VLVL(5) At the Movies and on the Tube

[David Gentle]

> Zoyd plays the "main title theme from "Godzilla, King of the Monsters
> (1956)" as the mysterious intruders prowl through the airplane, and as
> Takeshi makes his initial appearance in the novel. The movie title
> Pynchon lists is the American title, released two years after the
> Japanese version, entitled "Gojira" was released.  The main character
> was played by an actor named "Takashi Shimura" and the Babies of
> Wackiness folks state that Takeshi's name was "Almost surely borrowed"
> from the actor.
>
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0047034/

Isn't Gojira the monster That Pynchon said he was writing a scifi novel about? And didn't Takeshi
have a little encounter with a huge footprint left by some vaste creature?

David Gentle