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Do Human Characters Matter in Kaiju Films?

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Gojirafan2013

MemberBaragonDec-11-2021 5:17 AM

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this heavily discussed topic. 

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Xenotaris

MemberGiganDec-11-2021 11:30 PM

Ummmm depends if they are crucial to the plot like the Fords from 2014 or Emiko and Serizawa from the 1954 original

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Djdndnejwnwn

MemberGiganDec-12-2021 12:05 AM

Xenotaris

Exactly. 

You could have a kaiju movie without humans and having it focus on the monsters and anthropomorphizing them.

It depends on what story you want to tell.

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G. H. (Gman)

AdminGodzillaDec-12-2021 4:57 PM

HinikunaGoji,
I guess if it's a Disney situation and they talk and sing. Otherwise, the furthest this concept could get as a viable storytelling piece is a short.

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MemberMothra LarvaeDec-13-2021 6:02 AM

Even though the movies mostly focus on kaijus, the human characters still count as well.  There are a few movies in which a human helps Godzilla defeat a kaiju. An example is Godzilla (2014). It would either be a short, mini movie or Godzilla would've been killed. 

 

 

Monsterzero9

MemberAnguirusDec-13-2021 9:03 AM

*cough*invasion of astro-monster*cough*

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G. H. (Gman)

AdminGodzillaDec-13-2021 10:24 AM

^^^

"'Nostalgic' does not equal 'good,' and 'standards' does not equal 'elitism.'" "Being offended is inevitable. Living offended is your choice."

sonictiger

MemberGiganDec-13-2021 3:10 PM

Listen, human characters feel rather forced and unjustified these days.  The only characters that I felt had a justified reason to show up were the Brodys and the Russells and even then they were largely unneeded.

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Djdndnejwnwn

MemberGiganDec-13-2021 9:42 PM

sonictiger

they felt a lot more natural in Singular Point, and I’m not sure I would describe it as forced.

I loved the first scene in KOTM

expecting the worst, sets you up for thr worst

G. H. (Gman)

AdminGodzillaDec-13-2021 9:47 PM

Even when the characters don't work, I don't think having characters in a kaiju film ever feels forced--In fact it feels very natural. These stories are by and large about how people react to a world inhabited by monsters and what that means for them. That's about 90% of what the genre is right there.

"'Nostalgic' does not equal 'good,' and 'standards' does not equal 'elitism.'" "Being offended is inevitable. Living offended is your choice."
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