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   From: xplar@netscape.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:a9aa933.0309071954.72d785c5@posting.google.com...   
   > >   
   > > I see the comparison of character between GMK and China Syndrome, but CS   
   is   
   > > the about a cover-up, which makes the actual report a hundred times more   
   > > important. It's shining light on something hidden. There is nothing   
   hidden   
   > > about G by the time she gives her report. It's redundant.>>>   
   >   
   >     but it is not redundant for the people of Japan. They are not   
   > there. They don't know what is going on. Godzilla? Guardian beasts?   
   > Battling for all of us? How could anyone else know of this?   
      
   To maintain a sense of reality within the story, Kaneko has to address the   
   "GMK-world" audience, but not at our expense, his "real" audience. He should   
   have realized that what he had her talking about we already know, making the   
   information redundant.   
      
   >    Of course it is not very clear and I may just be swinging away in   
   > the dark on this. I think this was Kaneko's way of unifying the people   
   > of Japan. The guardian beasts needed all the support and energy they   
   > could get in order to defeat Godzilla and the angry spirits that were   
   > inside of him. A strong recognition of Japan's past, which according   
   > to Kaneko was what he was going for. Did he pull that off? I am   
   > lukewarm to the approach and the idea but I have to say that the   
   > speech on the bridge did not come off as you seem to think it did. At   
   > least to me it didn't. The idea itself might have needed to be   
   > developed further though.   
   > > In a realistic context, every reporter and his cousin would be covering   
   the   
   > > GMK event.   
   >   
   >    But that was not the case here. There was only one live camera feed   
   > for the entire country or actaully the world!   
      
   And that's the point. In the "real world" there wouldn't just be her   
   covering this. Yes, certain info she finds out would be exclusive, but this   
   would be an international incident with every news organization flooding the   
   streets and skies with cameras. People would have known that G was G, simply   
   because he had appeared once before and survivors would have recognized him,   
   and that would have been reported by other outlets.  I see your point about   
   the unifying spirit idea, but without showing generic Japanese Citizen A,   
   and they're reaction to her words, makes the scene an incestuous event and   
   more about her growth as a reporter.   
      
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