Film Theory: Why Godzilla WINS! (Godzilla vs Kong 2021)

Well guys, you're never going to believe this. I know Godzilla vs Kong is coming out in a few weeks but I managed to get my hands on an advance copy of the movie or should I say I managed to find a leaked bootleg copy that someone is willing to sell. Me on the Internet, uh, okay, we look a little broken. I thought the title was different, maybe it was just an early draft anyway, let's look at this. The odd choice feels a little lo-fi, but maybe they were looking for something different, okay? Leave it, oh, this is the original Godzilla vs King Kong.

Yeah, okay, I have to say I don't hate it. Internet. Welcome to

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. The show is funnier than a barrel full of giant prehistoric ape-like cryptids. You know it's been difficult. a couple of years for legendary movies, big budget monster verse franchise, after audiences got so angry that Godzilla didn't appear for more than a few minutes of his own movie in 2014, they paid him back by not appearing at all for its significantly more exciting sequel. The king of the monsters in 2019, boom, dived into Godzilla, the only thing that can reliably bring you down is low box office profits, fortunately for the Godzilla company, although the studio was already in production on the next

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at that moment, but then world events closed. in theaters and now only by the grace of our corporate masters at at and Warner Brothers can we finally see Godzilla vs Kong the way any iconic summer blockbuster battle between two 400-foot monsters was meant to be seen from two and a half inches tall on our phones this is a movie that is already raising a lot of questions why are they fighting when

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got so much bigger why didn't this happen years ago along with civil war and batman v superman side note is that all this matter will be resolved by both of them they know someone called mothra mothra why did you say that name?

But we all know what the big question is in these types of movies. Who will win? If you know the channel, you know that we will do our best to answer this as soon as possible. and if you don't know the channel, consider subscribing to mind-blowing theories every week that will make you look smart in front of all your friends. Now let's start answering our question by taking a look at our two competitors okay. According to Monsterverse canon, this incarnation of Godzilla stands 393 feet tall or about 120 meters not counting the additional 189 feet or 57.6 meters of his tail and weighs approximately 99,634 tons, making him easily the tallest version. greatest Godzilla ever depicted in live action.

On the contrary, Kong was only 104 feet tall or 35 meters when we last saw him on Kong Skull Island, which is quite large but only a quarter the size of Godzilla, however, it seems that he has become much larger considering which are found in the trailer for the new film. side by side on some aircraft carriers and

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is eye level with

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if not even a taller man watching this scene makes me think the real winner of this battle is any ship capable of floating while 200 creatures 000 tons face off in the Now, knowing these rough statistics, we can use science to see which creature will have the greatest impact.

Analyze what Godzilla's thermal gray weapon does and doesn't destroy so we can see the temperature estimate. Observe the general differences between the brains of mammals and reptiles. brain to see which strategy is going to win, except there is a major problem with all that. If I use science, science says both creatures would lose because they can't possibly exist in the first place, you know those laws that ruin the fun. of science that get in the way, say explosions in space or sound in space or literally anything to do with space, giant monster movies tend to hit the head first and all those fun laws of science science that they ruin, mainly physics problems like the law of the square cube, which is mathematics. principle discovered by Galileo in 1638 that says that mass increases at a faster rate than size basically as the area of ​​the square of the cubes of mass and this becomes a problem when you consider that the strength of a muscle or bone is roughly the function of its area, but weight is a function of volume, so let's say you double the height of a monkey while keeping it in the same shape, you end up with four times the muscle power moving eight times the mass that, as you can imagine, it's just not going to work, an organism can only grow so much. amount before all the other forces of physics and thermodynamics cause it to collapse in on itself, neither Kong nor Godzilla could grow to their respective sizes if they existed at that size, gravity would break their bones if their bones were somehow strong enough. tearing the flesh and organs from those bones, if all their bodies were strong enough, they would collapse into the earth itself and even if those problems were denied, it is mathematically inconceivable that Kong would consume enough nutrients and water to sustain himself every day.

While I'd love to find a scientific answer to this, the suspension of disbelief here is so extreme that you'd need a wizard or a fairy or some level of literal magic to even come close to solving this, fortunately for us. exactly what we've seen in the Japanese kaiju genre and this particular monster verse has really leaned on the hodgepodge of atomic age gothic sci-fi and straight-up folklore to justify the hand-waving it takes to get to the stompy stompy Sure, most of Godzilla Gamera and the rest's friends and enemies are assumed to be dinosaurs, mutations, or aliens from outer space, but more than a few are also identified as legendary supernatural creatures, demons, spirits, even literal gods, all the legends, the stars, are true, they really were.

In fact, the first Godzilla gods get their name in the original 1954 film from a local legend about a sea monster, so even in his first appearance he's equal parts regional folklore and atomic monster and that mix has persisted throughout of all his incarnations, the Japanese reboot series from the 90s. Godzilla's origin is a normal dinosaur who protected Japanese soldiers stationed on an island in World War II, but he is also a karmic force that punishes the many saved by spending their lives in pursuit of capitalist greed. Sir, he must leave his office, it is in his way, yes.

I know I almost died on Lagus Island along with my entire garrison, but the dinosaur saved us all and all that prosperity I built is now being destroyed by the same dinosaur right now and there is nothing I can do about it, it's very ironic. You think wow, that's deep for a movie with a guy in a rubber dinosaur suit? Then, a decade later, the movie Godzilla Mothra and King Ghidorah, giant monsters, all-out attacks, definitely a mouthful featured an even scarier magical Godzilla that was created. of dead people, not really, in that version Godzilla is inhabited by the angry souls of everyone who died in the Pacific during World War II and has come to turn Japan into rubble as punishment for joining the war in the first place. place, each and every time.

In these movies there is surely science involved, after all, Godzilla is the atomic monster, but the stories are resolved through folklore. King Kong is largely the same way in the original 1933 film, he is a god who demands sacrifices from the indigenous people of Skull Island and again in the original 1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla awkward paradise wait did you just say awkward you mean incomparable uncomfortable just makes it seem like king kong has a mild case of jock itch anyway time and time again we see that these creatures are just as religious and folklore as they are science and technology and you can't have folklore without the part from the story and yes the monster verse make sure you check that box also god cones on the island but demons live beneath us and what are they called skull crawlers why?

It sounds good and this is where we can find our answer in the battles between gods. It's not a question of science, it's a question of religion and this is where things really start to get weird. Maybe maybe it's not so weird. watch

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king of monsters reveals that the origin of monster vs godzilla is strongly linked to what is called a singular proto-civilization

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, basically the idea that before all known history there was an advanced human civilization with a language and a shared culture that somehow fell. and whose dispersed population subsequently founded all the different human societies that came later.

These are classic legends like Atlantis and the Tower of Babel and the theory aims to explain how societies that never met somehow have strange similarities, like why all ancient cultures. we were so interested in building pyramids why the same monsters exist in mythology from all corners of the earth and why every culture somehow inexplicably loves Minecraft looks like an Egyptian a Roman no, this is something different, this is much more ancient now no legitimate historian really takes this theory seriously, but it is treated as real in this latest incarnation of the monster verse and one of the distinguishing features of this theory is that many ancient religions have a common theme of new gods breaking in to overthrow the ugly old false gods that came before, like Zeus and the Olympians defeated the Titans or the Viking gods against the frost giants.

In fact, even some ancient versions of the book of Genesis described Noah's flood destroying half-human, half-angel giants called Nephilim who attempted to usurp the Hebrew god of these proto-civilizations. The ideas also tend to come accompanied by hollow earth theories in which the old gods or lost civilization are forced to retreat underground. Now in the movies, the character of Dr. Serzawa has his own movie theory based on all of this. It's not just a cute nickname. Godzilla and all his great friends are literally the titans as in the true original gods of this fallen proto-civilization and since he is a very serious scientist with a very, very dumb theory in a Godzilla movie, it turns out that he is absolutely right, these are not monsters, they are animals that rise up to claim a wall that was once theirs, but wait if Godzilla is a titan and titans are the old gods who usually lose and are driven underground in all the creation myths and Kong too He is a god for his people and he lives. on the surface and his main, possibly only, job on Skull Island was beating up the lizards that emerge from underground, so Godzilla vs Kong isn't just a title fight, it's a rematch and the movie seems to back this up in the first post-credits scene. in King of the Monsters implies that this fight has happened before and the trailer for the new movie features a lot of talk about a war in the past tense, the myths are real, there was a war, given everything we just talked about, we know who won . the battle the first time Kong he's the one on the surface he's the one who gets his old battle ax back in short, he's defeated Godzilla before, so Godzilla is coming into this with a loss already on the board, does he?

Does that mean Kong is the favorite? win, well yes, it actually fits the mythology and it fits narratively given the fact that Godzilla just had a massive victory in King of the Monsters and must lose, but I think our biggest test of what's really going to happen in this movie It comes from the original King Kong vs. Godzilla from 1962. You see folks, it's easy to miss amidst all the urban destruction, but these kinds of crossover movies are like the movie hype house, you round up a bunch of rowdy monsters for a collaboration, so Everything can become more popular and this was true in that first film back in 1962.

Kong was the much more well-known and popular monster. Godzilla had only appeared in two films before that and number two hadn't been as well received as the first. in fact, King Kong vs Godzilla only happened because a super shady Hollywood producer borrowed an incomplete production concept called King Kong vs Frankenstein and then went to Japan to produce a different, unapproved version using Godzilla instead of Frank when the studios They went back to the We, the ones who actually had Kong, found out about this and got him back. King Kong vs. Godzilla was already a gigantic global hit and Godzilla had become a household name with the Toho company producing Godzilla sequels and has never stopped since, but in the film neither of them. actually loses, Godzilla loses a little because he disappears and Kong is the one seen swimming into the sunset, but neither of them are officially a loser here and you see friends, that's where everythingThis starts to come together.

You see the real victory for the studio here is It's not about who

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, it's that none of the monsters lose. Losing means one fan base is right and another is wrong. One set of products is cooler than the other. One franchise continues successfully while the other dies because it lost in the last one. and the way to avoid that situation is to split the difference, introduce an outside villain so the warring factions can unite, or simply give the verdict enough that no one knows who really won or lost. I mean, I was joking about that before. but batman v superman couldn't wait to tell you that the end of the world was the real big bad in that movie and superman doesn't die by batman's hand, he does it to himself in a heroic sacrifice for humanity, war civil has the twist that zemo was manipulating. them all the while making everyone forget that the civil war between captain america and iron man didn't really have a clear winner, even twilight denied its fans a decisive showdown between team edward and team jacobs in favor of them teaming up against a new challenger, the evil vampire legion, which ended up being all a dream anyway, the best twist ending I guess, and of course the real villain of the grudge ring turned out to be the one who decided we needed the grudge ring , but seriously, neither of us

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.

In that case, or they also join forces, this would also match the lore of the movies. It's easy to overlook, but technically both monsters are heroes. Kong protects our heroes on Skull Island. Godzilla protects the world from all awakened titans. They're both good guys. There's even this line about Godzilla and the king of the monsters that he fought for us. He died. to us he is not just proof that coexistence is possible, he is the key to it, so losing here just doesn't make much sense and that is why ladies and gentlemen, here is my actual prediction in the trailer of Godzilla vs Kong that we heard. this line, Godzilla is out there and he's hurting people and we don't know why, implying that he's been on his good behavior since last time and now something strange is happening in the time-honored tradition of Godzilla movies.

If Godzilla isn't acting like himself it's because he isn't. himself, that's right, we have a new challenger in the ring and his name is mechagodzilla mechagodzilla is a giant robot duplicate of godzilla that has appeared in multiple forms in multiple different areas of the franchise, almost always as a piloted or controlled combat robot remotely and always one of the real Godzilla's deadliest opponents, and while it's generally pretty hard to miss his hundreds of feet of height and brilliance in his first appearance in 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, he spends the first half of the film using fake skin to disguise himself as the real thing.

The thing is, it could be that some or even all of the scenes we've seen in the trailer so far were poorly directed and Kong is actually fighting a giant robot wearing a Godzilla suit, well, many fans of the eagle-eyed monsters have noticed. a few small spots in the trailer notice the Godzilla-like creature on the computer monitor, but there's definitely a robot back there, this head in the rubble of the building where they think they can see Godzilla's mechanical double hiding in plain sight and although we have not seen the giant mecca. In the Monster Verse, however, we've seen both Monarch and Alan Jonah, the eco-terrorist baddie throughout the Monster Verse, collecting Titan body parts as plot points.

Monarch's secret base had a muto skull incorporated into its centerpiece and a post-credits scene and the king of the monsters. he featured jonah picking up king ghidorah's severed head, why would that matter? Recently unauthorized reports have described that head as a prop in the new film, but now cite it being fused with technology and historically both mecha ghidorah and mechagodzilla have been depicted as human-piloted cyborgs constructed from the bodies of deceased kaiju, this would allow us see Kong fight a Godzilla, team up with the real Godzilla and leave these two monstrous heroes as winners to continue their franchises as victors.

That's what I would call a twist, so there you have it. Friends, Kong and Godzilla will meet and see the monkey take down the lizard, but not exactly the way you thought and maybe if we're right, that means you'll see Mecha Kong too. Okay, maybe not, that one is just silly. but hey, that's just a theory, a movie theory and remember the atomic breath, that subscribe button my friends, like I said before, this is the channel that gives you a lot of interesting things to talk about when it comes to movies, television and YouTube with all his friends. so be the first in your black to come up with these theories, find new shows or movies that might be interesting to you, so overall it's a good kaiju sized decision to subscribe to this channel and by the way, if you missed my The first Kong Skull Island theory where I predicted all this hollow earth stuff that one is on the screen right now is called that, I'll see you all next week.