10 Things You Did Not Know About the “Godzilla” Movie

Godzilla dominated the box office this weekend with reports that this is one of the biggest movie of 2014.

The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures reboot made a whopping $93 million dollars in the United States and an additional $10 million internationally for a total of $103 million in first weekend sale.

But did you know this was the 60th anniversary for Godzilla? The original movie was released in 1954.

There are a lot of little things you may have missed while watching the movie or happened behind the scenes. But, here are ten things you probably did not know about the latest Godzilla Movie.

#1. Godzilla, Scars and Nuclear Bombs

Godzilla’s appearance was covered with scars. This feature was actually taken from the original Godzilla movie that featured Godzilla with keloid scars. In the 1950’s version, the use of scars was to remind the audience of the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, that left thousands of people scarred. This was to also enhance the concept behind Godzilla as a monster damaged by nuclear weapons.

#2. 60 long monstrous years.

In order to create a loud monster like yell, the sound designers used a 12-foot-high, 18-foot-wide speaker array to blast Godzilla’s roar at a hundred thousand watts to get a good idea of his vocal power and strength.

Gareth Edwards and the design group reviewed all the previous incarnations of Godzilla’s design for influence on the final design for the film: “The way I tried to view it was: imagine Godzilla was a real creature and someone from Toho saw him in the 1950s and ran back to the studio to make a movie about the creature and was trying their best to remember and draw it… and in our film you get to see him for real. It was important that this felt like a Toho Godzilla.”