Commentary On The Movie Godzilla

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Over a decade passed before Godzilla, Japans original film was shown in the United States. Film critics praised this original masterpiece for its underline message as well as revolutionary movie techniques. Steve Ryfle that wrote “Godzilla’s footprint” admires the film not only for entertainment but also for the underline metaphor about the consequences of the use of atomic weaponry. The emotion you would have felt seeing this film if you were present during Hiroshima would have been over whelming. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka began his movie Godzilla with an opening scene that was a clear reenactment of an event he was well known of. On March 1, 1954 a ship called The Lucky Dragon was fishing when out of no where the ocean boiled white, then

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