Originally posted by dannavy85@Mar 21 2005, 04:27 PM
Nice catch. I never considered the big Zilla as a negative aspect though, he could have made a good poster boy for HUD and urban renewal.
The funniest commercial I saw in Japan with God zilla though was a nose tissue one where a little boy cussed Zilla out for all the destruction he was causing and the big guy cried. So the kid hands him a big tissue, he blows in it and drops the soaking snot infested rag on the poor kid.
Hey even Zilla has a sense of humor.
I wish I had seen that commercial. But, I actually watch very little TV.
Between three articals that I read, I can say that Godzilla was released from either a frozen state of suspended animation or some other thing by one of the A-bombs, or some post-war atomic testing, I cannot recall which. Anyway, it was the Washington Post that had an article about the latest and presumably, the final Godzilla film. It said that the American version removed all the political content that essentailly made the film a social commentary as much as a sci-fi in Japan. Thus, Godzilla was associated with negative aspects of the atomic age.
Washington Post: 'Godzilla,' Uncut and Unmatched and
Washington Post: 'Godzilla': Not Your Daddy's Dinosaur. However, these sources do not support some of my assertions. There is one other web source, which, when taken together with those two, does. But it is highly political, and I omit it in hopes of keeping this thread non-political.
If you want the sources, please PM me. But, I ask you to keep this thread non-political. Too many members have been turned off by the politicizing of this forum, and some have gone away.
So, here is our friend Atom, laying his life on the line every day. Using atomic power for the good of mankind, rather than the ill. Despite my stating that Atom is symbolic of the positive aspects of the atomic-age, The Tezuka World page for Atom states "the message Tezuka Osamu wanted to portray was: Can science and humanity really coexist?" (
Atom's page).
I will risk Cybotron's wrath, by stating that in a college class about critical approaches to literature, I read more than a few prominant writers' interpretations of M. Shelly's 'Frankenstein.' One of which was essentially similar to the above quote from Atom's page.
But then, I know better than to accept the theory of someone other than the author, as definitive.
