By the way, for those who didn't know, you can now legally watch Gojira here on UA-cam for free! I deeply recommend it. EDIT 2: Movie's back up! Give it a watch if it's available in your region: ua-cam.com/video/nn-Wg1NU32I/v-deo.html
This movie deserves all the praise in the world and should be preserved till the end of history. It's a textbook example of show don't tell. Showing the damage instead of a character saying how terrible it is. The girl grieving over her dead mother, and the scene of the mom and her three children trapped in the burning building. Truly a masterpiece of Japanese cinema.
It's much better than the American one. Not the monstervse one nor the 1998 one too. This one it the masterpiece that give the emotional thought on nuclear weapons and the many impact it has.
0:18 One thing I like about this line is that it can be interpreted either as the mother comforting the children or as implying that the children's father has died and they will soon join their father.
People in Japan watched this scene (the girl crying for her mum) only nine years after they themselves saw exactly the same kind of thing in real life. I cannot say they needed it, or they didn't. But it really spoke to them😢
The Americans wouldn't let the Japanese make a movie about the atomic bombings, so they made this instead. Ironically, the film wasn't initially popular in Japan, and was heavily panned by their critics. It was only after the American edit with Raymond Burr was released to praise in the USA, that Japanese perception of it began to change.
Well, actually, this film was always popular with the Japanese audience. When it was first released to Japanese theaters on November 3rd, 1954 the director Ishiro Honda went to the premier with his son Ryuji and when he got there, there was a line of audience waiting to get into theaters to see the movie circled the theater at least 3 times!! And, in fact, even the head of Toto at the time even thanked Honda and his team and congratulated them on a superb job, which almost never happened. And also there were a couple of critics that did praise the film after its initial release, but you are right that most of the critics panned the movie. @@danieldickson8591
Seeing that poor girl grieving over her dead mother always gets me to break down into tears very single time I see it. Knowing what it feels like to lose a mother i feel her pain almost like reliving the day my dad told me that my mom passed away...
I think Shin Godzilla was also a good showcase of how horrifying Godzilla's presence was for humanity, even showing the pain Godzilla went through after being subjected to all that radiation.
@0:50 let's remember that when this film came out in the 50s, Washington still denied the effects of radiation from the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film is a statement.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Shin Godzilla, but one thing that keeps it from being as dark as the OG is the aftermath. Here you can actually see civilians suffering and dying from Godzilla attack as even if you did survive his attack, considering Godzilla’s body constantly gives off radiation, you’ll be suffering from severe radiation poisoning as shown in scene with the kids. All of this just adds even further to the nuclear allegory this movie tries to tell. I know Shin was probably more focused on Godzilla’s point of view than the human cast, but I really wish we would of gotten see the after effects of when Shin firing his beams that set Tokyo to flames.
I have to agree. I adore Shin, but I do wish more Godzilla films would buckle down and show just how devastating it would be if Godzilla actually existed. People need to be shown the brutality of city-wide destruction, and families torn apart, including children. I hope Toho's new Godzilla film in November hearkens back to this dark style of film.
I agree. To be honest, your comment is the first objective and honest criticism of Shin Godzilla that I have come across. Great movie, but it lacks those details. I wish one day we get a sequel or Director's cut
To be fair, shin focused more on Godzilla and the bureaucracy of Japan during the Fukushima accident. It's why you see different meetings, over and over. It is just a different movies where the original focus on nuclear disaster and horror and aftermath and could say the constant one upmanship with weapons like the oxygen destroyer, shin focused on how inaction by leaders of Japan caused a worse disaster than it could have been. Both different times and based on different themes and messages.
Shin Godzilla does focus largely on the human cast, more so than most Godzilla films, it’s just from a different perspective. It focuses more on the government and their response towards Godzilla (natural disaster). Both Godzilla 54 and Shin masterfully portray the vantage points that they are working from, although I do agree shin could have showed more of the affects on the general population.
@@SlayerOfTears I’m pretty sure they showed the aftermath of Shin Godzillas attack on Kamata and Shinagawa and we even saw some rescue in shinagawa. We also saw some aftermath of Kamakura- Sans (SANS REFERENCE?!???) devastating beam and fire destroy Tokyo. The OG still shows all the civilians being rescued and getting treatment which shin doesn’t So I’d say. As a shin lover. The OG takes the cake with showing the aftermath
And the real life destruction of the immoral demons in the Imperial Japanese Army was FAR worse than that. Civilians killed by Japanese 1937 - 1945: 30 million + Civilians killed by nuclear bombs: less than 200,000
Yea, and our modern nuclear bombs would cause waaaay more destruction than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Lets just hope those type of bombs aren't used again.
@@robstefani9853 I have no more doubts. The devastated scenery that was seen in the extended trailer of Minus One is exactly what I wanted. And I have a huge hype about it!
Fun fact: the music playing after godzilla rampage was first used in the film Hiroshima which also Akira Ifukube composed the music. Hiroshima was also released a year before godzilla would come out.
Something I noticed about this version of Godzilla was how distinct his atomic breath was. While later versions of his breath flowed in a concentrated and directed flow like a laser, 1954 Godzilla spewed his atomic breath more similarly to a spray. I think this is a really good detail, as while the more laser atomic breath was good for films were Godzilla was fighting other monsters, this spray-like atomic breath affects larger areas, both melting and burning more buildings, vehicles, and people. This emphasizes just how bad Godzilla could flatten an area to the point were it looks like Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
I would recommend looking at the end scene of Godzilla 2000. G just turns around in a circle in the middle of the city, spewing a stream of atomic fire that annihilates everything around him like napalm carpet-bombing. It's devastating.
“Emergency hospitals were overflowing with the maimed and the dead, the smell of scorched flesh permeated the air. for many the horror of last night was over. One of the survivors was Emiko Yamani, the daughter of Japan’s most famous paleontologist. For many of the victims there was hope; but for others, there’d be no tomorrow. I don’t how many hours past until a rescue crew found me, I knew it was daylight, I was lucky to be alive. The smell of scorched glass was enough to snap me back to reality. It was still hard for be to believe, that I could be lying here in a hospital alive. When I think of the tens and thousands if others dead and dying in the rooms around me. When I think back, only a few days ago I was En-route to Cairo, with a few days layover in Tokyo.” - Raymon Burr (1956)
Damn, I have never cried so much over such a heartbreaking scene, just hearing that little girl crying after seeing what was left of her mother, followed by seeing that trail of destruction with so many dead and injured, in addition to the rubble.
"Your mother will be okay.." She says to the child, knowing full well that the mother has passed on. But the child needed to be comforted somehow, words cannot help but one must try. The child has just seen their light and their whole world get crushed and burned before their eyes, their mother forced to die a slow. Honorless, cruel death because of the radioactive power emanating from the body of the Monster of monsters. It's so fucked up. She turns away after handing the child to one of the nurses crying cause she knows she lied, she knows in her maturity. That little girl will never see the woman who bore her ever again... the only thing sadder is "We'll be joining your father in just a moment-!" So hopeless, and sad beyond every measure. Knowing that her and her children will be killed, the only possible comfort a mother could offer was the sentiment that they'd get to see their dad again.
Scene with mother hugging her childrens and say that joining their father soon. That hit core on me everytime going back watching original Gojira movie
There’s something so ominously foreboding about the aftermath as it shows the desolation, ruin and hopelessness everyone felt after the the rampage of the previous night; the mother with her 3 kids and that little girl crying just add to it.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
This is such a fantastic parable for an unstoppable, uncaring force. The powerlessness we face when we're confronted with an unknown power, that puts us back down on the bottom of the food chain. What a powerful nightmare.
Imagine how scary this was in Japanese cinema , because just 9 years before this Japan experienced the horrors of Nuclear weaponary and scenes like the child grieving over her dead mother make it all the more realistic as it looks like footage from post-bombed Japan.
If you didn't get the message from this iconic film then something is terribly wrong with you. Bottom line is nuclear warfare is NOT the answer and the fallout from it is total destruction and the long lasting after effects of such devastation.
Nuclear warfare is the answer if the alternative is a two year invasion campaign against a country that weaponized its own civilians. The projected casualty estimates for an invasion of Japan far outweighed the loss of life caused by the bombs. Doesn't mean we should use atomic weaponry frivolously, it just means we should acknowledge the context of a situation before judging an act as unwarranted.
@@BrutallyHannes Honestly this movie, whether intentionally or unintentionally, recognizes this dilemma. The oxygen destroyer is a metaphor for the atomic bomb. Dr. Serizawa doesn't want to use the bomb, but an even greater threat makes it a necessary evil. This reflects how the atomic bomb, as terrible of a device as it was, was necessary to stop an equally as terrible tragedy from unfolding.
@@eagenthorror I get the context of the nuclear bomb in relation to the film, I'm just pointing out the historical context. People have the knee-jerk reaction to immediately shun the idea of using nuclear weaponry and with the 80 years of hindsight we currently have, I absolutely agree. At the same time, people tend to ignore the circumstances around it's usage during WW2 and not even consider the alternative. It's aggravating that people seem to view the atomic bombings of Japan as an inexcusable or even unwarranted attack on an undeserving smaller nation. My point is that if OP lived in the time leading up to the bombings, they probably wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the option.
0:13 As someone who has seen The Green Mile, Titanic, and Old Yeller, I can safely say none of those movies made me cry as hard as this scene alone! A mother and her children about to die for no reason is so heartbreaking! It's impossible not to see the parallels to the victims of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Even though this movie came out in 1954, and it’s almost the 69th anniversary of it, it still is the best Godzilla movie ever. This movie, It really shows the suffering these people are having after they lose their family. Especially the little girl crying to her dead mother who said that they will both be seeing her father who recently passed away. Except the mother died and the girl didn’t. Not to mention the fact that as each of the films Godzilla film gets released, the suffering is always hidden. I hope Godzilla Minus One does a much similar job just like the original did, with the people suffering, the same aftermath as the original, and so many other things that I hope Minus One will have compared to the original Godzilla film.
That’s why we love this movie. It’s a political film about the dangers of nuclear radiation, with a dino-cross slapped on to emphasise the impact, entertain the audience, and, birth the longest running franchise in movie history.
Fuck. This scene makes me cry every fucking time. Great movie. Wish more people appreciated it. Almost every time I've shown the movie to people they fall asleep.
Too bad for them, maybe they shouldn't have bombed our ships and tortured thousands of our servicemen to death. I wonder how the Chinese felt about losing over 20 million people in just 8 years.
@@kidfox3971those soldiers signed up knowing they could die, not saying it's okay but that's what war is. None of those civilians in Hiroshima tortured anyone and definitely didn't deserve the fate they got. Why be so vindictive about something you weren't even involved in?
@@Noisetank007None of the Civilians in China, Korea or the Philippine did anything to the Japanese either yet the Japanese bombed and pillaged their way through Asian and bombed Australia and tried to bomb US civilians.
Althought the sequels became very cheesy and camp, the original 1954 Gojira was very much a horror movie and a cautionary tale about the dangers of nuclear weapons. A classic that still holds up nearly 70 years later and still the best in the series imo.
If you think about it all of the epic monster fights we got after were just like war, except without showing all the killings. Imagine all the hospitals after what happened in rio in gxk...
The scenes are pure horror like a monster rampaging in a city during nighttime, humans dying, people crying over their losses, children crying, fire everywhere the list just goes on
I cryed when little girl lost herr Mother🥺😭🙏❤ And tokyo was devasteted😢 i hated goji very much my first goji movie was 84.reboot & heishei era butt there will always be 54.original movie
I felt bad for these kids there mother just died from Godzilla😢 and there father is dead too i dont think theres any relatives to care them i think now there orphan and thats sad 😭
If I die in this world, Who will know something of me? I am lost, no one knows There's no trace of my yearning If I die in this world (but I must carry on) Who will know something of me (nothing worse can befall) I am lost, no one knows (all my fears, all my tears) There's no trace of my yearning (tell my heart there's a hole)
I cannot imagine how many audience members in Japan at that time, had to quickly walk out during this scene to try to just keep it together again after going through such horror.
I love this movie, but, please guys, stop saying that this and -1 are the only "dark" Gojira movies, i am tired of it. All of the Heisei Era movies are also mature, yes he fight other monsters, but the messages are still there. Gojira, as a character, can be a menace, can be a hero, can be a victim, can be a killer, even the "goofy" Showa movies has messages, even they have something to tell, Gojira is not only about nuclear terror, but about a LOT of things. I love 1954, i love the "goofy" showa films, i love heisei era, i love...ok, not so much the Millennium era but it is still interesting. Y'all want a dark Gojira movie? I recommend GMK, Biollante, 2000, Shin...
@SlayerOfTears thank you! That one stood out to me the first time I saw this. Rewatched it yesterday and immediately recalled how amazing it was the first time.
Something like that wouldn't happen today. Imagine that, for example, in 2009, a movie (feature film, not a documentary) is released in the USA clearly referring to the September 11 attacks? And here the Japanese have created a film clearly referring to the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
As much as I love Godzilla minus one I just can't help but shake my head at the people acting like this is the first time a Godzilla movie ever had compelling human drama
Considering how close Godzilla is and from the building they are at, do you genuinely think they will escape? if anyhow did they do, they'd get irradiated anyway.
I think minus one is trying to get that emotional sorrow from the original 1954 of Godzilla and I don't think another Godzilla is going to be killed but Godzilla is going to show True Carnage and more blood spill and the suspense of time of how they're going to get rid of Godzilla almost like a zombie apocalypse or like the end of the world kind of movie but the true 1954 Godzilla this Godzilla is in its own categorize spot of being the true definition of the aftermath of Japan during World War II and with-1 Godzilla and just two years set after World War II what's going to be interesting of what the hell is going to happen that movie when we get to see how much Carnage and sorrow and sadness were going to see in that film I'll probably show the same thing in this movie the sorrow the devastation the aftermath and probably a third nuclear bomb on Japan soil
By the way, for those who didn't know, you can now legally watch Gojira here on UA-cam for free! I deeply recommend it.
EDIT 2: Movie's back up! Give it a watch if it's available in your region: ua-cam.com/video/nn-Wg1NU32I/v-deo.html
This movie deserves all the praise in the world and should be preserved till the end of history. It's a textbook example of show don't tell. Showing the damage instead of a character saying how terrible it is. The girl grieving over her dead mother, and the scene of the mom and her three children trapped in the burning building. Truly a masterpiece of Japanese cinema.
Eeyup, they knew what they were doing because of the horror of the A bombs being dropped in Japan.
It's much better than the American one. Not the monstervse one nor the 1998 one too. This one it the masterpiece that give the emotional thought on nuclear weapons and the many impact it has.
It shows war. It is meant to be negative.
Just let in illegals.
Your cities will look like this too.
Im not joking.
😂
0:18 One thing I like about this line is that it can be interpreted either as the mother comforting the children or as implying that the children's father has died and they will soon join their father.
She's doing both.
This movie had dark lines
Sad thing is in WWII from airraids if many a Japanese children and widows did say this to thier kids 😞
People in Japan watched this scene (the girl crying for her mum) only nine years after they themselves saw exactly the same kind of thing in real life. I cannot say they needed it, or they didn't. But it really spoke to them😢
The Americans wouldn't let the Japanese make a movie about the atomic bombings, so they made this instead. Ironically, the film wasn't initially popular in Japan, and was heavily panned by their critics. It was only after the American edit with Raymond Burr was released to praise in the USA, that Japanese perception of it began to change.
Well, actually, this film was always popular with the Japanese audience. When it was first released to Japanese theaters on November 3rd, 1954 the director Ishiro Honda went to the premier with his son Ryuji and when he got there, there was a line of audience waiting to get into theaters to see the movie circled the theater at least 3 times!! And, in fact, even the head of Toto at the time even thanked Honda and his team and congratulated them on a superb job, which almost never happened. And also there were a couple of critics that did praise the film after its initial release, but you are right that most of the critics panned the movie. @@danieldickson8591
@@danieldickson8591 Even then I still prefer the original Japanese cut over the American reedit, it feels more authentic and I can take seriously.
In Godzilla Minus One, they actually referenced this scene 1:30
And honestly, it's just as gut wrenching and heart breaking to watch.
Ikr, had to contain myself
pain
Godzilla was a force to be reckoned with and we paid the price in the end
@@evolvetrooperGodzilla is just as much a victim as he is a monster.
Seeing that poor girl grieving over her dead mother always gets me to break down into tears very single time I see it. Knowing what it feels like to lose a mother i feel her pain almost like reliving the day my dad told me that my mom passed away...
I personally muted 🔇
that little girl acted more better then half of hollywood actors these days:(
@@totallyormalpinoyguy1998Eeyup.
Mee too poor honey 🥺😭❤
What’s worse is even though the doctor says “Her mom will be okay.” she is clearly dead. A doctor had put a sheet over face, a clear sign of death.
Godzilla 1954 and Godzilla Minus One are the only 2 movies to show how much destruction and misery godzilla brings, and I love it
I think Shin Godzilla was also a good showcase of how horrifying Godzilla's presence was for humanity, even showing the pain Godzilla went through after being subjected to all that radiation.
@Spectahman2.0 Oh yeah, I forgot to put that
The Return of Godzilla would also count, as it was basically an allegory of the Cold War.
Don't forget GMK
There are so many other movies dude
The geiger counter going NUTS over the child is the part that always gets me.
That part always makes me sad, glad a similar scene is in minus one
This scene is one of the only times that I nearly teared up in a Godzilla movie.
The scene with the mother and her children made me bawl my eyes out.
@@casesoutherland4175this and the meltdown in 1995 tugged at the heart strings.
@@Gamerafighter76 I was still crying from Godzilla trying to bring back Godzilla Jr. when the meltdown happened, so who can say which one caused it.
@@geoffreysorkin5774 Eeyup, they both tug at the strings.
@0:50 let's remember that when this film came out in the 50s, Washington still denied the effects of radiation from the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film is a statement.
The 1956 American version editing out and recontextualizing so much of this is a war crime unto itself.
Yeah, I watched the American version right after the original Japanese cut on the Criterion DVD and I couldn't take it seriously.
@@Green-aderCuck.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Shin Godzilla, but one thing that keeps it from being as dark as the OG is the aftermath.
Here you can actually see civilians suffering and dying from Godzilla attack as even if you did survive his attack, considering Godzilla’s body constantly gives off radiation, you’ll be suffering from severe radiation poisoning as shown in scene with the kids. All of this just adds even further to the nuclear allegory this movie tries to tell.
I know Shin was probably more focused on Godzilla’s point of view than the human cast, but I really wish we would of gotten see the after effects of when Shin firing his beams that set Tokyo to flames.
I have to agree. I adore Shin, but I do wish more Godzilla films would buckle down and show just how devastating it would be if Godzilla actually existed. People need to be shown the brutality of city-wide destruction, and families torn apart, including children. I hope Toho's new Godzilla film in November hearkens back to this dark style of film.
I agree. To be honest, your comment is the first objective and honest criticism of Shin Godzilla that I have come across.
Great movie, but it lacks those details. I wish one day we get a sequel or Director's cut
To be fair, shin focused more on Godzilla and the bureaucracy of Japan during the Fukushima accident. It's why you see different meetings, over and over. It is just a different movies where the original focus on nuclear disaster and horror and aftermath and could say the constant one upmanship with weapons like the oxygen destroyer, shin focused on how inaction by leaders of Japan caused a worse disaster than it could have been. Both different times and based on different themes and messages.
Shin Godzilla does focus largely on the human cast, more so than most Godzilla films, it’s just from a different perspective. It focuses more on the government and their response towards Godzilla (natural disaster). Both Godzilla 54 and Shin masterfully portray the vantage points that they are working from, although I do agree shin could have showed more of the affects on the general population.
@@SlayerOfTears I’m pretty sure they showed the aftermath of Shin Godzillas attack on Kamata and Shinagawa and we even saw some rescue in shinagawa. We also saw some aftermath of Kamakura- Sans (SANS REFERENCE?!???) devastating beam and fire destroy Tokyo.
The OG still shows all the civilians being rescued and getting treatment which shin doesn’t
So I’d say. As a shin lover. The OG takes the cake with showing the aftermath
And the scariest part is the real life destruction from nuclear bombs was way worse.
And the real life destruction of the immoral demons in the Imperial Japanese Army was FAR worse than that.
Civilians killed by Japanese 1937 - 1945: 30 million +
Civilians killed by nuclear bombs: less than 200,000
Yea, and our modern nuclear bombs would cause waaaay more destruction than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Lets just hope those type of bombs aren't used again.
@@Noname-xr4qlagree
@@kidfox3971 those people deserved, heres the difference.
@@guyjuprod I mean you sure deserve, can tell that much.
Probably the saddest parts of the movie.
Let's hope that Minus One will have similar scenes. I truly need this kind of scenario after a Godzilla attack
Thoughts after seeing the newest trailer?
@@robstefani9853 I have no more doubts. The devastated scenery that was seen in the extended trailer of Minus One is exactly what I wanted. And I have a huge hype about it!
I think it will. It's already showing some aftermath shots of Godzilla’s wrath in the trailer
見た感じはいつものレーザーのようなアトミックブレスだった。
Boy do i have news for you
Fun fact: the music playing after godzilla rampage was first used in the film Hiroshima which also Akira Ifukube composed the music. Hiroshima was also released a year before godzilla would come out.
I remember seeing that movie sometime in the last couple years; a group of survivors tries to keep going, right?
Hello fellow pony.
@@Curlyheart hello
@@YoursTrulyThe1Pony Happy Heartswarming Eve if you're reading this on the 24th. :P
たいへん興味深いことに、
映画「ビルマの竪琴」でも、
日本兵の死体の山に遭遇するシーンで、
同じ曲が使われています。
Something I noticed about this version of Godzilla was how distinct his atomic breath was. While later versions of his breath flowed in a concentrated and directed flow like a laser, 1954 Godzilla spewed his atomic breath more similarly to a spray. I think this is a really good detail, as while the more laser atomic breath was good for films were Godzilla was fighting other monsters, this spray-like atomic breath affects larger areas, both melting and burning more buildings, vehicles, and people. This emphasizes just how bad Godzilla could flatten an area to the point were it looks like Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
I would recommend looking at the end scene of Godzilla 2000. G just turns around in a circle in the middle of the city, spewing a stream of atomic fire that annihilates everything around him like napalm carpet-bombing. It's devastating.
Better go see Minus One. Best atomic breath yet.
Honestly I think it's just a reflection of what filmmakers could do with special effects at that time as opposed to being intentional.
“Emergency hospitals were overflowing with the maimed and the dead, the smell of scorched flesh permeated the air. for many the horror of last night was over. One of the survivors was Emiko Yamani, the daughter of Japan’s most famous paleontologist. For many of the victims there was hope; but for others, there’d be no tomorrow. I don’t how many hours past until a rescue crew found me, I knew it was daylight, I was lucky to be alive. The smell of scorched glass was enough to snap me back to reality. It was still hard for be to believe, that I could be lying here in a hospital alive. When I think of the tens and thousands if others dead and dying in the rooms around me. When I think back, only a few days ago I was En-route to Cairo, with a few days layover in Tokyo.” - Raymon Burr (1956)
Damn, I have never cried so much over such a heartbreaking scene, just hearing that little girl crying after seeing what was left of her mother, followed by seeing that trail of destruction with so many dead and injured, in addition to the rubble.
Not to mention no doubt orphans and people whom suffered losses of loved ones during WWII airraids
"Your mother will be okay.."
She says to the child, knowing full well that the mother has passed on. But the child needed to be comforted somehow, words cannot help but one must try. The child has just seen their light and their whole world get crushed and burned before their eyes, their mother forced to die a slow. Honorless, cruel death because of the radioactive power emanating from the body of the Monster of monsters.
It's so fucked up. She turns away after handing the child to one of the nurses crying cause she knows she lied, she knows in her maturity. That little girl will never see the woman who bore her ever again... the only thing sadder is
"We'll be joining your father in just a moment-!" So hopeless, and sad beyond every measure. Knowing that her and her children will be killed, the only possible comfort a mother could offer was the sentiment that they'd get to see their dad again.
How many Japanese orphans too whom would have faced this trafedy 😢😮 in WWII
One of the few scenes in the franchise that made me outright hate Godzilla and think, "Yes, this monster needs to die."
In that sequence implies the husband of the mom was killed in action as an Japanese soldier in WWII. Such a sad scene.
Scene with mother hugging her childrens and say that joining their father soon. That hit core on me everytime going back watching original Gojira movie
There’s something so ominously foreboding about the aftermath as it shows the desolation, ruin and hopelessness everyone felt after the the rampage of the previous night; the mother with her 3 kids and that little girl crying just add to it.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
This is such a fantastic parable for an unstoppable, uncaring force. The powerlessness we face when we're confronted with an unknown power, that puts us back down on the bottom of the food chain. What a powerful nightmare.
Imagine how scary this was in Japanese cinema , because just 9 years before this Japan experienced the horrors of Nuclear weaponary and scenes like the child grieving over her dead mother make it all the more realistic as it looks like footage from post-bombed Japan.
Y'know, it's really hard to root for Godzilla after watching scenes like this, I won't lie.
Vâng. Nó giết hại quá nhiều người vô tội.
Well to be fair, Godzilla was also a creature suffering from nuclear radiation done to him by humans.
The second godzilla used to be just as evil until he realised he didnt have to be, i find that really sweet.
Also megalon dropkick goes brrrr
The first Gojira is everyone’s nightmare
Wonderful movie music actors and the biggest star Godzilla 😊
If minus one is written half as well as this, I’ll be happy, if it’s written as well then it’ll deserve, no, *need* an Oscar
Well I got good news bud
@@pisspissababab4027 honestly good news is an understatement lol
If you didn't get the message from this iconic film then something is terribly wrong with you. Bottom line is nuclear warfare is NOT the answer and the fallout from it is total destruction and the long lasting after effects of such devastation.
Nuclear warfare is the answer if the alternative is a two year invasion campaign against a country that weaponized its own civilians. The projected casualty estimates for an invasion of Japan far outweighed the loss of life caused by the bombs. Doesn't mean we should use atomic weaponry frivolously, it just means we should acknowledge the context of a situation before judging an act as unwarranted.
@@BrutallyHannes Honestly this movie, whether intentionally or unintentionally, recognizes this dilemma. The oxygen destroyer is a metaphor for the atomic bomb. Dr. Serizawa doesn't want to use the bomb, but an even greater threat makes it a necessary evil. This reflects how the atomic bomb, as terrible of a device as it was, was necessary to stop an equally as terrible tragedy from unfolding.
@@eagenthorror I get the context of the nuclear bomb in relation to the film, I'm just pointing out the historical context.
People have the knee-jerk reaction to immediately shun the idea of using nuclear weaponry and with the 80 years of hindsight we currently have, I absolutely agree. At the same time, people tend to ignore the circumstances around it's usage during WW2 and not even consider the alternative. It's aggravating that people seem to view the atomic bombings of Japan as an inexcusable or even unwarranted attack on an undeserving smaller nation.
My point is that if OP lived in the time leading up to the bombings, they probably wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the option.
@@BrutallyHannes Yes, I agree.
War is the absolute worst.
0:13 As someone who has seen The Green Mile, Titanic, and Old Yeller, I can safely say none of those movies made me cry as hard as this scene alone!
A mother and her children about to die for no reason is so heartbreaking! It's impossible not to see the parallels to the victims of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Green Mile, Titanic, Old Yeller? you're full of colorful metaphors, aren't you Case?
@@Epic_1YT No. I'm being serious. I've seen all three of those movies and while they were sad, this one scene alone in Godzilla really got to me.
@Case Southerland it's a joke lol. I'm quoting breaking bad
@@Epic_1YT My dad was actually in episode 1 of season 3 of breaking bad! He played the coyote who got killed by the twins!
The Lusitania a more important ship than Titanic.
Even though this movie came out in 1954, and it’s almost the 69th anniversary of it, it still is the best Godzilla movie ever.
This movie, It really shows the suffering these people are having after they lose their family. Especially the little girl crying to her dead mother who said that they will both be seeing her father who recently passed away. Except the mother died and the girl didn’t.
Not to mention the fact that as each of the films Godzilla film gets released, the suffering is always hidden.
I hope Godzilla Minus One does a much similar job just like the original did, with the people suffering, the same aftermath as the original, and so many other things that I hope Minus One will have compared to the original Godzilla film.
これほどまで戦争の傷口を抉り出した映画はないと思う。
I had to play this scene a few times over, its so powerful and the music, and then Emiko breaking her promise ❤️
That’s why we love this movie. It’s a political film about the dangers of nuclear radiation, with a dino-cross slapped on to emphasise the impact, entertain the audience, and, birth the longest running franchise in movie history.
Fuck. This scene makes me cry every fucking time. Great movie. Wish more people appreciated it. Almost every time I've shown the movie to people they fall asleep.
Pretty much how the Japanese people felt about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Akira Ifukube used the same music after Godzilla's rampage in a film called Hiroshima which was released a year before Godzilla was released.
Too bad for them, maybe they shouldn't have bombed our ships and tortured thousands of our servicemen to death. I wonder how the Chinese felt about losing over 20 million people in just 8 years.
@@kidfox3971 I think they meant the innocent citizens and not the military
@@kidfox3971those soldiers signed up knowing they could die, not saying it's okay but that's what war is. None of those civilians in Hiroshima tortured anyone and definitely didn't deserve the fate they got. Why be so vindictive about something you weren't even involved in?
@@Noisetank007None of the Civilians in China, Korea or the Philippine did anything to the Japanese either yet the Japanese bombed and pillaged their way through Asian and bombed Australia and tried to bomb US civilians.
Given how cheesy fun some of the Showa and Heisi films got, it's easy to forget that Toho originally played it dead serious with the original.
Althought the sequels became very cheesy and camp, the original 1954 Gojira was very much a horror movie and a cautionary tale about the dangers of nuclear weapons. A classic that still holds up nearly 70 years later and still the best in the series imo.
Cautionary stories are my favorites. I think they give the most wisdom.
Godzilla will always be King of the Monsters
But this one was a monster itself.
Even with the release of Minus One and how serious it can get, this film still is much more darker and emotionally moving.
Darker, yes. Emotionally moving? Debatable.
Godzilla Minus One was a major disappointment to me. I despise that film.
@@ShinGhidorah17 I'm sorry to hear that. I thought it was incredible and beautiful.
@@alphadragonwolfwarrior6373Same, it’s my new favorite Godzilla flick.
@@ShinGhidorah17 Its ok to be completly wrong and stupid.
MV fans : Godzilla is a hero he cant hurt humans
Also Godzilla :
godzilla is like destroyer of the world
Next Movies Godzilla is Like Superman
He isn’t like destroyer of the world. He IS destroyer of the world.
@@futureandroid5374Godzilla Minus One arrives
I came here after Godzilla Minus One
This acting is fenominal and making the model city espically for a movie post war
Everytime someone says “godzilla is a hero” show them this
This, Raids Again, King Kong vs Godzilla, Mothra vs Godzilla, Godzilla 1984, Godzilla vs Biollante, GMK, Shin Godzilla, and Minus One.
Im pretty sure heisei wasnt evil
If you think about it all of the epic monster fights we got after were just like war, except without showing all the killings. Imagine all the hospitals after what happened in rio in gxk...
Shin Godzilla wasn’t evil he was the victim
The scenes are pure horror like a monster rampaging in a city during nighttime, humans dying, people crying over their losses, children crying, fire everywhere the list just goes on
I cryed when little girl lost herr Mother🥺😭🙏❤
And tokyo was devasteted😢 i hated goji very much my first goji movie was 84.reboot & heishei era butt there will always be 54.original movie
With this scene, we know how aggresive are Godzilla and how powerfull it is
Dang the pain i feel when the girl is crying when here mother was dead😔😔i feel it
I felt bad for these kids there mother just died from Godzilla😢 and there father is dead too i dont think theres any relatives to care them i think now there orphan and thats sad 😭
If I die in this world,
Who will know something of me?
I am lost, no one knows
There's no trace of my yearning
If I die in this world (but I must carry on)
Who will know something of me (nothing worse can befall)
I am lost, no one knows (all my fears, all my tears)
There's no trace of my yearning (tell my heart there's a hole)
Right as I finished watching this movie this popped up
The darkness and pain it shows instead of goofyness
Man Godzilla is so dark
That it makes me afraid of Godzilla
Chills. Every time I see it.
That poor family 😢
Yeah, Emmerich and co didn’t even try.
I cannot imagine how many audience members in Japan at that time, had to quickly walk out during this scene to try to just keep it together again after going through such horror.
I love this movie, but, please guys, stop saying that this and -1 are the only "dark" Gojira movies, i am tired of it. All of the Heisei Era movies are also mature, yes he fight other monsters, but the messages are still there. Gojira, as a character, can be a menace, can be a hero, can be a victim, can be a killer, even the "goofy" Showa movies has messages, even they have something to tell, Gojira is not only about nuclear terror, but about a LOT of things. I love 1954, i love the "goofy" showa films, i love heisei era, i love...ok, not so much the Millennium era but it is still interesting.
Y'all want a dark Gojira movie? I recommend GMK, Biollante, 2000, Shin...
I hope Godzilla Minus One recreates this scene
It doesn’t.
Gets pretty close not gonna lie@@ShinGhidorah17
Does anyone know the name of the song? I thought it was Prayer for Peace, but it's a different one.
It's called Devastated Tokyo.
@SlayerOfTears thank you! That one stood out to me the first time I saw this. Rewatched it yesterday and immediately recalled how amazing it was the first time.
0:13 - 1:32
o7 to pay respect for these poor people
Such a poignant and tragic scene
I think Godzilla presence is a nuclear deterrent for Japan.
Peace is maintained by Godzilla destruction of Japan.
Destruction, chaos and suffering.
今度公開する―1.0は戦後直後だから初代さんよりも時代的にヤバそうだな
Even the American version broke me a little, I will confess.
As a longtime fan, Godzilla is a tragic misunderstood character that Americans didn’t know about.
ゴジラは好きだ。
それでも「もうすぐお父さんのところへ行くのよ」のシーンを見ると、ウルトラマンでも太郎マンでもいいから早く来てくれ！と思ってしまう。
でも、レッドマンが来たら確実に走って逃げると思う。
All the cinema snobs who disregard Godzilla as "cheesy" need to sit and watch this movie and then rethink their opinions.
You can’t blame them that all the ones that came this one were quickie cash grabs and were cheesy.
the other ones weren't cheesy. All of them have messages, go watch Hedorah.
Bro this actually made me shed some tears😢😢😢
it's sad that the kid was crying cause her mother died
0:30 so sad
I hope that little girl got more acting work cause she was great!
Something like that wouldn't happen today. Imagine that, for example, in 2009, a movie (feature film, not a documentary) is released in the USA clearly referring to the September 11 attacks? And here the Japanese have created a film clearly referring to the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
War of The Worlds
@@LanceBjornsson8888 This is a film adaptation of a 19th century novel.
@@karolm476 I know, however the entire movie had a lot of post 9/11 parallel that clearly took heavy inspiration from the event.
@@LanceBjornsson8888 I can not see it. Maybe a scene with a crashed plane at most.
@@karolm476 I don’t wanna spend time on a rant since I have an eye appointment but I bet there are multiple videos that go over it.
No wonder Dr. SERIZAWA himself insisted that the Oxygen Destroyer must not be used again as it was desdlier than the A-Bomb or H-Bomb ....
A parent and child crouching at the eaves of a burning Matsuzakaya. Director Honda is said to have put the most messages in this scene.
As much as I love Godzilla minus one I just can't help but shake my head at the people acting like this is the first time a Godzilla movie ever had compelling human drama
Godzilla Minus One is overrated.
Shes literally letting her kids they're gonna die
Considering how close Godzilla is and from the building they are at, do you genuinely think they will escape? if anyhow did they do, they'd get irradiated anyway.
0:33 RIP Tokyo
man what did they do to have her cry like that, kill her real mom??
They probably pinched her hard to make her scream.
Damn 2 nukes made an undiscovered semi aquatic theropod into a juiced up monster
I would love to see a colorized version of this movie
0:16 to 0:25 : And they say a fatherless child trope is stupid
You are clear as day. A 5 year old
Does anyone know the name of the song that starts playing at 0:30?
Devastated Tokyo.
this is cinema
The girl crying was sad
0:06
特撮場面でゴジラの熱線で炎上破壊
された、旧松坂屋 銀座店
現SIX GINZA
I think minus one is trying to get that emotional sorrow from the original 1954 of Godzilla and I don't think another Godzilla is going to be killed but Godzilla is going to show True Carnage and more blood spill and the suspense of time of how they're going to get rid of Godzilla almost like a zombie apocalypse or like the end of the world kind of movie but the true 1954 Godzilla this Godzilla is in its own categorize spot of being the true definition of the aftermath of Japan during World War II and with-1 Godzilla and just two years set after World War II what's going to be interesting of what the hell is going to happen that movie when we get to see how much Carnage and sorrow and sadness were going to see in that film I'll probably show the same thing in this movie the sorrow the devastation the aftermath and probably a third nuclear bomb on Japan soil
めっちゃゴジラが憎いと思ったのは初代ゴジラだけ
Realmente espero que Godzilla Minus One muestre una escena parecida
Godzilla -1.0 Must Not Show a Similar Scene. if Godzilla -1.0 Ever Shows a Scene Like This, I’ll Hate Godzilla -1.0 as Much as i Hate The 1954 Film!
Compare this to UK aftermath, holy smokes it's like the same
After watching gojira minus zero i hope you watch this...
And people felt bad for Godzilla dying..
Man wish we more got scenes like this on legacy of monarch
Instead getting lesbo agenda
Because having both is SOOOOO impossible?
白熱光最高🎉