Today, let's talk about the movie "Godzilla vs. Kong".
The title of the film is Godzilla vs Kong / King Kong vs. Godzilla / GvK (2021), alias King Kong vs. Godzilla / Godzilla vs. King Kong (Taiwan).
"Godzilla vs. King Kong" is a very standard monster movie. The whole film revolves around several of the most famous monsters, making them fight, and the audience is very excited.
This film is the fourth work of the Monster Movie Universe. The protagonists of the film are the Japanese monster IP brother Sila and the American monster IP brother King Kong. The film is also Godzilla's 36th film and Kong's 12th film.
After so many years of paving the way for the monster movie universe, the two bearers finally met.
Before watching the movie, the audience will definitely have an expectation for their viewing this time, then watch a super cool movie with super monsters pinching each other.
No matter how intense the fight is, how serious the damage is, and how cool the audio-visual effects are. In this sense, the film is a qualified work.
Decades and dozens of related series of movies have been filmed, and it is inevitable that there will be some differences in settings, and there will also be some new original content. What the audience needs to do is to enjoy it according to the settings given in the film. Thinking too much is not conducive to relaxation.
It will be the first movie to feature King Kong and Godzilla in 58 years, behind only the previous one, King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962). After all, everyone likes to watch Guan Gong fight Qin Qiong.
The film is set in 2024, five years after Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and Kong: Skull Island, set in 1973 50 years after Kong: Skull Island (2017).
Both Godzilla and Kong are the last of their kind to be the light of the race and the last king of the race.
In the film setting, after the Titan monster battle, Godzilla eventually becomes the winner, and the King Kong family is exiled to Skull Island.
Godzilla declares that he has absolute sovereignty over the earth. As long as Kong does not leave Skull Island, Godzilla will not provoke each other.
But things always change, Skull Island becomes uninhabitable in a strong storm, unable to support King Kong's life, King Kong has to leave Skull Island. Godzilla was very opinionated about this, and began to hunt down King Kong with all his strength.
In the film, Godzilla is more brutal than the previous works.
In the past, everyone would think that Godzilla was the guardian of the earth, and even the guardian of mankind. I have to say that this is a wishful thinking. Godzilla just regards himself as the king of the earth, and the purpose is to maintain the order of nature. As long as human beings do not destroy it, nature will be at peace with each other. Humans only.
One mountain does not allow two tigers. King Kong will be regarded as a threat by Godzilla if he leaves Skull Island, so Godzilla's aggressiveness can not be blamed.
At the same time, King Kong in this film is ignorant, trapped on Skull Island for too long and knows nothing about the world outside the island.
He had never seen snow, and he was very novel when he first arrived in Antarctica.
He used to be the only one in the Skull Island family. Looking around, there was no one who could fight, but when he came out, he found that Godzilla rubbed against the ground and rubbed it on the ground. Only then did King Kong understand that the world is far bigger than he imagined. He can only survive if he becomes stronger.
In the film, Godzilla and King Kong have a total of two fights.
In the first fight, Godzilla has the home field advantage, Kong is in a weak transport state, and Godzilla can swim freely at sea. Godzilla can easily destroy Kong's foothold and drag Kong into the water to kill him. The movie would be over if it weren't for humans firing a large number of depth charges to spoil the game.
In the second battle, King Kong had a slight advantage in the home field. Hong Kong with many high-rise buildings was like a steel jungle environment, where King Kong could dodge and jump up and down. King Kong successfully avoided Godzilla's atomic breath and successfully slashed Godzilla, which was also the first time he knocked down Godzilla. Immediately after that, Godzilla began to take it seriously, and he beat King Kong to the ground and became the winner again.
Several cool points of the film are in the battle of these giant beasts, everyone can enjoy watching it.
Let’s talk about the relevant content behind the film, which can be regarded as enriching the viewing experience.
The first time King Kong picked up the axe, it was on the floor below the throne in the empty square, and the position of the axe was at the throat of a Godzilla.
This indicates the origin of the axe material and Godzilla's dorsal fin. Kong's Tomahawk is a reference to Marvel's Thor Stormbreaker.
It also hints at the attack position of Kong Kong using the axe. King Kong attacked Godzilla and Mecha Godzilla, and they attacked this position.
The title of the film has also changed. It was originally called "King Kong vs. Godzilla", with King Kong in the front and Godzilla in the back, and later it was changed to "Godzilla vs. King Kong", with Godzilla in the front and King Kong in the back.
At just 113 minutes, the film is less than two hours long, the shortest in the monster movie universe.
In an interview, director Adam Wingard said that the original cut of the film was 5 hours long, but many parts were later cut to become the final look, and he was satisfied with this version because the story was finished.
He said: "Many fans have asked me online, will this be a three-hour movie? When it was announced that it was less than two hours, they immediately thought when the director was going to be cut? I like two Movies under an hour. I think if you're making a movie that's over two hours long, you better have a good reason for it to be that long. If you're going to make the movie three hours, you won't Add an hour to monster fights and spend more time getting people talking about monsters.”
The underground laboratory is located on the 33rd floor.
This refers to 1933, the year the movie King Kong was released.
Jia is a deaf girl, played by Carrie Hotel, who comes from a totally deaf family.
APEX's new high-tech anti-gravity vehicle, named HEAV, stands for "Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicle" or "Hollow Earth Anti-gravity Vehicle".
The shape of the aircraft is very similar to the Super X aircraft first introduced in the movie "Gojira" (1984).
During the fighting in Hong Kong, King Kong attacked from the top of a skyscraper with a crane.
It's reminiscent of King Kong's iconic image atop the Empire State Building.
This isn't the first time King Kong has been spotted learning sign language, as humans initially thought he didn't understand sign language.
The same thing happened in "King Kong" (2005).
King Kong's roar is a mix of lions, leopards, monkeys, gorillas and even elephants.
When King Kong takes a shower under a waterfall, he recreates the scene in King Kong (1976) taking a bath under a waterfall.
King Kong also made a roar similar to the one in the 1976 film as he walked into the temple to pick up the axe.
King Kong is chained on a cargo ship to deliver footage, a tribute to Kingu Kongu tai Gojira (1963).
Being transported to the South Pole by air is also a tribute to "King Kong vs. Godzilla". In the old film, King Kong is anesthetized and fights Godzilla through a balloon.
The director said his early thought was, "I just hope we don't have a stupid scene where King Kong is lifted by a balloon, like in the original movie." But then he suggested using a helicopter to lift King Kong.
During the fight, Kong also shoves something down Godzilla's throat, this time the handle of an axe, not a tree as he did last time in Kong vs. Godzilla.
King Kong shoved the handle of his axe into Godzilla's mouth in a nod to old movies, but knowing that the axe was made from the bones of Godzilla's ancestors, it wouldn't be so funny. The real harm is minimal and extremely insulting.
It's easy to understand that Godzilla was provoked by this.
Likewise, Godzilla will retreat only after Kong has put down his axe. In other words, King Kong has to lay down his axe to usher in peace.
King Kong took a careful look inside before destroying the HEAV.
King Kong has wisdom, and this action should be to confirm that there is no Jiya in the aircraft.
The giant cobra seen on the hollow earth was called "Titanus Warbat" and was originally called "Nozuki".
The war bat is not a bat, but a cobra. The design of the war bat is inspired by the mysterious flying snake in Namibia. It looks like a delicious wind snake to me.
The design draft revealed other new abilities of the Warbat, which were not shown in the film. In the design draft, the battle bat has an electric tail, which can tuck its arms to slide or fly.
Vulture-like creatures are called "Hellhawks". Hellhawks are not eagles, but bats.
The bat attempted to restrain Kong, and this was the fifth time the serpent had wrapped Kong.
The first four were the original plesiosaur, Toho's version of the sea serpent, the boa constrictor from the De Laurentiis movie, and the Ramarak from Kong: Skull Island.
In the second battle with Godzilla, Kong tries to break Godzilla's jaw, just like previous generations of Kong have killed carnivores, dragons, snakes and tyrannosaurs, but due to Godzilla's Atomic breath, Kongo had a hard time getting his hands close to Godzilla's mouth.
Mechanical Godzilla did not have this concern, and he successfully controlled Godzilla's mouth. If King Kong hadn't intervened, Mechanical Godzilla would have combined its breathing weapon to destroy Godzilla.
A part of Mecha Godzilla is composed of Ghidorah's skeletal remains, coupled with the remote control of brain waves, and Ghidorah eventually robbed him of control. From another perspective, Mecha Godzilla can be regarded as the heir of Ghidorah.
Mechanical Godzilla's action to kill the skeleton crawler is the same as Godzilla's action to eliminate "Muto" (Muto) in the first part, both using atomic breath. This action is also called "the kiss of death".
Mecha Godzilla's "Proton Scream" was produced by a particle accelerator, and it's only shown a few shots.
Those who are familiar with Mr. Brother will understand Mr. Brother's strength. In order to allow the two giant beasts to fight back and forth, Mr. Brother has been weakened and King Kong has been strengthened a lot.
When asked about the apparent height difference between Godzilla and Kong, Adam Wingard said: "Kong: Skull Island gave us a good chance when they mentioned that Kong is still growing, but it will It's a challenge that we have to face, and we know that very well."
According to the film's official file, Godzilla is 393 feet (120 meters) tall, the same height as "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", and weighs more than 90,000 tons. At 336 feet (102 meters) tall and weighing more than 50,000 tons, King Kong is the largest King Kong in history, second only to the old movie. Because King Kong is in his youth and is still developing his body, his height has only increased so much.
In the film novel, Gia's necklace is made from skull teeth she collected on the island, and the prologue shows King Kong saving Gia's life when Skull Island is destroyed.
Gia is orphaned when giant reptiles on Skull Island kill Gia's family. For her, the necklace is a kind of amulet, shielding her from the dangers of her past and giving her strength.
Throughout the film, it is never mentioned that Ren Serizawa is Dr. Serizawa's son.
Interestingly, Serizawa wanted to kill Godzilla, but his father died to save Godzilla. On the surface, perhaps Serizawa felt that Godzilla was the culprit in his father's death, so he wanted to take revenge.
Many people will think that this is Serizawa's betrayal of her father, but it is actually the result of a deformed psychology.
It is shown in the movie novel that Serizawa's idea is to kill Walter and then have full control of Mecha Godzilla. The book shows that Serizawa has a strong jealousy of Godzilla. When he was a child, his father was obsessed with Titan monsters, especially Godzilla's research. Out of this jealousy, Serizawa joined the APEX company and tried to get revenge on her father by helping APEX eliminate Godzilla with Mecha Godzilla.
In the original plan, Zhang Ziyi would return to the screen as Dr. Yilin Chen and play an important role in the film.
But to avoid confusion with the character of Irene Andrews, she was not included in the final draft.
And the original film will have an end-credits egg at the end, but the director did not have enough confidence in the future of the monster movie universe, and finally did not put an easter egg.
A tribute to the classic series,
Super cool monster brawl.
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