Since the first Japanese film debuted 60 years ago, Godzilla has been a popular film subject. The first movie was mostly to help the Japanese work through the terror that had occurred nine years earlier when two atomic bombs were dropped on their country. Godzilla was a warning story, as well as a way to acknowledge horrors and make them a little less frightening by working through them on screen with a large lizard. Since the first movie was released in 1954 many other Godzilla themed movies followed. The first was an American adaptation of the original Japanese film. This version was released in 1956 and named, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. A few movies had situations where Godzilla met other famous characters like King Kong and Venusian princesses, Megalon, the robot Jet Janguar, and Ultraman. In 1998 Roland Emmerich released a film titled, Godzilla, that tried to find realism and made Godzilla into a T. Rex. Godzilla appeared again in the 2004 film, Godzilla: Final Wars. In this most recent adaptation Godzilla comes from outer-space with 13 other monsters.
The new Godzilla film, directed by Gareth Edwards’s is epic and utilizes excellent CGI effects. It doesn’t focus solely on the monster, but instead tries to imagine how the modern world would react to encountering Godzilla for the first time. Creatively, the movie is very interesting. Edwards starts it with a sequence of images from Darwin’s On the Origin of Species along with footage of historic events like famous presidents and experimental nuclear bombs and some fictional sequences. The characters in the movie that make up most of the action and are largely at the center of the plot are Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) who is a nuclear engineer and his son Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who is a military explosives-disposal expert. The arrival of the monster mends their relationship after Joe Brody was convinced of foul play when the plant where he worked in Japan was destroyed. Ford and Joe discover that the government is using the plant to grow a Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism (MUTO) that hatches when the two are there and is a giant, prey-mantis figure. The giant bugs destruction allows Edwards to keep the suspense of Godzilla’s arrival at bay for a while. He can also show off the special effects that make this movie so enjoyable. Head to the theatres with popcorn in hand to see how the rest of the movie plays out and pay homage to the old while embracing the new.
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