So uh is King Kong a kaiju?
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Replying to @remembrancermx
Yep. Counts. Kaiju don't need to be lizards.
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Replying to @Obscurica
But don’t they have to be preternatural? Like literal gods or punishment from God for our sins.
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Replying to @remembrancermx @Obscurica
I mean, King Kong absolutely is a whole loaded metaphor for all kinds of shit rather than just being a story about a big ape that breaks stuff
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What IS Godzilla a metaphor for in American films anyway? Like I was saying yesterday, in Hollywood Godzilla films the US military should just nuke America.
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Yeah that’s what I mean, Godzilla, Mothra, they’re divine symbols of something greater than man. Godzilla is racism.
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Like originally Godzilla was a metaphor for the US bombing Japan, so Hollywood Godzilla makes... no sense.
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Well Hiroshima is a long time ago now, so Godzilla's "meaning" has shifted over time He's climate change or he's the spectre of future nuclear war or he's just humanity overstepping its bounds and inviting disaster in general
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s and
I would argue that the postwar Godzilla is pretty clearly a metaphor for Japan's relationship with the United States overall This uneasy sense of relying on this horrifically destructive force as the least bad of the superpowers to be allied with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s and
King Ghidorah is the USSR or China or something
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Anyway Shin Godzilla makes the inferiority complex with the US an explicit theme of the whole thing
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lol yeah the 'sasuga USA!' followed shortly by Godzilla frying the shit out of those bombers was funny.
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