So do you find any irony to it now that (Godzilla) began as a protest of American imperialist policies and then fast-forward 60 years and now it’s kind of like an American imperial product?
Astute readers may note that Godzilla: King Of Monsters was produced by the Chinese-owned Legendary Pictures, distributed by US-based Warner Bros. Well, it’s not even 60 years later, it’s fast forward two years later when the Hollywood movie comes out in ’56 and you can already see the cultural blob just sucking in more and more. It’s a beautiful example of Hollywood kind of ideologically defanging a threat, a film that was all about the horror of the United States foreign policy.
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