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Godzilla (2014)
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https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status ... 1842169856BREAKING: KICK-ASS star AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON offered lead role in GODZILLA reboot.
Something I put together
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He should take it, Aaron is great.Morrie's_Wig wrote:https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status ... 1842169856BREAKING: KICK-ASS star AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON offered lead role in GODZILLA reboot.
Great video. That would be a good opening especially how you have Godzilla (title,nice font and color) fade away to a city. I could see that potentially opening the movie.DreamPolice wrote:Something I put together
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Might as well give my thoughts on the project.
No matter how good the script, acting or direction is, it won't beat the original. And no, I'm not talking about the Emmerich version. The original 50's movie was an article of it's time. Despite the silliness of a giant lizard hopping around Tokyo city like a big playground, it was a pretty serious film.
It dealt with issues and events that were still fresh in the memories of the filmmakers and Japan as a whole. I'm not going to drag the politics into this but this remake won't mean the same thing as the original. I know that can be argued for a lot of remakes but it's especially prevalent in this case.
I'm still optimistic about the film, despite the mixed opinions I've heard of Monsters.
No matter how good the script, acting or direction is, it won't beat the original. And no, I'm not talking about the Emmerich version. The original 50's movie was an article of it's time. Despite the silliness of a giant lizard hopping around Tokyo city like a big playground, it was a pretty serious film.
It dealt with issues and events that were still fresh in the memories of the filmmakers and Japan as a whole. I'm not going to drag the politics into this but this remake won't mean the same thing as the original. I know that can be argued for a lot of remakes but it's especially prevalent in this case.
I'm still optimistic about the film, despite the mixed opinions I've heard of Monsters.
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Here's a little article containing some explanations with Frank Darabont:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/23/ ... l-godzilla
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/23/ ... l-godzilla
The infusion of contemporary issues with science fiction is always a worthwhile combination. I hope this Godzilla has the same intelligent metaphors as the once terrifying original. However, let's also hope its great popcorn entertainment.Frank Darabont recently revealed some of his plans for Legendary's upcoming Godzilla reboot, which he is rewriting. But unlike some incarnations of the Japanese kaiju, Darabont hopes to bring the creature back to its former glory as an unstoppable wrecking ball of horror.
"What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Darabont explained to io9 in an interview. "And some of the atom bomb testing we were doing in the South Pacific in the subsequent years. The giant terrifying force of nature that comes and stomps the s#!t out of your city, that was Godzilla. Filtered through the very fanciful imaginations of the Japanese perception. And then he became Clifford the Big Red Dog in the subsequent films. He became the mascot of Japan, he became the protector of Japan. Another big ugly monster would show up and he would fight that monster to protect Japan. Which I never really quite understood, the shift.
"What we're trying to do with the new movie is not have it camp, not have it be campy," he continued. "We're kind of taking a cool new look at it. But with a lot of tradition in the first film. We want this to be a terrifying force of nature. And what was really cool, for me, is there was a very compelling human drama that I got to weave into it. It's not that cliched, thinly disguised romance or bromance, or whatever. It's different, it's a different set of circumstances than you're used to seeing. And that's tremendously exciting as a writer when you're asked to do something else."
When asked if he's working to connect the film to a different contemporary issue, Darabont replied, "Yes I am, but I'm not going to give it away."
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Godzilla > Pacific Rim ->from the current hype standpoint
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Glad to hear they're trying to go for something with smart metaphors rather than a simple popcorn flick. I'm curious what the contemporary issue might be.
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The contemporary issue will be climate change.
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