Godzilla: Three Questions We Asked Ourselves After Repeatedly Watching The Trailer
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Is this intended to be a sequel instead of a reboot?
When Ken Watanabe mentions awakening something in 1954, fans of the original Godzilla made a happy little squee noise. But the question occurs, are they merely paying homage to what came before, or is Godzilla 2014 intended to be a sequel, another piece in the franchise instead of a reboot? We’ll have to wait to see the film for ourselves, but the possibility is definitely there. Even if it isn’t an overt follow up, you can still make a case for viewing it that way.
When Watanabe talks about that previous encounter, you can take that to mean the first film. Is the intention that the first film actually happened and is history rather than fiction? That big black and white photo looks to be a relic from that time, and we see what appear to be flashbacks to early attempts to eradicate Godzilla with atomic bombs, both of which could reference the earlier film. We also know that Akira Takarada, who is in the 1954 original, will make a cameo in the update. It isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine that he shows up as some sort of expert, perhaps the last living person to have actually dealt with the rampaging monster.
Whether or not this comes to pass, we won’t know until May 16, but it’s something to think about. If you want to ride this train of thought even further, you can glean some allusions to Monster Island, where Godzilla and his monster cronies hang out when they’re not wrecking up the human world. Consider that aerial shot of the soldiers stalking through the jungle, wiping off that white biohazard goo off of the container they find. They’re obviously not hunting Godzilla, as we’ve seen, he’s far too large to hide like that in a bunch of trees, no matter how tall, and he isn’t exactly a master of stealth. So what are they after, especially given the limited firepower they’re carrying?
And then there’s that skeleton, which is big, but not nearly the scale of Godzilla as shown in this trailer. This indicates that there may be more than one monster, or at least there may have been at one point. Others could have lived and died, and where better to do that than on Monster Island? We don’t get a clear view at the overall shape, so we’re left to assume that this was another of whatever Godzilla is supposed to be, but perhaps it belonged to another type of creature.
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