When RKO released the cultural touchstone that is King Kong in 1933, the titular titan served as a dire warning of how man should not exploit nature or attempt to control it for selfish reasons. When our other favorite giant beastie, Godzilla, showed up 21 years later, he was a dark, serious metaphor for nuclear annihilation (a fear that was very much in the zeitgeist of the Japanese people at the time for obvious reasons). These monsters…
