David Crow May 29, 2019
Michael Dougherty tells us what Godzilla and Toho meant to him before his love letter to the Showa era in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Godzilla was always a mythical creature to Michael Dougherty, even before he was in charge of quickening the Big G’s atomic breath back to life again in this summer’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Growing up in a multicultural background in Columbus, Ohio, boyhood Dougherty saw Godzilla movies as more than camp delights about men in rubber suits knocking over paper buildings—they were an expression of deep-seated paranoia about the consequences of man’s hubris in trying to control the natural world, as well as monuments to a type of professional craft mostly alien to Hollywood cinema.
“I grew up watching these movies,” Dougherty tells a group of journalists at Toho Studios in Japan, who have assembled to glimpse...
Michael Dougherty tells us what Godzilla and Toho meant to him before his love letter to the Showa era in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Godzilla was always a mythical creature to Michael Dougherty, even before he was in charge of quickening the Big G’s atomic breath back to life again in this summer’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Growing up in a multicultural background in Columbus, Ohio, boyhood Dougherty saw Godzilla movies as more than camp delights about men in rubber suits knocking over paper buildings—they were an expression of deep-seated paranoia about the consequences of man’s hubris in trying to control the natural world, as well as monuments to a type of professional craft mostly alien to Hollywood cinema.
“I grew up watching these movies,” Dougherty tells a group of journalists at Toho Studios in Japan, who have assembled to glimpse...
- 5/29/2019
- Den of Geek
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