By Garrison Thomas
Step 1: Embrace the cheese.
Godzilla is not high art and it shouldn’t try to be high art. The rebooted Godzilla that released almost five years ago was fine. It had some great monster moments when Godzilla was kicking ass, but almost all the character moments fell flat. Gareth Edwards wanted to make you feel for the family at the center of the film, but you just didn’t care because you paid to see Godzilla, not some poorly executed family melodrama. You can include human stories in Godzilla, but remember that they will take a backseat when the titular monster is on screen. Do not make your audience wait almost an hour before they see him.
I wasn’t excited when Warner Bros. and Legendary pictures announced a sequel. It was just routine. The first one made $520 million. Of course there will be a second one. Ho-hum. Moving along. The first trailer quickly changed my mind about the movie.
I wasn’t excited when Warner Bros. and Legendary pictures announced a sequel. It was just routine. The first one made $520 million. Of course there will be a second one. Ho-hum. Moving along. The first trailer quickly changed my mind about the movie.
I never would have thought putting Claude Debussy’s "Claire De Lune" in a Godzilla trailer would work, but that’s why I’m not paid to cut trailers. A lot of production has been added to the song in order to give it a more epic and grand feel, but it works perfectly. Again, Godzilla isn’t high art. So, why does Debussy’s music work so well with the trailer? Because Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a beautiful-looking film. You just marvel at the Titans that will use Earth as their battleground. The nuclear energy inside Godzilla is portrayed fantastically as he spits out an atomic heat beam into the sky, timed perfectly with a musical cue.
This trailer also plays on the popularity of its cast and the shows they have done. Millie Bobby Brown channels Eleven when sitting in a corner covering her ears and screaming while Charles Dance’s “Long Live the King” reminds us of his time as Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones. Heck, the shot of King Ghidorah hovering over a small light mirrors the season five poster of Game of Thrones. Also, Sally Hawkins looks like she wants to get it on with Godzilla underwater like she did with the Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water.
The Godzilla: King of the Monsters Comic-Con trailer made me interested in the franchise again and now, May 31 can’t come fast enough.
This trailer also plays on the popularity of its cast and the shows they have done. Millie Bobby Brown channels Eleven when sitting in a corner covering her ears and screaming while Charles Dance’s “Long Live the King” reminds us of his time as Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones. Heck, the shot of King Ghidorah hovering over a small light mirrors the season five poster of Game of Thrones. Also, Sally Hawkins looks like she wants to get it on with Godzilla underwater like she did with the Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water.
The Godzilla: King of the Monsters Comic-Con trailer made me interested in the franchise again and now, May 31 can’t come fast enough.