Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20141203012056

Well, Godzilla nuked the first fishing boat just because. The original Godzilla is a jerk, pure and simple. The only film to capture that again was GMK, where they have Godzilla nuke a bunch of civilians just because they annoyed him. Godzilla only deliberately uses his beam against individuals three times (and the middle of that is in King Ghidorah and was just as pointless a scene as the rest of the film).

What I was also referring to is how often Ifukube reuses his cues. Varan's theme is identical to Rodan's, just with an obo rather than brass (and it's more mournful than chaotic). Anguirus's theme in Gigan is just a recycled version of the opening theme from Godzilla vs Mothral the theme for his journey from Monster Island in that film is the JGSDF's march from Frankenstein Conquers the World. The "War of the Monsters March" from that film and GMK (perhaps one of his most iconic cues) is a reworked version of the Maritime Self Defense Force march from Gojira; even Godzilla's theme was originally just the opening title for that film, though it's also played to underscore the JGSDF and Tokyo Fire Brigade's attempts to combat the monster, never to signify Godzilla himself (I don't believe it became his theme until at least after Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster). The main JGSDF march from the Heisei series ("Maser March") is verbatim the theme for the military from War of the Gargantuas which also introduced the maser tanks themselves. Even Godzilla's epic theme at the end of Godzilla vs Destroyer contains reworked versions of King Kong's theme from their one on-screen appearance together. I will say this for Ifukube, though: the constant reuse of themes, especially in the Showa series, gives a nice sense of continuity to the films. When two otherwise unrelated films (such as Gargantuas and Gigan for instance) share several of the same themes, it helps make it clear they're still in the same world.