“Original movies are very special,” Sloss says. “Compare that to The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,” as both feature highly radioactive prehistoric reptilian monsters, both are shot in black and white, and in a 4:3 ratio. The similarities are only superficial.” The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms was made for a Saturday matinee audience: children and teenagers. But the scenes of long suffering in Godzilla are heartbreaking. ”
The film also has a depth that goes beyond most monster movies. One of the main characters is paleontologist Dr. Yamane (Takashi Shimura, who co-starred in Kurosawa’s classic films such as “Rashomon” and “The Seven Samurai”), who sits in the dark and discovers such miraculous “biophysical He is depicted as being dismayed at the prospect of “specimen” being killed. Rather than studying. Another character is Dr. Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata), a rogue scientist with an eyepatch who has synthesized a substance he calls an “oxygen-destroying substance.” This substance can turn marine life into skeletons within seconds when placed in water. Serizawa knows it is effective against Godzilla as well, but fears that if the government gets its hands on the compound, the substance could be weaponized and cause even more harm.
Pyrrhic victory
Godzilla isn’t just an epic blockbuster, that’s for sure, but it’s a fable about terrifying dilemmas. That is, should we allow the development of increasingly powerful weapons, knowing that this escalation will result in ever more casualties?In the end, Serizawa uses the Oxygen Destroyer He is persuaded to do so, but he burns the note beforehand and then commits suicide while sad music plays. “We’re not encouraged to say, ‘Hooray, this saves the day,'” Davidson said. “The Oxygen Destroyer is less evil than Godzilla, but it’s still a last resort,” the filmmakers quipped, as reporters chanted “Dr. Serizawa’s great victory.” But Godzilla’s defeat is far from the triumph we see in Hollywood movies, given the dark sacrifices it makes.
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“This is not a victory at all,” Sloss says. “The threat that Pandora’s box has been opened persists. In some ways, the end of Godzilla is similar to the end of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer said to Einstein, ‘We are a chain. May cause a reaction ‘I was afraid we would destroy the whole world…I believe we did.’ The message is that the arms race is never ending, there is always a bigger threat around the corner, and that we will… We are constantly faced with self-destruction, and it is by our own hands. ” Dr. Yamane spells out this warning in the final words of the film. “I don’t think that Godzilla was the only Godzilla. If they continue to experiment with terrifying weapons, another Godzilla may appear somewhere in the world.”
