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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello internet. |
0:17.4 | Welcome to Film Theory, the show that has the world's best imitation of the Godzilla roar. |
0:22.6 | Oh, oh, ah! |
0:24.6 | Listen, Toho, it's notoriously protective of that roar. |
0:28.6 | It's the best that we're gonna do, all right? |
0:29.6 | So, we're all familiar with Godzilla, right? |
0:31.6 | King of the Monsters, been a mainstay in movie theaters for the past seven decades. |
0:34.6 | He's appeared in nearly 40 films and single-handedly |
0:37.8 | pioneered the whole kaiju genre. And of course, with that amount of history, you're |
0:41.4 | gonna have a ton of different interpretations of the character, from the big budget |
0:44.6 | American movies where he fights King Kong and the Monsterverse, to true low-budget |
0:48.2 | horror masterpieces like this year's Godzilla minus 1. But today, I want to look at a |
0:52.6 | completely different take on the character. |
0:54.3 | One that's available right now on good old YouTube.com, a new analog horror series known simply as the Man in the Suit. |
1:01.5 | You're not hearing that incorrectly, it's an analog horror series about Godzilla, or at least the human inside of Godzilla. |
1:07.7 | And let me tell you loyal theorists, the story that tells is simultaneously scary, tragic, and heart-breaking. |
1:12.6 | In an overcrowded genre full of cheap thrills, the man in the suits covering some massive topics with devastating themes, |
1:18.6 | which is only made more impressive once you realize that the channel's creator, unknowingly, is just doing this all on their phone. Also, and this is just a side note here. It recently came to my attention that unknowingly was getting harassed by a small subset of the Godzilla fan community for the series |
1:31.4 | and thinking about ending the entire thing. To what you say first off, unknowingly, |
1:35.1 | your work is great. The story that you're telling, it's mature, it's thoughtful. Don't let a small |
1:38.7 | group of whiny butt-hurt man-children diminish the great work that you're doing. Speaking of those butt hurt man children, if you are one of those people who harassed |
1:46.5 | someone's fan creation because the visuals are bad, or the story isn't what you like, |
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