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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Replying to @benjanun_s @arthur_affect and
arguably the american godzilla movies should be seen in the context of the whole slew of american blockbusters that imagine the catastrophic destruction of american cities man of steel, transformers, independence day, it's really just all over the place
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Replying to @perdricof @benjanun_s and
my extremely half informed take is that we are purging the subconscious guilt of empire imagining imperial violence being visited upon us, but in a way that's safe, a way we can laugh or cheer at, then put aside after we leave the theater
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Every single thing was a metaphor for 9/11 for like ten years after 9/11 and they actually openly said so at exhausting length
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