After watching the new version of "Godzilla", many viewers are puzzled, why Godzilla has to risk his life to selflessly help humans fight the big mosquito CP, and then hide the merit and name, leaving a cool back!!! Is Godzilla the big bad?! Godzilla only attacked Japan?! Is it spewing flames?! Douban netizen Ou ou general Nenya translated an article on Thetopless Robot website that explained the nine myths about the monster Godzilla.
1. Godzilla is the bad guy?
When people mention the name Godzilla, they always have images of huge monsters trampling on and destroying helpless Japan. In the movies of the 70s, Godzilla's screen image has always been a good person. Beginning with the 1964 film Godzilla the Three Monsters, Godzilla fought alongside Mothra and Raton. In the following films, Godzilla has been in the role of Guardian of the Earth, fighting a series of monsters, underwater monsters, alien creatures, and even mechanical Godzilla. It wasn't until the 1984 movie The Resurrection of Godzilla's Monster King that Godzilla returned to the old ways of destroying the city.
2. Is Godzilla a mutated Tyrannosaurus Rex?
The origins of this myth can be traced back to the American version of King Kong vs Godzilla, which has a scene in which a respected scientist imagines Godzilla as a hybrid of a Tyrannosaurus rex and stegosaurus. Although Godzilla looked a bit like the carnivorous dinosaurs of the time, such as the Tyrannosaurus rex, Godzilla's image design was not only derived from this dinosaur. Godzilla's director, Ishirō Honda, and special effects designer Eiji Tsuburaya combined the different characteristics of a variety of dinosaurs. In addition, in the 1991 movie "Godzilla's Dragon Revenge", It is mentioned that Godzilla is actually a new type of dinosaur living on an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, just like the Japanese version of the Loch Ness Monster. Godzilla then mutated to what it is today due to nuclear testing.
3. Godzilla can't get hurt?
Godzilla is barely injured. Thanks to a regenerative gene, Regenerator G1, Godzilla is immune to ordinary human weapons, a gene that allows him to repair himself like Wolverine.
However, Godzilla actually died at least four times. In one of the earliest Godzilla films, Godzilla was destroyed by Dr. Serizawa. Serizawa) hand. In the 1985 version of godzilla's film, godzilla's heart stops beating (though he's revived) due to cadmium-containing missiles shot through the throat. In the movie Godzilla's Century of Death, his nuclear heart overload melted itself. In the movie Godzilla: Monsters Total Attack, a naval officer enters Godzilla's body in a small boat and detonates a bomb, causing the atomic energy in his body to disintegrate out of control again (but he is resurrected at the end credits).
4. Godzilla is a stupid monster?
In the early days, Godzilla was indeed portrayed as a clumsy monster, a moving natural disaster whose behavior was irregular and for whatever reason. But in the 1964 film Godzilla the Three Monsters, Godzilla communicates with Mothra and Raton: Mothra tries to convince the other two goods to fight Ghidorah together, and Godzilla initially refuses, saying that humans always try to hurt him, so why protect them?
After that, Godzilla's behavior became increasingly anthropomorphic throughout the 60s and 70s until the end of the Showa period. He collaborated with other monsters on many occasions to develop tactical plans, and in Godzilla Ibila Mothra: The Great Showdown in the South Seas, he fights with a human woman. He even danced in Godzilla's Monster Wars. In the movie "Battle dragon Godzilla Battle Cosmic Dragon", he has a dialogue with Ankilas, who is portrayed as a monster with dialogue bubbles.
In the Heisei era of the 90s until the millennium, Godzilla became more animalistic, but also cunning. He also showed obvious feelings for his children, and even had some degree of communication with humans.
5. Godzilla defeated King Kong in the Japanese version of King Kong vs Godzilla?
So far, most Godzilla fans and those who can look up Wikipedia know that's not true, but people have thought so for years. Although producer John Beck made many changes to the Japanese version of King Kong vs. Godzilla until it was finally presented to American audiences, one thing he didn't change was the ending. Both versions end with Godzilla and King Kong falling into the sea together and King Kong eventually surface.
The legend of Godzilla's appearance as a victor dates back to a book called Spacemen. The magazine once claimed that Godzilla won in the Japanese version of the film. It wasn't until the rise of the Internet in the '90s that the rumors were self-defeating, and today's Godzilla fans prefer to correct the rumor rather than continue to spread it.
6. Godzilla only attacks Japan?
Yes, Godzilla usually attacked Japan, but he also attacked two other places. In the movie Godzilla's Monster Total Attack, Godzilla attacks New York. In the movie Godzilla's Century, Godzilla attacks Hong Kong. If you count the '98 American movie Godzilla, Godzilla attacked New York again.
7. Is Mini-Ra godzilla's biological son?
Few other monster characters are more obnoxious than Mini-Ra (aka Minya, son of aka Godzilla). In the 1960 movie of the same name, Godzilla, a monster image created to openly court children with the intention of creating a "cute" little Godzilla image is an attempt, but the result of this attempt is a terrible mistake. It's like there are a lot of sex scenes with E.T. in the movie Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and one of them is pregnant.
When you're fantasizing about this image I've described (no thanks), I'll point you out to Four appearances of Mini-Ra, namely Monster Island Showdown: Son of Godzilla, Monster Attack of godzilla the Dragon, Godzilla's Mechanical Godzilla Strikes Back, and Godzilla's Ultimate Battle. No one has ever clearly confirmed that Mini-Ra is Godzilla's biological son. He may be, but this cannot be 100% confirmed by physical characteristics. Everyone thought it was because he had been following Godzilla and creating smoke.
8. Is Godzilla green?
From the first discovery of dinosaurs in the 17th century, they were always considered green. Because after all, they are large lizards, and the lizards most known to Westerners are mostly green. This view is so ingrained in the minds of the American people that almost all of the Godzilla movie posters introduced in the 50s and 60s are green, and when Godzilla had his own cartoon in the late 70s, he was also dyed green, and the Marvel comics of the same period were also green.
But the truth is that Godzilla was never depicted green in early images, and until 1999, no Japanese movie godzilla was green, they were usually charcoal gray. But in the 1999 film Godzilla 2000, Godzilla did turn green in this millennium sequel.
9. Is Godzilla spewing flames?
According to the Japanese, who actually experienced a nuclear strike during World War II, the fear of Godzilla is not only because he has a genetic mutation due to radiation, but also because he will release radioactive energy. In the early films, it was more of a corrosive gas, but by the mid-'60s it became a ray, and that's how it has been ever since. It's usually lake blue (with few exceptions), and Godzilla's dorsal scales glow before spraying.
Interestingly, in American-produced film and television productions such as the Hanna-Barbera animation and Marvel Comics, Godzilla sprays a bit like an orange flame. Some interpret this as the fact that the Americans wanted Godzilla to detach himself as much as possible from the fact that he originated from the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki on Hiroshima. But it looks more like the producer simply wanted the American people to associate more with a classic green fire-breathing dragon image than a charcoal-gray creature that sprays blue rays.