Godzilla vs. King Kong, why does the director prefer "stupid boy"? 丨Secret
The fantasy film "Godzilla vs. King Kong" was released on March 26. The pre-sale of the film exceeded 50 million yuan the day before it was released.
In 2017, Warner Pictures and Legendary Pictures jointly launched the Monster Universe, ushering in the era of big monsters.
"King Kong: Skull Island" and the two "Godzilla" both performed well in the mainland box office. "Godzilla vs. King Kong" is also the first imported live-action movie released in full version this year. The movie "Monster Play House Fight" has been highly anticipated, and is expected to create a box office record of more than 500 million yuan, and the most recent imported film that exceeded 500 million yuan at the box office was "Frozen 2" in 2019.
As this movie is the "strongest king contest" in the monster universe, what is the grudge between King Kong and Godzilla?
Who can win against each other?
A reporter from the Beijing News interviewed the film director Adam Wingard and asked him to answer questions for the audience.
Why are they fighting? One mad and one stunned
In the past few decades, the two giants Godzilla and King Kong have been doing their own things on the big screen, and there is almost no intersection. Until this year, the "Godzilla vs. King Kong" caused the two monster kings to fight each other several times. The director Adam Wingard is very clear about the positioning of the two monsters: "Godzilla and King Kong are incredible treasures in the film industry; at first, audiences can regard them as monsters from the East and the West. Godzilla had a madness. Raging Tokyo’s criminal record, King Kong was once brought to New York by humans and was demolished. I remember that when I was a child, I would argue with my friends on the playground. If King Kong and Godzilla fight, who will win? In fact, directing this movie is a big deal. It is a great opportunity for me to revisit all Godzilla and King Kong movies again. It is also the first thing that Legend Films and I did when discussing the possibilities of this movie. It has a profound impact on my understanding of this movie. In the past, Godzilla and King Kong are fighting for survival and growth in their respective fields. They are the'heavyweight champions' in their respective fields. It is reasonable to start a battle at the end."
At the beginning of "Godzilla vs. King Kong", Godzilla uncharacteristically began to attack the city, seemingly random, but soon King Kong found himself a target of Godzilla.
The grievances between them can be traced back to ancient legends and myths, just like the battle of the gods that was talked about in ancient Greece.
It is reported that this movie follows the story of "Godzilla 2: King of Monsters" in time. Godzilla has always been the image of a "dominant president" with few words and deep fame in the hearts of movie fans. .
In the first two "Godzilla" movies, whenever the evil monsters invade the earth, Godzilla will awaken from the deep sea, single out the monsters, and maintain his lonely style after victory. Go, never pay attention to human praise or misunderstandings.
It's not so much that Godzilla is a human partner, it's better to say that Godzilla doesn't care about human beings at all, but only cares about its own territory.
Especially in this movie, its behavior suddenly became abnormal and it became very aggressive. It must be that it felt a great threat in some way.
Wengard said that if Godzilla is on your side, everything is fine, but once it gets angry and ignores you, you will be in big trouble.
But this time they found the best way they believed was to release King Kong from Skull Island and use the hostile destiny handed down from ancient times to make Godzilla and King Kong go to war, hoping that King Kong could curb the frenzied brother. Sla.
At the same time, at the end of "Godzilla: King of Monsters", after one of the three-headed dragon Gidola's head was bitten off by Godzilla, a new head quickly grew, and the bitten head was used by the human scientific research organization APEX. When they got it, they began to study and use the regenerative genes and induction specialties of Quidora’s "Eternal Soul", and secretly developed an intelligent version of the giant machine "Godzilla", trying to fight against the giant beasts Godzilla and King Kong. It is the biggest potential villain.
In other words, some humans are conspiring to "chose things" behind the scenes. This makes Godzilla feel threatened, and he goes crazy for finding hidden enemies. As for King Kong, it is a bit like a stupid big man who is involved in conspiracy theories. Frozen boy, brute force was used by others.
Who can win a fight between the two? The director prefers King Kong
King Kong and Godzilla, no matter which side wins or which side loses, audience friends do not want to see.
Even so, we still have to talk about this cruel battle. Can King Kong really defeat Godzilla?
After experiencing the heroic and cruel coming-of-age ceremony, King Kong has been living on the isolated Skull Island for decades and has been studied by scientists in various ways.
Now King Kong is no longer young, but has grown up completely. It is larger and more powerful than before.
The King Kong in this film will be the largest King Kong ever seen on the screen so far. Its image as the "Guardian of Humanity" and "The Lonely King" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of movie fans.
Similar to the previous King Kong series, in this movie, King Kong will also have a tender bond with a human being, this time it is the deaf girl Jiya.
Ji Ya is the last person in the human race of Skull Island. She is an orphan like King Kong.
"In this movie, King Kong will explore the history of his own race and his origin. This is a story about exploration," Wengard said. "This allows us to fully see the breadth of this role. This is a grandiose one. The monster movie, it has two of the most iconic monster characters in movie history. They will fight fiercely. They can be decent, of course, or they may not be. It depends on your opinion. The most interesting thing is to watch. Who the audience supports and how they react when they see one side win."
If Wingard is to choose who can win the war, he said that it is like choosing the favorite of two children. This decision is too difficult.
He remembers discussing with his friends around who can win the competition since the second grade of elementary school. If he chooses a monster to completely win the competition, it seems that he can’t fully convince the public: “I know it’s important to have a winner, and I know there are fans on both sides. , They need to cheer for their monster idols to win the victory, but how to maintain balance is very important. This time we find a way to decide the battle that is neither evasive nor interesting.” For Godzilla, he has the super power of atomic breath. For an extremely unfair setting, Wengard said: “On the surface, Godzilla has special abilities. Its skin is indestructible, and it can also fire a fatal blow at opponents. However, King Kong also has many advantages. It is a bit like an ape. , Has a certain degree of wisdom, it can use tools to jump out of its inherent thinking mode, and it can also use other things to make up for its lack of special strength. I think this is the reason why they are well-matched in strength and can fight."
Wengard said that there are some criticisms of monster movies, saying that the monsters in these movies always slap each other and roll around. There is nothing new, so this time he must design action scenes that will refresh the audience: "In our first main action scene, there was a naval battle. King Kong was in a very unfavorable situation. It was not good at swimming, and it was easy to choke underwater, and Godzilla was the king of the sea. It was in its own turf. The upper advantage is significant. In order to balance, the next battlefield will be adjusted to the land where King Kong shows its advantage. When asked whether it is more biased towards King Kong or Godzilla? Ungarde smiled and said: "I still can't help but agree with King Kong more. , It is more like us, although I have always been a big fan of Godzilla, but I found myself falling in love with King Kong in an unexpected way.
I am really worried about it. Something in the script should have happened to it, but I refused because I was so sorry for it.
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Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan