Official godzilla knowledge thread part 1

Hello and welcome to the official godzilla knowledge thread part 1, I am your host bigbadben. This will be a monthly thread that i myself, gman2887, and if lucky chris picard will be covering. Despite us covering these topics, we felt the need that many of you are wanting to further your knowledge with all things godzilla and if some of you have some information that we may not know, feel free to let it fly because this is the purpose of these monthly threads that will be popping up, sharing and learning all information on godzilla that we can provide. :)

So that being said, looks like i will get things going. Tomoyuki Tanaka the executive producer of many godzilla films was working for the company TOHO and was one of the few people who got to witness first hand on the destruction of the atomic bombs. While working for TOHO he had wanted to create a movie evolving around the atomic bombs, rumor has it while traveling in a plane over the pacific ocean, an idea had came to his mind. What if there was a giant prehistoric animal that was reawakened by the atomic bombs?

While godzilla was in early production, the original title for the movie was actually called "project G" Which the g stood for giant at the time being. One of the employees working for TOHO suggested that they name the movie "GOJIRA" Which come to find out was the stage name of a comedian. Godzilla was heavily influenced by the films King Kong 1933 and the beast from 20,000 fathoms. Eiji Tsuburaya was the man responible for creating, designing, and film making the special effects for godzilla. Akira Ifukube scored the music, and Ishoro Honda directed the film.

 If Tsuburaya had done the same stop motion as King Kong, the film would have taken seven years to make, but tsuburaya knew of an actor who could pull things through in the three months they had to work on the film. Harou Nakajima was given the job as the suit actor and as a back up suit actor, Katsami Tezuka was also given part of the job as well.

In summer 2004, 50 years after its debut, the japanese classic gojira played in cinemas all across the united states for the first time ever. Not the heavily re-edited version starring Raymond Burr, but the original picture that first unspooled in tokyo on november 3, 1954, and had rarely been seen outside of japan since then. The critics called it a revelation, and praised the film's thinly veiled depiction of a nuclear holocaust, its documentary-style realism, its overpowering sadness, and of course its monster-mash entertainment value. So in other words gojira is the most emotionally resonant fake monster movie ever made.

When comparing hollywood's vintage giant monster movies to that of TOHO's, the godzilla movies possess an alluring and mysterious quality that made hollywood's just plain dull in comparison.

Ok, now then since this is just a start to what is to come, please feel free to share your knowledge as well. :)