View Single Post
  #8   Report Post  
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
anorton anorton is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 440
Default What the media is ignoring in Japan


wrote in message
...
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:46:59 -0700, Beryl wrote:

Paul K. Dickman wrote:
GREAT SCOTT!!! YOU'RE RIGHT.
Quick, somebody call MOTHRA.
Paul K. Dickman


http://images.wikia.com/godzilla/ima...6/Mothra-9.jpg

Look at Godzilla back away when he's faced with Mothra!


That is a classic movie. I have it (Engrish dubbed) somewhere around
here. It has the two little Japanese fairy girls that come and plead
with the Japanese to return the egg. It's a cheese burger deluxe.

Man in rubber suit Godzilla was the best movie monster ever...until
1998 when they screwed up and made computer graphics Godzilla. Without
the cheese factor of having the man in a rubber suit trashing miniture
models of cities.....well....Godzilla isn't really Godzilla. The
cheese makes the franchise.
Dave


What the producers of that newer Godzilla completely missed was that in most
the movies Godzilla was actually the hero not the villian. In fact Godzilla
was a metaphor for the Japanese view of the U.S. after the war; An immensly
powerful but clumsy beast who causes a lot of destruction but really has a
heart of gold. He ends up saving Japan from some larger evil and then
retreats into the ocean.