Move over Ant-Man: David and Rob are discussing the original shrinking Scott, of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957). In director Jack Arnold and writer Richard Matheson’s scifi classic, a man exposed to stray radiation begins to steadily shrink, as his humanity is stripped away layer by layer. What makes a man, a man? We’re talking emasculation and the artificiality of the American Dream.
Meanwhile, jumping across the Pacific, GODZILLA (1954, a.k.a. GOJIRA) uses its kaiju to directly comment on the atomic bomb and its fallout. The Cadaver Dogs want to see how both America and Japan evolved and responded to the devastation that followed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The climactic ending of World War II changed the world forever… and unleashed a giant nuclear lizard monster upon Tokyo.
0:06:38 - The Incredible Shrinking Man
0:27:10 - Godzilla
0:46:04 - Comparisons
1:01:39 - Bone Reviews
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“Revisiting THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN,” by Maria Tatar
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“The Incredible Shrinking Man Saw Beyond the Material Facade of Post-War Prosperity,” by Dan Persons
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“How American Occupation Changed Japanese Culture,” by The Cold War
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Cover art by Omri Kadim. Theme by Adaam James Levin Areddy. Music featured in this episode: Radiation Storm by White Bat Audio and March of Midnight by Scott Buckley.
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