Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-27842207-20160221184025/@comment-3367060-20160222005942

What's your problem? Look, I don't really care 1 single bit about King Kong, and I'm telling you that you are dead wrong.

Are you actually saying that you're gonna get a "real" translation showing Godzilla wins in the Japanese version? Tough luck. The Japanese version has King Kong win. The American version has King Kong win. Godzilla was in relative terms a NOBODY back in 1962. King Kong was already well known, having been around for 30 years--and Godzilla was a BAD GUY up to then. Why would Godzilla, a bad guy with not as much recognition as King Kong, win in a 1962 movie that could only happen because the company who had the film rights to Kong gave them to Toho? It would not make sense for marketing. It would not make sense for the sake of the film. Yes, TOHO WANTED KONG TO WIN, because Kong was a GOOD GUY who was universally known and Godzilla was a BAD GUY not known as well. TODAY, Godzilla is probably more known than King Kong, and Godzilla has been a good guy since, but not then. Also, no one ever said that King Kong was going to win in Godzilla vs. Kong. He will most definitely not--but he won't "lose" either. What's probably going to happen is that they will team up against an enemy in the end.

Kong WON. He swam away after defeating Godzilla. GODZILLA DIDN'T DIE OR WHATEVER, he was just defeated at that point. It's as simple as that. If Godzilla retreated or whatever doesn't matter.

Read this carefully: the King Kong in King Kong vs. Godzilla is NOT the one from 1933. Therefore he doesn't have to be, at all, 20 feet tall. Toho made him 45 meters so he could FIGHT Godzilla. You say that this makes him "King Kong in name only"? Oh, wouldn't that make every single Godzilla that is any bigger than 50 meters "Godzilla in name only" because they're not the exact same size as Godzilla and don't look exactly the same and don't have the same powers even though they're licensed, trademarked, and copyrighted as Godzilla? I didn't think so, so please stop.

Oh and you keep talking about "Showavideo.com" or whatever. Look, official people with the actual transcripts of the Japanese films with professional translators to translate it know more about the 'subtitles' than a fan-made website. AND of course translations are going to vary. That's how languages work.