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6.3/10
IMDbBest Movie to Watch at the DriveIn | 2008
Budget 25,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,000,000 USD
Godzilla's roar was made by dragging a resin-coated leather glove up and down a contrabass and having the subsequent recording slowed down significantly.
Al C. Ward, who later wrote the entire 171-episode run of Medical Center (1969), was given a choice of $2500 up front to write the American scenes for "Godzilla" or 5% of the profits. Ward, thinking the movie would bomb, second-guessed himself and took the money. He later admitted to telling students of his college movie writing classes that he always regretted the decision. It was estimated he could have raked in $5 million in his lifetime from residuals.
Raymond Burr said that, contrary to popular belief, all his scenes were not done in one day, but over the course of six days. It was simply impossible to create all the sets in one day, especially the daylight scene filling in for Odo Island and the night scene on the hilltop during Godzilla's first rampage.
It is often said that the original Japanese version had an overt anti-American sentiment and contained references to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to the firebombing of Tokyo, all of which were claimed to have been deleted in the American version of the film. However, the original did not contain such anti-American references and the implication that Godzilla is a by-product of American H-bomb tests is still present in the American version, although to a lesser degree.
Prior to the film's release, it was hyped that Raymond Burr spent two months in Japan working on his scenes. In actuality, his scenes were filmed at a studio in Hollywood in six days.
"[first lines] Steve Martin: [in voice over] This is Tokyo. Once a city of six million people. What has happened here was caused by a force which up until a few days ago was entirely beyond the scope of Man's imagination. Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world. There were once many people here who could've told of what they saw... now there are only a few. My name is Steve Martin. I'm a foreign correspondent for United World News. I was headed for an assignment in Cairo, when I stopped off in Tokyo for a social call, but it turned out to be a visit to the living hell of another world."
"Ogata: [on Serizawa's fears about using the Oxygen Destroyer] Then you have a responsibility no man has ever faced. You have your fear which might become reality. And you have Godzilla, which *is* reality."