It’s good to be the King of the Monsters.
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1. Gojira, Godzilla's Japanese name, is a portmanteau of the Japanese words for gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira,) the original basis for his design.
2. Despite the Godzilla series' campy reputation, the first movie was a straightforward horror movie, as Godzilla was a clear metaphor for the atomic bomb.
3. The original 1954 Godzilla, Gojira, was released only nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
4. Godzilla's skin was intentionally reminiscent of the keloid scar tissue on many survivors of the bombings.
5. Godzilla's attack on a fishing boat at the beginning of the original 1954 movie was inspired by a real life event. Less than eight months before the movie's release, a tuna fishing boat drifted into fallout from an American atomic H-bomb test, subjecting the crew to severe radiation poisoning.
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