Godzilla films from Japan.

[Smokey]

I watched couple of Godzilla movies few days ago on cable and something struck me funny.

It seem that with all the destruction, fires and chaos Godzila (or other big creatures) create when he/she enter a city or walk thru it, nobody seem to get hurt. All we see in the back ground is Godzilla turning over buildlings, towers and power lines, and in the foreground people running away. I didn't see anybody getting seriously hurt or get killed in the wake of disaster.

May be just couple of scratches or broken bones here and there :)

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[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I watched couple of Godzilla movies few days ago on cable and something struck me funny.

It seem that with all the destruction, fires and chaos Godzila (or other big creatures) create when he/she enter a city or walk thru it, nobody seem to get hurt. All we see in the back ground is Godzilla turning over buildlings, towers and power lines, and in the foreground people running away. I didn't see anybody getting seriously hurt or get killed in the wake of disaster.

May be just couple of scratches or broken bones here and there :)

<img src="http://www.lumiere.org/films/images/godzilla-1954-photo1.jpg">

You silly bear, they have already left town. They new he was coming because he ate three ships in the harbor.

[Defshep]

There wasn't enough budget to allow for tiny, fake-looking, cardboard citizens. It all went to the fake-looking cardboard buildings.

[Worf101]

In the original "Godzilla" in glorious Black and White, Godzilla is no nicey nice, plaything for little Japanese Boys or midget girls. This monster is possessed of one BAD disposition. You see people dying of radiation burns, crushed, and dead. You see people in the hospital crying over the bodies of their dead relatives. No, in the original, even the one with the Raymond Burr (before he got monsterously large) you see death and destruction, rackage n' ruin aplenty.

Da Worfster :p

[dean_martin]

In the original "Godzilla" in glorious Black and White, Godzilla is no nicey nice, plaything for little Japanese Boys or midget girls. This monster is possessed of one BAD disposition. You see people dying of radiation burns, crushed, and dead. You see people in the hospital crying over the bodies of their dead relatives. No, in the original, even the one with the Raymond Burr (before he got monsterously large) you see death and destruction, rackage n' ruin aplenty.

Da Worfster :p

Yep, what Worf said. Then, at some point during the franchise, Godzilla went back and forth from bad guy to good guy. If he was the bad guy in one, he couldn't kill too many people because he was going to be the good guy in the next one. He's probably been the good guy more times than the bad guy in the Japanese films.

[Smokey]

In the original "Godzilla" in glorious Black and White, Godzilla is no nicey nice, plaything for little Japanese Boys or midget girls. This monster is possessed of one BAD disposition. You see people dying of radiation burns, crushed, and dead. You see people in the hospital crying over the bodies of their dead relatives.
Da Worfster :p

Now, that is what I call a Godzilla movie :D



Then, at some point during the franchise, Godzilla went back and forth from bad guy to good guy. If he was the bad guy in one, he couldn't kill too many people because he was going to be the good guy in the next one.

And sometimes he go from bad guy to good guy in a same movie. He destroy a city first, and then he protect it. My be there is some hidden [Japanes] meaning to that :D

And thanks Sir TT and Defshep for replies :p

[GMichael]

And sometimes he go from bad guy to good guy in a same movie. He destroy a city first, and then he protect it. My be there is some hidden [Japanes] meaning to that :D
:p

Are you suggesting that in some way the Japanees movie makers thought of the USA as Godzilla?

[Defshep]

You got it, Smokey!

[Woochifer]

Ditto what Worf brought up. The original movie had a lot of peril and terror from the civilians in Godzilla's path, including a scene with a mother shielding her infant as the radioactive inferno closes in. The full-length Japanese version (not the whitewashed U.S. version starring Raymond Burr) especially has a surprising amount of depth in its anti-nuclear message and the moral dilemmas associated with how/whether to exterminate Godzilla. It got campy in later films with Godzilla doing battle with some other badass monster, and playing more the "good" monster role. Apparently, the newer Godzilla pics have the lizard returning to its badass roots. I never saw it, but apparently Godzilla 2000 (with the tagline "GET READY TO CRUMBLE") encapsulates how the newer Godzilla movies have been going with the series.