How Should Godzilla be Portrayed

[Zardac the Great]

Yeah. North Korea and Iran are gettings nukes.

We make a lot of noise about stopping them, but in reality, we don't do diddly squat.

But here in a while when Israel decides to take action so that they're not...you know...anihilated by Iran, the whole world, including the US, will get all mad at them. Probably get a UN "Peacekeeping" action together.

We need Godzilla to remind us about nukes. (I didn't realize this until just now) Unfortunately, Goji won't be here in time.

[Kaiju_Sensai]

The major thing I wanna see is a Godzilla with a purpose. Not a meaning behind the movie, but an actually purpose behind Godzilla's attacks. Most of the original Godzilla's (save Showa & GMK) are just mostly big dumb animals who's destruction is usually only a side affect of their colossal size and fighting back only when provoked. For this new Godzilla I want the audience to get the feeling like there is a reasoning for the attacks, almost like there is malicious intent behind his actions. Sure at first glance he seems like a huge vicious animal but closer examination points to some kind of underlying intelligence. Almost like he is not just reacting to the situation but consciously choosing who and what to kill & destroy. I want people to get the vibe that he is punishing us for something. Maybe he punishes us for our blatant destruction of what he considers his planet or maybe he's pissed at us for turning him into the monster he is and decides to take his revenge.

[Adama's Stare]

See, I would actually like to see the exact opposite. For me, Godzilla has worked best in the past when he is a force of nature. Something huge and inscrutable who can't be reasoned with, not because of a lack of intelligence, but simply because he's beyond the reach of negotiation. Like a tsunami or an earthquake, he doesn't discriminate, he can't be stopped and if we survive, it's sheer dumb luck that we happened not to be in his way. I daresay that the original and subtle anti-nuclear message would be butchered by a Hollywood remake, in the vein of The Day After Tomorrow, with inevitable lines about humanity perhaps deserving to be wiped out. We're not perfect, but I doubt the species deserves genocide. No, I think that the force of nature approach would be the most interesting, although I can't deny that I liked Godzilla-as-villain in GMK, heretical as that may be. But then, this is just my opinion, a good writer could make any incarnation work, with the possible exception of the kangaroo-kicking clown of Vs. Megalon. And given the bar set by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, he or she'd have to make a conscious and insidious effort to make a less faithful adaptation.