Written: Saturday. August 15, 2020.
- The Shobijin Sisters were a great way of introducing Mothra as a non-destructive Monster.
- Mothra isn't really portrayed as a villain of this story, more of a cause and effect of humanity's wrong-doings towards nature.
- the sisters are captured by the antagonists, and that whole story-line was a nice way of portraying the different sides of mankind.
- the side that would use this kind of opportunity for their own gain.
- and the side that just wants these creatures to be free.
- The miniature sets were over-used.
- they had to make a fictional New York City named "New Kirk" for the third act of the film, and the set was all over the place. Meaning, it was very much noticeable that I was looking at a set, rather than be fooled by what I was seeing before me.
- The human antagonist of this film is the most villainy of them, yet.
- this is a statement made by a version of me who's only seen:
- Godzilla
- Godzilla Raids Again
- King Kong
- Son of Kong
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Rodan
- and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- Nelson didn't have a gray-area. He was pure evil, to the bone. This may seem like he's one-dimensional, at times. Cause nobody's really purely black or white. The absence of a moral compass, or at least some semblance of empathy for the Shobijin Sisters and Mothra, makes Nelson a very NPC-type villain character.
- Mothra's whole backstory and/or setup is similar to King Kong's.
- she hides in an island & has loyal worshipers.
- the only difference is that Mothra has a very superstitious feature surrounding her myth.
- she comes from an egg, and her former self is reborn from it. This is a nod to the Indian-belief of Samsara, which relates to some form of reincarnation.
- she also presents the steps of evolution.
- her characteristics being similar to that of a moth, she begins as a larva, then surrounds herself in a cocoon, only to emerge as a colorful winged-insect. So far, King Kong and Godzilla have only presented their prime forms, with the exception of Little Kong, who is supposedly a baby version of Kong. Other than that, Mothra's whole getup is multi-layered at its finest.
- I just wish I could say the same to the very basic plot of the movie.
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