What is Godzilla?

The year before Godzilla was published, the primitive monster appeared in 1953. It is a monster that suffers from radiant energy from the ocean and attacks American cities. In the same year, the masterpiece King Kong was released in Japan.

Until March 1954, the United States conducted a hydrogen bomb experiment in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, which led to the Japanese tuna fishing boat No. Five Blessingg's Rymaru was bombed, killing 1 crew and spreading people's fear of hydrogen bomb, which is the third Japanese nuclear victim.

However, in the spring of 1954 (the 29th year of Showa), producer Tomoyuki Tanaka's overseas cooperative film plan was frustrated for political reasons because of his cooperation with the Indonesian film Behind Glory. In such a period, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka had to replace it with another work, and later he came up with an unprecedented plot than Yuan Gu's idea.

At that time, in fact, Eiji Tsuburaya had an idea in his mind, that is, to make a movie and tell a story about a huge creature attacking human beings beyond human knowledge. In fact, he began to have this idea after watching an American movie called King Kong before the war.

He wants to make a set of monster movies in his own way and challenge the greatest masterpiece of monster movies, King Kong, which is Yuan Gu's dream for many years. But this idea has gone beyond the common sense of the Japanese film industry. He understands that the company is difficult to do, so this idea will stop here.

At that time, Yuangu considered the plot of octopus attacking the fleet in the Indian Ocean. However, for Tomoyuki Tanaka, taking the first Five Blessingg Dragon Pill as the theme, he came up with a primitive dinosaur awakened by the hydrogen bomb experiment near Bikini Atoll, and attacked Tokyo after his resurrection. So they discussed with each other and finally adopted Tanaka's plot. Finally, Japan's first special monster movie began to be made.

The origin of the name

There are three ways to name Godzilla:

One is from (a combination of gorilla (strong) and whale (huge)), which was named by Ada, an employee of Dongbao Drama Company.

The other is the official title of the decision to monitor how loyal this book is.

The other is the name "ゴジラ" of the giant sea dragon that appeared in Tokyo Bay in Japanese mythology.

In the stage of making Godzilla, we should turn it into a story with scientific basis. In order not to ignore this point, the original work was commissioned by the reasoning writer Shigeru Kayama. Xiangshan is not only a writer of mystery novels, but also a writer of secret adventures. The plan interested him in participating. His story embodies Tomoyuki Tanaka's whimsy, and even writes about the horror of the birth of the experimental monster of hydrogen bomb in Bikini Atoll, and fully adds anti-war things.

Li Guangzhen III, a special technician from Yuangu, is responsible for making models of Godzilla, taking Tyrannosaurus Rex, Iguanodon and so on. As the prototype of the dinosaur model. At first, Godzilla was designed as a big head and a small hand. It is said that the skin is more rounded. However, due to this lack of shock, uroko was added to the whole body surface, so the skin was modified several times. Finally, I made something close to the rough skin of crocodile, which just reminds people of the keloid of nuclear weapons. What caused the fear, the head became smaller and made some changes in subtle places, which became Godzilla's decision. Godzilla is actually an atomic monster.

It was not until July that the basic work was completed and the draft script decision was completed. In the aspect of role assignment, Takashi Shimura, whose works made Akira Kurosawa famous overseas, was the center, and young actors such as Akira Takarada, Torahiko Hamada, Taozi Qianchi, Yukio and Ren Yamamoto participated in it. Since then, these actors have become Dongbao strange or SF line actors.

Godzilla was originally made of dolls. However, for the confident Yuangu team, instead of using European and American methods such as the cartoon of the master doll, the master doll was used to enter the doll, which destroyed the small model and brought great destructive power to the picture. The first doll made of cloth was made of rubber, but what was actually made was a garment of 150kg or more. Because the body couldn't move, I used special plastic and finally finished it smoothly.

However, Godzilla's plastic doll weighs 63 kilograms. Two actors, Haruo Nakajima, take turns to play the doll. At that time, Nakajima was often teased by actors for playing with dolls, but Nakajima did not give up and made repeated efforts. In order to achieve better results, he deeply studied the movements of elephants and gorillas in Ueno Zoo, and finally succeeded.

Besides, in the swimming pool, in order to make the doll surface, there was an electric shock crisis on the line at the bottom of the swimming pool, which was difficult to continue. Perhaps because of this incompleteness, Godzilla only made some costumes of feet or tails when shooting the destroyed scenery in downtown Tokyo.

1954 (Showa 29) July 17 to September 25, the radio drama "Godzilla the Monster" was broadcast in nitsupon 1 1 time. The script was written by Takano, then Minister of Literature and Art of Dongbao, and the story is basically the same as the movie. The script was arranged and printed by the detective as a parent. Finally, the original author Shigeru Kayama put it.

10 month, but there is still 1 question left, which is the music of fantasy film. Because there is no precedent for Japanese films, I don't know how to produce results. However, when the work is finished, music can exert the most beautiful effect. Finally, it was produced by Ifu Buzhao, a classical musician. He sang Godzilla himself and really created the music of monster movies.

1954 (Showa 29) 10 In June, Godzilla the Monster was published by Iwatani Bookstore.

1954 (Showa 29)1released on October 3rd, 165438. Although this is not the first public offering, it is still very popular, which makes Dongbao earn about1500,000 yen more than the manufacturing cost. In the same year, Hideki Yuangu won the Special Technology Award and the Japanese Film Technology Award.

This success enabled Dongbao to continue production immediately. The following year 1955 (Showa 30), the technical team was dispatched to complete the works of Hollow Man, Godzilla's Strike Back and The Orc Snowman 3. Godzilla's counterattack, the orc snowman was once again created by Shigeru Kayama. 1955 In July, Xiangshan filmed a novel suitable for teenagers. Godzilla and Godzilla's Counterattack in Tokyo/Osaka were published by Shimamura Publishing House. The protagonist of the novel is a little boy from Oshima Shinji, and the Godzilla clique appears in Tokyo.

Godzilla's dream of exporting to America came true at 1956 (Showa 3 1). "Godzilla" became the first Japanese film to be released in the whole meal, and first set a long-term performance record of 47 weeks in new york. Godzilla brought Dongbao foreign exchange of 1 100 million yuan, and at the same time expanded the promotion of Japanese special technology overseas.

1954 era:

In March this year 1, the United States conducted a hydrogen bomb experiment in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, but the explosion was very large.

Far beyond the scope of the dangerous sea area set by the US government, a lot of ash was scattered.

Because of these ashes, 23 people on the fishing boat Five Blessingg Longwan in Jinggang County were affected, which led to the Five Blessingg Longwan incident, and the movement to ban atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs rose rapidly. In that situation, Tomoyuki Tanaka of Dongbao planned a "Big Monster from the Second Wan Li under the Sea" (tentatively named that year). The dinosaurs sleeping on the seabed near Bikini Atoll recovered and became extremely developed due to the influence of nuclear experiments.