Godzilla: King of the Monsters story
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a 2019 American monster film directed and co-written by Michael Dougherty. A sequel to Godzilla (2014), it is the 35th film in the Godzilla franchise, the third film in Legendary's MonsterVerse, and the third Godzilla film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio. Synopsis: Humans must rely on Godzilla and Mothra to defeat King Ghidorah, a terrible three-headed dragon-like monster that has awakened Rodan and other Titans to destroy the world.
19 total · 11 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with the death of a child | major | Dr. Emma Russell deranged ideas about the virtues of unleashing a variety of giant monsters upon the earth were a reaction to her inability to cope with the death of her son, Andrew. Dr. Mark Russell grieved for his son, Andrew, who'd perished some years prior in a Godzilla attack on San Fransisco. |
| eco-terrorism | major | Colonel Jonah led a group of eco-terrorists who'd unleashed a variety of giant monsters upon the earth in the hopes dramatically reducing the human population. |
| father and daughter | major | The story explored Dr. Mark Russell's troubled relationship with his estranged teenage daughter Madison. |
| giant monster | major | The three-headed dragon-like monster King Ghidorah and a variety of other giant monsters under its control ravaged the cities of the world. In the end, the titular giant monster Godzilla came to the rescue of humanity. |
| human vs. monster | major | A variety of giant monsters (e.g. the three-headed dragon-like monster King Ghidorah, the giant pteranodon-like monster Rodan, and a host of other "Titans") were going around ravaging cities all around the world. |
| husband and wife | major | Dr. Mark Russell worked to disabuse his ex-wife, Dr. Emma Russell, see the error of her conviction that humans and Titans can co-exist peacefully. |
| military related work | major | The G-Team, a special military forces group, was doing what it could to battle the various rampaging Titans. |
| monster apocalypse | major | The three-headed dragon-like monster King Ghidorah awakened Rodan and other Titans to destroy the world. |
| mother and daughter | major | Madison gradually came to see that her mother, Dr. Emma Russell, was misguided in her efforts to release a variety of giant monsters upon the earth in the hopes solving the climate change crisis, and ultimately got her to change her mind. |
| nature's revenge | major | According to Dr. Emma Russell, the Earth had released the Titans as a sort of "fever" to fight the "infection" that was humanity. From this perspective, the film is a story about Mother Nature unleashing a hoard of giant monsters to exterminate humanity in order to heal the Earth from the damages that humans had caused. |