This image changed about ten years after Godzilla came out. As a series of entertainment films, this film inevitably began to introduce popular and topical things in the society, and then changed Godzilla's character and personality on the screen. image. Due to the wrestling boom caused by wrestler Li Dosan in the late 1950s, the fight scene between Godzilla and the Japanese version of the enemy monster King Kong in the third work of the Godzilla series "King Kong vs Godzilla" was mixed with anthropomorphic wrestling action. In the tenth anniversary commemorative work "The Biggest Battle of the Three Monsters on Earth", Godzilla is further anthropomorphic, and there is a relationship with alien monsters through body language and cries. (humans) and stand up to the villain monsters] setting. At this point, Godzilla's villain image has disappeared. In the next few series of movies, Godzilla fights the monsters dominated by evil forces in the movie's main love, and becomes a messenger of justice. The strokes were further enhanced (such as performing fashionable moves after defeating the enemy), and this turn culminated in 1967's "Godzilla's Son Battle on Monster Island" - a film for Godzilla that created the A child beast, Minila and Godzilla, not only fight against huge mutant insects in the film, but also fully show their affection.
By the end of the 1960s, Godzilla's righteous image of the [Monster King] was unbreakable. This image and the change in the ecological environment of the entertainment industry prompted - Godzilla movies to make another transformation: the popularization of Japanese home TV has caused the movie box office. With an obvious impact, the TV series "Ultraman" supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya, the former special effects director of Godzilla series films, also set off the worship of giant transformed heroes among children. The series began to transform into children's entertainment movies (the focus of the age group who will make this foreigner is that parents will definitely accompany children to watch movies to increase the box office, and the commercial interests of peripheral products mainly based on toys), in these works, brother Gila, like a wrestling champion and Ultraman, fought fiercely with all kinds of monsters that endanger human beings, and added many interesting plots to please the younger audience.
From 1968 to 1975, Godzilla launched a series of children's movie-based series at a rate of almost one per year. Although there are also "Godzilla vs. Hedora", which is based on public nuisance and has a strong experimental expression. The style is different, but the main style during this period is still a bright and lively relationship and a bold fight. However, the box office of the series of films in this period has been shrinking significantly and continuously. The reasons for the decline of Godzilla’s momentum are not limited to one end. The challenges of TV special photo albums, the decline of children’s spending power caused by the oil crisis, and the creativity of the series itself Depletion is the main reason. For various reasons, Toho finally decided to suspend the production of the series of films after the fifteenth film of the series "Robot Godzilla's Counterattack" in 1975. This decision also marked Japan's 1960- The end of the golden age of monster special effects movies in the 70s.
In 1984, after nine years of silence, "Godzilla" launched by Toho on the 30th anniversary of the birth of Godzilla made this Godzilla miraculously resurrected on the big screen. 80 meters), and started the second series of upsurges that ended in 1995. The successful resurrection of Godzilla is not only due to the progress of the film's special effects, but also the return of the story style and Godzilla's image to the mature home line in the 1980s. The main reason for the audience's re-acceptance.
Abandoning the anthropomorphic depictions of the 1960s and 1970s, the Godzilla of this period is repositioned as a saboteur similar to the origin of the series, Godzilla becoming an unpredictable and technologically advanced modern human feeling The overwhelming sense of powerlessness of the active natural disaster, while redesigning a slightly dull and majestic appearance, the description of Godzilla also tends to be regarded as a unique giant creature with special habits: such as 84 In the 2008 edition of "Godzilla", Godzilla resonated with the ultra-low audio of migratory birds. In 1993, "Godzilla vs. Machine Godzilla" even described Godzilla as a kind of cuckoo bird that breeds by borrowing its nest. Creatures, all kinds of realistic descriptions made the image of Godzilla in this period very popular. In this period, Godzilla fed on nuclear energy radiation, attacked nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear power plants for food, and finally because of the abnormality in his body. The trend of uncontrolled death due to nuclear fusion reaction also obviously implies reflection on human civilization.
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