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The Doctor

MemberMothra LarvaeOct-14-2014 8:42 AM

I watched the original, 1954, Japanese Godzilla with English subtitles last Saturday (10-11-14) with my soul brother, member Indiana Jones. He brought it over for us to watch because I had never seen the original (hold the hate comments). Eventually we got to the point where Doctor Serizawa was given the opportunity to make the decision of whether or not he was going to use the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla and the rest of the ocean, or let Godzilla and the ocean life live and find a different way to subdue the beast.

                 Dr Serizawa

Me and Doctor Jones came up with a ‘would you rather’ by basically copying the situation from the movie; “Would you rather use the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla and save the day, or let the ocean live?”

 

At first, I found it a difficult decision. Though after a few seconds of thinking, I decided I would NOT use the device and would destroy it. The reason being the obvious effects of the ocean being dead; a missing major food source being the main effect. Not only that, but also a bunch of other things that I don’t really feel like listing. :P

 

PLEASE. Tell me what your decision would be, in the comments below. (Especially you Indy. You never told me what you’d do)

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GG
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Gman- i understand your point and your statement but, if Gojira 54 isnt a evil being, why did he kill the woman with the baby? And blow and aim a direct atomic breath at those people in the streets? If thats not evil, i am not sure what is.

Good grief.

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Animals don't defirantaite between young and old, especially with prey or Competition, Lions, Hyenas, and Cheateas kill eachothersacting on baby's to avoid competition, and many predators prefer easy kills by atacking young or sick prey, so Godzilla is just on instinct, besides killing a kid is not so difrent than he killing anithing else, even in the new movie he killed some kids

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JRR more or less nailed it. There is no shot in the film that conveys Godzilla was specifically going after the woman and her children. In fact there's no shot to confirm he actually killed them. It's insinuated at best.

And Godzilla seemed to be on a violent territorial rampage. One might assume that the bombings in the ocean earlier in the film beckoned him to attack Tokyo. There's nothing really to allude to that either, but it's about more sound reasoning than assuming he was an evil sentient being intentionally trying to murder people. Even the GMK Godzilla's attacks were largely incidental despite coincidentally coming back for prior victims. That's just not what any Godzilla incarnation is about and largely misses the point.

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JRR- when did he kill kids?

Also all Godzilla's kill people, but 54, atleast i feel actually saw the humans, and blasted them in cold blood.

Good grief.

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Like Dino's wouldn't kill in cold blood?

There are strong men and weak men. The strong ones are here to keep the weak ones up when ever they fail.

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I happen to think that, while terrifying, Godzilla in the 1954 film was simply on a rampage fueled by his extremely rude atomic awakening. If I'm not mistaken (and please correct me if I'm wrong) Godzilla's appearance is meant to convey that he was actually burned by the atom bomb that roused him. Thus, one can assume two things. One, he's in a great deal of pain. Two, he's enraged by his misery and is out on the warpath to end what's caused him pain. I doubt Godzilla had it in for anybody in particular; he was just tearing down the big, noisy, flashy, lit-up forest from which the painful fire that burned him originated. Of course, this is simply my assessment of the situation. Godzilla might have have an underwater "to kill" list lined by the names of several choice individuals - the over-zealous reporter and the woman with her children being somewhere at the mid-point. Steve Martin never actually appeared on the list as he wasn't present for the events until after the fact. ;)

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you all prove very interesting points. i can't believe my discussion made it to 40 replies overnight!

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also. it's kind of our own 'would you rather' I guess I wasn't really thinking straight when I typed it. NEVERTHELESS a question is still a question no matter if it's based off of some other situation or not.

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