The director is Gareth Edwards, whose last film was Monsters, an independently produced science-fiction thriller. That film was made for around £250,000: roughly the cost of rendering one of Godzilla’s toenails. Watching Monsters, you could hardly have guessed how Edwards would cope with a picture of this scale. The answer appears to be: study the Steven Spielberg Playbook until the pages disintegrate.
Most summer blockbusters now come pre-lubricated with irony, and shy away from the sensations of honest awe that Spielberg so breezily whipped up in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jurassic Park. But this is exactly what Edwards is reaching for, and, excitingly, often grasps. Godzilla’s action scenes are built on a grand scale, but Edwards fastens the plot to instantly graspable small dramas inside them: the story of a young boy separated from his parents gives shape to a major attack scene.
The director is Gareth Edwards, whose last film was Monsters, an independently produced science-fiction thriller. That film was made for around £250,000: roughly the cost of rendering one of Godzilla’s toenails. Watching Monsters, you could hardly have guessed how Edwards would cope with a picture of this scale. The answer appears to be: study the Steven Spielberg Playbook until the pages disintegrate.
Most summer blockbusters now come pre-lubricated with irony, and shy away from the sensations of honest awe that Spielberg so breezily whipped up in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jurassic Park. But this is exactly what Edwards is reaching for, and, excitingly, often grasps. Godzilla’s action scenes are built on a grand scale, but Edwards fastens the plot to instantly graspable small dramas inside them: the story of a young boy separated from his parents gives shape to a major attack scene.
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