User:Gabesuarez21/Godzilla (1954 film)

The wikipedia page Godzilla (1954 Film) is a good wikipedia page which completely informs anyone who wants to know about it. I specifically enjoy the little analysis part at the end. Can’t say I would add or change anything to the page like I thought I would have wanted to.

In the article the entire theme of the movie is discussed to be based from the use of nuclear bombs against Japan in the Second World War. I can’t disagree that Godzilla represents an atomic bomb, as he is massive and is awoken by war(the atomic bomb against Hiroshima), but it is just interesting that this movie was able to released in 1954, only 10 years after the Second World War. The Japanese public had to have been sensitive to the topic of radiation after knowing the details of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but yet this movie was able to still be released. The movie was even pushed to the US. According to the article the movie was pushed to the US not without dispute. The article discusses that the American distributors made reshoots and cut up parts of the movie for the western audience as nuclear power was still a sensitive topic at the time. Even today, nuclear power is a sensitive topic whether it comes to Chernobyl or Fukushima the world has had its deal of nuclear accidents. The US and USSR were the main leaders of the nuclear problem because they wanted to further science, and did not see the carelessness of their actions, although that was typical for the 1950s. Movies such as Godzilla (1954 film), were great motivators to set up a reform for the nuclear problem.