King Kong Vs Godzilla Analysis

The characteristics of different monsters from various places and eras, can easily be compared to cultural boundaries among humans being broken, established, accepted, and rejected. The article goes on to discuss the relationship between monsters and cultural lines that in the eyes of many cannot be traversed. Monsters can be considered beings with two purposes, their story, and their function or impact in historical culture (21). Difference, in the world, is often viewed as unacceptable, even at times a form of contamination. Monsters seems to fall right into that topic category when discussing cultural differences and similarities that are often found established. Boundaries such a sexual purity, gender norms, and other lifestyle implications often are crossed by monsters and their roles they take on in media, literature and other forms of entertainment. They are hiding in personal identities, cultural norms, and hidden desires from within. With that being said, perhaps it is necessary to take into account whether monsters not only symbolize differences and boundary crossing in old and existing cultures across the world, but if they also represent the desire behind those differences that influence

In this reading, Cohen proposes a sketch of a new modus legendi, meaning, “a method of reading cultures from the monsters they engender.”(Monsters page 11) He also says that he’s going to break some rules from recent cultural studies. Now, Cohen offers seven theses towards understanding cultures through monsters by their character, appearance and representation, such as: Vampires, the Alien, Frankenstein, Werewolves, Grendel, the Boogey man, and etc.

The monster I chose for my topic is about a monster of a ape. His name is King Kong. He has been on film dating back from 1933. They had remade the film in 1976 and 2005 as well. This monster has toys, movies, books, comics, video games, theme parks and etc. The list goes on.

The idea of what a monster is and how it pertains to modern day society has fascinated readers and writers for decades. Before taking this class, I was aware of what a monster is and the function it served in today’s society. Furthermore, after taking this class, I am now aware of what a monster truly is, and what really separates a monster from a regular person. The piece of text that I mainly chose to focus on and elaborate closely to demonstrate the aspects of a monster is appropriately named, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. The reason I chose this piece of literature is because, Monster thoroughly elaborates what a monster is in todays society and how it functions in the modern day world. In this essay I will elaborate on

Symbolism is an inherent literary device used throughout Ishirō Honda’s 1962 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. By utilizing two of the most iconic monsters in cinematic history, King Kong and Godzilla, Honda depicts the shift from one culture to another and the battle that ensued. Honda also shows the different cultures that King Kong and Godzilla represent: Kong as the embodiment of modern Japanese culture, while Godzilla represents the traditional Japanese culture. However, when comparing these two creatures, one must first look at their origins from two other supplemental sources: Merian Cooper’s 1933 film King Kong and Ishirō Honda’s 1954 film Godzilla. These films reveal how each entity differs from Ishirō Honda’s 1962 film King Kong vs.

Asma states, "Monsters can stand as symbols of human vulnerability and crisis, and as such they play imaginative foils for thinking about our own responses to menace.” This means that human weaknesses and fears are represented through monstrous figures, and these fictional situations provide perspective into how we react in fearful environments. In our current society we fear many things, including but not limited to failed or corrupt governmental systems, the afterlife, the unknown, and captivity, which makes this claim valid. Although we may not realize it, these fears are embodied by the horror monsters we see in popular culture. Society shares common fears, and often times the most prevailing fear is reflected in the most popular characters at any given time. Monsters are the fictional representations of society’s dark subconscious, exploring not only why the author’s statement is accurate but what we actually fear.

Aesthetics help contribute to make a movie more enjoyable. Breaking it down, there are a few types of aesthetics that can be observed, including formalist and realistic aesthetics. The film The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters uses realistic aesthetics, such as on camera interview, Text/data on screen, real mise-en-scene, and existing footage to make up the movie. On the other hand. Wreck-It Ralph uses formalist aesthetics like expressive mise-en-scene and expressive editing throughout the film.

Symbolism is also used in the idea “time” in various areas of the film. At the start of the film, there is a terrifying clock with Gargoyle like creatures surrounding it. This represents that time is the controlling

Classic stories remain a classic because they convey a message which appeals to people of multiple generations despite changes in society. King Kong was released in print in 1932, a year prior to its release in Hollywood, as a part of the film’s advance marketing. The public of this generation easily accepted the story’s racist, colonialist, and sexist themes. Today, literary critics such as Cynthia Erb view the novel and film as representation of the early 30s and thus a resource to understand the cultural context of the times. In particular, King Kong provides a window through which a modern audience can understand and interpret racism of the 1930s.

Symbolism is a way we can express our beliefs or ideas through physical objects; however, they also divide people into groups. A paragon of this situation is the

After all, the social contexts of these eras resonate profoundly with their respective films. Science-fiction films may have emerged as a storytelling medium in 1902 with Méliès’ From the Earth to the Moon, but the genre reached cinematic prominence in the 40s and 50s, when it began to reflect the problems of American society (Anderson 2). Produced in 1951, Wise’s Earth manipulates its myth and conventions to cross-examine the social dispositions of 1940s America (Gehring 231).

Horror films been around since the early 1900s and they’ve played a major role in our society. Knowing their origin behind it and the reason arthur's expanded on the topic is not details to know about the movies we watch We’ve seen many different movies that portrayed creature that we’ve grown to learn about throughout the years. Most of the monsters that has been seen, were made by Universal Studios. They’ve given us Dracula, The Frankenstein Creature, The Wolf Man and more. With the knowledge of these creatures, we can point out in today’s movies, the similarities throughout the movie.

This essay is based on films of the same story, told in different ways, with emphasis, themes, meaning and interpretation shaped or shaded by the situation of the storyteller; the cinematic mise-en-scene. Based on the same story, the films reveal and reflect the film-maker’s social norms and views, emerging from their different national contexts. While exploring the two films, this essay will examine elements of film language or semiotics: color saturation (or black and white), sound, setting, type of camera angles used; repetition of visual motifs (Metz, 1985). The two films explored were made in the 1960s. Neither film is American, yet both reveal influences and reflections on American cinema and American power; the Western film, adherence or detracting from Hollywood Classical cinema tropes, i.e. close-ups, shot-reverse-shot, POV, depth of field (Bazin, 1985: 128-9). The two films are Kurasawa’s Yojimbo (1961) and Leone’s Fistful of Dollars (1964), from Japan and Italy, respectively. How are they different; how similar? Why do they use the same plot,

Komatsu Sakyo reveals his ideas on science fiction by making critical comments on the socialist trends of science fiction in the 1960s. At first, he questions whether monster should be eliminated in science fiction. Komatsu argues that monsters in SF which could evokes fear to readers should be considered as an emotional expression of views of values, life, and the universe of the times. In particular, he talks about Godzilla figure that is a “symbol of primitive horror” revived in modern era; that specifically evokes fear in relation to nuclear war; furthers he asserts that monster is an in-between being that could mediate human beings and a thing-in-itself (47). In this way, his thoughts on monster seem different that of Abe mentioned

The topic that I will be discussing is how Arthur Golden uses a series of symbols to show the events in the book “Memoir of Geisha” through the main character, Chiyo. Throughout the book, the usages of symbols to express the Chiyo’s emotions are prominent even as juvenile. As the book progress, we see the main character Chiyo develop into an exquisite young woman. Due to that, the symbols used to portray her, alters accordingly. Golden manipulate these symbolisms to illustrate what Chiyo is feeling mentally and physically and uses them to express motifs in the book. Notably, the way the author uses symbols to depict events are intriguing and ingenious and I would like to further investigate the different meanings of each and every symbol.