Mystery Photo Source?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 9th, 2012
Anyone know the origin of this photo?
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Yep. It’s from the set of the 2006 movie Gamera The Brave.
It’s gotta be a prop from a Gamera movie- from Japan. Maybe it’s one of Gameras kids or something? Or it could be a Korean film -they are getting in on the giant monster movie thing too.
It’s huge in the orient-but mostly Japan-they are called “Kaiju”; Giant monster movies is what that means…it’s a whole genre.
Like westerns or horror films are here.
I assume it is from one of the Gamera movies ( the 90’s trilogy ) , or a photo of the crew moving the props. Of course it could just be a recently discovered giant turtle warrior sleeping one off !
It’s Gamera, the giant turtle analog of Godzilla. It seems to be a screencap from the movie Gamera the Brave.
Looks like Michaelangelo got into the ooze again.
It’s from a relatively recent Japanese monster movie, Gamera: The Brave.
It’s a still from a Japanese sci-fi film from 2006, Loren.
More info here :
http://www.cinemotions.com/Gamera-l-heroique-tt80971
Yep:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/worlds-largest-tortoise.shtml
Don’t know who took the photo…but I’m pretty sure that’s Gamera in the picture. Though I can’t imagine why anyone would want to hogtie everyone’s favorite Japanese rocket-spinning turtle (and hero to children everywhere)! lol
It appears to be a Map Turtle…..
still from a movie.http://www.hoax-slayer.com/worlds-largest-tortoise.shtml
Yep. I knew it was Gamera. 🙂 Gamera is really neat. He is made of turtle meat. I believe in Gam-er-a! (Sorry, had a MST3K flashback there. lol)
It’s obviously Not Real, The Pointy tooth that comes up from the bottom of the mouth (There has to be a matching one on the other side) Makes it a Dead Giveaway, It’s Gammera or Gamera or another mock up modeled version of the Japanese Film Monster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera_%28film%29
Hi Loren! This is a still from Gamera The Brave, a Japanese monster film that reboots the classic Gamera series (an attempt to answer Godzilla’s fame with a series about a giant, fire-breathing turtle). I think this is near the halfway point of the film. It’s a cute movie, but doesn’t have much to do with cryptids in any traditional sense, aside from giant monsters, or ‘kaiju’, being considered pretty mysterious creatures in Japanese cinema.
It sort of look like the turtle from the movie “The Bermuda Depths” a TV movie from 1978.
Loren, this photo is from the movie, Gamera the Brave.
http://www.deadchannels.com/gamera_the_brave.php
That’s young gamer from the film Gamera:The Brave
Gamera ….sorry autocorrect got me
A quick google image search brought me to a movie called “Gamera the Brave”. I can’t prove it, but it looks like a screen shot from that film. I’ve used up all my google-fu for today…next!
As you will read at Hoax-Slayer
Hoax – Picture of ‘World’s Largest Tortoise’
Gamera the Brave
As you will read at Hoax-Slayer
The “tortoise” is not real. The picture is a scene from the 2006 Japanese movie “Gamera the Brave” which features a giant turtle creature. At one point in the movie, the wounded Gamera is transported via a military truck to a research facility. The circulating image is apparently taken from this part of the movie.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/worlds-largest-tortoise.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera_the_Brave
Its a screenshot from the Japanese Gamera movie. It does look very cool though.
http://www.cinemotions.com/photos-Gamera-l-heroique-tt80971
Yup, Figured it out and commented on the site about 2 hours ago, The pointy tooth is a Dead Giveaway. 🙂
Gamera the Brave? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467923/
This link should help out.
http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Pranks/world-s-largest-tortise-found-in-amazon-sea.html
I found a link that says a few things about this “giant tortoise on a truck” and a different one shown in a video.
Looks like Japanese movie character Gamera. This is What I found http://www.hoax-slayer.com/worlds-largest-tortoise.shtml.
“Gamera The Brave”, 2006
Toho films?