Right at the end after Godzilla defeated 'Orga', he kills the head of the JSDF (Japenese Self-Defense Forces), the female reporter asks why he keeps 'saving them' and then it shows Godzilla rampaging through the already wrecked city.
Now I thought this was a good movie but that was simply one of the funniest endings I have seen in a Godzilla movie.
In the Japanese version, it wasn't so funny because that "Godzilla protecting us" was actually a much more accurate and believable piece of dialogue. Overall, the Japanese version, perhaps by nature, is many times better than its chopped-up and Americanized U.S. counterpart.
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in the Japanese version, the question was why did Godzilla continue to appear before humankind. There was none of that nonesense about Godzilla "protecting" humankind while he's setting the city ablaze. And the reason Godzilla continued to appear before humans was because mankind had created Godzilla through their recklessness. He's not protecting mankind, he's simply attacking out of instinct against anything that threatens the earth (nuclear power plants, Orga, etc).
sharein the Japanese version, the question was why did Godzilla continue to appear before humankind. There was none of that nonesense about Godzilla "protecting" humankind while he's setting the city ablaze.
Godzilla did, once again, protect humans from a threat. But the protecting was not intentional or because Godzilla liked humans. Both versions got that point across.
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I know. One minute the protagonist is taking the whole "godzilla" phenomenon into a philosophical level and then boom!
followed by credits.
I still liked this movie a lot more than the hollywood version. It has more substance.
But what was said, being followed by Godzilla firing his breath upon the city was saying the same thing. Humans did benefit by his destroying the monster. He destroys things that threaten his territory or things on his territory he does not want there.
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Thanks for the reply.
I think, the point the OP is trying to make is that, usually in hollywood disaster movies, they give some form of happy ending by showing a few survivors. Having gotten used to that, it was hilarious to see Godzilla decimate everything.
We do get that Godzilla was there to bring about a natural order, not save humans and man made structures.
The latest hollywood remake seems to be more accurate in depicting Godzilla. The first movie was a complete disaster.
I did not find the ending in any way hilarious. Godzilla did save them from yet another threat. His setting fire to the already wrecked city is to show that the saving of people is not intentional. I was sad at the death of the head of the JSDF. But he was never going to give up trying to destroy Godzilla. Seeing him up close and not being harmed by Godzilla should have had a humbling effect on him, but it did not.
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