Like much of the GODZILLA franchise, GHIDORAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER is more focused on the fun of watching giant monsters duke it out and the innate humor in their skyborne rivalries. While the story is less about Godzilla himself, it’s a superb example of what made mid-career GODZILLA movies so special and worth discussing: Like a great martial arts movie, it’s a case study in integrating humor into physical performance, and how it can open up an unsuspecting audience to a movie’s conceptual and thematic content. Links: - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ - Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing song: "Call Happiness" written by Hiroshi Miyagawa and performed by The Peanuts from the GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 174: GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964) 3:49 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:20 - How mid-career GODZILLA movies normalized kaiju 17:13 - Old GODZILLA vs. evolving GODZILLA 26:38 - The other kaiju 33:29 - What Godzilla 'meant' by 1964 42:49 - Liberating Godzilla with camp 50:42 - The Junk Drawer 58:09 - Cody’s Noteys: King Nineteen Sixty-Four-ah
