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Godzilla is no longer completely fictional......

posted 14 years ago by sonofindiandelta
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...at least in spirit. The destruction of Japan by the quake and tsunami,coupled with the nuke catastrophe, means that you could film a documentary on Japan right now and just add Godziila in post production and it would look more devastated than the completely fictional Godzilla films. Truly horrifying, with the possibility that Tokyo, on of the worlds largest cities, will no longer be inhabitable.
The radiation is 10 times normal in Tokyo, which Reuters soft-sold as "only" as much as a chest xray-forgetting that Xray technicians stand behind lead while doing their job.....
Sometimes it boggles my mind how coporate newspapers soft sell disasters like this: 1. It actually makes for more panic as it reinforces the already well known fact that the corporate media is constantly spewing lies in it's own interest 2. Doesn't the govt know the one about the boy who cried "sheep" when it was really a wolf 3.Makes it harder for rescue workers and NGOs to do their jobs

[–] Prof_Lostiswitz 14 years ago

Ishiro "Gojira" Honda also directed "Mount Fuji in Red", a sequence from Kurosawa's "Dreams". (Kurosawa had a lot of help making the movie).

It deals directly with a nuclear reactor explosion (6 reactors in fact). He takes a lot from Gojira - the panicking, swirling crowds, also the distraught mother trying to comfort her two babies (she seems to be a Honda speciality).

[–] master_fercho 14 years ago

Dude... with the country devastated and high radiation levels, Godzilla is still completely fictional. Sorry.

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[–] cindytrells 13 years ago

Sonofindiandelta said almost eight months ago:

** The destruction of Japan by the quake and tsunami,coupled with the nuke catastrophe, means that you could film a documentary on Japan right now and just add Godziila in post production and it would look more devastated than the completely fictional Godzilla films. Truly horrifying, with the possibility that Tokyo, on of the worlds largest cities, will no longer be inhabitable. **

Japan seems to be recovering from the earthquake and tsunami faster than New Orleans recovered from Katrina. I can't think of a cult film in which a monster or dragon terrorizes New Orleans. I'm sure some disaster films like Twister have hinted that New Orleans is or could be affected by such a thing, but filmmakers who devote two hours to New Orleans seem to concentrate on people causing trouble for each other. I've missed the recently filmed Nicolas Cage movie that was filmed there.