Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-6052796-20141203010153

It's mainly because each monster has it's own Motif. The music plays a big part of the Kaiju Franchise. It let's us know who's coming, but never tells us when they're coming, giving us the anticipation.

Take Jaws for example. Even though we see a shark's fin, the theme doesn't play, while we are wondering "What the hell is going on where's the 'Dun dun dun dun?' " Then we see that it was because it was two kids pulling a prank. Then the music slowly comes back when the real shark comes in.

The same goes with Gojira, until he's seen in the flesh, or is not too far away, no music plays. When his first two victims were a boat and the boat that was looking for the destroyed boat were obliterated, no music was played save for that harmonica music the sailor was playing. That was because those deaths were unintentional, they pretty much crashed into him and got killed. But then when they finally show him for the first time some music is cued. But it doesn't get serious until he deliperately attacks Tokyo.