Godzilla's Evolving Nuclear Subtext (1954 to 2014) | Cinema of Nuclear Dread #2
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Godzilla 2014: A Nuclear Metaphor
The original Godzilla was like more strictly sort of like this I mean had the sci-fi elements obviously but I don't know it feels very different to me. The destruction in Gujira was less of a spectacle and still retained some genuine terror or at least some kind of destruction that felt imaginable. But there's just a bit too much destruction with one of the moutos blasting through Las Vegas right yeah. It does feel like you get it much better sense of how the nuclear bomb was like this whole different beast of destruction compared to regular or traditional warfare.
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