Godzilla: Three Questions We Asked Ourselves After Repeatedly Watching The Trailer
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Why are those jets falling out of the sky?
As soon as the trailer hit, everyone who sits around me at work threw aside whatever important nonsense they were working on, and watched it three or four times, giggling the entire time. Immediately after that, the bros who sit near me in the cube farm and I had a rousing debate about what caused those jets to start falling out of the sky like they do near the end.
Guy number one theorized the presence of another monster, perhaps one that can fly, hence knocking the planes from the air. Mothra was the first name that came to anyone’s lips. While there have been hints and teases that Godzilla may not be the only giant beasty in this movie that bears his name, all we have is hearsay and some unclear images from this trailer that could be something.
Theory number two involved the EMP burst from a detonated nuclear device. That’s not a bad guess, and with the plethora of mushroom clouds that appear in the trailer, it certainly is a viable option. It would also cause all of the planes to malfunction at once and crash into the ocean below. We didn’t poo poo this one quite as readily as the last, but there are a few weak spots. First up, what one hopes would be the reluctance of the military to deploy nuclear weapons in or near a major metropolitan city. Then again, desperate times, right? And a skyscraper-tall lizard is definitely an extreme situation.
If you watch carefully, you can see some of the pilots eject a split second before impact. I’m not hugely versed in the mechanics of standard military aircraft, but they’re rather high tech, and I assume so are the systems that pop open the cockpit and launch the pilots to safety. But again, I have no idea, and there’s probably some kind of manual system in place in case of electrical systems failure. While this poses another question, it doesn’t disqualify anything.
The biggest speed bump for this theory, however, is the fact that the military folks, who presumably would be the ones detonating such a device, are all just standing around watching. You’d think that if there was a wave of radiation about to come crashing down on top of them, they’d take cover. But maybe they’re far enough away to avoid contamination.
So those are two of the competing theories. Mine, however, I feel is the simplest of the bunch. We discussed earlier that Godzilla is very, very tall, perhaps tall enough that, were he to swat a fighter out of the air, it might look like this. If he’s breathing fire, he could very well cause a situation like the flat spin that leads to Goose’s death in Top Gun (so much of my life goes back to that movie). This is also the most fun version. Who among us doesn’t want to watch a pissed off Godzilla play what is essentially a giant game of handball with a bunch of military planes?
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