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A Godzilla lava lamp would be cool with Godzilla as the topper.

Nice but a bit too on the nose wrt metaphor...

Want.

"This almost never happens, I swear."

Meh

Horrible!

Was disappointed initially but it's definitely growing on me. Bottom half reminds me of shin-hanga.

sargas wrote:Horrible!

It's not horrible. You may not like it, but it's not horrible. Now Johann Jacob's "LOTR Evil" is horrible lol.

I really like both. The bottom half of the variant seems to highlight some details better i.e. the path on the bottom right. Although the blue in the water of the reg is cool. Definitely a grower.
I read the interview and agree that this is better than Godzilla tearing up the city.

In general, I love Durieux's work but I am glad I passed on this one. Would never hang it up. Sorry Laurent.

It's a weird one for me. References the original movie, or at least inspired by, but clearly using a more recent look for Godzilla. Laurent usually does an amazing job capturing the classic feel of old movies, but I feel it's missing here.

And despite the presence of the blast and Godzilla it doesn't seem to impose or at least even partly convey the sense of constant fear and dread the original Japanese cut of the movie does.

There are small elements I like, but the central depiction of Godzilla isn't one of them unfortunately.

Personally I think he nailed "classic feel" on this one. To each his own.

simianfever wrote:And despite the presence of the blast and Godzilla it doesn't seem to impose or at least even partly convey the sense of constant fear and dread the original Japanese cut of the movie does.

But that wasn't the point behind his concept. The thing I love about Durieux is his ability to come at a subject from a very unexpected angle. Going deeper into the historical Japanese side of it and incorporating the post WWII nuclear angst is a pretty unique angle to take on a Godzilla poster, in a universe full of one-note, ROARRRR Godzilla posters.

Laurent Durieux – "The hardest part for me was to come up with an image that would go beyond just a city destroying monster flick. [...] So rather than depicting a monster spitting flames and destroying the city, I wanted to emphasize this angle, the historic/social interpretation of the movie. Naturally “Gojira” was born out of a nuclear blast and that’s exactly what I drawn. I wanted to depict a contrast of the quiet landscape of the ancestral Japan with the modern day horror at its worst."