coming up for auction
next week, and I hit on one of the wackiest posters I have ever seen!
It is for Terror of Godzilla, and the Italian distributor
apparently knew that "King Kong" movies sell far better than
"Godzilla" movies in Italy, so they stuck a "Kong" in the Italian
title, and then made Godzilla look like "Kongzilla", with a spiked
head and scales!
See a preview at http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/
italian_1p_terror_of_godzilla_NZ00117_L.jpg
Bruce
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