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Open thread - Apes weekend

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Nov 28, 2008 at 23:02:20 PM EST


We head back to NC tomorrow. Had some great chow, and a lot of good times here in Delaware.

I'm packing up for the flight home tomorrow (oy, please let the Philly airport not be a hellhole), and watching Fox Movie Channel. This weekend the network is playing all the Planet of the Apes classics this weekend, along with documentaries, promo films and documentaries -- calling it Channel of the Apes.

Planet of the Apes (1968, and I saw it in the theatre, kiddos - I am o-l-d)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle of the Planet of the Apes (1973)

I've seen all of the first four and about an hour of Battle. The first one still kicks ass, even today. Charlton Heston chews the scenery oh so well, and the innovative score by Jerry Goldsmith rocks (it earned an Oscar nom).


"Take your stinking paws off off me you damn dirty ape!"

More below the fold, including a poll.

Pam Spaulding :: Open thread - Apes weekend
"Beneath" is the strangest one by any stretch of the imagination but I always. The mutant humans worshipping a nuclear warhead in the ruins of NY? Deliciously bizarre. Also, it was the only one in the film series that Roddy McDowell didn't act in (Cornelius in this film is played by David Watson, though McDowell appears in footage from the first film).

One of the documentaries shown during this weekend featured test footage with Heston and a different Dr. Zaius, Cornelius and Zira:

In order to convince the Fox Studio that a Planet of the Apes film could really be made, the producers shot a brief test scene using early versions of the ape makeup. Charlton Heston appeared as an early version of Taylor (named Thomas, as he was in Rod Serling-penned drafts of the script), Edward G. Robinson appeared as Zaius, while then-unknown actors James Brolin and Linda Harrison played Cornelius and Zira. Harrison, who was the mistress of the head of the studio at the time, would later play Nova in the 1968 film and its first sequel, and have a cameo in the Tim Burton "reimagining" more than 30 years later (as did Heston). This test footage is included on several DVD releases of the film, as well as the documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes. Dr. Zaius was originally to have been played by Robinson, but he backed out due to the heavy make-up, and long sessions to apply it, that were required.
The famous final scene from the first film:

Poll
Which is your favorite "Apes" flick?
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle of the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
I haven't seen any of them
Sci-fi isn't my thing

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old here too and saw them all in theaters
I'm sorry I can't make myself watch Heston, he's such a maggot

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


old here too and saw them all in theaters
I'm sorry I can't make myself watch Heston, he's such a maggot

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


I love Heston movies!
The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, even Soylent Green: he's always so pompous and self-assured -- really an ideal Republican.  

[ Parent ]
Alternate Scene
I've always thought a good exchange near the end of Planet of the Apes between Taylor and Zaius when Taylor was about to ride off would have gone like this:

Taylor:  Don't try and follow us.  I'm pretty handy with this (the rifle he has).

Zaius:  Of that I'm sure.  You're a born leader of the N.R.A.


Charlton Heston
I'm sorry, but my hormones and my politics don't quite see eye to eye on this, Heston may have been a whacko right-wingnut, but he looked DAMN good with his shirt off!

I'm sorry to say that I only saw `Ben-Hur' the one time, in the movie theatres, when I was 8 years old. I was too young to know any better then, and have always felt I should watch it again some time, just to see whether there's any plausibility to Gore Vidal's claim that he wrote in a gay subtext to Heston's character's relationship with the Roman charioteer, Messala (played by Stephen Boyd, whom I definitely had the hots for in the early 60s). This claim about Ben-Hur's having been gay used to anger Heston intensely, which is why I was always glad to hear it repeated.

Of course, for sheer camp sensibility, nothing can beat Cecil B. DeMille's God, in the 1956 version, using his Holy Laser and Decoder Ring to inscribe the commandments, each expressed in one or two letters, onto the stone tablets held by La Heston. Such a master of brevity, DeMille's God, to express them so compactly! One imagines the commandment against coveting thy neighbor's ass (one I have always had trouble with) expressed in biblical Hebrew as `No ass'.  God excelled himself that night!


The Ten Commandments--give me Yul Brynner
The earliest memory I have of having an erotic reaction to someone in a movie was to Yul Brynner in that movie.  I was eight.   I'd have given anything to run up to the screen and reach up his loincloth.  And when the scene came where he holds his little son's body, I wanted it to be ME.

As for Heston--I've never found him attractive. And as horrible his acting is, he's clearly outdone in that department by Anne Baxter ("Oh Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!").

And yes, you really ought to check out Ben Hur again.  Vidal's story rings very true.  The reunion scene between Ben Hur and Messala couldn't be much more homoerotic without them stripping and having sex.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu


[ Parent ]
Yul
Yul Brynner? In that case, give me Westworld.

Painfully unbelievable by 2008 standards, but it was pretty slick in 1973 (or 74 or whatever year it was.)

>^..^<


[ Parent ]
Ooo! Ooo!
I saw the first one in the theater too! I was 13 years old. (I saw '2001' that year too.)

Oy. 2001 didn't quite turn out the way Clarke and Kubrick imagined, did it?

Hey, I want my flying car! And my house on stilts, and my Rosie the robot maid!

Promises were made, dammit!


The rosiest prediction in 2001...
...was that Pan Am would still be in business!

[ Parent ]
POTA
i too saw the first one in the theatre - i remember with my father and i was scared like crazy and the last scene - thinking it was real

i watched #3 this weekend - not a bad one.  

dont bother watching the whole #5, it sucks

as for heston - for someone who couldnt act (or rather always overacted) he actually wasnt bad.  and to think i believe he started out as a lefty before he went repubo-nuts


Heston at his best...
I thought the summit of Heston's acting career was in the role
of the dying Thade senior in Burton's 2001 remake.

some images I made for Utah and Sundance
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and
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and to the Sundance SPONSORS
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What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


ski New Mexico 200H8
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What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


[ Parent ]
Escape
Of the Apes movies, I prefer 'Escape.'

It has some good social commentary - plus, it has Eric Braeden as a jerk other than Victor Newman.

>^..^<


PUKE david gregory chosen Meet the Press host...f*ck it
Bush's butt boy Gregory shouldn't have that dumb 1600 Pennsylvania, let alone have Meet the Press. I won't watch it again.
Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd were up for it, and I would have preferred either compared to Gregory..."he gives me gas."
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


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