GO GO, GODZILLA!!!!!!!!!

various | June 25, 2004 | Long Cut

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Compared to this, they're slender...

The 1990's Heisei Godzilla was often teased for his fluffy thighs. They must have put him on a diet.

[Xenalyte]

It'd best be a man inside that suit. That person simply cannot cross its legs.

[Tijeras_Slim]

A black pantsuit can hide thighs like that.

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LOL! Godzilla has always been played by a man.

In one of the recent movies, however, "GMK", the monster Baragon was played by a woman. I believe it was the first time that was ever done in a G-film.

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I bet the wearer of said pantsuit has it designed by the suit designer for the Godzilla movies.

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Back-from-leave PLACEMARKER.

[King Prout]

his roar was, is, and shall ever remain one of the best monster roars ever created.

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I wish I had the capability to post a .wav file of it to this thread.

Actually, he had about a dozen different sound he made through the years, including grunts, screams, and growls.

His famous "SKRRRREEEEEEEEOOOOOOONNNNKKKKKKK!" call has evolved through many different incarnations. Like his appearance, its sound was based, in large part, on his "personality" in the particular movie he was in.

In the first "Godzilla", it was deep, powerful, and resonated. It well-suited the ambience of fear in the movie. For films in which he was "the Good Guy", it was of a higher, less-threatening pitch. Godzilla actually had a pretty good vocabulary.

It wasn't even a real animal's roar, either. It was created by Akira Ifukube, the longtime composer of the Godzilla series (who was responsible for Godzilla's theme-march), by rubbing a resin-coated glove along a contrabass and amplifying it. Certainly, that simple effect became one of the most recognizable sounds in movie history, never equaled.

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SOUND EFFECT FILES OF THE TOHO MONSTERS AVAILABLE HERE!!!

Google "Godzilla roar .wav" for a LOT more sites and sounds. I figure this thread could use them!

[Jet Jaguar]

Cool! thanks.

[Darksheare]

I'd say those thighs and ankles were patterned after a certain NY Sinator who shall be NAMELESS in the void.. but she was an unknown in 1990.

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Note also, the ONE thing that TriStar did NOT change about the American "Godezilla-In-Name-Only"...was the roar.

Not that they didn't try, but the producers said at the time that, even after hundreds of hours with the finest sound-producing modern equipment available, they couldn't top the original.

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'Ol Godzy's always been a husky sort. He seems comfortable with it. No sweating and panting on Stairmasters or spinning classes for him!

He gets all the excercise he needs by STOMPING stuff.

[Preech1]

I used to do that when I was a kid...I admit, sometimes I still do...I can even do a pretty good Godzilla scream...

[Darksheare]

LOL!
True!

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As good as this?

SSKKRRREEEEOOOOONNNNKKKK!!!

[Preech1]

Much better than that...I do not have to try to access a website that does not let me in....

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G-98 (American GINO) roar. For comparison.

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THE ORIGINAL ROAR, from 1954.

It, androars of ALL toho monsters, can be found at Barry's Temple of Godzilla's sounds page.

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