The 1954 "Godzilla" describes Godzilla as a 50-meter-tall, terrifying, giant destroyer. With his huge body and hot wires, Godzilla seems to destroy ships and cities just for the sake of destruction;

In addition, the production team deliberately did not reveal the true face of Godzilla in the first half of the movie. They only used footprints, cries, close-ups of feet and the screams of the victims to create suspense and mystery, as well as the relationship with the Fifth Lucky Dragon.

The coincidence of current and historical events such as the Maru incident, the atomic bombing of World War II, and the Cold War nuclear race made "Godzilla" a great response and box office success. Godzilla's villain image as "the enemy of mankind" also became Godzilla's early

The main tone of several works.

This image changed about ten years after Godzilla came out. As a series of entertainment movies, this film inevitably began to introduce popular and topical things in society, thus changing Godzilla's character and personality on the screen.

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Due to the wrestling craze caused by the wrestler Rikidozan in the late 1950s, the fight scenes between Godzilla and the Japanese version of the enemy monster King Kong in the third game of the Godzilla series, "King Kong vs. Godzilla", were mixed with anthropomorphic wrestling movements.

In the 10th anniversary commemorative work "Earth's Greatest Battle of the Three Monsters", Godzilla is further anthropomorphized, with a storyline in which he communicates with alien monsters through body language and cries, and for the first time "to protect the earth (humanity)"

And the setting of "Stand up to fight against the villain monster". At this point, Godzilla's villain image has completely disappeared. In the next few series of movies, Godzilla will fight against the monsters dominated by evil forces in the main plot of the movie, and he will become a righteous person.

Messenger, and at the same time, the anthropomorphic depiction of human nature was further strengthened (such as performing popular actions after defeating the enemy). This turn finally reached its peak in 1967's "Monster Island Battle: Son of Godzilla". This film

A sub-beast, Mini-La, was created for Godzilla. In addition to fighting giant mutated insects in the film, Godzilla also fully demonstrated family affection.

By the late 1960s, Godzilla's righteous "King of Monsters" image had become unbreakable. This image and changes in the ecological environment of the entertainment industry prompted Godzilla movies to transform again: the popularity of Japanese home televisions had a negative impact on the movie box office

With a clear impact, the TV series "Ultraman" produced by Eiji Tsuburaya, the original special effects director of the Godzilla series, also sparked the worship of giant transformed heroes among children. In such an environment, Godzilla

The series began to transform into children's entertainment movies (the focus of targeting this age group is that parents will definitely accompany their children to watch the movie to increase the box office, as well as the commercial interests of peripheral products based on toys). In these works, Goss

Godzilla is like a wrestling champion and Ultraman, engaging in fierce battles with all kinds of monsters that harm mankind, and adding many interesting plots to please younger audiences. From 1968 to 1975, Godzilla produced one film at a rate of almost every year.

A series of films with the theme of this kind of children's movie was launched. Although there were also "Godzilla vs. Hedorah" and other films with environmental issues and a strong experimental style of expression, the main style during this period was still

Simple and lively plots and heroic fights. However, the box office of the series of movies in this period has experienced an obvious and continuous shrinkage. The reasons for the decline of Godzilla's popularity are not limited to one end. The challenges of TV special series TV series and the oil crisis caused

The main reasons were the decline in production quality (for example, several later Godzilla movies greatly reduced the scenes of urban destruction in order to save costs) and the series' own creative exhaustion. For various reasons, Toho finally decided to release the series in 1975.

The production of the series of movies was suspended after the fifteenth film in the series, "Mechagodzilla Strikes Back." This decision also marked the end of Japan's golden age of monster special effects movies from the 1950s to the 1970s.

In 1984, after nine years of silence, Toho launched "Godzilla" on the 30th anniversary of Godzilla's birth, which miraculously resurrected Godzilla on the big screen. In order to continue to develop high-rise buildings at a high level

The densely populated Tokyo showed a sense of hugeness, and Godzilla's height was changed to 80 meters. With the advancement of film special effects, story style, and image, the image returned to the mature drama route. The Return of Godzilla was a great success and opened up to 1995

The end of the second series boom.

Godzilla in this period abandoned the anthropomorphic descriptions of the 1960s and 1970s, and instead repositioned himself as a destroyer character similar to the origin of the series. Godzilla has become an unpredictable and surprising modern human being who prides himself on advanced technology.

The overwhelmingly powerless moving natural disaster has been redesigned into a slightly dull and majestic appearance. At the same time, the description of Godzilla also tends to be regarded as a unique giant creature with special habits: such as 1984

In the 1993 version of "Godzilla", Godzilla resonated with the ultra-low audio of migratory birds. The 1993 "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla" even described Godzilla as a cuckoo bird that reproduces by borrowing its nest.

Creatures and various realistic descriptions made the image of Godzilla in this period very popular. In this period, Godzilla fed on nuclear radiation and attacked nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear power plants for food. In the end, he also suffered from abnormalities in his body.

The plot trend of losing control and dying due to a nuclear fusion reaction also clearly implies a reaction against human civilization.

Japan originally wanted to end the series with the death of Godzilla at the end of 1995's "Godzilla vs. Destroyia." However, because the American version of "Godzilla" could not be accepted by the Japanese, in Godzilla

At the end of the series, the Gamera trilogy, another classic monster series that was remade at the end of the series, gained great success and attracted the expectations of movie fans. The Godzilla series was finally resurrected for the second time in 1999;

Among the six works that concluded "Godzilla's Last Battle", Godzilla's style has inherited the classic image of the 1980s and 1990s to a certain extent, but it emphasizes the relevance to the story of the first episode of the series more than the previous series.

Characteristics make Godzilla of each work in this issue have complex and different symbolic meanings: a divine punishment that punishes human civilization, the undead of the past, a giant spirit that is angry at some overly advanced (or unnatural) human technology,

Or the strongest creature that human beings have to identify with when faced with a crisis that they are unable to overcome. Unfortunately, these bold attempts have failed to make the Godzilla series of movies achieve the same outstanding results as in the past in today's world of Hollywood special effects movies, and Toho has also

At the same time as the release of "Godzilla's Last Battle", it was announced that no more Godzilla movies would be made within five to ten years (or even permanently).
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