After 63 years of ups and downs and shooting just 30 movies (including two American versions), the image of the King of Monsters is still fresh. As a fan of special photography, Japanese special photography is a must-see, from superhero special photography such as Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai to monster special photography such as Godzilla and Camela, In my opinion, they are all wonderful.
When it comes to special photography, we have to mention the key prop of the leather case. Due to technical and financial constraints, the earliest Godzilla was performed by actors entering the holster, and Godzilla's holster combined with the bottom-up shooting method looked very shocking and real in the 1950s. Until 1998, the first CG Godzilla was born through the hands of the United States, but the Japanese side was not very interested in this. Toho even made the "authentic" monster in "Godzilla Ultimate Battle" in 2004. Wang beat this American lizard violently - he can't even breathe atoms!
But after 2004's Godzilla, we haven't seen Godzilla on the big screen for a long time. Ultraman has gone through 45 years of commemoration during this period, but the pioneering work directed by Eiji Tsuburaya, the god of special photography, has disappeared for 10 years. Until 2014, the United States remade Godzilla again. "Godzilla 2014" is an American remake of Godzilla. In my opinion, he is qualified. An American Godzilla with the largest body size (108 meters) in history at that time and can breathe. I am satisfied. ! When I saw its back glowing little by little until the familiar breath came out of its mouth, I had an orgasm, what was so dark that I couldn't see the picture of Godzilla, the poor debut time, this breath That's enough!
However, the 2014 version of Godzilla finally adopted the setting of Godzilla's late earth protector. After the righteous monster defeated the two evil big mosquitoes who showed their affection, they returned to the sea, which is quite a tribute to the end of the 2004 version.
But in 2016, the release of "New Godzilla" directed by Hideaki Anno, a famous Japanese dead house (by mistake), made me climax again in an instant, and I couldn't help but sigh that this is Godzilla! Anno Hideaki wrote and produced a disaster short film "Giant Soldier Appears in Tokyo" as early as 2012, and the 2016 version of Godzilla has the same effect in the story. The giant beast (Giant Soldier) came to the city center Still, the city is destroyed after a sudden explosion, giving the audience an intuitive and shocking sense of despair. Unlike the previous Godzilla, the 2016 version of Godzilla is divided into several forms, which is a feature that was not available before. Although they were all born from the sea, the earliest Godzilla crawled on four legs, more like a modern lizard. And "New Godzilla" is the first Japanese Godzilla to use CG to create the image of Godzilla, and the movie uses a lot of classic special sound effects - I am not the only one who thinks about Ultraman, right? ?
The 2016 version of Godzilla returns to the original setting of the Godzilla movie - this is a giant beast that brings disaster, and what human beings do is the origin of the disaster. Each of them did things, but all brought the opposite effect. In the end, they all got their lunch boxes and got off work happily.
In the film, Godzilla's signature moves become even more shocking. It first breathes fire, then smokes and finally emits radiant energy (a tribute to Godzilla of different ages), and it also has some brand new moves - which makes Godzilla is more like the apostle in the famous animation "EVA" written by Hideaki Anno. The destructive power of Shin Godzilla and the sense of despair (especially the soundtrack when he is angry) are unprecedented, just as Ishihara Satomi's lines in the film "Godzilla... This is God's punishment for mankind ."
Of course, as at the beginning, humans defeated Godzilla through wisdom and courage, but at the beginning of the end, the split body at the tail of Godzilla is thought-provoking-whether this human-shaped object represents this terrifying creature Calamity, is it humans themselves? The whole film ends in the classic BGM.
"New Godzilla" returns to the origin of the series, a disaster film. The tributes in the film move old fans, and the shocking special effects can also attract new fans. But compared to the 2014 version, I will remember the new Godzilla in 2016. After Japan suffered the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis, this terrible monster with human eyes that suddenly appeared from the sea can make all audiences think- -Finally in reality, in our ordinary life, have we become monsters of the earth because of our destructing the environment? And will there be a Godzilla who will punish us on behalf of the earth someday?
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