Godzilla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Godzilla or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Godzilla

[lynn]

In the aftermath scene in the arena, a firefighter appears who bears a strong resemblance to Joe Brody, and when Elle Brody reunites with Sam, a woman behind her can be seen who looks like Sandra Brody.

[frederick]

Originally, Dr. Serizawa was to introduce the titular monster as "Godzilla", but Ken Watanabe asked the filmmakers to use the original Japanese name of "Gojira".

[willard]

At the premiere of the film, some Toho executives and staff members were said to have broken down in joy at the portrayal of their property Godzilla in this film.

[miriam]

The movie was so successful that two sequels were green-lit only two days after the premiere of the film.

[claude]

Likely unintentional, but in Janjira, we see a giant millipede and a giant cockroach.

[alyssa]

The Navy display on the Saratoga displays Godzilla's name as "Gojira," the Hepburn transliteration of the katakana.

[terry]

Godzilla is implied to be the last of his kind, as the MUTO spores were found in the fossilized skeleton of another member of his kind, suggesting that the Godzilla species was wiped out by the MUTO with him as the sole survivor.

[beth]

The film takes place in 1954, 1999, and 2014.

[ronnie]

A four hundred-foot model of the Golden Gate Bridge, built at a ratio of 1:0.045, was built for the San Francisco sequence.

[kristina]

In San Francisco, Ford Brody climbs aboard a boat labeled "Go Whale Tours." Godzilla's original Japanese name, "Gojira", is a combination of "Gorilla" and "Kujira," the Japanese word for "whale."

[melinda]

Andy Serkis provided consulting work on the film's motion capture sequences in order to "control the souls" of the creatures.

[ray]

The United States Marine Corps declined to participate after reviewing the script. The United States Navy cooperated with production.

[lena]

The film's budget was more than the 1998 film's entire domestic gross.

[violet]

One of the main criticisms of this film was the lack of Godzilla himself, despite it having over twelve minutes of screen time (this is one of the highest amounts of screen times for Godzilla in a Godzilla movie). Many people criticized this "teasing" as boring and unfulfilling, while others praised its holding back of the monster as references to how the shark from Jaws (1975) was teased until the end.

[nicholas]

The MUTO design was inspired by King Kong (1933), Alien (1979), Jurassic Park (1993), and Starship Troopers (1997).

[willard]

Godzilla being an ancient beast from a time when the conditions on Earth were severely inhospitable and his conflict with other monsters from the same time period references [Godzilla Raids Again](/category/14417/Godzilla-raids-again) (1955). In both, the military attempts to lure fighting kaiju away with a fake-out plan, which falls apart. Also somewhat similar from the original Godzilla (1954), in which Godzilla is believed to have evolved from a hybrid species of dinosaurs and prehistoric sea reptiles.

[addison]

In the scene where a chameleon crawls on a tree in the jungle, trainers simply placed the lizard on the marked tree, they filmed it, and trainers retrieved the lizard after filming.

[leo]

Godzilla's first appearance on-screen (a pan up from his feet to his head), is how he first appeared in Godzilla 1985 (1985).

[melinda]

This film was released in the United States by Warner Brothers beginning in May 2014. The only other Godzilla film they distributed was 55 years earlier, starting in May of 1959, when they released Godzilla Raids Again (1955) under the title "Gigantis, The Fire Monster".