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Godzilla as vengeance for all the victims of imperialism is a theme that's been touched on (most prominently in Godzilla 1980), but I'd like to see that done more explicitly and centrally.
Alternatively, Godzilla could represent imperialism itself - instead of attacking Japan or the US, he could attack Vietnam. Do a Vietnam war movie from the perspective of the north Vietnamese where Godzilla is the stand-in for the US military.
Predator did this, to an extent, and flipped around. The CIA had operations in South America and the Predator was slaughtering all of them for trespassing. Unfortunately the producers weren't brave enough to make the Predator sympathetic to the guerrillas resisting imperialism and its collaborators, so the Predator was killing them too. But I was very surprised that they allowed it to defeat the American forces and even Schwarzenegger couldn’t win. But I don’t know - it paints the Latin American resistance as some savage beast that Americans cannot understand which is why they shouldn’t get involved, rather than something very human.