Did you know...
That in the original Gojira film "Godzilla King of the Monsters", all of Raymond Burr's scenes were filmed and added onto the film AFTER the Japanese version was already released.
This was an interesting bit of filming if you ask me, as an entire plot (this containing the character of Steve Martin) was incorporated into the original Gojira film in order to properly give it a US release.
In my opinion this was done all done in a very nice manner. Good camera work and body doubles concealed this fact any time Raymond Burr occupied a scene.
There were a few instances where things seemed somewhat obvious (I mean seriously, how many times could you have his character look and talk from far away and still make it work) but I still give it an "A" for effort.
Surprisingly enough the same tactic was done 30 years later with "Godzilla 1985". All of the Japanese scenes were filmed first, with the all of the US scenes (including Raymond Burr's) filmed and added months thereafter for the US release.
The old becomes new, and the new becomes old, as they say.
Source: IMDB.com
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