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DOn't forget, in 1968 we were involved in the most dangerous times with russia for nuclear war. IN 1965 I remember we had drills to go under the desks, and for what" I thought. I have no conception why we had to crawl under the desks. Here was an example of a nuke war on earth while taylor was safe in a time warp.
Still one of my all time fav films. I adore the iconic musical score by Jerry Goldsmith and the superb Apes make-up by John Chambers.
I did not know this myself,despite having seen this classic countless times over the decades,and had to google this:the Statue of Liberty in this film was a huge painting combined seamlessly with existing cliffs.There was also clever use of Camerawork used to create an impression of his in relation to Taylor 🎩
One other fun note, Charlton Heston went from Biblical actor in the 50s to become a sci-fi dystopian legend of the 70s. Check out SOYLENT GREEN and THE OMEGA MAN for more fun. He's up there with Clint Eastwood and Paul Darrow in my book.
Oh, they weren't animatronics, but Prosthetics~ Check out "Roddy McDowall's home movies from "Planet Of The Apes"" in which they show Roddy McDowall getting his makeup, wig, etc., applied.
It's hard to imagine, but in my extreme youth Star Wars did not yet exist. But 'Planet of the Apes' certainly did. It spawned so many sequels (and a TV series) that it almost pioneered the notion of prosthetics to tell a sci-fi story. But this adaptation (it's French - which may appeal to you) is probably the most sympathetic and definitive form Hollywood would manage - even today. It also sets up a cliche of the 1970s sci-fi movie (again, prior to Star Wars) as essentially a dystopian form. Because that's what America seemed to be expressing.
Charlton Heston was one of the greats of yester years. Please watch Soylent Green. Another one with a twist.
The statue of liberty was done with practical scenery for the overhead foreground view of the spikes and the full statue shot was a matte painting. The ship was a full sized floating piece of scenery. Interiors was a sound stage, of course. The film itself was shot in California and Nevada. Heston plays Taylor as bitter, cynical, and basically misanthropic. He becomes more sympathetic under the abuse of his ape captors, and in his connecting with likeable Zira and Cornelius.
When it comes to Charlton Heston, there's many great films, all mostly good or great with a few clunkers, but his portrayal of Long John Silver in his son Fraser Heston's feature of Treasure Island is almost perfect and the film is an impressive presentation of the classic story. It also stars Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, and Christian Bale. Recommended viewing.
I have a couple of suggestions - firstly, also from 1968 is "2.0001 A Space Odyssey" and from 1956, "Forbidden Planet".
Glad you enjoyed it, each film leads directly or indirectly into the next.
Love planet of the Apes and boy what an ending.
Great reaction to a Great film...the twist ending is famous (you've never seen any of the films or the more recent ones)🎩
It's not really a surprise ending though.
If you liked that, I think you'd also like the 1960 The Time Machine (one of my "comfort films"). And, as others have suggested, Silent Running, a real classic.
There was also a TV series in the 70s. The new films are a 2nd attempt at a reboot. The first attempt was was in 2001 with Mark Wahlburg
You were expecting humans to hurt the apes in this movie, but it turned out to be the other way round!
The music is so bizarre and great in this movie!
Hi Marie-Claire! A brilliant film. I believe the location filming was done on either Gran Canaria or Freuta Ventura (one of the Canary Islands). If its post-apocalyptic scifi from the 70s Solyent Green and Silent Running have been mentioned, I'd also recommend A Boy and his Dog. Which as a warning isn't comfortable watching but is acult movie.
From Wikipedia:
Filming took place between May 21 and August 10, 1967, in California, Utah, and Arizona, with desert sequences shot in and around Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The Statue Of Liberty wreckage at the film's climax was more than likely a glass painting in front of the camera which is matched into the background as seamlessly as the artist can get it. I suspect the shot from behind the 'statue' was a 'back of the head' model that probably didn't even have a finished face and the focusing being on the shoreline beyond and Taylor and Nova on horseback, the statue's shape of the headdress did all the work before the panning shot including the glass painting afterwards. Fortunately, it was all made less complicated by Charlton Heston not having to interact closely with the statue.
One of the all time great Sci Fi films. Groundbreaking, thought provoking stuff and an amazing ending
Absolutely incredible film.
And for the time of year, it is actually kinda scary. A vision of a post nuclear war world eons into the future where apes are the dominant species, in which Taylor and his crew are the only intelligent humans, and most of them are killed or get wrapped up in the brutal society of the apes. There isn’t much hope for Taylor, making the twist ending all the bleaker and impactful.
That twist is so well done, and well executed, no music, just the sound of the waves and lingering on that image to let the implications sink in.
No surprise then to know the original draft of the film’s script was written by Rod Serling, famous for The Twilight Zone, a classic sci-fi show renowned for its twists.
The sequels are very much overlooked and worth watching, although they’re nowhere near as good as this one, they do form a neat circle of a through-story, and also worth watching to see how they inspired the stories of the newer Apes films.
I agree
Sci fi from the 60s-80s is just fantastic.
Old films is just so cool.
Planet of the apes plus one of the great sci fi classics and a brilliant ending
Please do all 5 movies. While the quality of the makeup diminishes a bit, the stories are still good.
What about the TV series? Some of it is really bad, but I loved it as a kid.
@@martincook1412 It's a different timeline..... but hey, I'd watch her reactions to that series. I not only loved the show as a kid, but I *STILL* have the bubblegum cards from that series, as well.
I'm not sure if it's a complete set or not, but it may well be. I do have all of the original movies and the TV show on DVD, and do watch them occasionally.
The thing about the original movie series (all 5 of them) is that they tie in with the most recent trilogy of movies, IF you count that trilogy as the "Original Timeline" with just a couple of "plot holes", date wise. If you know, you know..... but we can explain those to her as she goes along (depending on what she's seen, that is). Then again, she's likely smart enough to figure them out..... But either way, count me in!!
@@IggyStardust1967 Hey. And don't forget the cartoon series. I remember watching that on afternoons after school. Though it might not be great for doing reactions to.
I went to grad school on the campus that was used as the backdrop for parts of this movie, UC Irvine. It's still weird to see the buildings in the background ...
It is a pretty impressive movie -- got the Oscar for makeup that year IIRC.
Didn't you have any suspicians in the cave with the doll and spectacles etc.?
Brilliant iconic movie
Nice to see that they've redesigned the cover art on the packaging. The set that I have has got the Statue of Liberty in the background. Talk about spoilers!
Dissapointed you didn't include the discovery of the doll in the cave,but otherwise 👍👍🎩
You should really check out a film called "Silent Running" I think it would be right up your alley.
The statue is a glass shot which I agree is my preference to modern CGI
Charlton Heston was a big enough star to appear in biblical epics, but also in another adaptation of literary sci-fi that is, in idea alone, rather scarier than this....
Omega Man?
Soylent green
This film is a sci-fi classic! I love it. All the original Planet of the Apes films are lots of fun. "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" is the next one and picks up directly after this one ends. We see Taylor and Nova's next adventure in the wasteland. The Statue of Liberty was a matte painting, as I recall. Very well done by a master of the craft. A craft that's sadly gone now in the cgi era. Roddy McDowell is great as Cornelius. He's actually in every one of the original movies, and he starred in the short-lived one season TV 📺 series version of Planet of the apes in the 70's as well. Twilight Zone creator and head writer Rod Serling did one of the drafts of the script, and that's probably why we have one of the best twist endings of all time here.
Roddy wasn't in all of the movies, he wasn't able to be in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, but even if he had, it was probably just a small amount of screen time anyway. The whole movie is rightly deserving of the term motion picture masterpiece. Sadly, like many of the first in a series, the ones that followed never bettered the original, but I personally love the first four, but if I were to pick a couple, just as a go to for a afternoons rewatching session, I'd pick 1 and three, as Escape from the Planet of the Apes, although dated, does tackle some very interesting and thought provoking issues.
I love how they can smoke in a spaceship. 😂
Definitely is a great movie. Great dialogue, emotional horror twists, good use of music from Jerry Goldsmith and not overdone... it strayed from the original novel but I don't care.
I hope you do the remaining sequels. The first 4 movies offer the most but all of them and the tv series do all offer something of some interesy
The first 2 Alien films are another prime example of smoking on spaceships!
Before CGI is where you find the real filmmakers. Now, with a big budget, everything is possible.
You should watch the TV show!!
Try Forbidden Planet, Outland, Capricorn One.
Absolutely amazing films, oh, add Escape from New York.
Here's a classic to review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original with Michael Rennie, not that piece of crap remake with Keanu Reaves)!
Perhaps you remember this from The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still,
But he told us
Where we stand
There ended up being 5 original films, then Tim Burton did a-re imagining of the film and finally there have been three new films that are re-boots and they are excellent.
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 for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
Planet of the Apes TV series (1974) very good.
Return to the Planet of the Apes animated series (1975)
Planet of the Apes (2001) [Tim Burton]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) all using the talents of Andy Serkis and all excellent films.
Future films... Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
The animated series is considered the most faithful representation of ape society to Pierre Boulle's novel.
I'm surprised how show this was cut down to. It's a great film series, originally a book called The Monkey Planet where they were advanced animals. The Statue of Liberty wasn't there at all, not even a model apart from the reverse shot looking down at the beach which was probably achieved with false perspective. The main shot is just a flat picture 'stuck' onto the film. I'm glad the ending wasn't spoiled because the disc cover for the film is usually that shot.
Oh my god, I was wrong! It was Earth, all along! 🎶
When Taylor spoke he had the flu made more impactful
There's really only one direct sequel which came out directly after this: Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It also has Charlton Heston and Nova in it. These first two films for me are the only true canon of this film franchise. My favorite film of all time.
P.s. I'm glad you felt that Charlton Heston's character George Taylor was a bit creepy and hard to digest. That's the way he's supposed to be. He's not supposed to be totally and altogether likable. And I agree with you, this is a comfort film for me also.
It was based on a novel called Monkey Planet by French author Pierre Boulle
A couple of movies I suggest. Forbidden Planet, and The Satan Bug. No it isn’t a devil movie but a deadly virus which escapes from a secret lab and could destroy the world. Sound familiar?
Yeah, it's called real life (practical) versus a cartoon. I cannot stand CGI !!! I saw this as a kid when it first came out on t.v. and it was amazing. Obviously seeing it as an adult I appreciate it much more than just the shock value as a kid. I am so glad that you gave this movie a chance as most younger people may not because it is OLD. There is so much going on in this movie socially, politically and so much more. It is one of my all time favs. It also one many awards as you would expect. Watching your shocked face was great! You must watch the rest in the series as I know you will love them. The newer movies are not that great but I did enjoy the Tim Burton version. Have fun!!!
A heck of a lot of movies were delayed because of this film. They pulled pretty much all the makeup and prosthetics specialists in the movie industry, which meant there was a huge shortage of makeup people for other movies.
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes is very much a sequel. Escape From The Planet Of The Apes kicks off with a twist, which I won’t spoil, which leads to it being the first of three prequels. The budget went down with each movie, and it showed. But the stories were really thought provoking.
Tim Burton’s Planet Of The Apes was a very different film but good in its own way. It was a lot closer to Pierre Boule’s original book (which I found to be a very tedious and slow read, and was glad the movies took such a different approach).
The latest run of Planet Of The Apes movies is a complete reboot. They’re brilliant, but very different. As thought-provoking as the originals but in a different way.
Glad you enjoyed the film. By all means react to sci-fi/horror films from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, but please don’t disregard sci-fi/horror films from the 1950’s. There are some really great films from that decade - “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951), “War of the Worlds” (1953), “Them!” (1954), “Tarantula” (1955), “Forbidden Planet” (1956), “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956), “The Incredible Shrinking Man” (1957), to name but a few.
There’s also some great 1940’s/1950’s sci-fi/horror films from the UK - “Dead of Night” (1945), “The Quatermass Xperiment” (1955), “Quatermass II” (1957), (both Hammer films), “Night of the Demon” (1957) and also from Hammer “The Curse of Frankenstein” (1957), “Dracula” (1958), “The Revenge of Frankenstein” (1958), “The Mummy” (1959).
From the 1960’s (also from the UK), “Village of the Damned” (1960), “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (1961), “Day of the Triffids” (1962), and from Hammer studios, “The Evil of Frankenstein” (1963), “Frankenstein Created Woman” (1967), “Quatermass and the Pit” (1967), “Frankenstein Must be Destroyed” (1969)
Just a few to be getting along with, if any of these take your fancy!
I'm not 100% sure where what location "Planet of the Apes" was filmed in but I think it was filmed in California, Utah and Arizona with desert sequences shot in and around Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area if my history is correct someone correct me if I'm wrong.
1. Back in 1968 ratings weren't taken as seriously as they are today.
2. NICE present man. 😍😋
3. See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil = Clueless apes (Dr. Zaius on purpose)
4. I was just a child when this came out and I was amazed at how well the main apes looked.
5. There was a very short lived (budget) tv series in the early 70s.
6. The next movie isn't as good. IMVHO "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" was the best. Cornelius and Zira go back to the early 70s. Ricardo Montauban is featured.
7.. Dr. Zaius/Maurice Evans played Samantha Steven's warlock father in "Bewitched"
8. The scene with the deep canyon must have been for visual because only half of the party on one side doesn't make sense.
9. Charlton Hesston played in "The Omega Man" (early I am Legend) and "The Ten Commandments" Both of which are good first time/shares.
10. The scene where the little troop is on both sides of a deep canyon must have been put in for the scenery because otherwise it doesn't make sense.
11. One of the best twist endings.
A little late to this one, but I saw that the Beneath the Planet of the Apes reaction is up too.
You probably already know now, but there are five old movies, an animated series, a live action TV series and a bunch of newer movies. I quite like the 2001 Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton. It mixes a little from all earlier formats; movies, cartoon and TV show. The later movie series is more of a reboot with a whole new plot. If you start reacting to them I have an excuse to watch them. I think I only saw the first two (and still liked the older better).
The five original movies is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. The first is great, the second good, third one is somewhat silly (but important for explaining what happened), the fourth is not very well liked (but I like it) and the fifth is so hastily made without any budget that it kind of fails automatically. But whenever I watch the first one, I HAVE to finish them all.
Now I'm going to watch your next one, even though I should have gone to bed long ago.
Hope to see more apes here soon.
If you want numerous behind the scenes photos you need to get JW Rinzler's 'The Making of Planet of the Apes' book.
I kind of agree that cgi isn't always inherently bad versus practical costumes and sets, it's more that they very often want to depict something super duper spectacular and it doesn't work. It falls flat when they throw so much crap on the screen.
It was mostly filmed in California and then in Utah just for the lake scene.
5 original films 1968-73,1 with Mark Wahlberg in late 90s (many differences,including a new twist endin) several cgi-ish ones in more recent years🎩
Yay! Another reaction to this classic! And you got sent the box set?! Please consider reacting to the sequels! They’re not as good as this one, but definitely worth the watch. Especially Escape (3) and Conquest (4)
The reboot trilogy is excellent as well.
The Tim Burton reimagining is not looked on fondly.
Taylor's boorish, misanthropic attitudes make for a more interesting protagonist here. His pointed dismissal of his colleagues and their human foibles is something he's suddenly forced to reassess when confronted with the alternative. You don't have to particularly like him in order to still be invested in his struggle to survive.
Its a superb allegory with man as the animal and shows us how we kill indiscriminately and why All animals fear man, we can't be trusted.
what! she has beautiful eyes
The Astronauts had gone through a time warp in space whilst asleep,(except Stuart of course) mean while on Earth the nuclear bomb had gone off, & trained Apes had evolved (like in 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY) the Statue of liberty thing was genius, a kind of tomb stone representing the death of civilised human kind,
being a 60s film, there is a clear anti nuclear message, a sense of Armageddon, again an important social commenting film (with make up fx, by John Chambers, who won an academy award) I'm with you about the CGI stuff, that gets used FAR TOO MUCH in modern cinema, you should look at RISE OF THE APES which is the origin story about what happened on Earth, whilst Taylor was away, it's CGI BUT it works very convincing, with a well written & Directed story (if you havent seen it already) political/social commenting sci fi is ALWAYS the best kind, rather than the monster stuff.
Make sure you watch the originals first. Although the new movies are remakes, they do homage to the originals and watching the originals first will allow you to catch all of them
Please react to the new trilogy eventually.
It's very CGI heavy, but it's worth it. There are no CGI humans, and that's where it stands out in most movies.
I hope you react to all the Apes movies 🙉👍
The fact that you like 1960s-1980s science fiction makes me smile. I'm early Gen-X, born in 1965, the first official year of our generation. These are the films that I grew up watching.
Modern films that overflow with _pew-pew_ and endless CGI are utterly boring to me. They rely on spectacle and have little to no character development. There are almost no ideas explored. They usually have plot holes you can drive an ocean liner through.
They also tend to be re-makes of 1960s-1980s scifi -- minus all the heart, ideas, and character development.
When you can't shoot an entire film on a green soundstage and fill it up with _pew-pew_ later, heart, ideas, and character development are all you have to work with.
Heart, ideas, and character development are ultimately far more interesting and enduring than _pew-pew_ .
12:34 No, the apes survived a nuclear holocaust and evolved into an intelligent species after all of us human beings destroyed ourselves with nuclear bombs; that's the twist.
political Science fiction classics, I recommend- THE TIME MACHINE(1960) ROBOCOP,V FOR VENDETTA. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, WEST WORLD(1973 film) TERMINATORS 1 & 2 of course. STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, METROPOLIS, THE STEPFORD WIVES, DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, & DEMON SEED 1977 TOTAL RACALL...not quite as good as the rest BUT well made & worth a watch.
None of you young reactors understand the nuances in this film. There was obviously a malfunction in the ships computer thats why it crashed in the water, thats why the females cryo tube broke, and most importantly thats why the ship returned to earth instead of landing on another planet.
they crash landed years later back on Earth...
Starman with Jeff Bridges is a good 80s sci-fi film, Time After Time with David Warner is a great 70s film and look out for Jeff Daniels in Timescape (also called Grand Tour: Disaster in Time) from 1992 if you can find it... oh and Millennium from 1989 is great!
Too much monkeying around in this film.
❤👍👍👍👍👍👍
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The Simpsons spoiled this film for a generation of kids hahaha
Don't start looking for plot holes... cos you'll get lost in them. Good movie. Can't tolerate the lead actor however.
You need to sort your audio out… it’s pretty bad.
Audio of the film or me?
The apes in the film were not descendants of humans, but rather descendants of present-day apes. At the end, Taylor mentions _"They blew it up!"_
The wrecked Statue of Liberty was indicative of a world war thousands of years ago in which humans used doomsday weapons - and ultimately caused their self-annihilation. Which humans extinct, apes became the dominant species on the planet.
Quatermass 1,2 and the Pit - Doctor Who ripped off so much from these
Trendy. All shows borrow, it's how original it feels.
Even the Apes movie from 68 is little like the original novel and dystopians were not a new genre.
The 5 films are very much an ongoing series of sequels. Skip the remake starring Mark Wahlberg but watch the three "recent" films Rise/Dawn /War. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is due out next year.