What films influenced Godzilla?

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Year2014

CountryUnited States

DirectorGareth Edwards

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Director Gareth Edwards returned to Ishiro Honda's original Gojira (1954), the Japanese kaiju film that treated a radioactive monster as metaphor for nuclear holocaust, not spectacle. Edwards rejected the campy, irradiated action of later Godzilla sequels and instead made a film of dread—Godzilla as consequence, as judgment. Honda's atomic age anxiety became the emotional core of a modern blockbuster.

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