Hero of the Month - Edition N°14

After watched his 2014 movie last night, I finally decided it was time for him to have his edition.
For the fourteenth edition of the greatest fictional heroes of our world, I will introduce this time one of the greatest hero ever known, both in terms of size and popularity. Considered as a true superstar, especially in Japan, this monster now even got his own star on the Hollywood Boulevard. The most famous of all monsters and their king: Godzilla.

According to his story, Godzilla is as old as the world itself, born in a very distant time, when the earth was much more radioactive than before. The world was dominated by titanic creatures, feeding themselves of radiations to live and grow more. Godzilla was the king of this ancient world, dominating all other creatures by his strength. But after the many climate changes over the centuries, the great monsters disappeared almost all, and the survivors were forced to take refuge in the depths of the oceans abysses, in burrows to the core of the earth, to feed of its radiations. Thus, Godzilla could survive and lay dormant for thousands of years, until one day, in the 50s, a submarine that beat the diving record, woke him up and made him emerge from the ocean. The famous testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific islands were actually a hidden pretext for trying to kill Godzilla, without success, the monster being invincible and insensitive to radiation. One day, some giant mutant creatures made their reappearance in the world: the Mutos, kind of gigantic parasitic creatures that feed of radiations, and apparently, mortal enemies of Godzilla. When two Mutos, a male and a female, appeared and caused havoc across the planet, Godzilla came back from the abyss, to stop them at all costs. He stalked relentlessly the creatures across oceans and continents, until one day, while the female Muto had founded a nest and laid her eggs, Godzilla came and hired the fight. Despite its power, the king of the monsters found himself in difficulty facing the two mutants who attacked simultaneously, but the distraction allowed a band of human soldiers to recover a nuclear missile stolen by the mutos, and to destroy the nest with all eggs. While the female Muto tried to retrieve the missile, Godzilla took the opportunity to recover its forces and killed the male Muto. 

And while the female Muto was about to retrieve the missile, Godzilla grabbed her by the neck and killed her by spitting his blue flames across the body of the creature, destroying her from within. But after this hard fight, Godzilla fell unconscious in the middle of the ravaged city. First, humans believed his death, but while rescue forces were trying to retrieve all the survivors in the debris, Godzilla awoke, and having accomplished his mission, returned to the depths of the ocean, under the crowd cheers for him.

Even if he has the appearance of a giant lizard, Godzilla is a lot smarter than a mere animal. He is actually the god of an ancestral ecosystem, and its purpose is to ensure the natural balance of the world. Whenever this balance is threatened, Godzilla rises from the ocean to protect him. He does not attack humans unless he feels threatened by them. It is unclear whether he does this to protect humans, or just if he ignore them, and does it because he has to. Anyway, he's smart enough to know that humans are not his real enemies, and leave them alone after defeat his opponents.

Being as old as the earth, we can deduce the divine status of Godzilla, being apparently immortal, and having a power equal to a god. Not weapons, not even nuclear missiles, can hurt him. It seems that only the mutant creatures as large as him are able to hurt him. With the radiations he eat over the centuries have allowed him to reach a titanic size larger than a building, and also allows him to spit kinds of powerful radioactive blue flames.

According to the versions, Godzilla is either the protector of the earth, or a creature of the Apocalypse coming to destroy humanity. He is still popular in Japan these days, to the point that in the country, he is considered at the same rank as the superstars, even almost as a living legend, and for a fictional character, that's really badass.

Becoming the most famous monster, an icon of cinema and a global superstar, Godzilla deserves more than its place in the pantheon of fictional heroes.

See you next time, humans \m/

Mathias, the Killmaster

Fire and Blood \m/ 

Godzilla: the movie 2014

Today, I bought a dvd that I waited a long time: Godzilla, the movie 2014. I was not able to go see the movie to the cinema, but I promised myself to buy the DVD. I watched tonight. My conclusion: the film is good, the story is correct, but I was a little disappointed with some points. I'll talk about the film, some good and some bad sides. This is not a criticism, but I was a little disappointed, and I hate to say it, because I'm a big fan of Godzilla.

The story takes place today, while strange seismic and nuclear incidents occur, particularly in the United States and Japan. Humans then discovered that there are millions of years, giant creatures, the mutos, fed themselves of radiations produced by the core of the earth. But two of these creatures come back on the earth, to absorb nuclear power and destroy humanity. No weapon can stop the giant creatures that cause havoc in cities. But a Japanese scientist announces that there is a way to stop them: another monster, Godzilla, who emerges from the depths of the ocean to confront the mutos, to destroy them and restore balance on the earth.

A good idea was to put Godzilla against other giant creatures, to see titanic battles. And another good point: this time, Godzilla is on our side, not against us. The King of the Monsters is somehow the protector of the earth, and it protects against other threats. Unfortunately, the militaries are really stupid, and want to kill Godzilla, while it only wants to protect us. The film shows once again how can the human be willing to do anything to destroy what scares him, even when the thing in question is not hostile towards him. Fortunately, Godzilla is like the mutos and remains insensitive to human weapons. It seems that Godzilla is the only creature capable of killing the mutos.

The final battle between Godzilla and the two mutos is simply superb. We are witnessing the clash of titans expected since the beginning of the film. At first, Godzilla manages to repel them, but the mutos attack together and Godzilla is push down and injured by the two creatures. When we see Godzilla roaring and trying to get up, while the two mutos bite it, claw it and hits it, one can not help but encourage Godzilla mentally, and tell him by thoughts "Go Godzilla! Shows them that you are the King of the Monsters!"

After a difficult and brutal fight, Godzilla manages to defeat the two creatures, but injured, he collapses on the floor. At first I was afraid that he died of his wounds, having just defeated his enemies. But fortunately, at the end, Godzilla awakens and rises triumphantly and people cheer the monster, as their hero.

But there is also a little disappointed in the film: 

The film is called "Godzilla" but the monster appears the first time after 50 minutes of film, after almost half of the film. This is ridiculous. Godzilla appears only in a maximum of four scenes, and even in the early scenes, it appears only a few seconds. The film is still based on the humans, a military father, who wants to find his wife and son, scientists who want to help Godzilla, and soldiers who want to do everything explode. One would almost think this film is centered on the humans, and that Godzilla has only a secondary role in his own film.

I have nothing against the actors, they have done their roles, but when a movie is based on Godzilla, normally it is he who should appear the most and be the top of the pedestal. But there, it's almost like the writers wanted that the human hero steals the show at the King of the Monsters.

But fortunately, the film ends with Godzilla, which roars towards the sky, victorious and alive, then it goes back into the depths of the ocean after completing its mission, 

Finally, Godzilla is a good movie, I'm very glad I saw, but I was just a little disappointed with the lack of apparition of the monster. I wanted to see more scenes with Godzilla, or fight scenes, and less scenes with humans, some were not necessary, from my point of view.

Godzilla is the REAL star of the movie. 

                                                                     Mathias, the Lordi Rider