Michael Dougherty of Godzilla on the new Kaiju world of the movie

Godzilla: the king of monsters is very often a crazy movie, in a way that is both good and bad. I'm serious is about giant monsters that smash each other's faces, so that's to be expected – but the intriguing status quo left by this mad carnage has enormous potential. It's also something his director has been waiting to see since his childhood.

All along King of monstersKen Watanabe's scientific hero Ishirō Serizawa calls humanity to find a balance with Godzilla and his titanic cohorts, even as their mass awakening (and the arrival of Ghidorah on the stage) propels the world into cataclysmic proportions . Once the dust settled in chaos and Godzilla triumphant, however, King of monstersThe sequence of credits begins to paint a picture of the world that Serizawa dreamed of … well, at least before having to pay the ultimate cost for a living, knocking out Godzilla with a nuclear bomb so that the giant beast could get into a last. scrap with Ghidorah.

The sequence of the final title, broadcast in the form of snapshots of press articles from around the world, proves that Emma Russell, of Serizawa and Vera Farmiga, is right: the radiation left by the titan attacks in the the whole world began to rejuvenate the destroyed environments in their way, as well as humanity begins to establish an uncomfortable, but overall friendly, relationship with Godzilla and the other titans, a better and balanced world could get closer slowly. For now, on Skull Island, the day seems to have been saved. King of monsters Director Michael Dougherty was able to imagine something he wanted out of the cinema for a while.

Dougherty spoke with io9 and other members of the press at a recent event in Tokyo. He mentioned Serizawa's calls for balance in the film – and the world we are beginning to see emerge over the years. King of monstersThe final titles of Blue-Öyster-Cult-soundtracked – and how it recalls a sort of fantastic narrative that, in his opinion, had gone out of fashion in modern films:

I've always loved Jules Verne adventures. I have the impression that the movies do not have enough anymore. Personally, I love theories about lost civilizations and growing up, I will never forget the disappointment felt when I discovered that humanity and dinosaurs did not live together. You know? Decades of Ray Harryhausen's films have been lying to me. It seemed like a natural fit.

Personally, I liked the idea that there was an earlier civilization that knew how to live with kaiju, deciphered this code, and how to form a symbiotic relationship for their own survival. And this cataclysm broke this relationship. And so, as human beings went and forgot about their connection to monsters, and put monsters in fairy tales and legends, Godzilla never forgot. You know, that's why he has a strange distant memory of those little creaky creatures. And maybe there is some kind of affection, that's why Serizawa is "we would be like his pets", because maybe that's how he sees us.

In the new world order where Godzilla is the king of monsters – and the survivors of the great awakening of all kaiju hidden on Earth are beginning to see Godzilla as a source of renewable energy – it seems that Serizawa might be right Godzilla vs Kong starts to roll.

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