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SMU dean shares meaning of GODZILLA with giant beasts biggest fans
The amphibian beast hails from the East, big and green and mostly mean. King of the Monsters, they call him - which is to say that Godzilla is the Elvis of monsters, a hunka-hunka-burnin'-breath who has left countless cities and towns all shook up in his cinematic wake.
Revered and feared, defender and destroyer, he's just a big lug who is misunderstood. For 56 years, this icon of pop culture and Japanese film has conquered imaginations and similarly costumed foes, creating perhaps the world's most prolific movie franchise.
Along his torn-up trail, the menacing brute also has created some major Godzilla geeks. One of them is William Tsutsui, the recently appointed dean of SMU's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, whose obsession with Godzilla goes beyond campy special effects.
As he was growing up, his childhood fascination gave way to scholarly interpretation - and Tsutsui came to see the globally recognized monster as cultural ambassador, the therapeutic creation of a postwar Japan.
"I realized there was something more there than just a guy in a rubber suit," said Tsutsui, 47.
Wait - here he comes again, bursting through hillsides, shattering bridges and tearing through power lines, and now hundreds of villagers are fleeing in terror ...
Elvis has crushed the building.
Earlier this month, Tsutsui addressed Godzilla's place in Japanese culture for about 130 people at SMU's Dallas Hall, where his passion and admiration for the big fella was evident in his lecture, sponsored by the Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth.
"It's really cool," said Lauren Sethney, the group's program director. "He's a top-notch academic, and he's really into Godzilla."
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This is probably the funniest comment I've ever read on the Huffington Post:
“Settle down everyone. Last night just proved two things... 1) Obama *will* be re-elected, and 2) It's just going to take a lot of midgets.
Look, we're living the Star Wars trilogy right now. In 2008, we had "A New Hope." In 2010, the Empire struck back. Which just means, in 2012, we're going to see the Return of the Jedi, which is awesome, but it also means we're going to be knee-deep in Ewoks by the Iowa caucuses.”This is probably the funniest comment I've ever read on the Huffington Post:... more
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Senoi culture had no history of violence or crime. And while they lived amidst other tribes, some active headhunters and extremely violent, these tribes gave the Senoi a wide berth; they believed the Senoi practiced a powerful magic. A magic that affected the physical world through skillful dreams. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/1117-senoiSenoi culture had no history of violence or crime. And while they lived amidst other... more
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"Could vampires , like the filthy rich, parasitic. aristocratic be representatives of the capitalist class? And zombies...stand for labor and the proletariat? ...these movies would embody the audience's anger and fascination with the money men responsible for the recent economic collapse..."
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/movies/102380-voodoo-economics/"Could vampires , like the filthy rich, parasitic. aristocratic be... more
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A map with a moral compass. "A map is not the territory",....unless the territory IS Parageography,...in which case the map is an example which IS the territory,.....
Oh never mind. Enjoy the map. If you love maps of allegory, worlds of imagination, wit, and humor, this should satisfy.
Michael J. Helgerson » Blog Archive » [2] Oh, the Humanity!
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