Найруулагчийн хэлснээр тэжээдэг хоёр муурынх нь хааяа ширүүсдэг тоглоом, зодоон Годзилла, Кинг Гидора хоёрын тулааныг бүтээхэд нөлөөлжээ.
Такаши Ямазаки IGN-д өгсөн ярилцлагадаа хоёр муур нь ихэвчлэн эвтэй, тоглож нааддаг ч заримдаа тоглоом нь жинхэнэ зодоон болж хувирч байгаа эсэхийг ялгахад бэрх байдгийг ярьжээ. Тийм дүр зургийг харах бүрдээ кинон дээрх хоёр амьтны тулааныг муурнуудтайгаа зүйрлэдэг гэж тэр хэлсэн байна.
1954 онд Toho студийн эхлүүлсэн Godzilla цувралын 39 дэх бүтээл болох Godzilla Minus Zero нь 2023 оны Godzilla Minus One киноны үргэлжлэл юм. Үйл явдал 1949 онд өрнөж, дайнаас амьд үлдсэн Коичи Шикишима (Рюносүкэ Камики), Норико (Минами Хамабэ) нар охин Акикогийн хамт амар тайван амьдрахыг хичээх үед барилга байгууламжийг цахилгаанаар нураах чадалтай Гидора гарч ирнэ. Аюулыг зогсоох уламжлалт оролдлого бүтэлгүйтэхэд эрх баригчид Годзилла, Гидора хоёрыг хооронд нь тулгахыг зорьдог.
Ямазаки зохиол бичихдээ тулааныг “үхэх хүртэлх тэмцэл” гэж төсөөлсөн бөгөөд ийм тулаанд нэг нь гарцаагүй амиа алдана хэмээн бодохоор эмх замбараагүй, бас гунигтай санагддаг гэжээ. Кино дэлхий даяар нээлтийн амралтын өдрөөрөө 63 сая ам.долларын орлого олсон бөгөөд үүний 31.6 саяыг Хойд Америкт бүрдүүлж, амьд тоглолттой гадаад хэл дээрх киноны тус бүс дэх хамгийн өндөр нээлтийн орлого болжээ. Шүүмжлэгчдийн 90, үзэгчдийн 96 хувийн үнэлгээтэй уг кино Их Британийн кино театруудаар арваннэгдүгээр сарын 6-нд нээлтээ хийсэн.
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Godzilla Minus Zero director Takashi Yamazaki has revealed that the inspiration for the film’s brutal showdown between Godzilla and King Ghidorah came from an unlikely source: watching his two pet cats fight.
Yamazaki, whose latest film has broken box office records with a $63m worldwide opening weekend, said observing his cats occasionally turn on each other helped shape one of the most violent battles in the monster franchise’s history.
“I have two cats. And for the most part, they’re very nice and playful with each other, but on a rare occasion I think there’s like – I don’t know if they’re crossing the line between play and actual fighting. I see two creatures fighting each other and I tend to think about my cats when that happens,” Yamazaki told IGN.
The 39th film in the long-running Godzilla franchise created by Japanese film studio Toho in 1954, Godzilla Minus Zero is a sequel to Yamazaki’s 2023 film Godzilla Minus One, which won the Academy Award for best visual effects, becoming the first Japanese film to win the category.
Set in 1949, two years after the events of its predecessor, the new film follows Japan as it struggles to recover from the devastation of the second world war and Godzilla’s earlier attack on Tokyo.
Ryunosuke Kamiki returns as Koichi Shikishima, a former kamikaze pilot who survived the war and Godzilla’s attack, while Minami Hamabe reprises her role as Noriko, who also survived the monster’s rampage.
The two are now married and raising a young daughter, Akiko, as they attempt to build a peaceful life. Their hopes are disrupted when a new threat emerges: Ghidorah, a dragon-like creature capable of destroying buildings with lightning bolts fired from its mouth.
As the authorities struggle to contain Ghidorah, Godzilla also resurfaces, setting up a confrontation between the two creatures.
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With conventional attempts to stop the new threat proving ineffective, Noda and the others look to bring the monsters together and turn them against each other.
The resulting battle is the film’s bloody climax, with Godzilla and Ghidorah attacking each other in a fight that is considerably more savage than the usual giant-monster spectacle.
“When writing the screenplay for Godzilla Minus Zero, I remember writing, ‘This is a fight to the death.’ There was a duel between two of them and a fight to the death means one will inevitably die,” he told IGN.
He continued: “Thinking about this idea that one will inevitably die, I think it’s impossible not to think about the sort of chaos that would ensue. But at the same time, I think it’s sort of painful and sad to watch because I look at Godzilla and it almost feels like a cat being bullied in a way.
“And I think since having two cats and watching them so often, I’ve had this sickness where anything fighting looks like two cats fighting to me,” he said.
The film took $31.6m across 3,254 cinemas in the US and Canada, making it the biggest opening weekend for a live-action foreign-language film in North America, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It broke a record held by Zhang Yimou’s Hero, which opened to $17.8m in 2002, and became the biggest opening for US distributor GKids, surpassing the $13m debut of Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron in 2023.
Outside North America, Godzilla Minus Zero made another $31.4m, including $17m in Japan. Audiences were particularly keen to see the monster action on the biggest screens possible, with IMAX screenings bringing in $21.3m worldwide.
This was also the biggest global IMAX debut for a Japanese film.
Critics have largely embraced the sequel, which has a 90 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 173 reviews, and a 96 per cent audience score.
Godzilla Minus Zero opened in UK cinemas on 6 November, after premiering at the New York Film Festival in September and screening at the BFI London Film Festival on 14 October.
