Thursday, February 6, 2020

Love in Godzilla: 1954

Godzilla has tons of these, the love triangle.  Almost every Godzilla movie has one.  While the execution is generally unexciting, the idea behind it is generally interesting.  Here, the general idea involves this:

Love triangle.  A guy almost 40 named Daisuke Serizawa.  Emiko Yamane, daughter of a paleo-biologist.  Hideo Ogata, the handsome, dashing sea captain.

Emiko was betrothed to Serizawa.  However, Ogata is in the way.  She prefers Ogata.

However, Serizawa has to reveal his greatest secret, the Oxygen Destroyer, which, how it works? A fascinating discussion by itself! However, that is not currently important.  What is important? Serizawa is afraid that if his invention is used as a weapon, it will be a weapon of Mass Destruction more powerful than any nuclear weapon.

When he activates the Oxygen Destroyer, to preserve his weapon's secrets, he ultimately ends himself, telling Emiko and Ogata to be happy together.  Thus, he sacrifices himself twofold by doing so.

Yeah, maybe not the most well-thought love triangle.  No, real love is not really often explored deeply in the media.

However, the ideas behind the connections we have are often executed and explained in interesting ways in these stories, and Godzilla is seldom  different.

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