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Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira?) (/ɡɒdˈzɪlə/; [ɡoꜜdʑiɽa] Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. ( listen)) is a Kaiju first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video gam Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. es, novels, Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. comic books, and television series. A 1998 American reimagining was produced and a second American version is currently undergoing post-production.[9] The character is commonly Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. all Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. uded to by the title King of the Monsters, an epithet first used in the Americanized version of the original 1954 film. Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.
With the nuclear bombings of Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Lucky Dragon 5 incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros., Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons.[10] As the film series expanded, some Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. stories took on less serious undertones portraying Godzilla as a hero while other plots still portrayed Godzilla as a destructive monster; sometimes the lesser of two threats who plays the defender Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. by default but is still a danger to humanityGojira (ゴジラ?) is a portmanteau of the Japanese Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. words: gorira (ゴリラ?, "gorilla"), and kujira (鯨（クジラ）?, "whale"), which is fitting because Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. in one planning stage, Godzilla Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. was described as Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. "a cross between a gorilla and a whale",[11] alluding to his size, power Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. and aquatic origin. One popular story is that "Gojira" was actually the nickname of a corpulent Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. stagehand at Toho Studio.[12] The story has not been verified, however, and, in the nearly sixty Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. years since the film's original release, no one claiming to be the rumored employee has ever stepped forward nor have any photographs ever surfaced. Kimi Honda (the widow of Ishiro Honda) Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. always suspected that the man never existed as she mentioned in a 1998 interview Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros., "The backstage boys at Toho loved to joke around with tall stories".[13] Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.
Godzilla's name was written in man'yōgana as Gojira (呉爾羅?), Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. where the kanji are used for phonetic value and not for meaning. Many Japanese books on Godzilla have referenced this curious fact, including B Media Books Special: Gojira Gahô, Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. published by Take-Shobo in three different editions (1993, 1998,[14] and 1999).[citation needed] Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.
The Japanese pronunciation of the name is [ɡodʑiɽa] Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. ( listen); the Anglicized form is /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/, with the first syllable pronounced like the word "god" Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros., and the rest rhyming with "gorilla". In the Hepburn romanization system, Godzilla's name is rende Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.red as "Gojira", whereas in the Kunrei romanization system it is rendered as "Gozira". Godzilla - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.