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   Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta (reconbot@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:22:57 JST Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

   I’m not gonna do any long #monsterdon threads but my kids fascination with #godzilla movies is so much fun. These wild plots, the contrived fights, the surprise twists, and the unknown motivations and allegiance of Godzilla itself. Oh it’s so juicy.

   Godzilla commonly has two motivations :
   - Why did you wake me up!?
   - I’m the baddest monster

   Sometimes it likes humans even, but often it dngaf.

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     Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta (reconbot@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 09:44:36 JST Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

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     And then there are the tropes that persist through the dozens of movies. The very first Godzilla (Gojira) used radio announcers and scientists talking to reporters as exposition. It was repeated constantly in so many movies even today.

     Much of the Godzilla movies in the 1990s are watching destruction on closed-circuit television in a control room. Can’t fathom why a fight is happening? They’ll be sure to tell you back at HQ.

     #monsterdon #godzilla

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     Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta (reconbot@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 09:44:36 JST Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

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     A big part of the earlier movies are the craft. Nothing like this had ever been done before. Sure they could have used b-roll of real tanks but creating dozens of rc tanks with fireworks, or an entire city to be destroyed was a different class of artistry and devotion.

     I mean look at this from 1993. It’s less than half of a highly detailed city to be destroyed. That sky scraper on the left doesn’t last long and it’s marvelous.

     #godzilla #monsterdon

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     Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta (reconbot@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 09:45:15 JST Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

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     I’ve heard it’s to do with a classical style of Japanese play that exaggerates a lot of elements. (Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh Ty @wohali!) The craft of the masks and puppets were the show, it wasn’t suppose to be realistic.

     #monsterdon #godzilla

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     Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta (reconbot@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 09:45:15 JST Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

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     My final thoughts are;

     - Half the buildings get destroyed because the Japanese accessibility standards never considered Kaiju. Godzilla is just trying to get around.
     - The breadth of plots, monsters and alliances means you can pretend to be any Kaiju with anyone being a friend or enemy however you like it.
     - I cannot imagine what it feels like to pretend to be Godzilla when you are young and small. It must be amazing. 🤩

     #monsterdon #godzilla