Yes, most of us don’t care if it’s Tokyo or New York, or London. We don’t watch the aliens rampaging through London on Doctor Who because we secretly hate the Brits.
God, I hate Tumbr, sometimes.
It takes racism to come up with a theory like this. Racism and a lack of knowledge about the history of Kajiu movies and why they appeal all over the world. It takes some deep seeded issues to come up with a theory like that and I have to wonder about YOUR reasoning and thoughts when watching creature features.
Tell me, did you experience schadenfreude when watching Angel Grove get trampled on Power Rangers?
Also are you somehow unaware that for about 80% of the Godzilla movies he was actually the hero protecting Japan from other invading monsters.
Your analysis is like assuming you like Dracula movies because you want to watch women victimized or you like werewolf movies because you want to watch people torn to shreds. If you are that twisted in your “interpretation” of monster movies, you must be truly awful to Universal Monster movie fans at Halloween.
Here, let me help you mix that kool-aid.
“People like the Mummy because they hate North Africans.”
“People like Dracula because they hate women.”
“People like the wolfman because he’s a predator and it therefore it represents rape culture!”
“People like haunted house movies because they hate happy families.”
”People secretly like murder mysteries because they want to commit murder.”
”People like Tales from the Crypt because they are sadists who want the villains to win.”
None of these are true, by the way. But these sort of reasonings and guilt mongerings have been used to shame horror fans for decades.
Why do people (all people, not just white) like Godzilla?
It can’t possibly because we like the unique designs and powers of the monsters. It can’t possibly because of a child-like wonder at seeing strange and unusual creatures battling each other and the fun in the campy special effects and designs taken seriously by the characters. It can’t possibly be the deliciously cheesy stories that are like brain candy.
It CAN’T POSSIBLY because we like the strange, surreal, and monstrous character possibly defending us from an even worse threat or that we might relate to a misunderstood hero! No, it can’t possibly be ANY of those things!
There’s no way we like monster movies because we enjoy being scared! No, that’s NEVER the reason! (Sarcasm.)
It’s not a sadistic pleasure at someone else’s pain. It’s because it stirs the imagination, the part of us that dreams. We root for the good guys and the heroes usually win in those things. Good triumphs over evil. And the heroes are usually the Japanese people or the monsters defending the Japanese people.
Being a monster movie or horror fan does NOT automatically mean you’re a bad person just because YOU can’t understand it as anything other than something evil.
Perhaps if YOU didn’t assume one race evilly plots to destroy all others you might understand monster movie fans instead of trying to feed your own bias.
Tumblr, stop making me lose faith in humanity...
