Now we've come to the holy grail of monsters movies it was 1954 ten years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki the original Godzilla was serious and tone and Godzilla himself was a force of mass destruction beside it was made by people who experience it first hands Godzilla's origin that he was created by nuclear radiation
his species been debated for years but some says he cross between a tyrannosaurus rex for his bipedal figure and iguana for his hands and a stegosaurus with the dorsal fins on his back
his name in japan he's called Gojira which is a combination of Gorilla and Whale, gorilla and whale huh? that's a lot different from many combinations of dinosaurs we just mentioned but no the reason how he got his name was from a bulky stageman working at the Toho studio (the studio that makes the Godzilla franchise) and his nickname was Gojira and producer Tomoyuki Tanaka liked the name how would you feel if a giant radioactive dinosaur was named after? I don't know but that would be pretty cool now it's now doubt that it's a guy in a rubber suit but many people don't know horrible and infamous it was first of all actor Harou Nakajima (the actor that would play Godzilla until 1972) couldn't see anything
and he would be under the light all the time and he pass out, now Godzilla's trademark roar you never guess composer Akira Ifukube rub a bass with glove to create the roar, although it's a very entertaining movie Godzilla looks scary in black and white and the cinematography look's great there's scene were people are shown being crush in building and dying in the hospital are real disturbing and the choir of girls singing
makes you sentimental it's make you forget your watching a b-movie but a disaster at the time americans hated foreign films so they chopped it down for American audience
with Raymond Burr as Steve Martin
no not that Steve Martin but a journalist name Steve Martin, Burr already played a villain in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
and then Perry Mason he's pretty good in this movie but the way he's use it that to have him describe what's going on in most of the movie it was an obvious attempt to digest for us dumb@$$ americans I could talk about this movie for another hour but we got more to go so in the word of Joe Bob four stars check it out.
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