The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)
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Director: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Studio: Rankin/Bass Productions & Pacific Animation Corporation
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SUMMARY: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Sorry to use this gif again, but the mod feels it is particularly relevant to this movie:
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since we're all Godzilla minus oneing
I want to talk about the way Godzilla looked. Because this wasn't Jurassic Park. This wasn't about designing a creature that looks and moves like an animal we're familiar with. There's a type of recognition horror when the way a fictional creature on screen moves in a way the back of your brain recognizes as real. Those dinosaurs in JP, when they run, leaning low for balance with their tails, muscles under the skin moving, jaws snapping, eye pupils dilating - the monkey part of your brain screams 'oh fuck, run!'
That's not Godzilla.
Godzilla isn't built like an animal our brains will recognize. He's not a running chicken in lizard form or a darting lizard that's too big and too fast. He doesn't blink. He doesn't smooth muscle move. There's no animal in his steps, not use of his arms. He's not designed for our monkey brains to recognize.
He's designed for our human brains.
Because it doesn't matter that he doesn't register as animal in our subconscious. He's something even more terrifying. 'Animal' we can at least recognize. He's not 'animal'. He's 'other'. He's as other as a hurricane or an earthquake.
As a nuclear explosion.
'Animal' we recognize has needs. Hunger. Fear. Anger. It's mortal and its - satiable. It will reach the end of its need and then it will move on.
Godzilla isn't satiable. He's not doing what he's doing out of hunger or fear or anger. He won't get his fill of it and then go away. He's a force. A tsunami. And that makes him terrifying in a way that the monkey part of our brain can never be terrified.
Yes, they designed him to be true to the guy in the rubber costume from the originals but they used that. The story tells us he's an animal - but our visual brains don't recognize it.
He's a monster.
He's a terror.
He's Godzilla.
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An American Tail “wave monster” concept art by Don Moore (1986)
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