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* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. Nine years later, the USA carries out the Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which irradiated [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru a Japanese fishing boat]], leading to the death of the boat's radioman, and only served to stoke the nuclear fears of Japan's people once more. And thus, Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. Nine years later, the USA carries carried out the Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which irradiated [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru a Japanese fishing boat]], leading to the death of the boat's radioman, and only served to stoke the nuclear fears of Japan's people once more. And thus, Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll left the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 Nine years later, a Hydrogen Bomb the USA carries out the Castle Bravo nuclear test in the at Bikini Atoll left Atoll, which irradiated [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukury%C5%AB_Maru a Japanese fishing boat]], leading to the entire nation death of Japan on edge because the boat's radioman, and only served to stoke the nuclear fears of this. Japan's people once more. And thus thus, Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused left the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* When you have Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a Godzilla theme happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that sounds like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu712ULGS0w this]]'', then you know it's not haunted him for the cheesy BMovie rest of his life: The aftermath of the later films became known for, and it shows.Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 Prayer For Peace]], a song calling for peace after the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo. It's a not so subtle theme where the devastation of the atomic bomb's destructive power and heavily emphasizes the film's theme of tragedy and the consequences that haunts the Japanese.
* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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* Music/AkiraIfukube manages to create one of the most hauntingly beautiful and ''depressingly'' sad themes for this film:
** When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu712ULGS0w this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 Prayer For Peace]], a song calling for peace after the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo. It's a not so subtle theme where the devastation of the atomic bomb's destructive power and heavily emphasizes the film's theme of tragedy and the consequences that haunts the Japanese.
* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMoErUnaJ8 Godzilla Under the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was Ocean Floor]], a foot soldier very hauntingly somber theme and was captured by the US military. After the a far more darker version of "Devastated Tokyo". It truly emphasizes that nuclear weapons have done nothing but create victims of war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him and this applies to Godzilla. A fittingly sad piece of music for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.film's WarIsHell theme.
** When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu712ULGS0w this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 Prayer For Peace]], a song calling for peace after the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo. It's a not so subtle theme where the devastation of the atomic bomb's destructive power and heavily emphasizes the film's theme of tragedy and the consequences that haunts the Japanese.
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* When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[ https://www.''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu712ULGS0w this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
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* When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[https://www.''[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu712ULGS0w this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
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* When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[[https://www.''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMoErUnaJ8 com/watch?v=nu712ULGS0w this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
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* The moment when Godzilla is burning Tokyo and a mother and her children are up against a wall, and the mother says "Don't cry, we'll be with daddy soon, just a few more minutes and we'll be with daddy again." This moment is one of, if not ''the'' heaviest and most horrific scene in not just the Godzilla franchise but the entire kaiju movie genre. This moment is also why this film is considered a horror movie.
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* The moment when Godzilla is burning Tokyo and a mother and her children are up against a wall, and the mother says "Don't cry, we'll be with daddy soon, just a few more minutes and we'll be with daddy again." This moment is one of, if not ''the'' heaviest and most horrific scene in not just the Godzilla franchise but the entire kaiju movie genre. This moment is also why this film is considered a horror movie.
movie. Similarly to the choir girls above, [[https://youtu.be/qnTN_cLEfCk?t=606 James mentions this scene as being "very heavy stuff" and one reason why this movie could fit into the horror genre.]]
** The mother dies in the hospital scene of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath radiation poisoning]], and it's heavily implied that the father is dead, likely from the War.
*** Unfortunately in the American re-edit of the film, the mother is shown dead in the hospital in the beginning (due to this version being told in flashback) and during her talking to her children during the rampage, which by that point has been so long since the beginning of the film that one may have forgotten who she is, no English translation is given whatsoever, removing all emotional tension the scene originally had.
** The mother dies in the hospital scene of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath radiation poisoning]], and it's heavily implied that the father is dead, likely from the War.
*** Unfortunately in the American re-edit of the film, the mother is shown dead in the hospital in the beginning (due to this version being told in flashback) and during her talking to her children during the rampage, which by that point has been so long since the beginning of the film that one may have forgotten who she is, no English translation is given whatsoever, removing all emotional tension the scene originally had.
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To reiterate: This is the darkest ''Godzilla'' film ever made in the franchise's overall chronology, and the ''first film'' of the franchise.
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* The film is the saddest monster movie. Ever. Why? There's several sad scenes in this film that separates this from any other film, even American Monster films in the same year this was made. Sure, ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'', and ''Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle'' are sad in their own rights, but Honda used it in a much darker sense. You also feel sympathy ''for'' Godzilla, making as though everyone and everything's a victim of the nuclear apocalypse.
* As paramedics carry out a mother's body on a stretcher, one of her daughters starts shrieking and crying for her. Emiko picks the girl up and tries comforting her, telling her the mother will be OK. After a nurse takes the child, Emiko starts to break down. It's very heartbreaking.
* Perhaps the saddest moments -- or at least the bleakest -- came when Serizawa watched the TV coverage following Godzilla's rampage. The shots of the overcrowded hospital, with people (including children) suffering from radiation burns and regular-fire burns, would not have looked out-of-place in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII documentary about the firebombing of Tokyo or the atomic bombing of Hiroshima -- events which, at the time, were only 9 years in the past and were still part of the viewing audience's direct experience. Then there's the choir of schoolgirls [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 singing in despair]], something that Creator/JamesRolfe admits always gets to him.
* Shortly after the above moment, Serizawa finally agrees to use the Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla. However, he states that it must be the ''only'' time that it is used. He then proceeds to wordlessly burn his research, looking at his notes fondly, one last time, before feeding them to the fire. Nothing is said, but Emiko breaks down in tears at the realization that Serizawa is sacrificing everything that he'd ever worked for in order to help them.
* The moment when Godzilla is burning Tokyo and a mother and her children are up against a wall, and the mother says "Don't cry, we'll be with daddy soon, just a few more minutes and we'll be with daddy again." This moment is one of, if not ''the'' heaviest and most horrific scene in not just the Godzilla franchise but the entire kaiju movie genre. This moment is also why this film is considered a horror movie.
** The mother dies in the hospital scene of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath radiation poisoning]], and it's heavily implied that the father is dead, likely from the War.
* About half the fanbase see this Godzilla as an embodiment of evil while the other half see him as just a confused and hurt animal. Godzilla's own roars sound unnatural and horrific, his skin is totally scarred and disfigured by the bombings and in general he looks less like the goofy hero most people are familiar with and more like a [[TruthInTelevision mutated, horribly scarred, disfigured abomination of a creature]]. His image is softened by the fact he is merely sleeping when Serizawa and Ogata come upon him with the Oxygen Destroyer.
* When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMoErUnaJ8 this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
* The makers of the film painstakingly made the scenes of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo so eerily similar to how Hiroshima and Nagasaki looked after being bombed. Consider, for a moment, that Godzilla turns the city into a "sea of flames", and a similar event had actually happened just a decade prior to the film's release. Those who had survived the firebombing of Tokyo and saw ''Gojira'' in theaters would've definitely been reminded of those they had lost during the attacks.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 Prayer For Peace]], a song calling for peace after the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo. It's a not so subtle theme where the devastation of the atomic bomb's destructive power and heavily emphasizes the film's theme of tragedy and the consequences that haunts the Japanese.
* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Prime'' example of TragicMonster]]
* The film is the saddest monster movie. Ever. Why? There's several sad scenes in this film that separates this from any other film, even American Monster films in the same year this was made. Sure, ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'', and ''Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle'' are sad in their own rights, but Honda used it in a much darker sense. You also feel sympathy ''for'' Godzilla, making as though everyone and everything's a victim of the nuclear apocalypse.
* As paramedics carry out a mother's body on a stretcher, one of her daughters starts shrieking and crying for her. Emiko picks the girl up and tries comforting her, telling her the mother will be OK. After a nurse takes the child, Emiko starts to break down. It's very heartbreaking.
* Perhaps the saddest moments -- or at least the bleakest -- came when Serizawa watched the TV coverage following Godzilla's rampage. The shots of the overcrowded hospital, with people (including children) suffering from radiation burns and regular-fire burns, would not have looked out-of-place in a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII documentary about the firebombing of Tokyo or the atomic bombing of Hiroshima -- events which, at the time, were only 9 years in the past and were still part of the viewing audience's direct experience. Then there's the choir of schoolgirls [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 singing in despair]], something that Creator/JamesRolfe admits always gets to him.
* Shortly after the above moment, Serizawa finally agrees to use the Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla. However, he states that it must be the ''only'' time that it is used. He then proceeds to wordlessly burn his research, looking at his notes fondly, one last time, before feeding them to the fire. Nothing is said, but Emiko breaks down in tears at the realization that Serizawa is sacrificing everything that he'd ever worked for in order to help them.
* The moment when Godzilla is burning Tokyo and a mother and her children are up against a wall, and the mother says "Don't cry, we'll be with daddy soon, just a few more minutes and we'll be with daddy again." This moment is one of, if not ''the'' heaviest and most horrific scene in not just the Godzilla franchise but the entire kaiju movie genre. This moment is also why this film is considered a horror movie.
** The mother dies in the hospital scene of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath radiation poisoning]], and it's heavily implied that the father is dead, likely from the War.
* About half the fanbase see this Godzilla as an embodiment of evil while the other half see him as just a confused and hurt animal. Godzilla's own roars sound unnatural and horrific, his skin is totally scarred and disfigured by the bombings and in general he looks less like the goofy hero most people are familiar with and more like a [[TruthInTelevision mutated, horribly scarred, disfigured abomination of a creature]]. His image is softened by the fact he is merely sleeping when Serizawa and Ogata come upon him with the Oxygen Destroyer.
* When you have a Godzilla theme that sounds like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMoErUnaJ8 this]]'', then you know it's not the cheesy BMovie the later films became known for, and it shows.
* The makers of the film painstakingly made the scenes of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo so eerily similar to how Hiroshima and Nagasaki looked after being bombed. Consider, for a moment, that Godzilla turns the city into a "sea of flames", and a similar event had actually happened just a decade prior to the film's release. Those who had survived the firebombing of Tokyo and saw ''Gojira'' in theaters would've definitely been reminded of those they had lost during the attacks.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70 Prayer For Peace]], a song calling for peace after the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo. It's a not so subtle theme where the devastation of the atomic bomb's destructive power and heavily emphasizes the film's theme of tragedy and the consequences that haunts the Japanese.
* Creator/IshiroHonda's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was a happy man who had an optimistic view on life. That immediately changed when World War II happened. As such, he spend most of his film making career making propaganda war films, only to be conscripted into the UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan's army where he was a foot soldier and was captured by the US military. After the war, he saw the most horrifying scene that haunted him for the rest of his life: The aftermath of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb. 9 years later, a Hydrogen Bomb test in the Bikini Atoll caused the entire nation of Japan on edge because of this. And thus Honda's [[ShellShockedVeteran war trauma]] is why ''Godzilla'' is a combined {{Horror}}/{{Tragedy}} film that has more weight than all of the series' sequels ''combined''.
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