I haven’t seen this one talked about so much on social media. Then again, I’ve been fairly scarce on social media lately, and also I may not be following enough Godzilla accounts.
I should be following more Godzilla accounts.
This new movie is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, also a visual effects supervisor, who handles those duties here too. The VFX sure are impressive, from what I can see. I’ve seen Takashi Yamazaki’s SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO (2010), but none of his other work. Any idea where I should start? Anyway, I know one of his movies I will for sure be seeing. GODZILLA MINUS ONE will be in theaters in North America on December 1st, 2023. Our readers in Japan, if you are out there, will be getting the movie sooner, on November 3rd, 2023. The original Godzilla was released in Japan on November 3rd, 1954. That means the seventieth anniversary is coming up! Toho picked November 3rd as a tribute.
It’ll be interesting, sociopolitically speaking, to watch Godzilla stomp through Japan in 2023. The OPPENHEIMER movie, one of the biggest of this year, took criticism from some quarters, the argument being that it didn’t have “the courage” to show Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For me, I felt enough revulsion during the scene where American military officials are casually dithering over where to drop the bomb (the scene with James Remar as Henry Stimson) that I’m not sure more was needed to hammer home the atrocities. Then again, I am not Japanese and have no right to talk about what is or isn’t necessary when it comes to remembering this chapter of history. I’m no scholar of history, no sage, no genius. That said, I am a student of Godzilla movies. And, as has become the conventional wisdom, Godzilla is a symbol of what Oppenheimer wrought. Is it absurd and foolish, even offensive, to suggest GODZILLA MINUS ONE as a proper follow-up to OPPENHEIMER? That maybe this, instead of BARBIE, should have been the zeitgeist-defining double-feature? Forgive me. And I hope not. You’d have to understand how seriously I take Godzilla to truly understand how little offense I mean here. If Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived, as Christopher Nolan has hypothesized, then allow me to suggest that Godzilla is the most important international movie star of all time. Tom Cruise can eat shit.
Here’s the trailer!
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Tags: GODZILLA, History, japan, Oppenheimer, Takashi Yamazaki, The 1950s, Toho, Toho Co., Toho International
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