"Godzilla" Version 2014

     Hollywood - When Godzilla rose out of the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the creature stuck a deep emotional chord with a ravaged nation destroyed by the atomic blast that ended World War II.  Mezmorizing director Gareth Edwards (38) takes on a proven blockbuster "Godzilla."  In this version 2014 Edwards has $160-million to do it with. 
     In all, Godzilla - or Gojira - as it was originally knows has starred in 28 live-action feature films, many of them pitting the giant lizard (actually, amphibious dinosaur) against some equally enormous foe.  Some battles Godzilla has been are "Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster" (1966),  "Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (1971), and Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964).
     Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, and Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad"), this "Godzilla" has apocalyptic concerns in mind, "I'm always trying to get a bit of 'Apocalypse Now' into anyting I do", says Gareth Edwards.  The film draws inspiration from Ishiro Honda's original 1954 classic, which presents a somber dramatic side of the monster.  Other versions have portrayed Godzilla as everything from hero to comedian (Son of Godzilla, 1967).  Amid the creature trappings Edwards presents a cautionary tale about environmental collapse and the dangers of nuclear energy.  A documentary-style segment of film showing the Fukishima Daiichi reactor meltdown in Japan, which devastated the east coast of Japan in 2011, could surprise audiences expecting pure summer-like special effects and story-lines.  Our film dosen't preach, we tried to respectfully show that we opened a Pandora's box when we started doing all this stuff with nuclear technology.  Obviously our films are metaphors (symbols) of what enormous mutations nuclear radiation might produce.  Hopefully they are never going to really appear. But, the film points out that we should be very careful when we put power plants around the world that are based on nuclear reactors, Edwards explains.  See also, http://todaysentertainmentandtelecom.blogspot.com/2014/04/amphibious-monster-dinosaur.html.