Godot (Ace Attorney) Godot (Ace Attorney) Godot is voiced by Hideki Kamiya in the Japanese version of "Trials and Tribulations", and by James C. Wilson in the English version. In an interview with Japanese Entertainment website Nihongogo, Ace Attorney art director Tatsuro Iwamoto revealed Godot's visual appearance was based on Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer in the movie "Blade Runner". Godot is said to be based on the eponymous character from Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot". In his Godot design, he wears a white tie with a striped vest over a forest green shirt, along with black sleeve garters. He also
Waiting for Godot Godeau has an identical-sounding name and is involved in a similar situation, it has been suggested he may have been instead influenced by The Lovable Cheat, a minor adaptation of "Mercadet" starring Buster Keaton, whose works Beckett had admired and who he later sought out for Film. Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay "The Cartesian Centaur" reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned "a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a 'stayer', recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of