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Comparing Godzilla And Waterworld

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In both movies, “Godzilla”, and “Waterworld”, there are elements of science in which humans have caused the earth to fall into peril. Godzilla is an immense, dinosaurian-like creature who feeds off of the nuclear radiation at Earth’s core. This radiation has caused this creature to mutate, and become as large and destructive as it currently is. This is a metaphor for the dangers of nuclear bombs, and the catastrophes that they can possibly cause, such as death and genetic mutations in DNA which could possibly create a new species. In Waterworld, the increasing temperature on Earth has caused the polar ice caps to melt. As a result, the water levels on Earth rose significantly higher, and left Earth submerged in miles and miles of water. The movie, “Godzilla”, was originally …show more content…

These bombs caused mass destruction, and disintegrated people who were close enough to the blast. Many people suffered from the nuclear radiation, and were never the same. Others got cancer, and for those who could not escape the blast died instantly. As of today, approximately 265,000 people died in the tragic event, and the numbers are continuing to rise due to the cancers that many people contracted. In the movie, a nuclear power plant which stores nuclear radiation collapses and is destroyed. The public was told that the power plant was destroyed due to a malfunction, but a man working in the power plant knew that something else had happened. He spent years researching on the event, and what could possibly have occurred. Then, one day he was arrested for trespassing, and his son who works in the army had to fly out to Japan to bail him out. While his son was there, the father asked his son if he would come with him to find their old house which was enclosed in an area where there was supposedly high levels of radiation. However, there wasn’t, and while they were here they were

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