The Imperial Ambitions of Godzilla

[Benjamin Haines]

[jellydonut25]

[lhb412]

[klen7]

[Benjamin Haines]

[lhb412]

[MouthForWar]

[lhb412]

^ Ah! So I was close to the truth! (I'll try not to let it go to my head)

[klen7]

[lhb412]

Intent vs. what actually ends up on screen. That's a can of worms right there.

[klen7]

::EDIT:: Post I was responding was deleted...

^ Those were the items I was looking for in the earlier post that I could not find with this particular gang but are common to nationalist groups (aside from the one guy wearing an open shirt). Were the imperial Japanese symbols removed from the US version?

https://youtu.be/NF5IbWlwvtI?t=2m38s

[MouthForWar]

[klen7]

Thank you for clarifying

[jellydonut25]

[klen7]

^ Fan theories have long overridden facts in this fandom going back to "Godzilla wins in the Japanese version of King Kong vs Godzilla" (and i don't even want to think about what has become of skeleturtle these days) - so it's good to back up trivia with facts whenever possible

[jellydonut25]

[klen7]

^ The Mystery Bones of Infant Island in Mothra vs Godzilla 64. The bones are in the back ground of scene for 30 seconds but fans have given him power rankings and origins insisting that it is a living kaiju

[jellydonut25]

[Joseph Goodman]

Form of entertainment largely aimed at children and adolescents has a bunch of autismos and sperglords in the fanbase, film at 11.

[Psycho Soldier]

[Benjamin Haines]

[TerranigmaFreak]

[tbeasley]

[lhb412]

^ the special features on the Criterion release of Seven Samurai are really special.

Can't help but feel that I've seen those quotes written down somewhere, though. Maybe it was on this very site so many years ago?

[MekaGojira3k]

I absolutely see where people are getting the nationalism in Shin Godzilla, but I feel as though I can do that to hundreds of films produced here in the U.S.
What irks me is the idea that somehow it's OKAY (not saying this is expressed here necessarily since I've not been here in forever) for MURICA, but not okay for Japan.

I first encountered this at a G-Fest panel wherein some old white dudes were apparently aware of what the ghost of Ishiro Honda thought of everything, despite the franchise shifting and changing to meet the demands of the market and zeitgeist many times over by this point. I guess after years and years of films with varying intents and purposes I am unfazed by this particular entry of DREADED JAPANESE NATIONALISM (tm).