Godzilla's Evolving Nuclear Subtext (1954 to 2014) | Cinema of Nuclear Dread #2
Cinema of Meaning
The Evolution of Godzilla From 1954 to 2014
The first film ends with destroying Godzilla and there's this main theme of like how do we end this thing without provoking it further. By the time you get to 2014, Godzilla wakes up and you have the Japanese character in the movie kind of being like Godzilla is this force of nature returning balance to things which I think there's hints of that in the original but that doesn't feel to me like the central thematic push of the first film. The only proper way to respond to Godzilla to this thing is to like not try it you can't really fight it or if you try to fight it it angers him and it gets worse.
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