Godzilla vs. Kong And Communicating Without Dialogue
Spoiler Alert: This post might contain spoilers around the 2021 movie Godzilla vs. Kong. If you haven’t yet watched this movie, you might wish to skip the post.
I LOVE Godzilla. I also love Kong. I was super stoked to finally watch this movie.
Godzilla vs. Kong has its issues. You might wish to suspend all logic and knowledge of basic science while watching this movie. I went into the viewing merely expecting a good time and some awesome monster fight scenes and I was happy.
Godzilla vs. Kong is also set in the MonsterVerse (the same series as Skull Island) and it is helpful (yet not essential) to have watched the previous movies. Many of the characters (including Kong and Godzilla, of course) return.
One of the things I REALLY love about this movie is how the two main stars – Godzilla and Kong – communicate without speaking. They don’t rely on dialogue to express their thoughts and feelings. Kong works a little harder to communicate with the humans but when the two monsters are together, their expressions and body language are sufficient.
There is a scene at the end of the movie where the two monsters are facing each other. We scan to Godzilla, then to Kong, and back again and we know exactly what they’re thinking from their eyes (and their brows) and their stances. They move from “I’m going to beat you into the pavement” (fists clenched, bodies rigid and tilted forward, brows lowered) to “Would that effort be worth it?” (leaning slightly backward, raised brows, released fingers) to “I can’t be bothered to fight you at this time” (slumped shoulders, relaxed stance, brows at normal placement).
It is a scene I’ll study, dissect and learn from. I’ll use that knowledge in my future stories to reinforce the dialogue or perhaps to replace it completely.
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King Kong (2005)
Being a romance reader, I always look for the hero in every movie, whether or not that movie is a romance. In the 2005 version of King Kong, my favorite character, the man I think is the hero is Captain Englehorn, played by the hunky Thomas Kretschmann . I know, I know this sounds like a bizarre choice but just hear me out.
At first, the sexy Captain doesn’t seem like a hero at all. He’s taking the film crew out to sea for the money, to pay his bills (not just his bills, his crew’s bills). He resists being a hero at every turn. Carl Denham, Jack Black’s character, has to bribe him to leave port quickly. When he hears Carl is wanted by the police, the Captain decides to turn back. He threatens to leave Skull Island without the film crew when they go ashore without his permission.
But he doesn’t leave. He sends his own crew to save Ann Darrow, Naomi Watts’ character. His crew is extremely loyal to him. People aren’t loyal to a leader unless they believe that leader cares about them. The Captain has clearly earned their loyalty in the past. Yet he risks the people he cares about to save a woman he barely knows.
The Captain arms his crew with weapons he owns. He then figures out how to down Kong. Does he profit eventually from the venture? Yes. At least, I hope so (we don’t see this onscreen). He’s also a big game hunter and receives a personal pleasure from bagging this VERY big game.
That’s not why he aids in the rescuing of Miss Darrow though (without the Captain’s crew, Jack Driscoll, Adrien Brody’s character, has no chance at rescuing the heroine). He’s assisting in her rescue because he believes this is the right thing to do and, in my eyes, that’s heroic.
My favorite line from the movie is…
Carl Denham: I’ve risked everything I had on this film.
Captain Englehorn: No Denham, you risked everything I have.
Who do you think is the hero in King Kong?
Nathan Lawford, Blaine Technologies’ chief financial officer, is known as the Iceman. He conducts his personal and business affairs without emotion, never allowing himself to become involved with anyone. When Nate sees something or someone he wants, he negotiates, paying a simple, set monetary price.
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Camille Joplin Trent never expected to be paid to pleasure the man of her dreams. She can’t quite figure out why this is a bad thing. Nate is intelligent, handsome, sophisticated, everything she’s ever wanted in a lover and never thought she could have. Their contract is for a month, thirty lust-filled days of making every sexual fantasy they’ve ever had come true. At the end of this month, the rules state their relationship will end.
Of course, Camille has never been good at following rules.
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