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I showed my students a clip of the original Godzilla today (yes, it was relevant to the lesson). At first they were all, "Oh, it's going to be so fake looking" and "I can never watch things in black and white."
Then after there was about a 10 minute Q&A session consisting of questions like "But how did they make him knock down the power lines?" "How did he step on the houses?" "How did they make it look like he was there with the little people?". "Why did his breath set the house on fire but when he breathed on the people it just killed them?"
They didn't realize it was a person in a costume and a medium sized set. They were also seemingly shocked to hear that nuclear weapons had been used on Japan in WW2.
Hours later, one of my students came up to me and said, "I have a question." I assumed it would be about our science work, instead she said, "Do you think Godzilla is supposed to be a dinosaur?".