godzilla

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Godzilla Tsunami

a: Godzilla ~

b: A Tsunami or something destructive

What: I've heard these type of Gozilla metaphors bantered around on discussion boards. Is a Tsunami a metaphor for a Godzilla or is Godzilla a metaphor for a Tsunami? It's not clear. The best association I've heard so far is that Godzilla is a metaphor for the Nuclear Annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII.

Useful?

Writer: LucretiaGermanica

LCC:

Where:

http://thedamienzone.com/2011/03/14/godzilla-awakened-by-japan-earthquake-and-tsunami/

Date: Mar 16 2011 7:38 AM

# 823 Critique Analogy

a: Godzilla ~

b: atomic bomb

What:

"For Godzilla was, even in its bowdlerized "King of the Monsters" incarnation, an obvious gigantic, unsubtle, grimly purposeful metaphor for the atomic bomb. The Americanized "Godzilla,' which removed about 40 minutes from the Japanese original and inserted 20 minutes or so of new scenes featuring a sympathetic Yank journalist (played, with burly gravitas, by Raymond Burr), did its darnedest to minimize the nuclear theme. "

Useful?

Writer: TERRENCE RAFFERTY

LCC:

Where:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/metaphor/godzilla/godzilla.html

Date: Mar 20 2014 6:02 PM

# 5353 Critique Analogy

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