Yesterday I stumbled onto a YouTube program called "The Brutality Of 'Rodan'." It was narrated by the exact type of guy I thought--an overeager overeater, living with his parents, having no life but this, and probably a serial killer or one on the make. Not only, he forgot the most important and terrifying part of the movie.
I was lucky to find this picture. Some of what he says is true--"Rodan" is laced with tension and suspense and is somewhat scary. I cannot watch the ending; it is too sad for me.
Everyone who writes about "Rodan" always forgets this scene, which to this day still terrifies me. It begins with a young couple driving up into a smoking mountain volcano to take some pictures. Note the pink dress and high heeled shoes she is dressed in. They say goodbye to their families, expecting to be home that night. But they are not. Because, while the man backs away to take her picture, the wind picks up, and things blow everywhere. An eerie sound is heard. Tho woman looks up and sees something unbelievably terrifying. The viewer does not see it. They are shown holding hands and running in fear, while something seems to scoop them up and carry them off, leaving behind only his camera and one of her pink shoes. One of those shoes is later seen in a scene where aerial searches are on for Rodan, and one of them pops a head out of a mountain crevice, surrounded by human bones, and a pink shoe. Aha!!!!!!!!!!
Just this scene is enough to scare one, and I wish more people would pay attention to it.
Good as "Rodan" is, it is not the artistic masterpiece the 1954 "Gojira" is.
Right, darlings???????????????????????

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