A podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment through tokusatsu. Origin Story: After vacationing on the Monsterland Resort, professional writer/raging nerd Nathan Marchand got a job as the curator of the Vault containing the films about Monster Island’s many kaiju residents. Now he and his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA (who miraculously survived the infamous War in Space), record a bi-weekly podcast critically and academically examining each of the films in the prestigious Vault with one to four guest hosts chosen from Monster Island’s many tourists. Philosophy: Kaiju and/or tokusatsu fans will tell you these genres are undeniably fun. What’s often missed, though, are the deeper meanings below the sensational surface. Meanings entrenched in the story’s original historical and cultural context. That’s why this podcast believes in film appreciation. What’s that? It’s studying a movie’s script, direction, cinematography, and other aspects of filmmaking. It’s learning how and why it was created since movies aren’t made in a vacuum. This is especially true with foreign films. Non-native audiences are separated by both time and culture with them...
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Episode 56: The Omni Viewer vs. ‘The Lost World’ (1925)
Hello, Kaiju Lovers! And welcome to season three of The Monster Island Film Vault! We begin 2022 with a brand new series focusing on giant monster films from the U.S.A., “Ameri-kaiju.” To launch this special occasion, Nate is joined by returning guest/YouTuber/author Ryan “The Omni Viewer” Collins (and his kaiju-muppet-thing sidekick, Snazzy, who butts heads with Nate’s sidekick, the intrepid producer Jimmy From NASA) to discuss the prototypical kaiju film, The Lost World (1925). You’re about to hear one of the most MIFV of MIFV episodes: literary analysis, film appreciation, witty banter, hilarious puns, and wild history. What more could you want?
Before the broadcast, Nate meets Dr. Nick Tatopoulos, the leader of H.E.A.T., in the KIJU breakroom (and pronounces the man’s name correctly) while fighting with the coffeemaker. Nick talks about his hostile history with the Island’s new boss, Cameron Winter—and then the crooked tycoon calls them on Nate’s phone!
The Omni Viewer’s YouTube channel.
Read Jimmy's Notes on this episode.
This episode’s prologue, “Dr. Tatopoulos, I Presume,” was written by Nathan Marchand.
Guest stars:
- R. Villers as Nick Tatopoulos
- Jack “GMan” Hudgens as Cameron Winter
Additional music:
- “Stomp the World” by Jim Latham
- “Pacific Rim” by Niall Stenson
Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org.
Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip.
We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, Eric Anderson of Nerd Chapel, and Ted Williams! Thanks for your support!
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Timestamps:
- Prologue: 0:00-6:21
- Intro: 6:21-16:19
- Entertaining Info Dump: 16:19-24:53
- Toku Talk: 24:53-1:40:30
- Promo: 1:40:30-1:41:56
- Toku Topic: 1:41:56-2:13:06
- Housekeeping & Outro: 2:13:06-end
This episode is approved by Cameron Winter and the Monster Island Board of Directors.
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
- “Bone Wars.” Wikipedia.
- Bromberg, Serge. “The Lost World: Secrets of the Restoration,” and other essays in the Flicker Alley blu-ray booklet.
- Byrd, Kyle. “The Road to Kong: Making the Lost World.” Kong Unmade: The Lost Films of Skull Island by John LeMay, p. 353-363.
- Ciccone, Nicholas. Commentary on The Lost World. (Flicker Alley blu-ray).
- Hunt, Kristen. “The 1925 Dinosaur Movie That Paved the Way for King Kong.” JSTOR Daily. 10 October 2019.
- “O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope: A Rivalry.” American Experience. (PBS.org).
- Strauss, Bob. “The 20-Year Bone Wars That Changed History.” 26 January 2020.
- Switek, Brian. “The Bone Wars: how a bitter rivalry drove progress in palaeontology.” Science Focus. 22 March 2020.
- Wiki articles on The Lost World (1925):
- IMDB
- Moviepedia
- Wikipedia