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.
Films That Influenced Godzilla (2014)
