Nilai-Kanai pyramid
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A Nilai-Kanai pyramid (ニライ・カナイのピラミッド Nirai Kanai no piramiddo) is the center of the Nilai-Kanai civilization in the 1997 Toho kaiju film Rebirth of Mothra 2.
Development
The pyramid was portrayed by two scale models, one at 1⁄25 scale and the other at 1⁄100 scale. The main portions of the models were built by Yoshida Art, while the Guardian Towers were built by Marbling Fine Arts. The 1⁄25-scale model, nearly 5 meters (~3.3 feet) in height, was built to be disassemblable for ease of transport and sturdy enough to support the weight of the crew. To achieve the latter, the model had a steel frame constructed by Hikari Seisakusho. It was used for shooting in Toho's Big Pool, indoors in front of a blue screen, and its top half in the Small Pool for the scene of it rising out of the ocean.[2]
History
- Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997)
Rebirth of Mothra 2
Before humans evolved, the Nilai-Kanai ruled the earth, with their monarchy inhabiting a pyramid in the South Pacific. In order to control the pollution their luxuriant civilization created, the Nilai-Kanai created Dagahra, who consumed the pollution and cleansed the waters. Unfortunately, something went wrong, and Dagahra became uncontrollable, spawning thousands of Barems and killing off all but a few of the Kanaians, who continued to live in the pyramid.
After Mothra Leo came to the pyramid to fend off Dagahra, who had become reawakened and sought out the pyramid, it was revealed that Princess Yuna, a former ruler of the Nilai-Kanai projected as a hologram inside the pyramid, knew where the Nilai-Kanai treasure, Ghogo, lay. While the Elias and a group of Japanese children searched the pyramid and its grounds, Yuna commanded the pyramid's Guardian Towers to fight off Dagahra, as Mothra Leo was injured and being poisoned by the Barem.
Later, Ghogo sacrificed itself to transform Mothra Leo into Rainbow Mothra. He managed to defeat Dagahra by shifting into his Aqua Mothra form, then levitated the monster over the pyramid and dropped it, destroying Dagahra and causing the pyramid to collapse deep beneath the waves.
Capabilities
The four dragon-like Guardian Statues (守護神像 Shugoshin-zō) which flank the pyramid project a protective barrier around it, though it proved insufficient to prevent Dagahra from causing the pyramid damage.[3] The statues can also fire lasers from their mouths and the green gemstones in their bases, which drove Dagahra away in his initial attack and later created an underwater rockslide that buried him temporarily. When the Barem-covered Mothra Leo was struggling beneath the sea, the statues blasted a different form of energy at him, seeming to empower him enough to swim to the surface.
The interior of the pyramid is labyrinthine and filled with gadgets and traps. Among these are a multi-layer maze to deter intruders, approximately 5-meter-wide invisible walkways which bridge a seemingly-bottomless chasm, "ultra-high-speed elevators" which can travel the pyramid's 200-meter height in about 10 seconds, a corridor with a series of partitioning doors which shut to contain flames in the event of a fire or to trap intruders, a chamber which stores a hologram with the consciousness of Princess Yuna, and a nuclear reactor in the pyramid's core which powers its various capabilities.[1]
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References
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Bibliography
- Kawamata, Shigeo, ed. (10 January 1998). Rebirth of Mothra 2 Super Complete Works. Shogakukan. ISBN 978-4-09-101461-0.
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