A closer look
Terrifying roar of the original 1954 Godzilla was created by rubbing a coarse leather glove coated in pine tar resin against the strings of a contrabass, proving that the most terrifying monster in cinematic history is basically just aggressive jazz; composer Akira Ifukube was desperately struggling to find a sound that felt massive, ancient, and deeply unnatural, rejecting dozens of actual animal recordings because they all sounded way too familiar to the human ear, so he finally dragged out his musical instruments and started abusing them in the studio, eventually capturing that iconic, ear-piercing metallic screech that has haunted the Japanese coastline for over seventy years, meaning every time you see this giant radioactive lizard vaporize a skyscraper or step on a densely populated urban center, you are effectively being intimidated by an audio engineer violently harassing a giant wooden cello
