A Fistful of Dollars + Gojira

Two more genres Double Feature will never be fully prepared to cover. Spaghetti westerns and kaiju (japans monster movies). Two foreign films that popularized their genres in west. The dollars trilogy. What is a spaghetti western? How you can tell when something is dubbed, even in the same language as it’s shot. Ambience in recordings. Ennio Morricone (aka Dan Savio) and what makes the score. Setting the tone for a spaghetti western. The town. The solution? Elimination! Mexican border towns. What other westerns were doing at the time. The morality of the man with no name. Toho Company. Ltd. The eras of kaiju. Adapting Gojira for American audiences. Varan the Unbelievable. The worst translations. Godzilla mythology.

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A Fistful of Dollars: 2:31 | Gojira: 28:04

Also referenced: Black Dynamite, Hero, Dirty Harry, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Upon a Time in America, A Fistful of Dynamite, Yojimbo, El Mariachi, The Punisher, Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress, Hero With a Thousand Faces, Kill Bill, Mothra, Ghidorah, Rodan, King Kong, Gamera, Freddy vs Jason, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Varan the Unbelievable, Spice World, The Prophecy, Terminator, Bright Falls, Stuck, House of the Devil

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