Joe Brody is the head scientist at a
nuclear power plant in Japan and
how ironic we're dealing with these issues in real life
meltdowns and accidents and this and that
and there is an anomaly in
in the normal structure that he can't quite answer and he's trying to
figure out what the problem is
but noone will listen, nobody wants to shut down the plant
for safety reasons and then it's too late
and he realizes this is
there's something far bigger going on here than what we initially thought,
and so there is a tragedy at the plant
that he has to live with. An own personal tragedy and it breaks him as a man.
He becomes a mad scientist then hell bent on finding the truth
or else he might as well just go be a homeless person he
he's so compelled and so anxiety-ridden
over his guilt that he has to find some answers somehow
in order to survive himself now.
I think that the most attractive component to Godzilla
the most surprising thing in this version: was how
deeply drawn characters were
that I really cared about them reading the script day
I felt for them I was curious about their plight where they were going to go
if they were going to survive and how they were going to manage to get back together
it was compelling for me so that was really
became the foundation of it before I even read the script
the sensibility of Godzilla
it's almost overwhelming you know it's as as overwhelming as Godzilla itself
so if it was just a monster movie about total destruction I wouldn't be interested
but this movie is more than, its more carefully crafted
and you have the epic battles and the action of a great
monster movie but you also have
a compelling drama played out with these characters