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Mar 21 11 6:10 PM
Dubious Comforts wrote:DerGolem wrote:My Japanese Film class was scheduled to watch Itami Juzo's Tampopop (1985) today but our professor came in and announced that in light of the recent tragic events in Japan he was changing today's film to Gojira, which had originally not even been on the syllabus. He said that he was going to show Gojira since it was a perfect example of how the Japanese people deal with tragedy as that seen after the Second World War and today in the wake of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plant breakdown. Honda had much to say in regards to how society deals with tragedy in Japan as exemplified by the discussion on the commuter train (the same couple later appears on the cruise ship in Tokyo Bay). What did your professor and the class say about this aspect of the film?
DerGolem wrote:My Japanese Film class was scheduled to watch Itami Juzo's Tampopop (1985) today but our professor came in and announced that in light of the recent tragic events in Japan he was changing today's film to Gojira, which had originally not even been on the syllabus. He said that he was going to show Gojira since it was a perfect example of how the Japanese people deal with tragedy as that seen after the Second World War and today in the wake of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plant breakdown.
Mar 26 11 11:35 AM
Monsterpal wrote:DerGolem wrote: My Japanese Film class was scheduled to watch Itami Juzo's Tampopop (1985) As much as I love Gojira, I hope you still get a chance to see Tampopo, DerGolem. It's a lot of fun.
DerGolem wrote: My Japanese Film class was scheduled to watch Itami Juzo's Tampopop (1985)
Mar 26 11 4:23 PM
DerGolem wrote:Monsterpal wrote:DerGolem wrote: My Japanese Film class was scheduled to watch Itami Juzo's Tampopop (1985) As much as I love Gojira, I hope you still get a chance to see Tampopo, DerGolem. It's a lot of fun.We watched Tampopo in class yesterday and I laughed my ass off. Very funny movie. I will have to purchase a copy of it.
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Mar 31 11 12:40 PM
Kaijubait wrote:Humanity isn't really something I require in my monsters, but I think Godzilla does fill the role of a totem quite easily.
Mar 31 11 1:20 PM
Mar 31 11 3:05 PM
DerGolem wrote:Kaijubait wrote:Humanity isn't really something I require in my monsters, but I think Godzilla does fill the role of a totem quite easily.I don't know about "humanity" per say, but I like my monsters to have "character." One of the things that helps separate Japanese kaiju from their American counterparts is that they each have a name and a personality; Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Gamera, Gomora, Red King, etc... as oppose to just 'giant spider' 'giant ant' 'graboid' etc....
Mar 31 11 3:10 PM
bipolarber wrote:NPR has run a story on how interest in the "Atomic mutation" movies (including Big G) has spiked since the Fukushima plants began to become a problem. http://www.npr.org/2011/0...ace-to-our-nuclear-fears
Mar 31 11 3:12 PM
Mar 31 11 4:32 PM
Hachigatsu wrote:Interesting, Godzilla has little "humanity" in the first couple of films (except for one touch during the climax of the first, in which Godzilla is awakened by the divers, and looks over his shoulder towards them), but by KING KONG VS. GODZILLA in 1963 (and excepting the next film, MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA in 1964), he — and the other monsters — become far more anthropomorphic with each film.
Mar 31 11 4:57 PM
Godziwolf wrote:DerGolem wrote:Kaijubait wrote:Humanity isn't really something I require in my monsters, but I think Godzilla does fill the role of a totem quite easily.I don't know about "humanity" per say, but I like my monsters to have "character." One of the things that helps separate Japanese kaiju from their American counterparts is that they each have a name and a personality; Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Gamera, Gomora, Red King, etc... as oppose to just 'giant spider' 'giant ant' 'graboid' etc.... You mean Japanese monsters don't have names like Pteradon, Giant Moth (Moth-ra), Giant Turtle (K/Game-Ra), Giant Shrimp (Ebi-rah), Giant Spider (Kumo(n)-Ga), or Giant Spew (Hedo-rah)?Good to know.
Hachigatsu wrote:The suffix "ra" at the end of Japanese monsters names doesn't mean anything, really — it's just a rip from "Gojira". Every proper name has a root meaning, Godziwolf; there is a big difference between "Big, Carnivorous, Bipedal Dinosaur" and "Tyrannosaurus Rex" or "T-Rex".
Mar 31 11 6:56 PM
dinost wrote:Hachigatsu wrote:Interesting, Godzilla has little "humanity" in the first couple of films (except for one touch during the climax of the first, in which Godzilla is awakened by the divers, and looks over his shoulder towards them), but by KING KONG VS. GODZILLA in 1963 (and excepting the next film, MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA in 1964), he — and the other monsters — become far more anthropomorphic with each film.Yeah, the humanity from the first film came from actual humans. I suppose I'm still not a Godzilla fan, but I'm definitely obsessed with the film "Gojira".
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Apr 2 11 12:03 PM
Hachigatsu wrote:According to Honda, Godzilla is "War Incarnate", and is, itself, a victim of "The Bomb" — it is not The Bomb. Honda reinforced this by saying that Godzilla's skin shows the keloid scars of atomic exposure, just like the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Apr 2 11 6:36 PM
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Apr 2 11 10:25 PM
Hachigatsu wrote:In GMK, Godzilla is the embodiment all of the war dead, from both sides (including Kamikaze pilots forced to die).
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