whale monster, which is  recounted by people who worked on the film. After producer Tanaka  saw the American monster film  _Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)_ (qv), he got the idea to  turn Godzilla into a dinosaur monster. Despite the physical change  the name of the monster was kept. There has always been a legend  that Godzilla was named after a hulking man nicknamed Gorilla