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There are hundreds of monster movies over the years, but only a handful of great movie monsters strongly endurance. Of these, only two of the scheduled presentation: King Kong, the giant ape on top of the Empire State Building, and the heir Japanese Godzilla flattening the town of Sea Dragon, which is really cool iconic pop. He not only stars in the film - Hollywood is bringing new Godzilla on May 16 - but he also played basketball with Charles Barkley in a commercial for Nike.

It's been six decades since Godzilla first hit the screen, and to celebrate Eid Milad big boy, Rialto Pictures published Ishiro Honda in the 1954 original - in the edition of 60 - the anniversary of restored - in theaters. I have seen many times Godzilla since I was a kid, but watch it again, I was struck that he might be the best horror film only on the nuclear age.

And I think you know the plot. It starts when the U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific, clouding the water environment, which is home to Gojira, as it is called in Japanese monster. After the sinking of various ships, this big animal goes to Tokyo, where trampling on buildings and power lines threaded with the explosion and its citizens with the spirit of evil radioactive. When the army is not able to stop it, the only hope is a new invention called the oxygen destroyer. But his creator idealism is ready to reveal it for fear that it will become a weapon - just look at the devastation that followed the splitting of the atom.

But even the inventor says, the film itself is to provide a seductive scene of violent destruction. And make no mistake: the destruction is great to see. There are fun unethical may be watching Godzilla Tokyo reduced to smoldering ruins, like the beauty of seeing these palm trees explosion of napalm in Apocalypse Now game or illicit thrill to see the White House has gone on Independence Day - before Sept. 11, of course. Clearly, this is a joy in the destruction that helped make Godzilla influential, especially in Hollywood, which over the past century and raised the appetite of the public all over the world for the amazing images of violence.

However, the real power lies not in its effects this Godzilla - Likes - but the seriousness of the underlying emotional and cultural. It's not just that the music is often angry, rather than raise, or to see the children sentenced launched Geiger counters. The film has a gravity that comes from being created in Japan who knew what it was like to be a child dying of radiation poisoning and the first capital in flames. How to attract and panic beast power, the film is steeped in historical trauma in Japan. Weight loss. It means nothing.
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Godzilla resonance is also an integral part of something other than the timely appointment of monster movies - the meaning of mercy for the monster. Frankenstein Boris KARLOFF may have been daunting, but we also felt weakness and fear in the chase. King Kong was serious, certainly, but his eyes were loaded with a feeling almost human when staring at Ray-Fi. The same is true of Godzilla, which starts from wreaking havoc, but, at the end of the film, and takes on a melancholy, sad face of greatness.

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These days, pop culture we do not encourage such identity. The things that the jaws of the predator and alien creatures who are soulless killing machines without mercy, made monsters destroyed increasingly. Today the preferred view of the monster, mummy. Although zombies can not seem more human - heck, they're only human - walking dead do not have the individual and run in packs. Basically they came in there with his head in films and television programs that resemble video games.

Godzilla is not remotely like that. In a short story great Jim Shepard's "Gojira, King of Monsters" - part of his collection entitled you think this is bad - Shepard offers a fictionalized account of the making of the film. At one point, Shepard has Godzilla director Ishiro Honda conquer explains why it feels very sad, and has brilliantly summarize what gives it a strange power Godzilla. "At the time when the film ends," says Honda, "[Godzilla] is a hero who's departure sorry. Was like leaving a part of us, and this is what makes it very difficult. Monster child thinks he knows better himself to be a monster."