The second movie that my group watched for the Film Project was Planet of the Apes. I had also seen this movie before but watching it again I noticed more things. The long drawn out scenes reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The apes also reminded me of this movie. In the movie, four astronauts are sent to 
a space mission that will last a few thousand years. On the voyage, one astronaut dies. When I saw this movie as a kid, the image of her laying there always scared me. The three remaining astronauts land on a planet that does not have much on it. They search all over for life. They soon find a group of primitive humans, although none of them can speak. Apes on horseback come and hunt the humans. One of the astronauts is killed and the other two are captured. In this parallel universe, the humans are the animals and the apes are human-like. Somehow, all of the apes speak English. Taylor is helped by a woman scientist, Zira. Taylor sees that the other astronaut had a lobotomy and he says his famous line "you damn dirt apes"! Zira and her fiance take Taylor and the woman he is with to 'the forbidden city' to try and find a way back home. Taylor finds that the world he is on is, in fact, Earth and he sees the Statue of Liberty and then the movie ends.
a space mission that will last a few thousand years. On the voyage, one astronaut dies. When I saw this movie as a kid, the image of her laying there always scared me. The three remaining astronauts land on a planet that does not have much on it. They search all over for life. They soon find a group of primitive humans, although none of them can speak. Apes on horseback come and hunt the humans. One of the astronauts is killed and the other two are captured. In this parallel universe, the humans are the animals and the apes are human-like. Somehow, all of the apes speak English. Taylor is helped by a woman scientist, Zira. Taylor sees that the other astronaut had a lobotomy and he says his famous line "you damn dirt apes"! Zira and her fiance take Taylor and the woman he is with to 'the forbidden city' to try and find a way back home. Taylor finds that the world he is on is, in fact, Earth and he sees the Statue of Liberty and then the movie ends.
9.5/10. Great summaries and visuals. -.5: add analysis of key ideas & go beyond summary in some way.
ReplyDeleteGood work as usual!