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Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation

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The Origins of Godzilla

In creating godzilla and setting him loose in tokyo Honda recreated the helplessness by the japanese in the face of the unfathomable strength of a nuclear weapon. The original holds up like a motherfucker It's genuinely creepy and scary but also like it's got great scale That's like that when movies were baked Yes, it holds up like christian then if you haven't seen is fucking incredible Of all those old school movies Godzilla was one of them. And he used the real-life incident of the destroyed fishing boat as direct inspiration for the opening scene in the first godzilla movie. Do my deep dive And you'll do it alone disgusted the only way

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