Title: Metaphors in cinema: gigantic monstersProposed research: Metaphors in films like Godzilla, Big Bug Movies (Them, Tarantula) and King Kong. The trauma and fear of war, science and humanity. Question: Develop a discussion on how humans deal with the fear of death through the use of one or more monsters (zombies, vampires, etc…). Monsters like Godzilla are important to humans who are facing the fear of death. The use of monsters serves to reduce the fear of that imminent threat and/or the anguish of waiting for a catastrophe to happen. The symbolism in these films shows how humans see other humans as monstrous. They have no other way to represent it, so they show it through huge threats, insects or monsters. In films they are used as a tool to warn people and show them dangers that are inevitable or have already occurred. The best thing about movies like Godzilla and Tarantula are the metaphors. The saturation of metaphors is immense. This shows the importance of films like these in the film industry. People have a way of expressing emotions and showing fears. In the article” Looking straight at “Them!” Understanding the Big Bug Movies of the 1950s,” William M. Tsutsui states that “Critics and historians have invariably interpreted these cinematic big bugs as symbolic manifestations of Cold War-era anxieties, including nuclear fear, concern for 'communist infiltration, ambivalence towards science and technocratic authority' (Ttsutsui, page 237). In fact, most films about large insects and gigantic monsters are present as a representation of people's anxieties related to the situation that a certain group of people is experiencing such as war or fear. The Godzilla movie helped its viewers deal with the trauma they had regarding the atomic age. It wasn't a secret, a fear that you had to keep to yourself because the film in a way helped bring together people from different countries to have some sympathy for the misfortunes of their fellow man. Similarly, in American films like Lotus they are used to show the dangers in agriculture when using the sides of insects and how it creates a super insect that ends up killing humans. These films have many realities because insecticides actually create super-bacteria that have a defense against pesticides and become stronger thus killing the crop and consequently symbolically the human race, without food, without living being. Science fiction films of the 1950s helped people face and deal with the unknown, whether it was science or science