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| Above, Godzilla peering over a Shinjuku building. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Since Godzilla is having a grand resurgence in recent years with Godzilla (2014), Shin Godzilla (2016) and the anime version, KIMT3 News took a look at three Godzilla films, the 1954 original, the 1998 disaster and the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. film of 2014.
The begin their article with:
This time around the Weekend Remake Throwdown is a three-way dance with the King of All Monsters. Gojira (1954), Godzilla (1998) and Godzilla (2014) are a cinematic trio about a giant lizard rampaging through unlucky urban areas that spans 60 years and two cultures. Given that, you might expect the most interesting differences between them to be technological or sociological.
You would be wrong.
What most distinguishes these films is cosmological in nature. Each of these stories is spawned by a very different understanding of both Man and his world. And to the extent a motion picture franchise that began with a guy in a rubber suit stomping on toys and progressed to dozens and dozens of computer programmers working tirelessly to create the digital equivalent of a guy in a rubber suit stomping on toys, just with greater verisimilitude, can provide any insight into ourselves and our society, these Godzilla movies would seem to indicate that The Enlightenment is wearing off and a more primitive mindset is reasserting itself in Humanity.
But, we’ll get to those pretentious ruminations in a bit.
To read what they have to say about the three movies, go here.
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