1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:04,200 Apparently the Mothra larva took eight people to operate. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,500 I was curious about that. I was going to ask you. 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:08,200 How many injuries were sustained under? 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:10,600 As far as I can tell? No major injuries. 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,700 Haro Nakajima made it out of this movie, unscathed. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,800 Hello, everyone, and welcome to Castle Bravo. 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,000 A Godzilla versus retrospective. I'm Derek. 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,500 And I'm Charlotte. And we're two siblings here to 9 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,100 examine the history of the Godzilla franchise one movie at 10 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:38,600 a time. Charlotte, what's up? 11 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,500 How we doing today? Pretty good. 12 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:48,800 Once I clear my throat, okay. Um, two games that I care about 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,200 a lot, had new games come out. So I've been doing that and 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,300 nothing but that aside from watching, Today's movie. 15 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,700 Yeah, this has been a really stacked couple of weeks for 16 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:02,700 games, like not to advertise other games. 17 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:04,500 These are just talking about things that we love for a 18 00:01:04,507 --> 00:01:06,400 moment. We had what new Samurai 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,800 Warriors, we had now, two new, a satyr knees, drop together, new 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,000 the world, we knew the world ends with you, like this is good 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,200 shit. This is good shit. 22 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,900 And then I'm kind of curious. I think it's cyberconnect2 put 23 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:22,600 out this little game called fuga Memories of Steel that for some 24 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,700 reason, every time I see screenshots of it, Is really 25 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:30,300 getting my attention as a cool. Weird little indie project. 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,000 And I just know, there's been a bunch of stuff that I'm going to 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 miss. This is we've been in a drought 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,800 and now there's a bunch of things and it's exciting. 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,400 Yeah, I've been doing okay, likewise just loaded down with 30 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:46,000 games, very busy, very tired. I'm wearing a mask again in the 31 00:01:46,008 --> 00:01:48,000 grocery store. You know, how it goes? 32 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:51,200 Because I know, because I never stopped wearing it because well 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:56,000 for a while cases were low. And then Here we are. 34 00:01:56,100 --> 00:01:58,300 I still did it. Yeah, yeah. 35 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,600 Good on you. Yeah. 36 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,100 But it's, you know, a wonderful thing is that we get to escape 37 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:09,199 from the radioactive hellscape that is our everyday life and 38 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:11,700 watch these movies about radioactive monsters. 39 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:18,600 That was such a good transition. Oh, it wasn't So so far in 40 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,500 Castle Bravo, we've had some ups and downs. 41 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:24,700 We started with the original Godzilla, which was incredible, 42 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,300 it's direct sequel, which was less. 43 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:31,600 So we had Rodin, which was incredible, we had the 44 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,200 mysterians, which I think we both liked quite a bit and saw 45 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,200 his like ahead of its time. It was good. 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,800 Yeah, like it's definitely very different and I can see where a 47 00:02:39,808 --> 00:02:42,800 lot of people wouldn't dig it so much, but I thought it was. 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,800 I we thought it was interesting and had a lot to say. 49 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:47,100 Yeah. And then last episode we About 50 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:50,800 Varan, The Unbelievable, which was very unfortunate monster 51 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,200 movie that went through a ton of production woes, the American 52 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,200 co-producer pulled out at the last minute, it was meant to be 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,600 a black-and-white 4x3, made-for-tv movie and had to be 54 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,400 converted at the last minute to fit in theaters and a lot of 55 00:03:04,408 --> 00:03:07,400 that shows. But the nice thing is that 56 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,400 today, we're moving back into what I consider one of the high 57 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,600 points of the season with. Yeah. 58 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,100 With daily sounded, real hard. Yes, they did with today's movie 59 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,300 moth. Thera. 60 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:22,700 Funny thing, we are actually only a couple days past the 60th 61 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:24,500 anniversary of this movie's release. 62 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:26,700 As of, uh, as of time of recording. 63 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:30,300 Not as of time that you listener, listening, I can't 64 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:34,600 make that magic happen. So you can wait a year to 65 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:40,400 release it. No, first, you know, that would 66 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,500 give me a lot of time to goof around and not edit these 67 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:48,600 podcasts, but I was chairman, I do need to get these out. 68 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:54,200 So Charlotte tell us what Mothra is about. 69 00:03:55,700 --> 00:04:02,700 So Mothra is a movie that is about 20 minutes longer than any 70 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:06,600 of the movies we've seen so far. So there's a lot of plot. 71 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,300 I will do my best to kind of Squish that down. 72 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:11,000 Now, let's cut it down to the CliffsNotes. 73 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:15,300 Yeah, so our starting seen its typhoon season. 74 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,700 There's a powerful one. Heading past the Caroline 75 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:22,400 Islands, there's a large ship being caught in it and that ship 76 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,900 is starting to drift towards infant Island. 77 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:28,900 Where the Is a lot of radiation. It is, it's a radiation Zone. 78 00:04:29,700 --> 00:04:31,300 There were nuclear test on there. 79 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,700 So the ship's capsizing, the crew escapes, they end up 80 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:41,900 drifting on to the island as well, and then they have to go 81 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:44,000 and rescue them. Luckily, the all the people are 82 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,600 still alive, despite the radiation. 83 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:49,300 And then we get our first protagonist. 84 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:54,000 Fuku de the the newspaper boy, he works for the newspaper, he 85 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,600 doesn't deliver them. He's a reporter is what we 86 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,600 should probably say. That's, that's the word. 87 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,500 You know what? The word wasn't coming, but he's 88 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:04,300 there. Reporter, sorry. 89 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:05,700 I know. That's probably offensive to you 90 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:06,900 too, right? No, not at all. 91 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,400 I have to slam two words together all the time. 92 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,300 Just to come up with a vague idea when there's a much simpler 93 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:15,800 word at the ready. Yeah. 94 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:21,400 I don't know, fukunaga comes and starts questioning the crew 95 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,400 because the crew states that the natives on the island, gave them 96 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,500 this special red. Juice to help them survive the 97 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:28,100 radiation. Yeah. 98 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:30,000 They're like, holy shit. There were people on this 99 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,700 island, we were supposed to have checked and there was nobody 100 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,900 there, right? And so, during this, the 101 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:39,200 realistic on government, which I saw them, and I saw their flag, 102 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,000 I had I went and I looked them up because I was like, is there 103 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,500 a country? I just don't know about, but no, 104 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,200 they made this country up for this movie. 105 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,300 Yeah. So this is, I want to, I want to 106 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,000 because I think this is important for the rest of the 107 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,100 movie as we describe it. We're Lissa is A made-up 108 00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:00,500 country, it is intended to be kind of a fusion of both the 109 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:04,100 United States and Russia that, you know, two of the biggest 110 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:09,800 Global superpowers at the time without being too specifically 111 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,700 either, right? So, it's kind of a stand-in for 112 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:16,300 giant Western superpower, but not any of the real ones. 113 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,600 I think this is interesting because the original book that 114 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,500 this movie is based on does explicitly use the United 115 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:27,000 States. And what we can, maybe talk 116 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,100 about why that might have been changed later. 117 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:33,200 But anyway, yeah, I think I know why fictional stand in Western 118 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,900 Country. Right. 119 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:37,300 Everybody has they sound like they're from New York? 120 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:39,000 But they can also all speak Japanese. 121 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:41,000 But everybody was like Soviet uniform. 122 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,200 Yeah and the flag almost looks Turkish. 123 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:45,900 I thought it did it first. When I was on its side I thought 124 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,600 it did like the colors were wrong, but that's actually just, 125 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,900 it's an eagle. I thought it was okay. 126 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:54,100 I didn't catch that and then the capital is Newkirk City. 127 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,100 Yeah. So so they put together an 128 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:00,500 expedition team to go to infant Island fuka. 129 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:07,300 De has snuck on the Expedition ship and forgot his very funny 130 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:08,200 the whole movie. Yeah. 131 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,100 This is opting to be some. This is a much funnier movie 132 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:13,600 than the last like anything that's come before. 133 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,300 There's a lot more slapstick in it. 134 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,200 Yeah. Not like overdone but it's this 135 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,200 is a movie that's having a little fun with itself and I 136 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,200 appreciated that. Yeah, I'll talk more. 137 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,600 That later. But yeah I don't know this movie 138 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,700 did like everything. Well who could have snuck onto 139 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:36,300 the ship where he meets Nelson? Who is fucking Nelson? 140 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:43,000 Actually our villain And Nelson threatens him, you know, all 141 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,400 that but they arrived to the island in Phuket has now somehow 142 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,900 part of this Expedition, he managed to Charisma his way and 143 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:52,300 onto the Expedition team because I mean I guess they can't just 144 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:53,800 leave him on the ship. Yeah. 145 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,300 Which is weird because you absolutely could just leave him 146 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,200 on the ship but but he's a big known as a big Stout guy. 147 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:00,700 He could be helpful. Who knows? 148 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,700 He had an outfit like he was like cleaning. 149 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:08,100 Yeah, so I really feel like after the run-in with Nelson he 150 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:12,100 ran off and just found when the expedition Suits, you know, this 151 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:16,500 is a guy belong here, Nelson. Also in like Nelson, is this 152 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,800 realistic in businessman who's kind of funding the Expedition 153 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:24,700 and catches him sneaking around in his cabin? 154 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:27,200 Looking for Clues. It's also possible Nelson. 155 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,500 Just didn't want to leave him on the ship like while while while 156 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:32,600 everybody else was off of it because who knows what? 157 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,299 He could find any sense. I didn't think about that until 158 00:08:35,299 --> 00:08:40,100 just now, but that does make sense the island is covered. 159 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:44,300 In Jungle. And fukudome managed to Fumble 160 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:48,300 his way through it and Nelson. Finds him out there while dr. 161 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:49,800 Chu's. Oh, who? 162 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,100 I guess I did not mention up to this point but dr. 163 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:56,200 Choose 0 is an anthropologist that they sought help from he 164 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,400 hadn't been to important up till now because all ye that he had 165 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,200 done is briefly on the boat, he talks about how frustrated he is 166 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,600 that they're going to have to hand over their research, to 167 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,900 Nelson, this foreign businessman, rather than having 168 00:09:10,900 --> 00:09:13,400 control of Their own findings. Yeah. 169 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:17,700 Dr. Choose 0 is separated, from the team and he wanders into a 170 00:09:17,708 --> 00:09:21,500 Grove and it's got like alien fungus everywhere Vines from the 171 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:25,000 ceiling, come down and grab him. While these two tiny twin girls 172 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,200 start singing at him, wonderful one detail in because there's a 173 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,700 cool parallel here that I only caught watching it. 174 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:36,600 This time that I did not catch as a younger person. 175 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:41,400 All of the Expedition team have like an alarm on there. 176 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,500 So that if they get in trouble, they can press the button and it 177 00:09:44,508 --> 00:09:47,900 will sound the alarm and people can come and find them right 178 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:50,000 hand. And he sets that off when the 179 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,700 vines catch him and that's what leads the the girls to him and 180 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:58,000 leads everyone else to him, as well as he's got the come help 181 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,400 me alarm anyway. Yeah. 182 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:05,400 And then the team tracks, the origin of the sounds like the 183 00:10:05,408 --> 00:10:08,300 girls singing and then the girls start trying to sing to them. 184 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:11,500 And that's basically how they communicate the team. 185 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:14,600 He kind of gets the vibe, they're putting down and they 186 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,400 promised the girls. Hey, we're not going to do any 187 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,500 more nuclear tests, the girls are satisfied, but then Nelson 188 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:22,700 and another team member from realistic. 189 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:25,600 Oh, just grab the girls and then a bunch of the people that live 190 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,100 on the island show, ups are clashing rocks together and like 191 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:30,800 surrounding them threatening them until they return the 192 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,900 girls. So then the Japanese team 193 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:36,800 returns to Japan. But Nelson's, team stays behind, 194 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,600 which honestly, when I was reading when I was watching that 195 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,100 rather that seems a little Confusing. 196 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:43,200 Because I thought everybody went home. 197 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,400 Did you pan? But no Nelson, still there with 198 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,500 his team? No, I think they went back 199 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,300 because remember Nelson comes back on the ship and and 200 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:56,300 everybody is like welcoming the boat back and he gets in the car 201 00:10:56,500 --> 00:11:00,100 real frustrated and won't talk about the Expedition and then 202 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,500 and then they go back, I think. Okay. 203 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:06,500 So because they went and they found the two tiny twin girls 204 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,600 which they're like they say 30 cm tall. 205 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,400 So that's what like a foot roughly something like that. 206 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,100 Yeah, so these two tiny Foot Tall Island women. 207 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,500 Yeah, that they tried to kidnap and then have to come back 208 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:21,400 without and it's pretty clear that like that was the entire 209 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,700 point of the In secret. I mean, I guess I missed that 210 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:29,400 part, but basically doctor choose 0 has brought back a 211 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,900 scroll and it's talking about something called Mothra which 212 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,600 he's unsure on, but then Nelson goes back and they kidnapped the 213 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,400 girls and when the people of the island come and start 214 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,200 surrounding them again. They just shoot them. 215 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:45,500 And then one of the, the people on the island goes to like a 216 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,600 ceremony area and starts crying out for Mothra and the wall 217 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,200 breaks apart and then there's just mothra's egg. 218 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:53,700 Egg. And that's pretty cool. 219 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,900 I like the design on mothra's egg to that kind of yellow and 220 00:11:56,900 --> 00:12:02,300 blue, swirly pale pastel, kind of look, it's very recognizable. 221 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,500 So yeah like I see that and I'm like yeah it's Mothra Nelson 222 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:10,600 brings back. The twins to Japan for a Showbiz 223 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,800 act because of course he did. The Twins start seeing about 224 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,700 Mothra And dr. Chu's. 225 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:19,800 Oh, fukunaga. And Phuket, his little brother 226 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,700 who I didn't really make note of when I took notes because he's 227 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,600 not important yet, he's also there, but they go and they 228 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,100 asked Nelson to bring the girls Back to the Island. 229 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,300 And then they get to meet with the girls and the twin start 230 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:34,000 speaking Japanese to them. They asked to be freed. 231 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,500 They warned that she will come for them regardless of what they 232 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:39,800 do. If they don't bring them back 233 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:43,200 and meanwhile the people on infant island or doing a ritual 234 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,500 to awaken Mothra. And so now mothra's in, you 235 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:50,500 know, larval State, giant grub, basically Japan sees a giant 236 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,800 object floating in the South Pacific and that's Mafra 237 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,900 swimming towards them swimming towards the girls yet. 238 00:12:56,900 --> 00:12:59,000 Can I, can I bring up the parallel that I Mentioned 239 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,300 earlier. Yeah, so the sequence where the 240 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:07,100 two kidnapped girls, the the show begin are forced to do 241 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,600 their little song, and dance routine for the crowd and it 242 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:16,400 cuts back and forth between them and the tribal people back on 243 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:20,000 the island doing the ceremony to like wake up moth or and hatch. 244 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,100 The egg. One thing I noticed is there is 245 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:28,400 a like a stone Dyess I think I pronounced that word correctly. 246 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,400 There's there's like a stone platform like almost like a 247 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:39,200 almost like a platform in the in the center that is very similar 248 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,200 to the little raised platform. That the girls are singing and 249 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,400 dancing on for the crowd back in. 250 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:50,200 Oh yeah, Japan. And in Japan, they have all of 251 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,700 the fake performers dressed up as tribes people. 252 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:57,900 But then you go back to the tribal people actually doing the 253 00:13:57,900 --> 00:13:59,100 real Sara. Knee. 254 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,400 And it's very clear that the girls the show begin, would have 255 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,300 done that song and dance on the stone platform. 256 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:07,800 It's like, it's like a ritual to wake up mathur and it got to 257 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,900 work because they did it at the same time in two separate 258 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,400 places. Yeah, and I thought that was 259 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,200 cool. But there's also another thing I 260 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,800 never caught which is the whole. They make a big point about 261 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,500 people, having the alarm to set off to summon help and then the 262 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:29,800 girls, you know, they sing and dance and that is Itself the 263 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,000 alarm to call for help true. So I don't know, just a cool 264 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,100 parallel that we show. I think it's foreshadowing that 265 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,400 they make a big deal. Out of all the crew members 266 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:47,100 having this rescue alarm and then the song and the song of 267 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:50,800 the dance that the show be Jenner forced to do is like, hey 268 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,500 remember this? This concept we were bringing up 269 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:57,100 repeatedly on the island works the other way around, right now. 270 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:59,500 That's true. I didn't Really pick that up 271 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:01,000 since it was my first time, but yeah. 272 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,300 Anyway, so yeah, Martha is coming across the ocean. 273 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,200 She body slams through a ship, which was pretty cool and then 274 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,700 that brochure Ives. Yeah, well, I mean, she's just 275 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:14,900 trying to get to her destination and the shortest distance 276 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:16,100 between two points is a straight line. 277 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:20,700 So the Press arrives in starts grilling Nelson over it because 278 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,700 they're like, hey, you kidnapped these girls and no a giant 279 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:28,400 monsters crashing through our Navy and then hookah. 280 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,200 And Choose 0 go and speak to the girls. 281 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,800 Again, meanwhile fuka is having like a fight scene with Nelson's 282 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,400 cronies, which is great. I love it and I love him. 283 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:40,400 He's my heart and our with. Yeah, the reporter guy, they 284 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,600 call him the snapping turtle, because once he grabs onto his 285 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,200 story, he doesn't let go, and he's this lovely Stout. 286 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:52,100 Very, he's a chunky boy, and he's just very good. 287 00:15:52,100 --> 00:15:54,600 I love him. He's a tough boy. 288 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,700 He's a good boy, he's reliable. Yeah, you know, He's a silly 289 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:02,600 boy, he's all kinds of good manner of boy. 290 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,100 So he's having this fight scene with Nelson's cronies choose 0 291 00:16:08,108 --> 00:16:12,300 goes talks with the girls and then they return to dr. 292 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:15,300 Hirata who was somebody at the beginning who has a ball or 293 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:17,400 mustache? Yes, he does. 294 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:22,100 They're trying to see if there's a way to stop the twins 295 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,500 telepathy with Mothra. So that Martha doesn't come and 296 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:27,800 destroy everything. Meanwhile, the military does 297 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,100 what it does. And they send planes try to 298 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:33,700 intercept mathur with bombs. That doesn't work. 299 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:38,500 Meanwhile, fuka Dorada and choose 0, give Nelson a box that 300 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,300 will block the twins telepathy and I kind of like the the scene 301 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:43,300 where they're talking about that because they're talking about 302 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:46,800 this material, they could have bullshit their way. 303 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,600 If you like yeah we have invented a telepathy blocking 304 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,200 material but they're like, no we were working on this to block 305 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,400 radio waves and this might work and it kind of does and I like 306 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:01,600 the the implication that the telepathy that they are using is 307 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,400 really Ali, just like an ultra low band, like radio wave, which 308 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,099 honestly gives it more, you know, even more in common with 309 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:10,300 an alarm. Yeah, yeah yeah. 310 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,800 Yeah. So they given this box and it 311 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,900 doesn't really matter much because mothers already on, on 312 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:19,900 the way there she arrives at the coast of Japan, she is held back 313 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:22,000 by a dam but she starts destroying it. 314 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,200 Meanwhile, Nelson's, like, I gotta get out of here. 315 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:30,600 So Nelson, puts the twins. I got a fucking ghost. 316 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,500 Y'all can't catch. Can have some girls and now 317 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,400 there's a giant monster out for me. 318 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,600 I'm fully in the country. Yeah, hold on. 319 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,400 Just like dude, just give them back like at this point. 320 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,400 Come on. Have you considered no money? 321 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:52,200 Yeah. Nelson puts the Twins and their 322 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,600 special box because they are just singing from author. 323 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,400 The whole time, the dam burst, fukudome runs out until I get a 324 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,500 bridge being destroyed by the water and he saves a baby. 325 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:07,600 What a fucking Champ. Like, who does the man? 326 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:11,200 And then his little brother Shinji. 327 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:14,400 Is his name. Sneaks into Nelson's office and 328 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,900 steals the twins away from him just like his big brother a 329 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:20,700 fucking Champ. That's right, gets caught. 330 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:22,900 But I mean, what a cool. I love. 331 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:24,300 He leaves. The little boy. 332 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:26,600 Leaves. A note that says he's stolen the 333 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:31,600 show, begin to free them and then everybody gets up in like a 334 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,600 panic and starts going everywhere else to try to look 335 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,400 for him. And then he's inside and 336 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,300 underneath like a prop in the hallway and he goes into the 337 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:44,600 room and then goes to them like he faked them out and I'm like 338 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,800 what a baller eight-year-old this child is. 339 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:53,000 So, yeah, he does get caught and they do retain the twins, 340 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,400 unfortunately, but the realistic on government who, you know, 341 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,100 Nelson's with them. Essentially starts demanding, 342 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:02,500 the release of the twins. They've turned on them, because 343 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:05,800 it's starting to affect the relations with Japan because 344 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,000 he's going to cause Japan to be destroyed, and that's how it 345 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,300 goes hookah and choose. Oh, go and they save, Shinji. 346 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:16,100 Meanwhile ball throws crawling through Tokyo, the Air Force in 347 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:19,100 tank troops. Try to drive with her back, but 348 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:23,100 of course, Some work Mothra pulls down what I think is Tokyo 349 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:28,800 Tower it is Tokyo Tower yes snaps it in half and like gets 350 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,900 underneath it and just start wrapping herself in a cocoon so 351 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,200 she can transform so she can get the twins off the island at the 352 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,100 same time. Nelson is smuggling, the twins 353 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:40,700 out of Japan. And there's one point where 354 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:44,200 they're just like, okay, pretend you are a diplomat from Roll 355 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,800 Issa and you just like, puts on some glasses and he's just like, 356 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,600 hello, I'm a diplomat for Melissa. 357 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,400 Roll the skies check for past. Yeah. 358 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,700 Past anyway, but so he's leaving Japan, and the Japanese 359 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:06,700 realistic and governments gather around mothra's cocoon and start 360 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:10,600 firing Atomic, heat cannons to basically microwave Mothra. 361 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,300 I had a lot to say about this at the time because I was concerned 362 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:20,000 that this is a world that has been ravaged by atomic Ends and 363 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 here they are just bringing out their atomic weapons. 364 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,100 Yeah. So this is the beginning of a 365 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:31,600 long trend of weird, super weapons in the military's Armory 366 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,900 basically. And it's the only time that I 367 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:38,700 can think of that they are Atomic weapons. 368 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:43,700 You will see a lot of like lasers and super fancy missiles 369 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:47,100 and you know, freeze rays and things like that. 370 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:49,900 But this is this is the only time I can think of That they 371 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:52,500 are Atomic heat rays. And what I think is interesting 372 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,700 is that that's exactly what good Godzilla's breath is supposed to 373 00:20:55,708 --> 00:20:57,900 be is an atomic heat ray. Okay. 374 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:00,900 So I don't know if that's an intentional thing. 375 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:03,900 I like the new visual effect. Oh yeah. 376 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:04,800 It look great. Yeah. 377 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,400 But it is kind of like, hey guys? 378 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,400 Yeah. Yeah, the whole time. 379 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:15,200 I was like, what are you doing? But they do burn the Cocoon. 380 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,600 So the Cocoon is on fire and they're like, all right, we did 381 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:19,400 it. We killed moth. 382 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:23,500 Good job, everybody. Nelson is listening to all this 383 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:28,000 happen from realistic. Oh, he thinks he's escaped but 384 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:30,800 he puts the twins down. He's like, ha ha, got it. 385 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,900 And then the twins started seeing them author again and 386 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:38,300 Mothra just emerges from her flaming cocoon fully formed and 387 00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:42,400 she flies towards the Twins and the wind from her wings just 388 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,400 blast all the armies back. It's very like rhodium. 389 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,900 Yeah she's not flying as fast but I think the extra force from 390 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:49,800 flapping. Ying. 391 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:54,000 You clearly see it like flinging tanks and shit around. 392 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:59,600 Yeah, she starts flying towards Newkirk City and Nelson goes. 393 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:05,000 I got to get out of here. You guys driving away, but he's 394 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,700 immediately noticed by like everyone in town and the cops. 395 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:14,900 They're all like that's Nelson and so he comes out of his car 396 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,300 and he starts he like he shoots a cop. 397 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:20,300 I think. I don't know if it was a And he 398 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:23,400 shoots a cop and then like 100 cops. 399 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,400 Shoot him. Yeah. 400 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,300 Like he starts running away this old guy like always like, hey, 401 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:31,900 like grabs his leg keeps him from getting away while the cops 402 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:35,300 are shooting at him just Falls over dead. 403 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:40,500 Meanwhile dr. Choose 0 and the others are 404 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,800 going to the fairies. And the fairies have been taken 405 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,200 out of the car by a crowd of people. 406 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,700 And the crowd of people was like, when we just return these 407 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:50,700 these twins, I don't, Want them here. 408 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:54,200 I don't want to die and our whole gang, is there choose a 409 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:57,300 hookah the reporter lady that I didn't write the name of down 410 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:03,000 and they all deduce that the symbol on the scroll and also 411 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,900 unbeknownst to them on one of the cave walls to Mothra has 412 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,800 like a cross with a sun around it and that's supposed to be a 413 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,700 sign that's significant to Mothra. 414 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,200 And so they basically create like a landing area from author 415 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,100 by drawing. The symbol there and the church 416 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:21,900 bells are Meanwhile, they're considering this and they sound 417 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:25,600 a lot like the twins song so they have them, they have all 418 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,700 the churches in realistic, a ring their Bells at the same 419 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,200 time, so that Mothra will hear it. 420 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:35,200 Go to the landing area, and come down, and they can give Mothra 421 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,400 the Twins and then it works and they just do it. 422 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,400 Just kind of works. It's it was mathur goes. 423 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,300 Hey, there's a religious. Yeah, it's kind of weird because 424 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:47,700 they're, like, looking at the cross on the church and and I 425 00:23:47,708 --> 00:23:51,200 guess it makes sense because they're in a Western Country 426 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,900 that they are. Yeah you know that this Western 427 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:58,400 country is going to be more more specifically Christian religious 428 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,700 than generally spiritual as you tend to see more in Japan at the 429 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:04,500 time. Hmm. 430 00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:06,400 But yeah. It's very interesting and then 431 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,900 Mothra lands on the landing pad and they give her the fairies 432 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,800 and then she goes back home That's it. 433 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:18,200 That's all I wanted dickheads. Yeah, they spent like an hour 434 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,200 like most of the runtime. Just not giving back the people. 435 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,000 They say they kidnapped. And then who knows how many 436 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,400 people died? Yeah. 437 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,200 Well they they don't like to focus on that but, you know, 438 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,400 very nearly at least one baby. Yeah. 439 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,500 Luckily fuuka does the mayor hookah is the fucking man. 440 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:43,000 You know, one other person I made special note of who They're 441 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:45,300 when they're talking about at the end when they're all at the 442 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,900 church. There's just this one priest who 443 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:56,400 is incredibly Italian compared to everyone else. 444 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,600 Like I think they just got like there were like look all these 445 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,100 people are white. They're all going to seem the 446 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:04,000 same to Japanese audiences. Just work with it. 447 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Oh, this was a really good movie. 448 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:12,100 I really enjoyed it. It's, it's definitely Really. 449 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:15,900 I think it's the first of these movies that have had such a 450 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:20,500 large and defined and recognizable cast instead of a 451 00:25:20,508 --> 00:25:24,100 bunch of characters representing, some specific 452 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:28,100 faction of people. Yeah, this one is treated 453 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:30,300 differently than most of the ones before it. 454 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,600 I Mothra is still treated as a force of nature but it's a force 455 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,800 of nature awakened by the fact that they won't just do what 456 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,900 they need to do to stop it. Yeah like it's not something 457 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,500 outside of their control that they need to rise to defeat. 458 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,200 It's something totally within their control that they could 459 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:53,400 have just not screwed with But Nelson wanted to make money. 460 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,900 Basically, the plot of this movie is just King Kong except 461 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:02,700 they took two Islanders instead of the giant monster. 462 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,600 And then the giant monster came and-- wreck shit because it 463 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,500 wanted to return the kidnapped Islanders. 464 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:14,200 But other than that, like on paper, it's it's greedy. 465 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,400 Businessman wants to make money off of exotic things from 466 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,700 Island. And bites off more than he can 467 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:22,800 chew. That's a tale as old as time. 468 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,500 I want to shout out one particular scene, which is 469 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:29,900 really where I knew this movie was going to be great is when 470 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:34,100 the two reporters are trying to interview this Japanese man who 471 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:38,200 had gone on previous expeditions to unexplored islands and he 472 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,000 doesn't like getting his photo taken. 473 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,200 So he's always got a newspaper up in front of his face as he's 474 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,700 talking to them. And the reporter lady tries a 475 00:26:47,708 --> 00:26:50,500 couple of different ways to like sneak Photo of him and can't 476 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,300 trick him. So they put the camera away and 477 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:57,000 then she pulls out this lighter and she very like conspicuously 478 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,200 lights Phuket has cigarette for him which also super weird to 479 00:27:01,208 --> 00:27:04,100 see all these people smoking indoors so much in like public 480 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:06,800 buildings, but it was the 60s. Yeah. 481 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:11,700 But and she keeps holding the lighter in a very conspicuous 482 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,700 kind of way towards the guy's face as they're talking to him, 483 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:15,900 because he's become more comfortable. 484 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:20,400 Since they have, put the camera away and And basically, there's 485 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,500 a hidden camera in the lighter that she uses to get a picture 486 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:27,200 of him and it's just very slick and it's kind of a funny 487 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,700 sequence and they pull that gag not gag. 488 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:34,300 Like that comes back later when they need to get a secret 489 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:37,500 picture of the twins. They have the hidden camera in 490 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:41,000 the lighter and so on. But I just think it's, that was 491 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,700 a point where I knew like, oh, this movie is going to be kind 492 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,700 of funny. These characters are going to be 493 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:48,900 memorable. They're going to bring things up 494 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:51,700 that. Be important at later moments 495 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:55,600 that will get echoed at some future point in the plot. 496 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:01,200 Just very, very good. So, we got to talk about Mothra 497 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,200 because Mothra is, at this point, may be one of the most 498 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:10,300 well-known giant monsters in movie history, and this being 499 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:14,800 mathur has debut. I think it's interesting how 500 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,900 mundane Mothra is in this movie. Yeah. 501 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:22,700 I mean, she's just a giant. Yeah, there's no laser beam 502 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:25,600 antennas. There's no weird superpowers. 503 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,300 There's no, this is a big moth and a mom. 504 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:31,500 That big can cause a lot of damage, just by virtue of being 505 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:34,400 that big, right? None of the damage she did was 506 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,000 deliberate. Yeah, it's pretty much just, I'm 507 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,900 gonna get where I'm going to get and if something is in my way, 508 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:42,400 you know, not my problem. So exactly. 509 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,900 That's still probably more aggressive than we tend to see 510 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:50,400 Mothra in later movies. But, you know, it is worth 511 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,000 noting. This is not mathur coming in 512 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,100 shreking a city until somebody brings the fairies, it's just 513 00:28:56,100 --> 00:29:00,400 Mothra on a, on a straight line. Line, pretty much and and help 514 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,600 God help you if you're a boat on that straight line basically or 515 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,300 a damn, yeah, that damn gets fucking wrecked. 516 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:14,000 I loved the sequences with the dam bursting that must have been 517 00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:18,600 so incredible to shoot because it's all miniature work but it 518 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,400 looks great. Yeah, so they and like when the 519 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,200 dams breaking upon the water's coming through. 520 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,800 Yeah, and it's breaking bit by bit and I, you know, Did that 521 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,300 thing once again, where they shot it at a, at a higher frame 522 00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:37,300 rate and then slowed it down. So that the water coming out and 523 00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:41,200 moves a little slower and they must have been using some kind 524 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,300 of special lenses, I don't know, but they managed to take this 525 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:48,100 little bitty scale. Miniature of a dam with water 526 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:51,100 trickling and coming through it as it breaks and make it look 527 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:53,900 incredible. I mean it's this great work with 528 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,600 the scale Miniatures and this this has probably the most 529 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,400 failed miniature work. I've seen in these movies so 530 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,100 far. Yeah, I would agree with that. 531 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,800 Yeah, but I loved I loved Martha. 532 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,000 This is the first time Martha appears. 533 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,300 We got a good. Look at both the larvae form and 534 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:18,600 Mothra herself and you know, I don't apparently the Mothra 535 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,000 larvae took eight people to operate. 536 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,300 I was curious about that. I was going to ask you. 537 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:24,900 How many injuries were sustained under? 538 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,700 As far as I could tell? No major injuries Haro. 539 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,700 Made it out of this movie, unscathed. 540 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:34,000 Finally, this man caught a break. 541 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:36,300 They were like, look, this is a family movie. 542 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:42,000 We can't Mame Nakajima again. He put it in his contract for 543 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,500 this one. He needed a break. 544 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Poor Nakajima is over in the corner with like a black eye, 545 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,800 and a cast on his arm. But yeah. 546 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,500 So it took eight people to operate the Mothra larva. 547 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,900 And then Mothra itself, I think was mostly a puppet. 548 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,300 But yeah, that would make sense. But yeah, looks great. 549 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,500 Fantastic work. This is a kind of an interesting 550 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:09,500 movie because a, what a lot of people don't realize is that 551 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,300 Mothra is actually based on a Serial novel was published so 552 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:18,000 many chapters at a time, in an ongoing magazine called the 553 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,500 Luminous, fairies and Mothra. So this is not made up by, you 554 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:26,400 sure do Honda or a writer like for a movie. 555 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,800 This is then looking at something that is Been 556 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,500 previously published and deciding to make something of an 557 00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:35,600 adaptation of it. That is going to happen a few 558 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,100 more times throughout this season. 559 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:40,700 Honestly. And I feel like that happened a 560 00:31:40,708 --> 00:31:42,100 lot. But yeah, yeah. 561 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,200 And then like I said, the only major change as far as I can 562 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,700 tell is that they changed the United States and New York City 563 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,500 for roll essica. And Newkirk City, they 564 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:56,200 explicitly made it a sort of United States. 565 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,400 Russia hybrid too. Make it a generic Western 566 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,700 superpower rather than specifically the US. 567 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,400 And if you look that up Mothra is the only thing that comes up. 568 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,900 But yeah, it doesn't show up in anything else. 569 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,500 There's a couple reasons why that could be why they might 570 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:16,200 have changed the United States for this fake country. 571 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:22,400 There was a certain amount of censorship and control from the 572 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,600 United States on Japan in there. They're like film and their pop 573 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,300 culture exploits. So I don't know that they could 574 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:32,500 have Away with making the US, the villains or seem like the 575 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:34,800 villains. Like, that's a complication that 576 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,600 we have to acknowledge and also the fact that this was partially 577 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,000 co-produced with an American company, but we do also know 578 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,200 that Honda generally doesn't like playing the pointing the 579 00:32:47,208 --> 00:32:51,100 finger at a country kind of game so eight, that's what I have 580 00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:54,400 foreign country, kind of gives you the opportunity to not point 581 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,400 a finger at an existing Ally and be like, hey fuck. 582 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:02,900 Q, dude, it's kind of the way that that in a lot of ways in 583 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:05,700 the United States, we have a tendency to make up fake Middle 584 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,700 Eastern countries for a lot of war movies. 585 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,800 And I'm not going to say that's a great practice, but it's an 586 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:20,200 attempt to get around that. Yeah, I also note that like 587 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,100 realistic as a country is not necessarily the villain of this. 588 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:27,800 It's really just Nelson know. It's really it's just this Rich 589 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:32,800 dickhead Nelson and once the pressure is on to the realistic 590 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,000 and government they go. Okay. 591 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,300 Look, you do need to give up at first, they're like, look, he's 592 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:40,600 got the right to do business and, you know, however, he 593 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,700 pleases and then it's like, okay, no disaster is coming. 594 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,500 Fuck this guy. This is not our shit. 595 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,600 So it is just Nelson and he's basically a mob boss. 596 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,800 I could almost like a fart. He's like an art Thief sort of, 597 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,700 I mean, they even compare him to somebody who would go into 598 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:03,400 historical sites and steal artifacts and, and sell them. 599 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,900 And that's where he gets his money. 600 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 Yeah. So it's pretty clear that he's a 601 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,800 very crooked businessman, right? This had kind of a troubled 602 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,100 production. They basically shot at a 603 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:21,199 Different ending that they liked better than the one that they 604 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,600 initially pitched to their co-producers. 605 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:27,400 And like so I guess they were just they pitched one version of 606 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,800 the movie and then started filming a different ending. 607 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:33,300 But then the co-producers were like, no, this is different from 608 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,400 what we agreed to. You've got to do the original 609 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,800 ending, which they were fine to do. 610 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,900 They went back and did it, but they'd already spent a lot of 611 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,300 time and money working on the ending. 612 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:47,000 They didn't get to use. So but you wouldn't really know 613 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,199 that. That from watching it, it 614 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:51,699 definitely pulled together. Much better than save. 615 00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:53,500 Aaron. Did I'm going to? 616 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:57,400 I'm going to put one, one more, very unfortunate point on here 617 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,800 which is we got a lot of scenes of the natives. 618 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,700 Let's talk about the infant Island, natives for a bit so 619 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,300 UPS, and fucking Downs. Huh. 620 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:11,400 Ya know, I made a lot of noise. Yeah. 621 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,600 That's as it was happening and especially when they're dressed 622 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,000 up, as the people from the island to do this. 623 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:21,900 I was like, oh my so the infant Island natives are Japanese 624 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:25,800 actors in Brown face, in varying degrees of round face. 625 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:29,200 It seems like the men are broadly darker than the women, 626 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,000 but that's not like a universal. And it's kind of obvious and 627 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,800 that's really uncomfortable from a western standpoint, where 628 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,700 we're used to seeing black face and you see all of these lighter 629 00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:42,700 skin actors with this very obvious Brown. 630 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,800 Kind of makeup and paint on them, but then not their lips. 631 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,400 So, they've still got the bright pink lips and that's that 632 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,900 trigger some really uncomfortable feelings. 633 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,500 Yeah, there's just not an excuse for it. 634 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,600 I mean I would have been really great for them to cast 635 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,900 Polynesian actors to be these these characters, you know these 636 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:07,500 extras the monetarist song is in a Polynesian dialect if I 637 00:36:07,508 --> 00:36:12,000 remember correctly. So yeah, the the scroll was. 638 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Yeah and So the show begin are portrayed by a famous Japanese 639 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,000 singer duo called the peanuts. There are two twin sisters. 640 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,700 And, you know, I don't necessarily like that. 641 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,900 Once again, we're using Japanese actors to portray Polynesian 642 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:38,300 people, but at least the makeup work on the show be Jin is not 643 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:42,200 offensively done. Do you know what I mean? 644 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,200 It's relatively subtle. They look more tanned, but they 645 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,500 basically look like tan Japanese people, and I think you could 646 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,100 get away with that. They don't look like they're 647 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:54,200 slathered and shoe polish compare that to the Hours. 648 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,300 And a lot of them are very obviously slathered in, you 649 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:03,900 know, dark brown makeup and it might have just felt less 650 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:10,300 uncomfortable if the natives had been much more toned down in the 651 00:37:10,308 --> 00:37:14,300 makeup work, but, but here we are. 652 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,200 You're right? Yeah. 653 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:20,200 The movie, the movie tries to be on the side of the natives 654 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:23,000 broadly. Like this is, this is something 655 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000 we're Honda. And the crew wanted these 656 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000 natives to be portrayed, as they are living in peace. 657 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,400 They have their own way of life. They're doing great for 658 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,400 themselves. They've even got their own down 659 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:41,500 to Nature way to deal with the Radiation of the island with the 660 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:46,400 red juice that they drink, you know, and then it is portrayed 661 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,600 as a bad thing for, you know, businessmen from civilized 662 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,300 Nations, there's scare quotes on that, for those who can't see 663 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:59,700 me, which is everybody, but it is a bad thing for them to come 664 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:04,000 in and kidnap these two women and take them out and make them 665 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,500 pop stars basically for the time and Nelson. 666 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,300 Ian tries to play it off with this whole but look, they live 667 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,900 in such Grand Comfort. What could possibly they want 668 00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:19,000 more than this? That's like well home. 669 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:23,900 This is a thing that primarily European people but not 670 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:25,900 exclusively European. People is something that 671 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,800 colonizers the world over have done throughout history which is 672 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,800 you go to a place that you consider to be less advanced 673 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,000 than you less civilized than you and then you you kidnap young 674 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,600 people and you try To raise them within your culture. 675 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,600 With the idea that oh we're making them better, we're 676 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,600 teaching them English or French. We're having them dress and eat 677 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,900 like, good proper. You know, upper Upper Crust 678 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:55,200 people and we will, We Will. And then when they're questioned 679 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,600 about it, they go, oh, we brought them roads and yeah, 680 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,500 it's a pain to the savagery know this. 681 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:03,500 Yeah. And it's like, you know, this 682 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:08,500 movie really clearly does want you to recognize that that's 683 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,800 It's not good that you need to leave these fucking people alone 684 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,100 or if you're going to come to them you need to come to them on 685 00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:16,700 their terms. I mean, the sequence where they 686 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:22,900 just mow down the Islanders is it's a little kitschy in terms 687 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:26,400 of the acting and effects work. But it's a pretty harsh scene, 688 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,400 because they do straight up just mow down, dozens of Islanders. 689 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,800 Who were only trying to protect two of their own, and who posed? 690 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,700 Basically no threat to all of these armed. 691 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:44,200 You know, I they're not it's I think that Nelson works with 692 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,800 some Japanese people and some realistic ins, right? 693 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:49,600 Yeah. I mean like he's got kind of a 694 00:39:49,607 --> 00:39:53,700 mix in his posse his main guy like he would when he's in the 695 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:55,600 car at the end. That guy is from. 696 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,100 Yeah. And but then he has like a bunch 697 00:39:57,100 --> 00:40:00,600 of yeah. Yeah with with all kinds of 698 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,900 ridiculous accents and Nelson, himself speaks Japanese with a 699 00:40:04,908 --> 00:40:08,100 pretty stilted dialect which I think is interesting. 700 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,700 I don't know if that actor could only sort of speak Japanese or 701 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:15,200 what, but it sounded like a Westerner who kind of knew 702 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,100 Japanese, who was speaking Japanese. 703 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:21,900 Yeah, he's very he enunciates things, hardships. 704 00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:26,000 He enunciates things like like an American who knows Japanese 705 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,200 but does not have the accent. So like at one point he says, 706 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,100 like machito and S, which is of course, and he, when he says 707 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:38,100 that he says, like Mochi told me things like Mochi, Roan death. 708 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,700 Yeah. Like, you know, but I think that 709 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,800 that's a good detail that they captured and I think we're 710 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,000 talking about the the island. Natives is like, obviously this 711 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,500 is this is one of the more political movies out of a long 712 00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:55,400 string. I think a fairly political 713 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:01,300 movies so far in this podcast. I mean, the whole movie is about 714 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:06,300 some rich business. Fuck going into an exotic 715 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:09,800 location in stealing. NG to foreign women to make him 716 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,000 rich. And yeah, just yeah. 717 00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:18,400 Like it's bad and then you stop and think about put this in the 718 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,100 context of directory. Sure, o Honda having guarded. 719 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:27,800 One of the Comfort women camps during World War Two and side 720 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,900 note, small detail. I don't think I've brought up so 721 00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:34,500 far, but apparently he wrote and published a book, that was a 722 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:39,100 collection of the stories of the various women who Were at that 723 00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:42,800 camp that he had to guard as a way to kind of like talk about 724 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,600 what it was like to be in there and to share the stories of 725 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,600 women who were forced into that position and I would love to 726 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:55,000 find a translated copy of that. But like a lot of books about 727 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000 many of these these people that were talking about and about 728 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,200 many of these movies, they're old, they're out of print, they 729 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,900 weren't translated, I would have loved to find a copy of the 730 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:07,000 Luminous, fairies and Mothra and read it in English and that's 731 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,600 just not an option. Option. 732 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,000 So, but but yeah, so you take that very impactful part of his 733 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,400 life. And then you go to a movie that 734 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,300 is about the taking of foreign women and forcing them into 735 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:24,500 servitude, and then almost kind of like the Revenge fantasy of 736 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,200 their people. And their ways overpowering 737 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:32,500 Advanced civilization just through forests of because it's 738 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:34,700 what's right. Yeah, I don't know. 739 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,400 This is, is this an interesting movie and it's just a fucking 740 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,900 good movie. Like the, it's a greasy, it is, 741 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:45,500 I'm stuttering so bad today. And I'm sorry, it's okay with a 742 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:47,600 lot of these movies. We've had to spend a lot of time 743 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,800 explaining the depth of their politics and themes, and I think 744 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:56,600 Mothra, where's its politics right out on its sleeve? 745 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,000 It doesn't need a lot of deeper examination to understand, and 746 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,800 then it's just a good fucking movie on top of that. 747 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:09,600 Yeah, it has. It's like I said to you, you 748 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,100 know, outside of this earlier. It's the first movie that has 749 00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:15,700 like a villain because Nelson's just yellin. 750 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:17,900 We've had monsters that are villains. 751 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:21,300 And then in the mysterians we had the enemy faction of the 752 00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:23,900 mysterians with. Maybe they're one leader as the 753 00:43:23,900 --> 00:43:27,100 kind of stand out. But this is the first time we've 754 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:32,700 had a characterized human villain who drives the plot and 755 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:35,900 he's just a nasty motherfucker and I Hating this dude. 756 00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:41,700 Yeah, you sent me a screencap of him with a gun pointed at fuka 757 00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:44,500 the reporter. And he's got this, just 758 00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:49,400 shit-eating grin on his face. Fuck this guy, fuck this Nelson 759 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,900 dude. He has an expression on like 760 00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:55,800 everyone of God, I know. And then he gets mowed down by 761 00:43:55,800 --> 00:44:00,000 cops in his home country and it's just it's very satisfying. 762 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,800 The plot takes care of him on its own. 763 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,000 It just goes, you know what, it's, it's kind of like the bit 764 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,200 where the, the icicle Falls and kills the pedophile in The 765 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,600 Lovely Bones. It's just the plot going. 766 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,400 We're going to wrap this up for you because we're, I know we got 767 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,200 to focus on other things that are happening. 768 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:23,800 But fuck this guy in particular. So this is I'm going to actually 769 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,600 ask you this because I think this is kind of an interesting 770 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,200 question. This is where we normally talk 771 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:34,500 about, where does this fit in to kind of the Godzilla versus 772 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:38,300 moving forward and pop culture. This will be your first time 773 00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:40,900 having seen the introduction of Mothra. 774 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,200 What do you know of Mothra prior to now? 775 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:45,800 And how do you think that's changed? 776 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,500 Having seen this movie? Because this isn't like Varan 777 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:51,200 were very in as a one-off. Right? 778 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,700 This is fucking Mothra, right? No, I mean I've played as Mothra 779 00:44:55,700 --> 00:45:01,800 and games, several games. I knew that she had like the two 780 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,900 small women that speak for her and that's basically all I knew. 781 00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:10,700 I don't know, I like her more now because I understand where 782 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,000 she comes from. I thought that this movie would 783 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,600 be about batra as well because all one of the only other things 784 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,800 I know about mathur has that she supposed to be like the opposite 785 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,900 of batra. So that's that's one movie in 786 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:27,000 the 90s which is a good one and I'm excited to get to. 787 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,300 So we have another movie later in the season. 788 00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:34,000 We're mouth is going to show up in Martha, versus Godzilla, 789 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,100 spoiler alert. And then we also have a Godzilla 790 00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:43,900 versus Mothra in the 90s and both of them pull so heavily 791 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,800 from the tone and the themes of this original movie. 792 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,900 But yeah, Bachelor is a purely 90s. 793 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,800 S1 movie thing. Well, that's a situation where 794 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,400 like, I know this and that but not what they, you know, I don't 795 00:45:59,400 --> 00:45:59,800 know. Anything. 796 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,100 Can write the information that I know, I just like, oh, I know 797 00:46:03,100 --> 00:46:05,800 that from a video game, but I just like, I mean, this is this 798 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,600 is fucking Mothra and Mothra is the closest thing to a heroic 799 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,100 giant monster. I think we've seen so far. 800 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,000 Yeah, I think, as you can describe a lot of the other 801 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,800 monsters as maybe tragically neutral, but mothra's straight 802 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:21,800 up. Good guy. 803 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,100 You get to mathur a tearing ass through the through Tokyo, and 804 00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:30,200 getting attacked by the military and you're rooting for Mothra. 805 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,500 Instead of for the military, right? 806 00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:35,500 So it's a very oh, you know what? 807 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,600 It also avoided the military shooting him on. 808 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:43,600 Yes, yes, I was going to say, I saw the bit where Mothra finally 809 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,200 comes into the City, and they start the military, you know, 810 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,300 fight sequence up. And my first thought was, oh, I 811 00:46:49,308 --> 00:46:52,800 better see how How long this drags out because this is a 812 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,300 thing that Charlotte has been harping on movie after movie. 813 00:46:56,500 --> 00:47:00,900 And I think they do a pretty good job of varying, the pace up 814 00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:03,200 and then wrap in that scene. Yeah. 815 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,800 And I think they do that by because I mean there's the the 816 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,900 scene where they set up, they attack Mothra, it's not working. 817 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,900 They cut to our main characters. Again, they cut back there's a 818 00:47:14,908 --> 00:47:17,900 different setup, they fire, it Mothra, it's not working, you 819 00:47:17,900 --> 00:47:19,800 know? So what's funny is, this is a 820 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,200 thing that people bitch about Out in the legendary Godzilla 821 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,400 movies, a lot that excuse me, they cut away from the action 822 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,100 too much to something that people are doing for a moment or 823 00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:34,800 two or like a reaction from people. 824 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,300 But I think now that we've been watching a lot of these movies, 825 00:47:38,300 --> 00:47:44,200 we can see that having just non-stop monster vs. 826 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,500 Military. Or we haven't really gotten to 827 00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:49,100 big monster vs. Monster slugfests yet. 828 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,800 If you don't find, Find some way to either break that up or 829 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,900 switch the pacing up, it just drags. 830 00:47:57,300 --> 00:47:59,300 Yeah. So I also, I also think it's 831 00:47:59,300 --> 00:48:02,500 interesting that once again, from the perspective of many 832 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,100 westerners, who I don't think of seen many of these movies 833 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,000 constantly asked. Well, why do we even bother with 834 00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:13,700 the the people stories? And every one of these movies 835 00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:18,200 has had a story focusing on human characters and on people 836 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:22,500 and on how this impacts But whether it's this Alien Invasion 837 00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:25,400 or this monster emerging, yeah, that's the point. 838 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,400 Yeah, so I did it. Boggles my mind when I hear 839 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:33,300 Godzilla, fans go or or people in general go, well, we just 840 00:48:33,300 --> 00:48:35,500 need to stop having these stupid human story. 841 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,900 Like, what what else do you want, then? 842 00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:40,200 Do you want to attend minute music? 843 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,500 Video of a monster breaking up a city. 844 00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:46,300 And that's the whole thing is Mothra, would not be what it is. 845 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,700 I don't think Rodin would be what it is, or the original 846 00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:50,800 Godzilla, without the human story. 847 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,000 At the center of it. Hey, those are my top three 848 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,600 moves easily and I think it's it's not a coincidence that 849 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:02,800 those three become kind of the face of this franchise for a 850 00:49:02,808 --> 00:49:04,800 little bit. Once they start trying to pull 851 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,500 everything together, shit, I really should have brought this 852 00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:11,100 up earlier before we wrapped, but one last thing that I will 853 00:49:11,100 --> 00:49:17,800 leave, I guess it's a stinger is this movie was made and clearly 854 00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:20,600 I think the original serial novel and the movie took a lot 855 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,900 of inspiration. Raishin directly from King Kong 856 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:28,000 and this begins. If you accept that premise, this 857 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:34,200 begins a long stretch of Tahoes interest in King Kong very 858 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,900 specifically, King Kong, and then like Frankenstein's monster 859 00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:43,500 end up being weirdly of interest to Touhou through the next, you 860 00:49:43,500 --> 00:49:46,300 know, 15 years of their filmmaking. 861 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,800 So yeah, I'm still unsure how Frankenstein's we're gonna get? 862 00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:53,400 Out there. It's not going to make any 863 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,900 fucking sense when we got there, but I'll at least give you some 864 00:49:55,900 --> 00:50:00,000 context for how it happened. Okay. 865 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,000 Do you have anything else you want to say about Mothra before 866 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,900 we finish up? Um, no. 867 00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:10,700 I think that design-wise Martha is probably one of my favorite 868 00:50:10,700 --> 00:50:12,000 monsters. Yeah. 869 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,500 Well, with that, that's a wrap on this episode. 870 00:50:16,700 --> 00:50:19,000 Thank you all so much for joining us, both on our journey. 871 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,000 And for this film specifically, next week, will be returning to 872 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,500 more traditional pulp sci-fi, with the 1962 film. 873 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,500 Gorath, you can follow us on Twitter for more of our 874 00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:32,200 sparkling personalities. I'm at Derby City, Derek and I'm 875 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,600 at this Arrow complex, and you can follow the show itself at 876 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,900 Castle Bravo. Pod for production updates. 877 00:50:38,100 --> 00:50:43,000 Take care everyone. Castle Bravo is a production of 878 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,200 Derek Van Dyke and Charlotte landel. 879 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,700 All editing is performed by Derek Van Dyke. 880 00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:52,800 Special thanks to julienne, Lamont for Designing our 881 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:57,100 original art assets and to David Van Dyke, for providing our 882 00:50:57,100 --> 00:50:58,700 theme song pools of memory.