![]() ![]() The feared nuclear apocalypse didn’t arrive instead the world burned with fossil fuels, pumping ever more carbon into the atmosphere.Īnxieties about this relentless encroachment on the natural world filtered into cinema. Fueled by coal and oil, it reshaped our world: ever more plastic, ever more cars, ever more development. The war had produced the bomb and also supercharged an industrial boom in manufacturing that continued for decades across America, Europe and East Asia. Godzilla was born in the 1950s, the first full decade of the nuclear age. In an era facing both a reborn nuclear threat and global climate catastrophe, the granddaddy of movie monsters still has a lot to tell humanity. In recent films, Godzilla often functions as a reminder of the unseen debts we owe nature-and what happens when they come due. But these days, nuclear fire is only part of the Godzilla universe. ![]() And it’s the star of the world’s longest continually running film franchise, the latest of which debuts this December: Godzilla.Ĭonstructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb. Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream. ![]()
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