You could butterfly Saban or even better FOX NETWORK!!! MMMUAHAHAHAHAHA
You could butterfly Saban or even better FOX NETWORK!!! MMMUAHAHAHAHAHA![]()
I was watching the Classic Media version of Ghidorah, The Three Headed Monster last night. It has audio commentary by David Kalat, who is the author of A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla series. He spoke more of Godzilla in general than the specific movie we were watching. He brought up a couple of interesting things:
1) Big monster movie's appeared in Japan, after they reappeared in the US after the 1952 re-release of King Kong. Godzilla wasn't the only one released at this time in Japan and it was quite possible if it hadn't been released, that some other giant monster movie from Japan could have captured the American market, due to how the Japanese film industry viewed these films, not as B movie fodder, like Attack of the 50 foot Woman or the Amazing Colossal Man etc, but as a serious subject.
2) With Godzilla and other monster movies, many other Japanese Sci-fi projects were pushed aside. Like the monster movies, the Japanese treated Science Fiction as a serious subject. There might be some other projects that catch the Japanese market. An earlier Battleship Yamato maybe?
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Disney's (and Fleischer's) work reached Japan before the war, and the
influence was primarily in style and character design.
I doubt they're going to turn their backs on comics, science fiction and
rock'n'roll just because the Americans are being mean right after the war
as well as before and during.
They renamed them and kept on using them, which is not quite the sameI don't see why it's so far out of the question. Americans gave up hamburgers and sausage and a slew of other "Germanesque" things during WW1.. I could well imagine a nation doing the same regarding the culture of an occupying force that leveled three of their cities and trashed a bunch more..
So if the delay of Japanese pop-culture applies to Gundam, then Star Wars would have an entirely different style since the concept of a lightsaber for Star Wars came from Gundam's beam saber.