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Aric 2022-01-12 08:01:13
Historical Review of Godzilla (1): Godzilla Origins
Cover source: "Godzilla" poster.
Author: MA
On July 29, 2016, the well-known "Godzilla" series will launch the 29th work "True Godzilla", with Hideaki Anno as the screenwriter and chief director, and Shinji Higuchi as the director. As a new work of the Japanese "Godzilla" after a 12-year absence, it... -
Ruby 2022-01-12 08:01:13
Godzilla King of Monsters
Text: Seapark
In March 1954 in Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, the United States conducted a hydrogen bomb test. The Japanese tuna fishing boat "Fifth Fulong Maru" strayed into the test area and was exposed to radiation. All crew members were injured to varying degrees, and one of them...
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Emmitt 2022-03-27 09:01:14
It attracted me at the beginning, not because it was the first "Godzilla", but because of the director's name: Ishiro Honda... The moment the plane model was blown over in the camera, I was completely happy, it was too fake
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Reggie 2022-03-14 14:12:26
Monster movie is one of the most easily recognized Japanese movie types. It provides a perfect stage for mobilizing social anxiety, especially the large-scale destruction caused by rapid industrialization, the mutation of biological species, and environmental pollution. Japan is the only country that was hit by an atomic bomb and was subsequently affected by the US military's military exercises in the Pacific. This unique historical factor provided the perfect opportunity for the emergence of Godzilla. In this film, due to nuclear radiation, the mutant monster Godzilla entered Tokyo, causing serious damage and the government could not stop it, but Godzilla was eventually eliminated by scientists. Although the film was influenced by the 1933 American movie "King Kong", it provided a new genre model for Japanese movies. From the beginning of the film, "Godzilla" has become synonymous with Japanese monster movies, and in the following half a century, its sequels and remakes reached more than 30 times, and it was introduced by Hollywood, becoming the longest-lived series of movies in Japan and the world. one.
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