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"Cue Godzilla!"

Looking a bit like a '90s version of Cecil B. DeMille, with biker boots and an enormous stogie substituting for jodhpurs and a megaphone, "Godzilla" director Roland Emmerich restlessly paces up and down Wall Street, watching 500 umbrella-clutching extras line up to become human hors d'oeuvres in a reptilian smorgasbord. As the cameras begin to roll, the high-strung Emmerich puffs on his cigar faster and faster like something out of "Reefer Madness" and yells, "Cue Godzilla!"

Taxicabs jury-rigged with hydraulic pumps to make them bunny-hop in time with Godzilla's approaching footsteps start bouncing like Mexican jumping beans, giving a hint of the fire-breathing lizard's colossally harrowing size. THUD!!!...one mississippi, two mississippi, three mississippi...THUD!!!

As the extras jog down Wall Street, a tad too lackadaisically for a bunch of New Yorkers about to be squashed like overripe Crenshaw melons, Emmerich removes his cigar and screams: "Run, you f - - - ers! It's a giant f - - - ing lizard!!!"

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