Godzilla minus one it won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and while I think it deserves a few more nominations, I’m happy and excited to see it win the Oscar it got! Congratulations to the VFX team led by the director Takashi Yamazaki!
This is the first Godzilla film to win an Oscar, but another interesting detail is the fact that this is also the first VFX Oscar win for Japan! On top of that, Takashi Yamazaki is the first director to win an award for best visual effects since then Stanley Kubrick and his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1969.
The rest of the candidates vying for this award include Napoleon, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, part 1, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3AND The creator. It’s a good competition lineup, but Godzilla minus one deserved the victory.
Director Takashi Yamazaki We previously talked about the visual effects work detailing the approach to this new design for Godzilla, saying, “We wanted to make Godzilla very, very cool for this movie. The head is on the smaller side, the legs are very thick. When the feet are stomping on the ground, you can almost see the toes lift up, like a wild animal’s. And we wanted to have an impact on the audience, so there’s an intense level of up close, personal and detailed, that you can’t really get with a man in a suit and tie.”
Yamazaki went on to confirm that the film’s budget was between $10 and $15 million, which is pretty incredible considering how good the film is. The director added: “In terms of polygon count, we’re talking about the millions that went into creating Godzilla this time. In terms of skin texture, there was a dinosaur origin, but when he gets injured, a regeneration happens and there’s a different texture.” “, as you would see on any wound. We wanted a mix, introduced new layers that would make the look truly unique.”
He also said: “Having my name next to Stanley Kubrick, no matter how niche or specific the list, means the world. I got into the film industry through films like “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” But I started on the visual effects side and moved into writing and directing. So if there’s a category to be nominated in, this is the one it had to be. I am very flattered and honored.”
Set in the days following the end of World War II, Japan is recovering from the devastation left behind after the war. The emotional toll has brought the country to its lowest point.
The story follows failed kamikaze pilot Kiochi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) and Noriko (Minami Hamabe), a woman forced to become homeless, taking care of an abandoned child. During this low point Godzilla marches towards shore, dragging Japan even deeper into chaos and devastation.
Godzilla minus one draws on the pain, hope, trauma and guilt felt in the world following the tragedies of World War II and the 2019 Covid pandemic, during which the majority of the screenplay was written.
Yamazaki said: “Post-war Japan has lost everything. The film describes an existence that offers unprecedented desperation. The title Godzilla Minus One was created with this in mind. To represent this, the staff and I worked together to create a setting where Godzilla seems as if “fear” itself is walking towards us, and where desperation piles on top of desperation.”
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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