It’s not every day a legend like Steven Spielberg comes up to you to congratulate you on your work, but this is what happened to Takashi Yamazakidirector of Godzilla Minus One, who was able to speak with the legendary American filmmaker at a luncheon that took place this week on the occasion of the Oscars.
As they explain in World of Reel, it is not a surprise that a director like Steven Spielberg, who has given us works like Jaws and Jurassic Park, is a confessed fan of productions like Godzilla Minus One, but it is one thing to intuit it and another to arrives and tells you that he’s seen your movie three times. This is what Takashi Yamazaki himself explains on his Twitter account a few days ago.
“I have met GOD. What am I going to do now with all this? I’m really crying. My goodness, he told me he saw it three times. He liked the characters in the movie. I I gave him a figure of Godzilla which gave him a lot of excitement.”
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You can win a statuette at the Oscars
Godzilla Minus One is up for a statuette at the 96th Academy Awards. best special effects, a nomination that was celebrated in style by the Japanese production team and that has a lot of merit considering how it competes against works worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In March we will know if the film has managed to retain this distinction.
Godzilla Minus One was released at the end of last year telling a story set in a desolate Japan after the end of World War II that must face a new crisis caused by the atomic monster. The audience really liked the film, and it achieved a whopping more than 100 million dollars at the box officea milestone considering that it is not a Hollywood production.
