Godzilla: evolution of a monster

POR NOMBRE APELLIDO 3 DE OCTUBRE, 2022

Sixty-five years after Godzilla first stomped onto our screens in the 1954 Japanese film, the radioactive monster is back again. The latest US version casts the big guy as an impossibly massive force of computer-generated destruction – a far cry from the monster’s humble beginnings as a man in a rubber suit trashing balsa-wood models of cities. During those six and half decades, Godzilla has undergone numerous transformations and battled a range of memorable adversaries – the best of which we present below

Godzilla's name is a transliteration of Gojira (ゴジラ), a combination of two Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ), meaning "gorilla", and kujira (鯨 or クジラ), meaning "whale"


Its design was inspired by three prehistoric dinosaurs


The origin

Godzilla was created in 1954 by Tomoyuki Tanaka to illustrate the terror Japanese felt after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The filmmaker wanted to symbolise nature's revenge.

El primer Godzilla, de 1954, fue un actor con un traje. Debido a la escasez de productos como el caucho después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su traje fue hecho de hormigón.