Natural born disasters

• Autores: Ángel Sala
• Localización: Nosferatu: Revista de cine, ISSN 1131-9372, Nº. 27, 1998 (Ejemplar dedicado a: ¿Habéis sido buenos? Malos en el cine), págs. 88-92
• Idioma: español
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  • Natural disasters have always been the perfect villain, either playing a supporting role and letting evil take front stage in the form of some anthropormorphic character, or as the star, such as in Earthquake (1974) and other 70s catastrophe films. Natural disasters are always virile by virtue of their incontinence and speed, their indifference and callousness. They also lend themselves to appearances of more or less volatile creatures, who demonstrate their masculine attributes either by violating beautiful girls or by simply leaving feminity in the hands of a limited few, as is not uncommon in kaiju eiga.