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Godzilla (1954)

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Godzilla (1954)	comment	You may be looking for the 1956 Americanized adaptation, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!The one that started it all.In The '50s, Cold War tensions were high, movie monsters created or awakened by nuclear explosions were a thing, and the monster could be defeated in a scientific way. Godzilla introduces, and invokes, a new type of radioactive monstrosity in a new, darker way...Godzilla (or Gojira, the literal Hepburn romanization), is a black and white kaiju tokusatsu film directed by Ishir⁠ō Honda in 1954 and the first film of the Godzilla franchise.Released on November 3rd, 1954, the film is notorious for its story, which is written by legendary sc-fi writer Shigeru Kayama. The genesis of the film happened when producer Tomoyuki Tanaka read a news article involved a United States nuclear test at the Bikini Atoll, codenamed Castle Bravo, which detonated a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb in March 1st, but that's not the full story. A Japanese fishing boat, the Daigo FukuryÅ« Maru was caught by the burst of the radiation explosion, irradiating her crew, and one of the crew members died of radiation poisoning. This international crisis and the possibility of irradiated fish poisoning fish markets put the country on edge. Tanaka thought of creating a giant monster through nuclear weapons and the popularity of giant monster movies in Japan. And thus, this film owes its existence to King Kong (1933) and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. It is one of the first, if not the film that pioneered the usage of People in Rubber Suits that held strong from the 1950's to 2004.Chosen to direct the film was Ishiro Honda, who was a former foot soldier during World War II who already had an extensive career as a director and his old friend, special effects guru Eiji Tsuburaya. Once Honda was released as a prisoner of war, he went home only to find out what happened to Hiroshima: destroyed by the Little Boy atom bomb in August 6, 1945 which haunted him forever. And thus, the film is a metaphor for their destructive power. The opening scene is a direct reference to the Castle Bravo test, and Godzilla's rampage in the second act symbolizes the atomic bombings. While set up originally as a horror film, this film established Kaiju as a genre of its own, in addition to beginning one of the greatest franchises in the world.In the middle of the Pacific, a mysterious flash of light destroys a fishing boat, the Eiko Maru. News of the ship's disappearance reaches Japan where they sent a rescue boat, the Bingo Maru. However, it too shares the same fate. Then a fishing raft belonging to the natives of Odo Island finds the missing crew, but suffers the same fate leaving a single survivor. Village elder Inada (Keiji Sakakida) believes the lack of fish is caused by the island's god, Godzilla, and a ceremony was performed to appease him. However, Godzilla lands onto the shore of Odo Island, killing villagers, farm animals, and leaving destruction its wake. Japan then sends a research crew to Odo Island to discover that Godzilla is a radioactive prehistoric monster, and Dr. Kyohei Yamane (Takashi Shimura) states the monster was awaken by a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific.Meanwhile, Emiko Yamane (Momoko Kochi), the professor's daughter, went to see her estranged fiancÃ©, Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata), and he may have the key to defeat Godzilla.The film also stars Akira Takarada as Hideo Ogata.Despite debuting to poor reception in Japan initially, Gojira (or Godzilla, take your pick), was praised by American viewers after the original cut was made available outside of Japan with two DVD releases, by Classic Media and The Criterion Collection. The English version, Godzilla: King of the Monsters! was edited to add American reporter Steve Martin (Raymond Burr), which sees its release in its home country of Japan called Kaiju-Oh Gojira. There is also the Italian version, Cozzilla, a much stranger recut that includes colorization and Stock Footage from World War II.Godzilla is a much more grounded, bleak and haunting film than its successors, so viewers visiting the film after a bout with the more fantastical later installments may be surprised at its somber tone and unsubtle allegories.Until 2014, this film was the headstart of every Continuity Reboot. Godzilla (2014) was the first film in the series' franchise to get a fresh start with no ties with this one; followed by Shin Godzilla, which is both a remake of, and a separate story from, this film, and Godzilla Minus One, another Toho reboot released on November 3rd, 2023, 69 years after the release of this film. A novella written by the film's screenwriter Shigeru Kayama and published in English as Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again adapts the initial screenplay of the film.For the sequels taking place after this film, see Godzilla Raids Again, The Return of Godzilla, and various Millennium series films. Godzilla vs. Megaguirus and Godzilla: Final Wars continue the story where the original Godzilla lives.The unromanized title is not to be confused with the French progressive death metal band Gojira.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_11cac491	type	Tragedy
Godzilla (1954) / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: Aside Horror, this fits the bill as well. The film does not even attempt to hide that it's a tragedy, since it's one of the post-war films where it does not even sugarcoat post-war trauma. The de-factor hero dies killing the tragic monster.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Godzilla (1954) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Thousands to millions of people are practically dead or dying in this film. The main characters aren't exactly immune to this either as Serizawa pulls off a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Godzilla (1954) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Ishir⁠ō Honda is the guy who flips the switch that electrocutes Godzilla.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Godzilla (1954) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Serizawa has one after realizing the full weight that rests on his shoulders. One must wonder how Akihiko Hirata felt when playing the guy. As mentioned in the Bittersweet Ending entry, Yamane laments that Godzilla was the last of his kind, but if nuclear tests are continued to be conducted, another Godzilla will appear again in the world. Cue Fridge Horror for that part.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Godzilla (1954) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: It's a very dark film of its time. Before its Reverse Cerebus Syndrome and Lighter and Softer sequels (barring its first direct sequel Godzilla Raids Again), it is much darker than the radioactive monsters of the 50's and this is the first film of the film's overall chronology. In fact, the entire film takes itself very seriously, and not once does it drop its stance against nuclear weapons. It also shows what happens if a giant monster is done rampaging: Monumental Damage, Crisis Point Hospital, Orphan's Ordeal, and Your Days Are Numbered via radiation poisoning. Even Godzilla himself is portrayed as a victim and not a generic mindless beast. And unlike other radioactive monsters of the '50's, Godzilla attacks humans directly instead of this film's sequels where a direct death toll is completely glossed over.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Godzilla (1954) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Considering Ishir⁠ō Honda directed this film and its screenplay, there are several references to Japan's experience in the aftermath of World War II and the incoming Cold War: The Eiko Maru blowing up in the beginning is a direct reference to the nuclear incident that occurred earlier in the year, when the US Castle Bravo test detonated a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific and the Daigo FukuryÅ« Maru fishing boat got caught in the radiation burst by accident. Godzilla himself is not just a metaphor for the atomic bomb (or nuclear weapons in general), but also a living nuclear weapon. A rather sad part, Godzilla in the climax is treated as the monster itself is innocent, since it experienced the aftershock of the nuclear weapons that gave the monster its powers as much as Japan did. In essence, not only is Godzilla a metaphor for nuclear weapons, he's also a victim of them. Basically, he's a giant monster version of a Hibakushanote bomb-affected survivor. And speaking of which, a woman complains about using bomb shelters and she mentions about surviving Nagasaki. In other words, she is a Hibakusha herself. The exchange with Ogata and Dr. Yamane when Ogata agrees with the army's decision to kill Godzilla because of him being a reminder of the atomic bombings. The generation that survived 9 years ago were haunted by the aftermath of the bomb and its horrors at the time (hence stories such as Barefoot Gen, which did not pull punches on the subject as Keiji Nakazawa survived the atomic bomb that killed his family). Unfortunately, Yamane doesn't agree with Ogata's decision, and kicks him out of his house. The fire raids. Those of you don't know about the fire raids, look it up. A couple complains about using bomb shelters should Godzilla come again, and a woman complains about having to evacuate again after having survived Nagasaki. The majority of the audience of that era would most likely be survivors during the time when US air raids were common during World War II, as well as atomic bomb survivors. After Godzilla's raid on Tokyo, the aftermath itself looks as if it was hit by an actual atomic bomb, with scenes of crowded hospitals filled with the dead and dying, children and patients coming into contact with Godzilla to indicate they will die of radiation poisoning. Considering who made this film, Toho's depiction of the aftermath is actually tame compared to graphical works that depicts the detonation of a nuclear weapon, such as Barefoot Gen.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Godzilla (1954) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: So you'd think by now since Dr. Yamane says that Godzilla survived an H-Bomb testing, and nothing could stop him, that the military would think twice about fighting the beast. Yet the military bombards the thing when he crosses the high-tension electrical towers and he uses his atomic breath. They still attack him after he blows up and crushes every building in his way.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Godzilla (1954) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The movie opens with the crew of a fishing vessel relaxing after a hard day. Suddenly they see a bright light, hear a loud noise, and the survivors are contaminated with radiation. This is literally what happened in real life to the fishing boat Daigo FukuryÅ« Maru, when it strayed within the exclusion zone of the Castle Bravo H-Bomb test in March 1954. Anyone watching the film in Japan later that year could easily make the connection.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_174b85df	type	Virgin Sacrifice
Godzilla (1954) / int_174b85df	comment	Virgin Sacrifice: When explaining the significance behind the ritual dance, one of the Odo Islanders casually remarks they used to send young girls out on rafts for Godzilla to eat.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Godzilla (1954) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Godzilla is supposedly from the Jurassic Era of dinosaurs (the era itself being 201.3Â± 0.6 Ma). Shigeru Kayama purposely date the Jurassic Era later than that to tie Godzilla's origins to man.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Godzilla (1954) / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The JSDF sends ships out to depth charge Godzilla. Not only does that not work, the creature follows the ships back to Tokyo Bay and lays waste to the city.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Godzilla (1954) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Stuntman Haruo Nakajima (the guy in the Godzilla suit) appears as a reporter in a newspaper office. Fellow stuntman Katzumi Tezuka is his and Hagiwara's editor.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Godzilla (1954) / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Serizawa chooses to kill himself after planting the Oxygen Destroyer so that he can never be convinced to use it or remake it again.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Godzilla (1954) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Godzilla and Dr. Daisuke Serizawa being disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Godzilla (1954) / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The basic premise is thus: A giant prehistoric beast/radioactive mutant is created/awakened by a nuclear testing and goes on a rampage, the protagonist and the scientist are the ones who has to deal with the monster, defeats it, and the film ends. However, that was the original premise. The film goes so much further with this detail than the B-movies and sequels to this film except Shin Godzilla glosses over: The entire country is on edge because the monster has been destroying boats at sea, thousands of people die either from being stepped on, burned alive, crushed under rubble, or radiation burns, the protagonist and her fiancÃ© witnesses a weapon with horrific potential that can destroy a whole ecosystem which her fiancÃ© is completely and absolutely terrified of, but its powerful yet dangerous potential is the only way to defeat a giant creature that cannot be defeated with conventional weapons. The monster is mutated by a nuclear weapon, but instead of being a mindless beast out to cause random destruction wherever it goes, It Can Think, and is deliberately attacking humans, making it a very wrathful creature that unleashes its rage on innocents. But it also has horrific radiation scars, thereby treating it as a victim. In other words, it's a post-war tragedy in a guise of a horror monster movie. The protagonist (who is actually a woman here) and her boyfriend discovers the beast and their military is desperate to defeat it before it causes collateral damage and more deaths. Her scientist fiancÃ© discovers a powerful source of energy that could potentially defeat the monster before it could cause more damage and death. Her fiance however is absolutely terrified of his discovery and doesn't want it used as a weapon. However, his fiancÃ©e tells her boyfriend about it and they both fight over it, resulting in the fiancÃ©'s reluctance to use it, but chooses to after the destruction it causes. He ultimately gives his own life so that his secret dies with him and his fiancÃ©e stays with the man she loves (sadly, she doesn't 40 years later) Many of the series' sequels tend to be Lighter and Softer, including its American contemporaries, when it comes to a monster rampaging in a major city, and leaving death and destruction in its wake. Even sequels to this film glosses over the damages caused by Godzilla and whatever monster antagonist he faces when fights are in a major city. This film does not, and as a result, the film shows what happens after the monster is done rampaging: major landmarks are destroyed, hospitals is being filled with dead and injured people, children being orphaned by the monster, and a choir of girls praying for peace. The allegories in this film is anything but subtle about it.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Godzilla (1954) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: There's a scene which shows a mother comforting her two children during Godzilla's rampage in Tokyo. It's heavily implied that they were killed by the titular monster. Likewise, the extremely unnerving scene where two soldiers use a Geiger counter on the body of a little boy...and it goes berserk.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_27ae4a75	type	Poisonous Person
Godzilla (1954) / int_27ae4a75	comment	Poisonous Person: Godzilla's sheer size and atomic breath isn't the only thing dangerous about him. He's also highly radioactive, and being near him will cause a person to suffer from radiation poisoning.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_30c15c8f	type	Watching Troy Burn
Godzilla (1954) / int_30c15c8f	comment	Watching Troy Burn: Tokyo is utterly destroyed by Godzilla while its survivors literally watch it burn. It would make you cringe since it would remind you of what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Godzilla (1954) / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Hagiwara is very important in the first half of the film, but has a lot less to do toward the end.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_337b9528	type	The Worf Barrage
Godzilla (1954) / int_337b9528	comment	The Worf Barrage: None of the JSDF's weapons can do as much as slow Godzilla down. This is why you listen to the scientist who pretty much summarize it as "[Godzilla] survived a nuke. What makes you think conventional weaponry can do jack against him?".
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Godzilla (1954) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Godzilla (1954) / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Invoked by Serizawa, who is afraid of his Oxygen Destroyer being used as a weapon. He clearly has hundreds of research documents and notes for creating the Oxygen Destroyer, but he destroys all of it to prevent the device from ever being used again, and just to be safe, he kills himself immediately after using it.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Godzilla (1954) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Inverted. Serizawa's not a mad scientist despite his appearance and lab equipment. In fact, he's horrified by the weapon he's accidentally created. Kyohei Yamane, however, was originally gonna be one.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Godzilla (1954) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Daisuke Serizawa cuts the rope tethering him to the boat so that the secret of the Oxygen Destroyer dies with him.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Godzilla (1954) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: How Serizawa intends to go out at the climax.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_39a41690	type	Adaptational Sympathy
Godzilla (1954) / int_39a41690	comment	Adaptational Sympathy: In the original draft and Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, Godzilla was an Expy of the Rhedosaurus from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, raided Odo Island for villagers and livestock, and isn't heavily affected by the H-Bomb testing. Godzilla in the film is treated as a victim of the testing, giving him horrible radiation scars, and wanted to be left alone after he vents his frustration. The 14th Edition of Definitive Edition Godzilla Introduction gives him more sympathy points, showing that he wasn't the only Godzillasaurus living on the bottom of the ocean, but they were killed, leaving him the Sole Survivor of the testing (at least at the time of Tomoyuki Tanaka's writing).
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Godzilla (1954) / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Godzilla (1954) / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Leans very hard on the cynicism. The film is very dark, and it stays that way. The ending is no better either as Yamane laments the possibility of another Godzilla appearing in the future.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Godzilla (1954) / int_3d699462	comment	The series makes its grand tradition of portraying the military as inept when going against a monster that has no problem wiping them out with no trouble. The first time the army tries to kill Godzilla, he barely flinched. Tries being the keyword here. Given that Yamane, in no uncertain terms, stated if Godzilla survived an H-Bomb, what can they do that could possibly to hurt him? They try, then they got blasted by the thing.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Godzilla (1954) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Godzilla is destroyed, but at the cost of Serizawa's life. Tokyo still lies in ruins, and there's a possibility that another Godzilla may come if humanity doesn't abandon its nuclear weapons.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
Godzilla (1954) / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: The film acts like your typical 1950's giant monster film at the time, but it takes itself very seriously. But by the third act, it firmly establishes that the film is a complete allegory of the atom bomb tragedy.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_46f86041	type	Bad Vibrations
Godzilla (1954) / int_46f86041	comment	Bad Vibrations: An early example. It usually signifies an Oh, Crap! for everyone, including the audience. However, the special effect used for other scenes is rather... odd. Since in the party boat scene, we can hear the stomping before Godzilla surfaces (it would made sense, but sound is usually not heard underwater), then again when it can be heard before Godzilla puts his head out of the water in his first rampage. In fact, Akira Ifukube accidentally stepped on a sound system, and it was used in the film.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_471c46f8	type	Allegory
Godzilla (1954) / int_471c46f8	comment	Allegory: This film is famous for its nuclear metaphors, with Godzilla being the metaphor for the bomb and a victim of it, the tragedies of Japan after World War II, and the hell its citizens went through. There is no sugarcoating about its metaphors, and they are still powerful to this day. Even film historians note this film would've been a generic monster flick without them. The Oxygen Destroyer itself is a personification of the nuclear arms race, and Serizawa is absolutely horrified by its power. The same way Albert Einstein regretted the creation of the atom bombs as their creation wasn't necessary to begin with.History lessonAlbert Einstein was worried that Nazi Germany could develop a nuclear weapon based on reports that they were in possession of heavy water. But it turned out the Nazis were far behind in weapons development, and he regretted the creation of the atom bombs since.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_482c31d4	type	No Hugging, No Kissing
Godzilla (1954) / int_482c31d4	comment	No Hugging, No Kissing: Even though Emiko and Ogata is the film's Official Couple (in the eyes of the audience), their behavior toward each other is perfectly chaste, perhaps because Emiko is still technically entangled with Serizawa.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Godzilla (1954) / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Godzilla killed Shinkichi's mother and brother. Now he's Emiko's adopted brother, and doesn't mind being their new son. In Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, he really does seem to get along with his adopted father in his picture with Dr. Yamane.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_4987746e	type	Ridiculously Fast Construction
Godzilla (1954) / int_4987746e	comment	Ridiculously Fast Construction: The electric towers appears to have been built in no less than a few hours. Originally, they were built in two weeks. So the towers' construction could have happened in those days while helping with the pacing.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Godzilla (1954) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Tokyo after Godzilla nukes the place, intentionally evocative of the real atomic bombings.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Godzilla (1954) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: When Serizawa and Ogata brawl over the Oxygen Destroyer notes, the camera stays behind a massive fish tank so we only hear the fight and see its aftermath.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Godzilla (1954) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Godzilla was created due to the atomic bomb, which is entirely humankind's fault. Before that he was just an innocent dinosaur living underwater.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
Godzilla (1954) / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: Dr. Yamane's description of the Mesozoic Era is woefully inaccurate. He also claims that trilobites have been extinct for 2 million years; it's actually closer to 250 million. He also puts the existence of dinosaurs at 2 million years, when virtually everyone knows that dinosaurs haven't been around for over 65 million years, and specifically references the Brontosaurus, which itself isn't known to have lived any more recently than 150 million years ago.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Godzilla (1954) / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Ishiro Honda pulls one big tract against nuclear weapons, and the horrors it brought to the country. The film establishes that the atomic bombings happened in universe, and Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the nuclear weapons. He also places all blame towards the weapons specifically rather than a particular country, and this is the reason why Godzilla is depicted as a Tragic Monster, not a Generic Doomsday Villain Nuclear Mutant attacking cities just because. War Is Hell after all.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Godzilla (1954) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: This is a given, since the very first film was made in the height of the Cold War and the not-so subtle reference to the atomic bomb tragedy nine years earlier. This is especially glaring compared to this film and its sequels. Unlike the later sequels, there's a very clear anti-war and anti-nuclear message written over it. This is made by the man who saw the aftermath of Hiroshima, and considered to be the best film of the franchise. Unlike the later films, this is the only film to depict Godzilla as a radioactive burn victim. The later films depicts Godzilla as a force of nature or a hero, or a jerk with a chip on his shoulder. This Godzilla is treated as if he's a nuclear holocaust survivor, which is precisely the point. Shin is what happens if you turn Godzilla into an Ant-walking Alligator monster. Speaking of which, this is the only film where Godzilla's connection to radiation and nuclear weapons isn't glossed over, and treated in a negative light. Atomic movie monsters of the 1950's, including this film's own sequels, often has the formula of "giant monster + nuclear weapon = rampaging in a major city" to the point that the main characters even see the monster as a mindless beast out to cause havoc as much as possible (or in the case of this film series, Godzilla being a dick in general regardless of that connection). This film treats him as a Hibakusha, and is treated a very somber light. This is the point Ishiro Honda was pointing about about Godzilla before the series went into Lighter and Softer territory. This is also the first solo Kaiju film where Giant Equals Invincible is played absolutely straight. Solo films such as Varan, the Unbelievable, Rodan, and a few has the title monsters being dispatched strategically but not without the monsters' somber death, though you can argue that the other 50's monsters created by Toho are not radioactive, or has no connection with nuclear weapons. This film, Godzilla is portrayed as a nuclear bomb and Ishir⁠ō Honda makes a point that if Godzilla was just a regular dinosaur, a cannonball is enough to kill him. But if he were to equate a nuclear bomb, there's nothing anyone could do. Whereas later treat Godzilla as a giant nuisance rather than the atom bomb he was personified as. Godzilla's attack on Tokyo is treated not only in a terrifying light, it is portrayed realistically rather than just "men in rubber suits smashing scale-model of a major city" while epic music blares in the background. It also portrays his rampage as a nuclear attack where Tokyo is burned to the ground, people are being rushed to the hospitals, getting ill by radiation sickness, etc. Godzilla's depiction as a God of Destruction only occurs in the Odo Island scenes. Later films dropped this angle up until Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! trailer. It isn't until Godzilla (2014), Shin Godzilla, and Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters where he is treated as a God again. Shin is where Godzilla's official Meaningful Name means "God Incarnate". Just generally, the film is very different from the sequels. It's a bleak, depressing, and nightmarish horror story that has more in common with The Call of Cthulhu than the pulpy, lighthearted B-Movie Summer Blockbusters that would embody the franchise. Godzilla's Breath Weapon is a jet of super-heated gas that melts or ignites whenever it's used on rather than the beam of atomic fire that's depicted as in later installments, and its color is white rather than Cherenkov blue.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Godzilla (1954) / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: According to the afterword of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, the script specifies that Hideto Ogata and Daisuke Serizawa are in their thirties, while Emiko Yamane—who is engaged to the latter but having an affair with the former—is in her early twenties.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_523977ba	type	Delaying Action
Godzilla (1954) / int_523977ba	comment	Delaying Action: In the third act, the JSDF are trying their damnedest to hold Godzilla back while trying to evacuate an entire city. It doesn't work too well, as by the time the air force arrives, he has already decimated the city.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Godzilla (1954) / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played with. Shinkichi survives (which is played straight). The children in the second act survive the attack from Godzilla, but their mother dies. Then one of Yamane's colleague uses the Geiger Counter on a boy who has it crackle near him.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_5517f7a5	type	Just Think of the Potential!
Godzilla (1954) / int_5517f7a5	comment	Just Think of the Potential!: Why Kyohei Yamane is interested in Godzilla despite the incidents he caused.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_55c480b5	type	Mighty Roar
Godzilla (1954) / int_55c480b5	comment	Mighty Roar: Godzilla introduces himself to the Odo Island research team with that (soon to be) iconic monster roar.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Godzilla (1954) / int_58970413	comment	Crossing over with Coincidental Broadcast, a television broadcast of a Japanese children's choir happens to be on right when Serizawa was angsting over whether or not to use the Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla. This one is especially bad because the television WASN'T EVEN ON, and all three characters were all the way on the other side of the room when it happened, meaning none of them switched it on. Its arguably the film's only noticeable Blooper.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Godzilla (1954) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: During the typhoon scene as Shinkichi shouts to his brother, you can see the lower half of Godzilla on the upper left side of the screen as he destroys Masaji's house.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Godzilla (1954) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Tragedy and consequences have long-term effects on people. It can also affect other life on Earth, and not just human beings that inhabit secluded areas. War creates victims. And the film's last act depicts Godzilla as an innocent creature whose mutation turns him into a walking nuclear bomb, and it wasn't his choice to begin with. The film also treats the humans and monster as not that different: Japan suffered a defeat that took millions of lives by two atomic bombs. Godzilla suffers from a nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific that horrifically scars and irradiated him. Scientists have a great responsibility when they discover a new source of energy that could benefit mankind or become its destroyer. They have to decide on the matter whether it's the right thing to do in the event of a crisis, and whether or not if it's worth it.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Godzilla (1954) / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Though not a main character, Hagiwara tries to get the story as much as he can. He survives the entire film.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Godzilla (1954) / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Daisuke Serizawa, one of the scientists involved in the story, is aware that Emiko Yamane is with Ogata the whole time. Even he knows she's inseparable from the man. During the climax, he willingly sacrifices himself so that Emiko and Ogata would be together. (Also to prevent the Oxygen Destroyer from ever being used again).
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Godzilla (1954) / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Godzilla (1954) / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Would you believe that Godzilla's roar was a result of a rubber glove used against a string instrument? It's damn chilling too.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Godzilla (1954) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Though unintentional, Dr. Yamane's final line suggests there may be another Godzilla somewhere in the world. Three series later (except Godzilla vs. Megaguiurus and Godzilla: Final Wars), it ended up happening.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Godzilla (1954) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Daisuke Serizawa, a brilliant, yet otherwise ordinary human, is responsible for one of the few times that the King of Monsters has been defeated.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Godzilla (1954) / int_6439de78	comment	As the DVD commentary says, the crux of the film is its moral ambiguity that Serizawa is wrestling with. If he does nothing, Godzilla will surely destroy his people, making him culpable to the extinction of the Japanese. However if he uses the Oxygen Destroyer, it creates the danger of a new arms race, and one that has the power to cause the utter destruction of all mankind. It's because there is no third option in this film that Serizawa is so tortured by the decision he has to make. He does find a third option... of a sort, as he reluctantly decides to use the weapon on Godzilla, but burns all his notes and performs a Heroic Sacrifice so that all knowledge of the Oxygen Destroyer's creation will die with him. Serizawa also, in no uncertain terms, points out that he doesn't want it to be used at all.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Godzilla (1954) / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Both Ogata and Shinkichi cry when Serizawa makes his Heroic Sacrifice at the climax of the film.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_66285452	type	Eyepatch of Power
Godzilla (1954) / int_66285452	comment	Eye Patch Of Power: Serizawa, the brilliant scientist who made the Oxygen Destroyer, wears an eye patch. It establishes him as a tragic figure as well as making him less conventionally handsome, so Emiko's lack of interest in him is easier to swallow.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Godzilla (1954) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Serizawa's final moments and words. He is canonically the first human to have ever defeated Godzilla by himself.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Godzilla (1954) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Emiko's mother is not mentioned. We are assumed that Kyohei Yamane is widowed in this film, since Emiko lives with her father.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_674fcb07	type	Signature Line
Godzilla (1954) / int_674fcb07	comment	Signature Line: Daisuke Serizawa says thusly in regards to the Oxygen Destroyer: "Bombs vs. boms. Missiles vs. missiles. And now a new superweapon to throw upon us all. As a scientist, no, as a human being, I cannot allow that to happen."
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Godzilla (1954) / int_69ac64a0	type	Too Broken to Break
Godzilla (1954) / int_69ac64a0	comment	Too Broken to Break: What made Godzilla so hard to kill isn't just his incredible durability but the fact that his mutation into his current form caused him more pain than anything humanity could do to him.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Godzilla (1954) / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Describes Godzilla perfectly.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Godzilla (1954) / int_6c4ed101	comment	Godzilla's Breath Weapon is a jet of super-heated gas that melts or ignites whenever it's used on rather than the beam of atomic fire that's depicted as in later installments, and its color is white rather than Cherenkov blue.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
Godzilla (1954) / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Emiko and Ogata's Love Triangle with Serizawa has almost nothing to do with the plot of the film, but does serve to give some scenes a bit more dramatic weight and pad out the runtime.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Godzilla (1954) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The Japanese government is willing to go to any lengths to eliminate Godzilla, including using an untested superweapon that will cause drastic long-term damage to Japan's own marine-based economy. The entire point of the film, in fact, is to examine how humanity is willing to develop and deploy ever more powerful weapons without regard for the consequences, making this an Unbuilt Trope. The reason why Emiko told Ogata about the Oxygen Destroyer. She is surrounded by dead and dying people, along with orphaned children, and she felt she had no choice but tell Ogata. This threshold even extends to Serizawa's final decision to defeat Godzilla with the Oxygen Destroyer, in which he ultimately chooses to use it only once, and ensure no-one esle can.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Godzilla (1954) / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the original draft and Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, Godzilla doesn't seem to be too affected by the H-Bomb testing, and he regularly raids Odo Island for their livestock and villagers, and lack his sympathetic traits. In the film, Godzilla is horrifically affected by the H-Bomb testing, and vented his anger over his mutation, and returns to the sea just to be left alone. The film's case was Ishiro Honda's input, and he modified Godzilla as a Hibakusha rather than an expy of Rhedosaurus.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Godzilla (1954) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: As the DVD commentary says, the crux of the film is its moral ambiguity that Serizawa is wrestling with. If he does nothing, Godzilla will surely destroy his people, making him culpable to the extinction of the Japanese. However if he uses the Oxygen Destroyer, it creates the danger of a new arms race, and one that has the power to cause the utter destruction of all mankind. It's because there is no third option in this film that Serizawa is so tortured by the decision he has to make. He does find a third option... of a sort, as he reluctantly decides to use the weapon on Godzilla, but burns all his notes and performs a Heroic Sacrifice so that all knowledge of the Oxygen Destroyer's creation will die with him. Serizawa also, in no uncertain terms, points out that he doesn't want it to be used at all.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Godzilla (1954) / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: When Emiko first sees Serizawa's secret creation in action, all we see is her horrified reaction to its effects on an aquarium, but when she recounts the event later to Ogata, we see now that all the fish in the tank are almost instantaneously dissolved into nothing by the device, which Serizawa calls the Oxygen Destroyer, a chemical weapon with the potential to rival a nuclear bomb in destructive power, and therefore the ability to kill Godzilla.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Godzilla (1954) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: People find out Godzilla is a giant radiation-mutated dinosaur. But when he starts rampaging in urban areas, it turns out he has a radioactive Breath Weapon, and proximity towards him can make people suffer from radiation poisoning.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Godzilla (1954) / int_7a143509	comment	There's already enough scenes to show how much of a woobie Serizawa is, and he literally is a destroyer of worlds (accidentally). He's a Shell-Shocked Veteran, he's horrified by the creation of his Oxygen Destroyer, and he never intended its use as a weapon. Yet, he created a weapon by accident which severely damaged Tokyo Bay's ecosystem when he used it in the climax.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7c6709e2	type	Crisis Point Hospital
Godzilla (1954) / int_7c6709e2	comment	Crisis Point Hospital: Immediately after Godzilla's rampage throughout the city, we're treated to a sight most of its successors would ignore; namely a somber sequence showcasing the local hospital overwhelmed by the destruction of the attack. The place is so overcrowded that most of the patients are forced to lie on the floors, with vehicles constantly arriving to bring more, and the staff are utterly overwhelmed despite their best intentions. As well as the conventionally injured, we're shown numerous patients suffering from massive agonizing radiation burns and an utterly silent moment where a doctor holds a Geiger counter up to a tiny child to confirm he's radioactive and there is nothing they can do for him.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Godzilla (1954) / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Godzilla is exactly 50 meters in the Japanese version. The dub overshot this with him being 400 feet tall, which is 121.92 meters. The latter is rather inconsistent, due to him being barely taller than a couple of buildings that would be over his height.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Godzilla (1954) / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Godzilla and Daisuke Serizawa. There's already enough scenes to show how much of a woobie Serizawa is, and he literally is a destroyer of worlds (accidentally). He's a Shell-Shocked Veteran, he's horrified by the creation of his Oxygen Destroyer, and he never intended its use as a weapon. Yet, he created a weapon by accident which severely damaged Tokyo Bay's ecosystem when he used it in the climax. Godzilla's as much as a woobie as well. He survived a nuke, he is horribly disfigured (yes, some of Godzilla's facial close-ups look like radiation burns), hates lights, and really wants to be left alone. The footnote on the 2006 Classic Media book even calls them "innocent victims of the nuclear age".
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Godzilla (1954) / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Godzilla (1954) / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Monster example. You know that 50-metered giant radioactive monster that is hell-bent on attacking humanity and looks like he has a Slasher Smile? Not only is he a main villain, but the climax treats him in a sympathetic light, compared to his Jerkass Woobie successors.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Godzilla (1954) / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: When Shinkichi, his brother, and mother are suddenly awakened by Godzilla, Shinkichi immediately leaves the house, realizing something was up. When Masaji goes to get his brother, there's some very excellent timing as he had a very horrified expression as thunder strikes.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Godzilla (1954) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Whatever happened to the military platoons attacking Godzilla in the second act? The first platoon was busy shooting Godzilla as he surfaces, then before his destruction starts, a whole platoon tries to annihilate him when he uses his atomic breath.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Godzilla (1954) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Godzilla, who is the central character and a tragic example.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_8e172fa8	type	Technological Pacifist
Godzilla (1954) / int_8e172fa8	comment	Technological Pacifist: Serizawa refuses to do anything that would risk the Oxygen Destroyer being developed into a weapon. It takes a long time just to convince him to use it to kill Godzilla.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Godzilla (1954) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: After all the stupidity on the part of the Japanese government, they (sort of) get their due when during the climactic rampage, Godzilla plows through the Diet Building.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Godzilla (1954) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Underneath Godzilla's wrath is a horribly scarred radioactive burn victim of nuclear weapons that gave him his powers. His wrath itself represents the horrors of war that plagued the country, including the firebomb airstrikes while the victims are trying to get away, and the nuclear weapons that horrified its populace for years to come.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_91e8cd03	type	Apocalypse Wow
Godzilla (1954) / int_91e8cd03	comment	Apocalypse Wow: We see what happened in the second act and the aftermath of the third. The scene is deliberately designed to look as if it was hit by a nuclear bomb.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Godzilla (1954) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Just look at that suit. In production terms, it's the heaviest and stiffest suit ever made (the prototype suit is 200 pounds). This works well with the plot, as Godzilla's attack in the second act serves as a rolling nuclear explosion slowly killing everything in his path. Future suits would be made for Godzilla to become a Lightning Bruiser.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_93387c2e	type	Monster Delay
Godzilla (1954) / int_93387c2e	comment	Monster Delay: A classic example. The titular monster doesn't show up until roughly 22 minutes in (his lower half however shows up roughly 14 minutes in during the typhoon). This is necessary due to having to use a hand puppet and a complete suit at the time.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Godzilla (1954) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Serizawa is faced with either allowing Godzilla to destroy Japan (and then the world), or using a weapon that he knows will spark another deadly arms race that could lead to the destruction of Earth by warring governments. In the end, he opts to use the weapon on himself and Godzilla, ensuring all research goes with him to his watery grave.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Godzilla (1954) / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: The military brings out fighter jets to attack Godzilla as a last-ditch effort to defeat him or drive him away. The missiles are shown visibly missing him, even as he submerges into the ocean.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Godzilla (1954) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Aside from the pun, Godzilla's actions kick-start the plot, and his death casts a shadow over the entire franchise in 3 entire series, Showa, Heisei, and Millennium. However, his Showa successor goes from a villain to a hero, Heisei successor from villain to antihero, and multiple versions who are villains and antiheroes in the Millennium series.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Godzilla (1954) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Masaji, the fisherman who survived Godzilla's third attack in the ocean, has an Oh, Crap! when Godzilla comes to Odo Island during a typhoon.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Godzilla (1954) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: A deadly white (later blue) radioactive breath that can cause fires.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Godzilla (1954) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the beginning of the film, we see the fishing boats explode, and earlier, a blinding flash of light. In Godzilla's second raid in Tokyo, they are revealed to be the result of his Atomic Breath.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Godzilla (1954) / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: As if this film wasn't a horror film with a grand spectacle wasn't enough: Masaji survives his encounter with Godzilla in the ocean, but doesn't make it out with his mother after the monster lands on Odo Island. Godzilla's short raid shows that despite being short, no one is safe. His second raid leaves a very thorough swathe of destruction with a mother telling her children they will see their father soon. Daisuke Serizawa willingly giving up his life after detonating the Oxygen Destroyer. But the punch before that? Godzilla is shown to be the victim resting in Tokyo Bay. Which makes his death very hard to swallow.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Godzilla (1954) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The theme for the opening credits was not meant for Godzilla, but for the military. Both Godzilla and the JSDF have two themes. It can be hard to hear at first, but the sailor's harmonica tune in the opening scene can be heard later as the Oxygen Destroyer's theme in Emiko's flashback (which is later used as its theme in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah)
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Godzilla (1954) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Godzilla (1954) / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: This film was inspired by King Kong (1933), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, and the Arctic Giant episode of the Superman cartoon.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_a1a3cfcf	type	Horror
Godzilla (1954) / int_a1a3cfcf	comment	Horror: This is technically a horror film. Unlike most giant monster films and its later sequels (except Godzilla Raids Again) that weren't, this one detail sets it apart. The black and white nature of the film lampshades this, and it is actually meant to scare the shit out of you. Not just the picture format, but the music has its level of creepiness.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Godzilla (1954) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Serizawa had this twice over. First off, there's the fact that despite wanting his research to help people, the fact that all he could do was create a weapon that was worse than any nuclear weapon. Secondly, after he accidentally injures Ogata in a scuffle over the Oxygen Destroyer.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_a4070b5e	type	Stripped to the Bone
Godzilla (1954) / int_a4070b5e	comment	Stripped to the Bone: What the Oxygen Destroyer does to living things.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_a55b762	type	Neverending Terror
Godzilla (1954) / int_a55b762	comment	Neverending Terror: Even if Godzilla dies, he still haunts the Japanese for the rest of their lives in all three series.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Godzilla (1954) / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Godzilla was worshiped as a malevolent sea god by the people of Odo Island, who once sent virgin sacrifices out on rafts to appease his wrath. When ships start being torn to shreds offshore and survivors wash up with strange burns, the islanders conduct a ritual to appease him. It doesn't work.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
Godzilla (1954) / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Der Godzilla is referred to with an integral article the way an animal would be in the German dub.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Godzilla (1954) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The film makes no attempts whatsoever to explain that, even as wrathful as he was, Godzilla is heavily affected by the Hydrogen Bomb. Just as the Japanese with the two nuclear bombs nine years ago.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Godzilla (1954) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: This is where Godzilla's Giant Equals Invincible comes into play. Military weapons have no effect on the guy whatsoever.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Godzilla (1954) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Inside Godzilla's wrathful exterior is a victim of the same warfare 9 years earlier in World War II (just like Japan). And then the 14th Edition of Definitive Edition Godzilla Introduction revealed he had a family that were just minding their own business. Then a hydrogen bomb ended up killing his family and left him a survivor, and thus his wrath is very understandable. When a monster is presented as much of a victim of nuclear weapons as humans, you know Ishiro Honda is going out of his way to show that, yes, the nuclear age is the real monster here.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Godzilla (1954) / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Played with. Kyohei Yamane does not want Godzilla to be killed because he survived the H-Bomb testing in the Pacific. This mindset puts him at odds with the government, friends, and family seeing as Godzilla is directly responsible for hundreds upon thousands of deaths because he's a paleontologist and wants to know how Godzilla was able to survive a hydrogen bomb. However, he ends up having to agree to kill Godzilla after what he did to Tokyo.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ac7df45e	type	Giant Equals Invincible
Godzilla (1954) / int_ac7df45e	comment	Giant Equals Invincible: Godzilla. The big guy set the stage for "giant monster ignores heavy artillery".
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ad03437f	type	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome
Godzilla (1954) / int_ad03437f	comment	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: For anyone who has seen the sillier Denser and Wackier and Lighter and Softer entries, this is not such a film. This film is based on real-life tragedies and Ishir⁠ō Honda's traumatizing experience of the aftermath of the Little Boy atom bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The film also possess one of the most tragic monsters in an age where atomic monsters were a thing.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Godzilla (1954) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In the Odo Island scene, the villagers, plus Yamane's party, are scurrying to fight off the monster with plenty of them arming themselves with swords and guns. The whole village immediately panics and runs back down after seeing Godzilla. While the people on a party boat are in a celebration, Godzilla appears unscathed, and scares the hell out of everyone on the boat, which causes to run inside. While blasting Godzilla to death (or attempting to), Godzilla melts the electrical wires, and breaks through the JSDF'S defenses. Everyone within proximity runs like hell once he starts destroying buildings and start killing people.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Godzilla (1954) / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: The Classic Media Blu-ray of Gojira used a mediocre, rough looking print hit with excessive grain smoothing (which didn't even get rid of much of it to begin with). Many optical wipes and fades were inexplicably replaced with digital ones as well, shortening the overall runtime of the film. Fortunately, the Criterion Collection Blu-ray gave the film a proper restoration.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Godzilla (1954) / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: While this movie isn't a crime drama, it nevertheless makes use of Noir-style lighting.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b153c87d	type	People in Rubber Suits
Godzilla (1954) / int_b153c87d	comment	People in Rubber Suits: Godzilla was actually an interesting case where the film wasn't intended to use suits. Originally, it was going to be in stop-motion, but Tomoyuki Tanaka advised Eiji Tsuburaya that it would take 7 years to complete the film through that method. So they had 2 suits constructed. The original, superheavy 200 pound suit that couldn't be used (due to the latex increasing the weight), and a slightly lighter suit. Both Haruo Nakajima and Katzumi Tezuka still had their own problems wearing the second suit, and this is when it's complete since Nakajima had no problems wearing the bottom half, since it needed to be cut in half for him to use. Despite Haruo Nakajima developing blisters, he would relish the role until Godzilla vs. Gigan.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
Godzilla (1954) / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: Godzilla is revealed to be an amphibious prehistoric reptile that was living in deep-sea trenches before H-Bomb tests irradiated it.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Godzilla (1954) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To the developers of nuclear weapons
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Godzilla (1954) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The series makes its grand tradition of portraying the military as inept when going against a monster that has no problem wiping them out with no trouble. The first time the army tries to kill Godzilla, he barely flinched. Tries being the keyword here. Given that Yamane, in no uncertain terms, stated if Godzilla survived an H-Bomb, what can they do that could possibly to hurt him? They try, then they got blasted by the thing. The government. In a nutshell, they want to get rid of Godzilla as soon as possible despite Dr. Yamane's warnings. Trying to kill Godzilla not only pisses him off, but several deaths would have been avoided if they had listened. As of result, Tokyo is utterly destroyed, the Diet Building is crumbled, and hundreds to thousands of people are either dead or dying. And you know why by the time of the first sequel, they stopped trying to kill him and listened to Yamane.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Godzilla (1954) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: This is the first monster film (albeit a rather tragic giant monster film) to use such a trope. Serizawa's obviously in love with Emiko, while she herself is in love with Ogata. This is further complicated when Ogata asks Serizawa to use the Oxygen Destroyer rather than Emiko, and thus proving his point that humans want to use any one superweapon, despite a living nuclear weapon practically destroying their hometown. Serizawa relents after seeing the destruction wrought upon Tokyo, and the love triangle shifts to him going to the "I want my beloved to be happy" phase.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Godzilla (1954) / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Another theme of the film is that Godzilla isn't just a giant radioactive monster hell-bent on destruction and death. He is an angry giant radioactive monster with horrific radiation burns and keloid scars, something survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are no stranger to. This makes the Japanese and Godzilla no different to each other.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Godzilla (1954) / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Guess how Tokyo ended up when Dr. Yamane told them to never use lights on Godzilla? In Godzilla Raids Again, the military are wise enough to listen to him.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_bbc8a85d	type	Reluctant Mad Scientist
Godzilla (1954) / int_bbc8a85d	comment	Reluctant Mad Scientist: Though not necessarily "mad", Serizawa reluctantly decided to use the Oxygen Destroyer after seeing the destruction Godzilla caused. Though he intends to use the Oxygen Destroyer once, his Heroic Sacrifice is foreshadowed in an earlier scene when he clearly states that he'd burn his notes at the event of his death.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Godzilla (1954) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Dr. Yamane urges the JSDF not to shine lights on Godzilla during the monster's rampage in Shinagawa. It's explained in the second film, when Yamane speculates Godzilla doesn't like bright lights because they remind him of the glare of the atomic bomb, which turned him into what he is today.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Godzilla (1954) / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: During his rampage Godzilla bites down on a tower to get at the people on it, and gnaws on a train. According to the myths of Odo Island, he would come ashore to feast on mankind unless appeased by sacrifices and ritual dances.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Godzilla (1954) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Two politicians, a man and a woman, argue whether or not Godzilla's existence should be held a secret or not. The male politician (played by Jun Tazaki) suggests information about Godzilla and his connection to the H-Bomb should be kept a secret, as revealing it would affect already-frail international relationships with other countries. The woman believes people have a right to know about Godzilla, as he is responsible for several deaths in the last few days, which has caused enough grief among family and friends of several of the deceased crewmen. Ogata and Serizawa argue over the use of the Oxygen Destroyer. Ogata wants to use it after Godzilla's rampage throughout Tokyo, which caused enough death and destruction to drive Emiko to tears. Serizawa hates the idea of using the Oxygen Destroyer in its current form and intends to use it for beneficial reasons. He knows that even if the weapon is used for good (in other words to defeat Godzilla), the politicians of the world will demand Serizawa's plans, so the Oxygen Destroyer be turned into another weapon in the nuclear arms race. The real allegory of the film is here. Serizawa represents the voices of the arguments used by those who object to nuclear weapons, while Ogata does the same for the arguments in favor of their use in 1945. Specifically, that the Oxygen Destroyer will spread too easily to other countries, versus the use of it will cause less damage than Gojira is doing and will end it. Serizawa also seems to. be a representation of the creator of the Atomic Bomb himself, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Similarly to Serizawa, after creating the atomic bomb, he came to seriously regret creating his invention. He feared that he was responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (he originally wanted to use it against the Nazis) and began the nuclear arms race that could destroy the world in the cold war.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_c34a1799	comment	This is also the first solo Kaiju film where Giant Equals Invincible is played absolutely straight. Solo films such as Varan, the Unbelievable, Rodan, and a few has the title monsters being dispatched strategically but not without the monsters' somber death, though you can argue that the other 50's monsters created by Toho are not radioactive, or has no connection with nuclear weapons. This film, Godzilla is portrayed as a nuclear bomb and Ishir⁠ō Honda makes a point that if Godzilla was just a regular dinosaur, a cannonball is enough to kill him. But if he were to equate a nuclear bomb, there's nothing anyone could do. Whereas later treat Godzilla as a giant nuisance rather than the atom bomb he was personified as.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_c3ae786a	comment	Recut: Germany's cut was a simple dubbed and edited edition (running 82 minutes), while France got a unique hybrid edit of the original cut and King of the Monsters (running about 90 minutes).
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Godzilla (1954) / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Godzilla (1954) / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: Kyohei Yamane is shown touching things while investigating an area destroyed by Godzilla. After it is pointed out that the area they're in is radioactive, as Godzilla himself is deathly radioactive if you're near him, he resumes touching things that could be possibly radioactive without gloves. This is only pointed out by his assistant Dr. Tanabe who told him the trilobite he found could contain radiation.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Godzilla (1954) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Perhaps the most famous one in Japanese cinema, if not in Kaiju history, ever. When Serizawa unleashes the Oxygen Destroyer, he makes sure Godzilla dies with him.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Godzilla (1954) / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Godzilla's very existence is this, since as a giant radiation-laden monster, the Japanese military has a hard time trying to kill him, or drive him away, especially since he can also spew radiation flames. This immediately prompts Emiko to tell Ogata about the existence of the Oxygen Destroyer.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Godzilla (1954) / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: The whole point of this movie is that not only are nuclear weapons dangerous, but weapons of mass destruction in general. Dr. Yamane stated using said nuclear weapons could bring about another Godzilla.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Godzilla (1954) / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Godzilla, who's the villain here.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Godzilla (1954) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Used in the first act. You know something is destroying those boats, but the monster is nowhere to be seen. In the typhoon scene, you can hear the footsteps of the monster, then his lower half is shown, followed by crushed buildings, then a crushed helicopter ending with a Dramatic Wind. In that order.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Godzilla (1954) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Many of the series' sequels tend to be Lighter and Softer, including its American contemporaries, when it comes to a monster rampaging in a major city, and leaving death and destruction in its wake. Even sequels to this film glosses over the damages caused by Godzilla and whatever monster antagonist he faces when fights are in a major city. This film does not, and as a result, the film shows what happens after the monster is done rampaging: major landmarks are destroyed, hospitals is being filled with dead and injured people, children being orphaned by the monster, and a choir of girls praying for peace. The allegories in this film is anything but subtle about it.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Godzilla (1954) / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: The film takes place in summer 1955 (specifically August) according to the original English sales brochure. However, unlike the Heisei series which always takes place a year than the release date, every film afterwards dates the movie in 1954.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Godzilla (1954) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Godzilla's famous attack on Tokyo.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
Godzilla (1954) / int_d1da2c36	comment	Played for Drama: Everything in this film is played for drama. Including the climax, where you'd expect the film to end on a high note. It doesn't.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
Godzilla (1954) / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: After Godzilla devastates Tokyo, there's a closeup of a little boy with a Geiger counter waved around his face, clicking rapidly.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Godzilla (1954) / int_d581ba71	comment	Scientists have a great responsibility when they discover a new source of energy that could benefit mankind or become its destroyer. They have to decide on the matter whether it's the right thing to do in the event of a crisis, and whether or not if it's worth it.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Godzilla (1954) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Godzilla seems to know where to go in this film. He lands on Odo Island (where Masaji happens to be), and comes to Tokyo twice on two separate nights. Emiko just happens to be the daughter of the paleontologist who figures out what Godzilla really is, she just happens to be having an affair with the salvage crewman who finds him in the South Pacific, and she just happens to be engaged to the scientist who invents the super-weapon that ultimately kills him. Fancy that. Crossing over with Coincidental Broadcast, a television broadcast of a Japanese children's choir happens to be on right when Serizawa was angsting over whether or not to use the Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla. This one is especially bad because the television WASN'T EVEN ON, and all three characters were all the way on the other side of the room when it happened, meaning none of them switched it on. Its arguably the film's only noticeable Blooper.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Godzilla (1954) / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The first film of its kind, with the destruction of the Wako Clocktower and the Diet Building. Later films will do this a lot. Interestingly though, the Diet Building scene was filmed first. However, the building did not crumble correctly, so it had to be reshot.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Godzilla (1954) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Ogata looks and acts as if he's the protagonist of the film. But he hardly contributes to the plot of the film. Emiko however is the real protagonist of the story as every scene she appears in is her actually doing something while Godzilla is on a rampage, cumulating her telling Ogata about the Oxygen destroyer, and Serizawa taking action against Godzilla to ensure Japan doesn't suffer the same tragedy of the monster's rampage.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e06d3a98	type	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
Godzilla (1954) / int_e06d3a98	comment	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: "Bombs vs. bombs. Missiles vs. missiles. And now a new superweapon to throw upon us all". This quote is the exact reason why Serizawa opposes using the Oxygen Destroyer.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Godzilla (1954) / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Dr. Yamane believes Godzilla is the last of his kind. Then he revises this statement and says that another one will appear again. Unfortunately, he was right. The 14th Edition of Definitive Edition Godzilla Introduction could not make this statement any more truer where Godzilla is shown spening time with his colony. But then, the hydrogen bomb explodes, killing his kin and leaving him as a survivor.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
Godzilla (1954) / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: Godzilla himself. The film shows the circumstances of Godzilla's origins and powers was not his own doing, but that it made him the victim due to the aftermath of his horrible experience, making him similar to the Japanese people who went through a lot of shit during World War II, including the Tokyo Firebombings and atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No wonder Ishir⁠ō Honda felt so strongly that nuclear weapons would be mankind's undoing.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Godzilla (1954) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Godzilla is based directly on the title creature from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, released a year prior.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e5bb2929	type	Super Not-Drowning Skills
Godzilla (1954) / int_e5bb2929	comment	Super Not-Drowning Skills: Godzilla appears sleeping underwater when the climax starts. Justified as Godzilla is considered to be an intermediate dinosaur, capable of surviving underwater as long as he wants.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Godzilla (1954) / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Daisuke Serizawa looks to be in his late 20's given that he was played by then-27 year old Akihiko Hirata. If we take his age into account, then that implies Serizawa at most, young enough when he was in the army during World War II (17 at the earliest). His Shell-Shocked Veteran status would make a lot of sense if it were the case.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Godzilla (1954) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Serizawa tells Emiko he intends to have his research destroyed in the event of his death. Once Serizawa is finally convinced to offer his aid with the Oxygen Destroyer, Serizawa begins burning his notes. Emiko, seeing this, can do nothing but cry.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_eaaf461f	type	National Geographic Nudity
Godzilla (1954) / int_eaaf461f	comment	National Geographic Nudity: In an early beach scene a couple of older fisherwomen are seen casually topless. Japan hadn't yet adopted Western attitudes towards that kind of nudity.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_eb284c81	type	Sci-Fi Horror
Godzilla (1954) / int_eb284c81	comment	Sci-Fi Horror: The earliest films to make a monster movie scary with a dose of Tragedy.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Godzilla (1954) / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: A monster awakened by a nuclear weapon and attacking innocent people and devastates a major city? Haven't seen that before. A giant monster awakened and mutated to the point of scarring it for life, that blames humanity, annihilates a major city, dies in a Tear Jerker manner, but no epic fanfare celebrating its' defeat? Holy crap...
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Godzilla (1954) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Godzilla is basically the consequence of nuclear war; wide spread destruction, poisoning the water in his wake, military dying like flies, and children orphaned at the hands of the monster, as well as a Shell-Shocked Veteran who is heavily traumatized by war. The film was made during post-war Japan, 9 years since the first atomic bombing on Hiroshima, but now Japan had to contend with the Cold War since the nuclear incident with Castle Bravo and Lucky Dragon 5, and we're not kidding, since it actually happened. Ishir⁠ō Honda, the man behind the film, saw what the aftermath of Hiroshima did to him, and it haunted him for the rest of his life. The climax illustrates this very well, and it shows.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f283319c	comment	Tortured Monster: Godzilla
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Godzilla (1954) / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: A radio crew reporting the attack on Tokyo realize they have no way out. Accepting it, they announce this fact to their listeners and continue reporting until Godzilla destroys the tower from which they're broadcasting.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Godzilla (1954) / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: This is what Emiko initially believes regarding Serizawa. Unfortunately, he feels otherwise.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Godzilla (1954) / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: A woman during Godzilla's rampage holds her children, telling them they'll see their father soon. This is easily agreed to be one of the darkest moments of the franchise by its context alone.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Godzilla (1954) / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: The film is anti-nuclear for a reason. The Japanese know Godzilla was awaken by a hydrogen bomb, and Serizawa is absolutely horrified of the prospect of the Oxygen Destroyer being used as a weapon. He had valid reasons to keep it a secret. Science woke up the monster, but it also brought things a lot worse for years to come.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Godzilla (1954) / int_faf4a043	comment	Emiko just happens to be the daughter of the paleontologist who figures out what Godzilla really is, she just happens to be having an affair with the salvage crewman who finds him in the South Pacific, and she just happens to be engaged to the scientist who invents the super-weapon that ultimately kills him. Fancy that.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Godzilla (1954) / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Having the oxygen atoms in your body spontaneously destroyednote We'll just ignore all the scientific laws this violates in and of itself would be nasty and most likely fatal, but probably would not strip the flesh from your bones and disintegrate you. Also, when Serizawa is placing the Oxygen Destroyer close to Godzilla in order to kill him (and Godzilla is walking around looking for him, because he senses something is wrong), they're both shown to be walking around the bottom of Tokyo Bay. Godzilla is explicitly 50 meters tall, and is fully submerged when walking, so Serizawa must be in at least 160 feet of water. However, it's very bright down there, and he can easily see. While sunlight can penetrate that deep, it isn't going to make things anywhere near that well-lit.
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Godzilla (1954) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: At some point during his rampage, Godzilla happens upon a giant birdcage, but, rather than plow through it as well, he simply swings his tail at some nearby buildings and continues onward.
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Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Fantastic Nuke / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Frankenslation / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Genre Roulette / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Get Out! / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Giant Animal Worship / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Godzilla Threshold / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Heroic Suicide / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Human Sacrifice / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Ignored Expert / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Isle of Giant Horrors / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Kaiju Works / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Like Reality, Unless Noted / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Mighty Roar / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Moment of Silence / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Monster Delay / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Monster Misogyny / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Mutant Media / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Power Incontinence / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Pyrrhic Victory / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Redemption Promotion / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Reluctant Mad Scientist / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Reptiles Are Abhorrent / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Scientist vs. Soldier / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	So Bad, It Was Better / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Space Whale Aesop / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Stripped to the Bone / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Technological Pacifist / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	The Great Fire / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	The Klutz / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Token Romance / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Too Broken to Break / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Too Cool to Live / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Tragic Monster / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	True Art Is Angsty / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Virgin Sacrifice / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Waist-Deep Ocean / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Was It Really Worth It? / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_de8f6a97
Godzilla (1954)	hasFeature	Working Title / int_de8f6a97

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