Here, Mothra’s silhouette was crucial. “I think the movie could have been called ‘Godzilla Silhouette’ because I can’t tell you how many times we had to backlight things with Mothra ...

you need to be able to look at the silhouette of your monster, whether it’s the Alien, or Godzilla, or Rodan, or whatever, and you need to identify it. So we started with a semblance ...