I actually saw it in the theatre back then...it was the best thing ever, as far as the thought if it, the make-up, which was spectacular. Even to this date, that makes beats whatever they have done in remakes today.
You guys might think I'm weird, but I would have helped myself to some Stewart. Why not have a little fun time with her? She wouldn't know the difference.
It is interesting to note that in 1968 America was deeply into the Cold War nuclear standoff with Russia, and everyone knew the power of the bomb all too well. This movie speculates on the question on everyone's minds, "What will happen if there is ever a nuclear war?"
@@maverickstanding5733 Have you ever heard of the Missiles of Oct ? We have never come closer than those 13 Days . If you weren't alive back then then it's hard to understand just what dangerous time it was . Today's pretty crazy but different .
@@paulharrold I assume you mean the "Cuban missile crisis"? No, I missed that one, but I missed the Romans too, and I can still read about them. Do you know what the Dooms Day Clock is? It's closer to midnight now than back then. Back then the empires had clear ways of communicating in a crisis, these days they don't bother. I think leaders back then had principles, now they seem to have personality disorders.
Remember that the spacecraft spun out of control and crash landed after staying in space far longer than planned, so the computers running everything had clearly malfunctioned, which was also why the astronauts believed they were many light years from earth on an unnamed planet. Some people question why the Statue of Liberty was in a desert and not in the ruins of a city, but nuclear war would have destroyed the cities, pulverizing them, and then nature obliterated what was left after 2,000 years. That's why the excavation site was in a cave and had to be dug out at different levels; that had probably once been a tall apartment building, but little survived except a few bones and artifacts. It's a thought provoking film that addresses many ethical and moral issues. The ending was a shock to audiences who truly believed this was an alien planet that just had evolved similar living beings as earth but followed a different trajectory with humans below simians.
THIS was my movie!! I had the model kit for Cornelius. Put it together and painted it, friends loved it. It remained on my shelf until Close Encounters and Star Wars came out. My sci-fi world expanded X100
This is a great video. I'm an Apes cultist since the early '70's. Your reaction is pretty close to what the writers & producers aimed to elicit from the viewer. Your comments on the cinematography, sets, score & dialogue are spot-on. Great movie - glad you enjoyed it!
When it came out it was one step below an X and within a few years was G. The crashed in Lake Powell, the Forbidden Zone was Monument Valley, and Ape City was 20th Century's Malibu Ranch where M*A*S*H was filmed. Taylor was called Bright eyes because he was the only one with blue eyes. When Taylor is Hanging in the net, Heston was suffering from the Flu. It's from a 1963 book by a French Author. This was the first of 5 movies, a live action and animated TV series.
This series had several installments. Then there was a reboot in 2001, which had no sequels. Different origin story. Then the current series, which is still another origin story. None of them follow the original novel, but this first series is the closest.
@@KarmzZY "La Planète des singes" (Planet of the Apes) is a 1963 French novel by Pierre Boulle, who also wrote Bridge Over the River Kwai. In the novel, the explorers DO go to the constellation Orion (specifically Belelguese), and discover a civilization that was once humanoid but has been taken over by apes. A surviving explorer escapes captivity, gets back into his ship, and travels back to Earth. The trip was only one year each way, from his perspective. But due to time-dilation, many centuries have passed back home. When he tries to land on Earth, he sees that the airfield attendants are apes, so he aborts the landing and takes off again. After that, he visits a number of local stars with inhabited planets, but finds that the human-to-ape transformation seems to be happening everywhere. He describes his adventures in a "message in a bottle" that he leaves in outer space. That message is the core of the novel. It's book-ended by opening and closing chapters about a couple who are on vacation in a private spaceship. In the opening, they retrieve the bottle and start to read the message. In the ending, they dismiss it as just a creative work of fiction. Because they, too, are apes.
Before CGI is where you find the real filmmakers. Now, with a big budget, everything is possible. 🌟 As I see the wars that didn’t stop to happen in our planet, even with atomic weapons that can destroy our civilization, Planet of the Apes is growing as a dark prophecy of our future. Eerie as when I saw these films for the first time in a theater, back in the late 60s and early 70s🌟✌️
That hunt was absolutely brutal. I'm trying to remember back how I reacted to it in the cinema. What I do remember was being freaked out by Stewart's mummified corpse in the space capsule. That Jerry Goldsmith score was such a great match to the movie.
As a kid I read the novel in either 1970 or 71 before seeing the movie, back then the only way to see movies was to go to the theater and watch it or wait several years before it was aired on one of the three tv networks. I was at first disappointed by the movie because they chose to make the apes less advanced, In the book they lived in modern cities, had cars, aircraft and even the beginnings of space travel. The Ape's world was not Earth but a parallel planet around the star Betelgeuse. It wasn't until the advent of VCRs that I took another look at the movie and grew to appreciate it for the sharp commentary on mankind.
Great reaction. Seeing you realize the twist was awesome. This blew our minds back in the day. There are four others in the original series. None as incredible as this. All have some strengths but weaknesses too. You will enjoy the current series for sure.
I did see this, "back in the day". I was in the 7th grade and my GF and I went and saw it at our local theatre. You could've heard a pin drop during that final scene. There was a horrible hush among everyone as we left the theatre; the ending had been so unexpected and intense.
I was not sure of your reaction at first. You seemed to not be taking the movie serious BUT, I really liked your reaction at the end. You got it. When I was a kid, this movie end was one of the great movie shock endings. Alot of lessons to be thought about from this movie. I was also the first great movie series. It led to alot of ape movies, a short lived TV series and a whole lot of ape merch in the 70s. It went on until Star Wars came out and it was pretty much replaced.
The next one (Beneath) is a bit weird but after that it goes in a whole different direction. #4 Conquest has an R rated Director's Cut on the Bluray...
8:50 That's a perfect metaphor for humanity. Possibly the only living organism on the planet, so they immediately rip it out of the ground and kill it.
Yes, I used to think that myself - but as trained scientists, they would recognize it to be too well-developed to be a one-off generation. (I think.) 🤔
Oh my god, yes! And this is a relatively early video?! Please continue the originals before going to the new ones! They need more attention! Even if they’re not as good as the first. Two of them are fan favorites. The other two, not so much, but still worth a watch. They have their place, and influence on the new ones.
I would suggest watching the rest of the original series of movies before watching the reboot series. The original series isn't all great, but it's a lot of fun and it has quite an interesting overall story arc. And then, if you watch the reboot series, it will be fun to compare the two versions.
Fantastic reaction. I’m your newest subscriber!! I suggest exploring the sequels to the original movie. They are flawed, but interesting. Back in the 60’s they had not yet learned the art of the sequel, so it’s a little rough, but Escape From the Planet of the Apes is absolutely charming.
OMG I enjoyed watching your reaction to this amazing great film!!! SEE?! Yup, I am so happy you're one of few reactors that watch older films. And awesome to see how much respect you give them and enjoy! They are great and so much better than these days. Planet of the Apes is by far one of the greats. I am going to start watching you now!!! I watch a ton of reactions. I hope you watch more of the older series of Planet of the Apes!
Basically as I've understood it the crack in the woman's pod led to the ship turning around and returning to Earth. But on arriving at Earth all of the landscape has been changed by nuclear war. The ship's computer tries to find an alternative place to land but can't find anything and ditches in the water. But what I think is truly stupid is that, after seeing the "scarecrows" all three strip naked and jump into the water. Sorry, but anyone with a brain would have had one bathe at a time while the other two, armed, stood guard.
Do yourself a favor and watch ALL of the original movies before moving on to the modern films. You will be glad you did and they all are very interesting and make you part of the Planet Of Apes culture. Have fun!
If you want to know the origin of the ape society, watch the sequels! The audience who went to see this in theaters may or may not have read the novel this is based on, so knew this entire adventure was on an ALIEN PLANET! It was a popular conceit that everyone speaks English. In French movies, all aliens spoke French. Remember, this was made during the Cold War, when America was paranoid about nuclear war. Beyond the scarecrows is ape civilization, including crops. The beast called man has no right to it. After all, they aren't people. Unfortunately for the apes, the beasts are smart enough to ignore the scarecrow meant to scare them away. Does no one remember safaris when hunters killed animals, & posed with the carcasses of their prey. The novel examined human/wildlife relations, including surgical experiments on them, that were commonplace. Being scifi, it turns the roles of human & ape on its head. To provoke throught.
Now you know,...... That you understand the movie concept............You can go forward to 3 modern movies. There is a ton of references to this movie in the new versions . ......... So pay attention. You missed........See no evil....Speak no evil......Say no evil An ape statue with a funny reference.
I could never understand how there was any doubt he was on Earth. Where else in the universe would you find humans, apes and horses ? Not to mention the English language being spoken. it's a bit of a giveaway.
In the book they land on an alien planet. The humans in the museum aren't alive. They're stuffed like we have in our museums. I can't remember the word.
The OG Planet of the Apes is brilliant… the immediate four sequels it spawned aren’t very good. The original was made for adults, the sequels for adolescents. They have a Saturday matinee feel about them. Unless you’re going to do a deep dive on the series, my recommendation is to jump to the reboots. None of them reach the level of the original, but they’re excellent movies and worth seeing. The filmmakers included a lot of “Easter eggs” for fans of the original series!
Weirdly enough, the “scarecrows” have never been explained really. We don’t know if the apes or the humans made them. I would think the apes, since going past them leads to their crops and they have patches of fur on them, and I’m not sure the humans are smart enough tk make them. They do have a stated purpose in the Tim Burton one, but that’s not connected to the originals. We actually do see Landon get knocked out from a hit on the head with a rifle during the hunt, so the skull fracture part could be true. Whether he was still able to talk before he was lobotomized is unclear, though definitely implied he could. There’s a novel where he couldn’t because of spoilery reasons I won’t share; and a comic where he could and gets beaten until his skull is fractured, requiring surgery to save his life as Zaius said A Simpsons episode did a musical version of this movie. You can look up the scene, it’s hilarious.
Please watch the whole classic films or at least until Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (4th one), many people start with the first and then jump onto the modern ones which is a big mistake.
Rod Serling help write this script. If you like Sci-Fi that makes you think and ahead of it's time, watch the Twilight Zone series. You will recognize a lot of the episodes as they are still in pop culture today.
Rod Serling was NOT actually responsible for the finished script and his influence on this film was very minimal. When he adapted the novel, his treatment was a very faithful adaptation, but it was too expensive to film. The book was very different, it was an advanced ape society set in a NYC-like metropolis. So, the other writer Michael Wilson (who's considered one of greatest screenwriters of all time) was brought in to scale down the story to a primitive ape society, which of course changed the whole theme of the story with apes living in a dogmatic society rather than a technologically progressive one. The whole story of Taylor being persecuted by this religious ape cult was based on Wilson's own experiences when he was blacklisted in Hollywood for his political views. The characters' names changed, all the dialogue was Michael Wilson's, the themes, the overall plot, the philosophical discussions, the situations etc. are all Michael Wilson. Even Serling credited 95% of the finished script to Wilson and said it wasn't really his movie. But the studio wanted to honor him for his contributions. The only thing really credited to Serling was the idea for the ending, which he used in a previous Twilight Zone episode. Although, the reveal of the Statue of Liberty was different in Serling's script. It was not the "You blew it up, D you all to H" moment as written in the film.
The original series is so much better than the reboots. The original was campy and they knew that were campy. The reboots take themselves too seriously.
The reboots suck. They took a great premise and screwed it. Watch the old sequels and call it a day. Every modern remake of anything sucks the soul out of whatever they redo. People today have no clue about anything. The average person today is an idiot.
Doesn’t anyone ever pay attention??? Didn’t you see the crack in Lieutenant Stewart’s suspended animation glass capsule??? Reading too much into something that’s not there. It’s not a detective mystery film 🤷🏻♂️
There's also no way all of NY would be flattened while it stayed standing. Also why would people with false teeth and talking dolls live in a cave in NY?
This movie really wasn't ahead of it's time. Many of the old movies and TV shows were allegories. If you've seen the movie The Thing it's based on a 1938 book that plays out very similarly but it's actually an allegory for the communist scare. TV and movies have actually gotten dumbed down and which has dumbed down the population.
Rod Serling was NOT actually responsible for the finished script and his influence on this film was very minimal. When he adapted the novel, his treatment was a very faithful adaptation, but it was too expensive to film. The book was very different, it was an advanced ape society set in a NYC-like metropolis. So, the other writer Michael Wilson (who's considered one of greatest screenwriters of all time) was brought in to scale down the story to a primitive ape society, which of course changed the whole theme of the story with apes living in a dogmatic society rather than a technologically progressive one. The whole story of Taylor being persecuted by this religious ape cult was based on Wilson's own experiences when he was blacklisted in Hollywood for his political views. The characters' names changed, all the dialogue was Michael Wilson's, the themes, the overall plot, the philosophical discussions, the situations etc. are all Michael Wilson. Even Serling credited 95% of the finished script to Wilson and said it wasn't really his movie. But the studio wanted to honor him for his contributions. The only thing really credited to Serling was the idea for the ending, which he used in a previous Twilight Zone episode. Although, the reveal of the Statue of Liberty was different in Serling's script. It was not the "You blew it up, D you all to H" moment as written in the film.
I think keeping only the sound of the waves at the end makes that moment infinitely more powerful.
It does. It makes the entire moment resonate and linger. I always loved that choice.
"The forbidden zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert out of it". Quote by Dr. Zaus.
NO ONE should go through their life without seeing this iconic classic movie,, "The Time Machine" (1960)...A personal favorite. ❤
One of the great Jerry Goldsmith scores.
Stewart died because there was a crack in the glass enclosure. Many people miss seeing that. If you go back you can see the crack.
I plan to give it a re watch soon. I will keep my eye out
I thought that was obvious the glass was cracked. I saw it right away. It’s why she aged.
I actually saw it in the theatre back then...it was the best thing ever, as far as the thought if it, the make-up, which was spectacular. Even to this date, that makes beats whatever they have done in remakes today.
That sooundtrck is just another thing the original has over the remakes of today.
You guys might think I'm weird, but I would have helped myself to some Stewart. Why not have a little fun time with her? She wouldn't know the difference.
So glad he's starting with the right one and not starting with the modern SEQUELS (They're not a remake)
It is interesting to note that in 1968 America was deeply into the Cold War nuclear standoff with Russia, and everyone knew the power of the bomb all too well. This movie speculates on the question on everyone's minds, "What will happen if there is ever a nuclear war?"
It's far more likely now than back then
@@maverickstanding5733 Have you ever heard of the Missiles of Oct ? We have never come closer than those 13 Days .
If you weren't alive back then then it's hard to understand just what dangerous time it was .
Today's pretty crazy but different .
@@paulharrold I assume you mean the "Cuban missile crisis"? No, I missed that one, but I missed the Romans too, and I can still read about them. Do you know what the Dooms Day Clock is? It's closer to midnight now than back then. Back then the empires had clear ways of communicating in a crisis, these days they don't bother. I think leaders back then had principles, now they seem to have personality disorders.
Remember that the spacecraft spun out of control and crash landed after staying in space far longer than planned, so the computers running everything had clearly malfunctioned, which was also why the astronauts believed they were many light years from earth on an unnamed planet. Some people question why the Statue of Liberty was in a desert and not in the ruins of a city, but nuclear war would have destroyed the cities, pulverizing them, and then nature obliterated what was left after 2,000 years. That's why the excavation site was in a cave and had to be dug out at different levels; that had probably once been a tall apartment building, but little survived except a few bones and artifacts. It's a thought provoking film that addresses many ethical and moral issues. The ending was a shock to audiences who truly believed this was an alien planet that just had evolved similar living beings as earth but followed a different trajectory with humans below simians.
THIS was my movie!! I had the model kit for Cornelius. Put it together and painted it, friends loved it. It remained on my shelf until Close Encounters and Star Wars came out. My sci-fi world expanded X100
Speaking of our future,, An ABSOLUTE MUST SEE Classic,, "Soylent Green" (1973)..TRUST ME on this one!! 🔥
Possibly the greatest ending to a movie ever.
Then part 2 becomes the most sci fi creepiest of the series. Most underrated.
This is a great video. I'm an Apes cultist since the early '70's. Your reaction is pretty close to what the writers & producers aimed to elicit from the viewer. Your comments on the cinematography, sets, score & dialogue are spot-on. Great movie - glad you enjoyed it!
When it came out it was one step below an X and within a few years was G. The crashed in Lake Powell, the Forbidden Zone was Monument Valley, and Ape City was 20th Century's Malibu Ranch where M*A*S*H was filmed. Taylor was called Bright eyes because he was the only one with blue eyes. When Taylor is Hanging in the net, Heston was suffering from the Flu. It's from a 1963 book by a French Author. This was the first of 5 movies, a live action and animated TV series.
You should watch the sequels to see what picture they paint and there's an even bigger twist....
Still the greatest and most important of the Apes films.
Part 2 was extremely and unnecessarily underrated. Those mutants? Nice.
This series had several installments.
Then there was a reboot in 2001, which had no sequels. Different origin story.
Then the current series, which is still another origin story.
None of them follow the original novel, but this first series is the closest.
Oh so the origin is from a novel? I did not know about that wow
@@KarmzZY "La Planète des singes" (Planet of the Apes) is a 1963 French novel by Pierre Boulle, who also wrote Bridge Over the River Kwai.
In the novel, the explorers DO go to the constellation Orion (specifically Belelguese), and discover a civilization that was once humanoid but has been taken over by apes. A surviving explorer escapes captivity, gets back into his ship, and travels back to Earth. The trip was only one year each way, from his perspective. But due to time-dilation, many centuries have passed back home. When he tries to land on Earth, he sees that the airfield attendants are apes, so he aborts the landing and takes off again. After that, he visits a number of local stars with inhabited planets, but finds that the human-to-ape transformation seems to be happening everywhere. He describes his adventures in a "message in a bottle" that he leaves in outer space. That message is the core of the novel. It's book-ended by opening and closing chapters about a couple who are on vacation in a private spaceship. In the opening, they retrieve the bottle and start to read the message. In the ending, they dismiss it as just a creative work of fiction. Because they, too, are apes.
@@KarmzZYthe novel Planet of the Apes was set in a modern setting. Apes flying airplanes, driving tanks... not post apocalyptic
@@KarmzZY It's very good
Before CGI is where you find the real filmmakers. Now, with a big budget, everything is possible. 🌟 As I see the wars that didn’t stop to happen in our planet, even with atomic weapons that can destroy our civilization, Planet of the Apes is growing as a dark prophecy of our future. Eerie as when I saw these films for the first time in a theater, back in the late 60s and early 70s🌟✌️
That hunt was absolutely brutal. I'm trying to remember back how I reacted to it in the cinema. What I do remember was being freaked out by Stewart's mummified corpse in the space capsule. That Jerry Goldsmith score was such a great match to the movie.
As a kid I read the novel in either 1970 or 71 before seeing the movie, back then the only way to see movies was to go to the theater and watch it or wait several years before it was aired on one of the three tv networks. I was at first disappointed by the movie because they chose to make the apes less advanced, In the book they lived in modern cities, had cars, aircraft and even the beginnings of space travel. The Ape's world was not Earth but a parallel planet around the star Betelgeuse. It wasn't until the advent of VCRs that I took another look at the movie and grew to appreciate it for the sharp commentary on mankind.
Great reaction. Seeing you realize the twist was awesome.
This blew our minds back in the day. There are four others in the original series. None as incredible as this. All have some strengths but weaknesses too.
You will enjoy the current series for sure.
I did see this, "back in the day". I was in the 7th grade and my GF and I went and saw it at our local theatre. You could've heard a pin drop during that final scene. There was a horrible hush among everyone as we left the theatre; the ending had been so unexpected and intense.
The orangutans at the table at the hearing did the symbols of " see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil ". A little Easter egg.
I was not sure of your reaction at first. You seemed to not be taking the movie serious BUT, I really liked your reaction at the end. You got it. When I was a kid, this movie end was one of the great movie shock endings. Alot of lessons to be thought about from this movie. I was also the first great movie series. It led to alot of ape movies, a short lived TV series and a whole lot of ape merch in the 70s. It went on until Star Wars came out and it was pretty much replaced.
The next one (Beneath) is a bit weird but after that it goes in a whole different direction. #4 Conquest has an R rated Director's Cut on the Bluray...
8:50 That's a perfect metaphor for humanity. Possibly the only living organism on the planet, so they immediately rip it out of the ground and kill it.
Yes, I used to think that myself - but as trained scientists, they would recognize it to be too well-developed to be a one-off generation. (I think.) 🤔
cool reaction, bro!
Oh my god, yes! And this is a relatively early video?! Please continue the originals before going to the new ones! They need more attention! Even if they’re not as good as the first. Two of them are fan favorites.
The other two, not so much, but still worth a watch. They have their place, and influence on the new ones.
i saw it as a kid on tv in the early 70s and was blooown away
Imagine this film came out at the height of the Cold War
I would suggest watching the rest of the original series of movies before watching the reboot series. The original series isn't all great, but it's a lot of fun and it has quite an interesting overall story arc. And then, if you watch the reboot series, it will be fun to compare the two versions.
Fantastic reaction. I’m your newest subscriber!!
I suggest exploring the sequels to the original movie. They are flawed, but interesting. Back in the 60’s they had not yet learned the art of the sequel, so it’s a little rough, but Escape From the Planet of the Apes is absolutely charming.
The producer of the Planet of the Apes, also had the movie rights to the Dune novel. But died before making the film.
OMG I enjoyed watching your reaction to this amazing great film!!! SEE?! Yup, I am so happy you're one of few reactors that watch older films. And awesome to see how much respect you give them and enjoy! They are great and so much better than these days. Planet of the Apes is by far one of the greats. I am going to start watching you now!!! I watch a ton of reactions. I hope you watch more of the older series of Planet of the Apes!
Taylor flew his spaceship into Earth's future and landed centuries after humans unleashed nuclear bombs on each other.
Andy Serkis is an absolute legend...precious.
Indeed he is
Basically as I've understood it the crack in the woman's pod led to the ship turning around and returning to Earth. But on arriving at Earth all of the landscape has been changed by nuclear war. The ship's computer tries to find an alternative place to land but can't find anything and ditches in the water. But what I think is truly stupid is that, after seeing the "scarecrows" all three strip naked and jump into the water. Sorry, but anyone with a brain would have had one bathe at a time while the other two, armed, stood guard.
Love the soundtrack
Do yourself a favor and watch ALL of the original movies before moving on to the modern films. You will be glad you did and they all are very interesting and make you part of the Planet Of Apes culture. Have fun!
Watch the other four old ones first, you'll enjoy the newer ones more that way, you'll get the references to the originals.
Forget the year it was made. There is simply no substitute for genius.
“So we are not on earth.”
Wait for it! WAIT FOR IT!!! 😉
@@artemusackerman72 errr, wait for him to realise?
@@artemusackerman72 What are you talking about - hes already seen it?!
If you want to know the origin of the ape society, watch the sequels!
The audience who went to see this in theaters may or may not have read the novel this is based on, so knew this entire adventure was on an ALIEN PLANET! It was a popular conceit that everyone speaks English. In French movies, all aliens spoke French.
Remember, this was made during the Cold War, when America was paranoid about nuclear war.
Beyond the scarecrows is ape civilization, including crops. The beast called man has no right to it. After all, they aren't people. Unfortunately for the apes, the beasts are smart enough to ignore the scarecrow meant to scare them away.
Does no one remember safaris when hunters killed animals, & posed with the carcasses of their prey.
The novel examined human/wildlife relations, including surgical experiments on them, that were commonplace. Being scifi, it turns the roles of human & ape on its head. To provoke throught.
The end of the novel , Planet of the Apes, is much more shocking!
Yes do these they're all pretty good.
Now you know,...... That you understand the movie concept............You can go forward to 3 modern movies.
There is a ton of references to this movie in the new versions . ......... So pay attention.
You missed........See no evil....Speak no evil......Say no evil An ape statue with a funny reference.
❤ this!!! 2 just as good...and the other too!
Fun fact this movies based on a French novel.
I could never understand how there was any doubt he was on Earth. Where else in the universe would you find humans, apes and horses ? Not to mention the English language being spoken. it's a bit of a giveaway.
Fun fact for all y'all : I'm as old as this movie 🎥 lol this movie hit the theater a few days before I was born! LMAO 🤣🤣
In the book they land on an alien planet. The humans in the museum aren't alive. They're stuffed like we have in our museums. I can't remember the word.
The OG Planet of the Apes is brilliant… the immediate four sequels it spawned aren’t very good. The original was made for adults, the sequels for adolescents. They have a Saturday matinee feel about them. Unless you’re going to do a deep dive on the series, my recommendation is to jump to the reboots. None of them reach the level of the original, but they’re excellent movies and worth seeing. The filmmakers included a lot of “Easter eggs” for fans of the original series!
The apes made the scarecrows to keep the humans out of their crops☮️
Rated G.
Weirdly enough, the “scarecrows” have never been explained really. We don’t know if the apes or the humans made them. I would think the apes, since going past them leads to their crops and they have patches of fur on them, and I’m not sure the humans are smart enough tk make them. They do have a stated purpose in the Tim Burton one, but that’s not connected to the originals.
We actually do see Landon get knocked out from a hit on the head with a rifle during the hunt, so the skull fracture part could be true. Whether he was still able to talk before he was lobotomized is unclear, though definitely implied he could. There’s a novel where he couldn’t because of spoilery reasons I won’t share; and a comic where he could and gets beaten until his skull is fractured, requiring surgery to save his life as Zaius said
A Simpsons episode did a musical version of this movie. You can look up the scene, it’s hilarious.
There's a graphic novel that follows Landon's story
@@maverickstanding5733 really?! Which is it? Like one of those old Marvel ones?
@@jonmercano1138
Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes
@@maverickstanding5733 oh yeah, that’s the novel I was talking about. I was thinking more of a comic, but that’s a novel with illustrations
The scarecrows were set up by the apes, saying "Don't go there (The Forbidden Zone)!"
Watched this in a neighborhood theatre when I was 14 and it blew the audience away, but the sequels fumbled around and were less interesting
The apes for the ones who made the scarecrows to scare off the humans.
They mark the boundaries of the “forbidden zone”, and presumably are there to warn other apes from going into it.
@@Parallax-3D Oh yeah that does make sense.
Please watch the whole classic films or at least until Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (4th one), many people start with the first and then jump onto the modern ones which is a big mistake.
Rod Serling help write this script. If you like Sci-Fi that makes you think and ahead of it's time, watch the Twilight Zone series. You will recognize a lot of the episodes as they are still in pop culture today.
Rod Serling was NOT actually responsible for the finished script and his influence on this film was very minimal. When he adapted the novel, his treatment was a very faithful adaptation, but it was too expensive to film. The book was very different, it was an advanced ape society set in a NYC-like metropolis. So, the other writer Michael Wilson (who's considered one of greatest screenwriters of all time) was brought in to scale down the story to a primitive ape society, which of course changed the whole theme of the story with apes living in a dogmatic society rather than a technologically progressive one. The whole story of Taylor being persecuted by this religious ape cult was based on Wilson's own experiences when he was blacklisted in Hollywood for his political views. The characters' names changed, all the dialogue was Michael Wilson's, the themes, the overall plot, the philosophical discussions, the situations etc. are all Michael Wilson. Even Serling credited 95% of the finished script to Wilson and said it wasn't really his movie. But the studio wanted to honor him for his contributions. The only thing really credited to Serling was the idea for the ending, which he used in a previous Twilight Zone episode. Although, the reveal of the Statue of Liberty was different in Serling's script. It was not the "You blew it up, D you all to H" moment as written in the film.
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Please please do the original sequels/watch all the Apes films in release order
The original series is so much better than the reboots. The original was campy and they knew that were campy. The reboots take themselves too seriously.
Nuclear war.
The reboots suck. They took a great premise and screwed it. Watch the old sequels and call it a day. Every modern remake of anything sucks the soul out of whatever they redo. People today have no clue about anything. The average person today is an idiot.
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Doesn’t anyone ever pay attention??? Didn’t you see the crack in Lieutenant Stewart’s suspended animation glass capsule??? Reading too much into something that’s not there. It’s not a detective mystery film 🤷🏻♂️
The first remake not nearly as good, but watch closely, youll see someone.
I hate 4K, I prefer old ones
BENEATH and ESCAPE are great sequels
Please for the love of god take the statue of liberty out of the god damn thumbnail.
There’s NO WAY THAT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WOULD SURVIVE THAT LONG
There's also no way all of NY would be flattened while it stayed standing. Also why would people with false teeth and talking dolls live in a cave in NY?
Not the point. 🙄
This movie really wasn't ahead of it's time. Many of the old movies and TV shows were allegories. If you've seen the movie The Thing it's based on a 1938 book that plays out very similarly but it's actually an allegory for the communist scare. TV and movies have actually gotten dumbed down and which has dumbed down the population.
No,, it was not promoted as a scary moviie. We knew back then that aanythinng associated with the name ROD SERLING wwould be thought provolking.
Rod Serling was NOT actually responsible for the finished script and his influence on this film was very minimal. When he adapted the novel, his treatment was a very faithful adaptation, but it was too expensive to film. The book was very different, it was an advanced ape society set in a NYC-like metropolis. So, the other writer Michael Wilson (who's considered one of greatest screenwriters of all time) was brought in to scale down the story to a primitive ape society, which of course changed the whole theme of the story with apes living in a dogmatic society rather than a technologically progressive one. The whole story of Taylor being persecuted by this religious ape cult was based on Wilson's own experiences when he was blacklisted in Hollywood for his political views. The characters' names changed, all the dialogue was Michael Wilson's, the themes, the overall plot, the philosophical discussions, the situations etc. are all Michael Wilson. Even Serling credited 95% of the finished script to Wilson and said it wasn't really his movie. But the studio wanted to honor him for his contributions. The only thing really credited to Serling was the idea for the ending, which he used in a previous Twilight Zone episode. Although, the reveal of the Statue of Liberty was different in Serling's script. It was not the "You blew it up, D you all to H" moment as written in the film.
Great! It is very interesting to see your detailed reaction to the film Robocop 1987. This is a cool movie 🦾🤖🔥
Do you have any plans to do it?
I will add it to the watch list for sure!
Cool! I will really look forward your lengthy and detailed reaction to this iconic movie 👍🔥