An even leaner, even more serious version of Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla.
Original film name: Godzilla
New film name: Godzilla : Zilla
Film studio name: TriStar Pictures, Centropolis
Original Film Released: 1998
Fan Edit Released: April 2009 by White43
Original Runtime: 2hrs 10 min (which include 10 minutes of credits)
New Runtime: 1hr 40mins
Amount of time Cut: 30 mins (of the film, not the credits)
Time taken for edit : On and off 4 months
Tagline: Comedy does not matter.
About this edit:
I started looking at Godzilla before Xmas 2008. It has always been a unanimously crap film and it just happened to be on. As I’d recently joined the FE community, I started looking at the film differently - could I remove elements to improve it? The love subplot always bothered me, plus painfully bad dialogue and humour. The military seemed to be completely inept, so I did the first edit - V1.0 which trimmed 18 minutes, but was my firstling effort and contained many rookie mistakes and inevitably didn’t go far enough. Boon23 and Tranzor suggested changes and I decided to start from scratch again. This time, I was much, much harsher with the material, cutting psychotically to the point where we began to wander into incoherence….fortunately, a couple people such as JMB and Zeppelinrox saved me from that and now I believe we have a much leaner, tighter and overall serious version of the Emmerich nightmare.
Cut:
* - Essentially, I’ve removed 95% of the comedy aspects. Tiny pieces remain where I thought they were OK - Jean Reno doing Elvis is still there for example, but all that Mayoral slapstick isn’t.
* - Scenes and lines that dumb Nick down are removed. Not all, but most. Also, any scenes which harm his character and anyone else for that matter are largely removed. The character of O’Neal has had most of his stuttering removed.
* - The love subplot is utterly gone. Audrey is merely someone Nick knows, who steals his tape. Elsie Chapman no longer expresses interest in Nick which almost makes her utterly pointless - but then she was in the original anyway.
* - Audrey is utterly reduced down. We don’t have introductory or development scenes for her, Animal or Lucy. They’re just there and take advantage of the situation. So no blubbing Audrey and diner/work scenes for her.
* - Some military incompetence which is actually Emmerich just wanting to blow stuff up has been removed.
* - The start of the film is completely changed, as is the ending.
* - Some re-scoring has taken place, where the music was harming the mood of the film. |
