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You guys are awesome the proper way to watch planet of the apes is watch originals 2003 version then the newer versions then after that you guys can react to new movie coming to theatres
The Martian would be a great choice. I especially enjoy the 'unrelated' fact that after Interstellar, The Martian is a great palette cleanser for Matt Damon's screen presence.
"Planting your flag" is a real tradition, often used to "claim" that ground in the name of whatever that flag represents. The laughter was because Taylor understood how ridiculous "planting your flag" would be, light years away and thousands of years in the future.
@@Karmagirl29 they never thought it was Earth ever. You've been over spoiled by modern technology. The truth is as fantastic as those planets are in Star wars, comic books and other modern sci-fi... If we do manage to get to the nearest inhabitable planet, chances are it's going to be almost identical to Earth. It's going to have oceans, it's going to have rain it's going to have plant life.
1:03:15 - It wasn’t as much about the apes having evolved, but the fact that the human race got into a nuclear war and destroyed themselves and the planet. Even the color of the sky was unrecognizable.
@@bl8388 laughing at claiming something for a country that , by any logical assumption, doesn't exist any more! It's 2000 years later. The irony is that not only the USA ceased to exist by that time, but the whole of humanity as well. Not only this, but they have even regressed into the level of animals. So the flag, and all what it stands for, was a sad joke indeed after-all, and the cynical, laughing man had the insight and the intuition to see this. His view of humanity, with which the movie started, turned out to be spot on by the end.
Yes, Taylor found all sentiments of the triumph of humanity ridiculous. But he wasn't a complete cynic. He tried to humanize Nova by giving her a name and trying to teach her to speak and his pained reaction to the final twist proves that he, probably, much to his own surprise, still had better expectations for humanity.
Remember, too, that the threat of nuclear war was especially real during this time period, so the ending where Taylor realizes that humans had indeed destroyed the world during his absence really hit the audience hard.
Same here. But I hate that the VHS and DVD covers for this film spoiled it. It's one thing for others to make fun of it but they shouldn't be spoiling it for people buying the film
Talor wasn't laughing at Stuart death an it wasnt a memorial it was the fact that landon was planting a us flag down as if it mattered 2000 years in the future on a distant planet.
When he plants the flag he isn't having a burial, he's claiming the planet in the name of the US of A. This is what Taylor finds so funny. The ending we finally get, that Heston liked the most, came from Rod Serling's contribution to the scripts (most of which were re-written). He had actually used it before in a Twilight Zone episode where 3 astronauts crash. Thinking they are on Mars one kills the other two to extend his supplies only to crest a final hill and see the Las Vegas sign glaring out into the night showing they had been on earth the whole time and would've been rescued if he'd just been patient.
Rod Serling only came up with the idea of the ending. But as depicted in the film, it was not written by him as he 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 you may have missed when Taylor first speaks and says 'Take your paws off me you damn dirty ape'' is the same line Malfoy says in 'Rise' When Caesar first says 'NO'
1) Taylor, the ultimate misanthrope, is forced to defend humanity throughout the movie once the first hunt ends. What irony. 2) Look at Taylor's face while Cornelius reads the 29th scroll. He knows these words could've come from himself only a short time ago. He's stunned. 3) Also, as far as the ending, the quote from Einstein I think applies: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".
Linda Harrison (Nova) was a Miss Maryland and first runner-up in the 1965 Miss America pageant. She was the second wife of film producer Richard D. Zanuck (Jaws, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). She used her new-found fame in POTA to get a lead in the TV series Bracken's World a year later but that only lasted 2 seasons. Later credits include Airport 75 and Cocoon (+ sequel). Cool trivia: In 1967, Harrison was featured in some test footage for a Wonder Woman series. Harrison played a glamorous mirror image of Wonder Woman, which existed only in the imagination of the homely Diana Prince character, played by Ellie Wood Walker. Nothing came of it.
Linda Harrison also appeared briefly in a scene of Tim Burton's POTA in 2001. Kris Kristofferson was in the same scene. I think it's when Mark Wahlberg is put in a wagon containing other humans.
@@rogers.5153 The last Burton movie to feature his girlfriend, Lisa Marie (not Presley) and the first to feature his future (now past) partner, Helena Bonham Carter.
This will always be the best Apes movie. The social commentary and themes throughout are still relevant today, and the impact this movie had on cinema can not be overlooked. Truly a remarkable achievement. Charlton Heston is just so damn good
33:10 - BRIGHT EYES? - Dr Zira calls Taylor 'bright eyes' because of his blue eyes. The ape in the reboot was named 'bright eyes' as a nod to the 1968 movie. Don't forget... this is the original story from which all other movie references are based.
James Franciscus, who starred in the sequel, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", said that when they broke for lunch, all the humans sat together, the chimpanzees sat together, the gorillas sat together, and the orangutans sat together. Kind of thought that might have been a story made up for talk shows since I'm not sure actors could eat in the ape make-up.
One of the best Sci-fi movies ever made! Based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle. The original script, based on the novel, was a lot different than the final cut of the movie, as the Apes drove cars trucks tanks jeeps buses trains as well as flying helicopters and airplanes and having a hierarchy similar to the United Nations but this was deemed too expensive and the budget was cut down to $5 million dollars. The film was a box office and critical success making $32 million dollars. It won an Honorary Oscar for Best Makeup at the 1969 Academy Awards.
Paul Williams indeed was in full makeup on Johnny Carson's version of The Tonight Show. Well worth looking up on UA-cam! (as is Roddy McDowell on the Carol Burnett Show!)
A few Easter eggs: Nova - same name as the little mute girl in War Cornelius - same name as Caesar’s younger son Bright Eyes - same name as Caesar’s older son The scare crows - same as what Woody Harrelson’s army used in War “Damn dirty ape” - Malfoy says same thing in Rise “It’s a mad house” - Malfoy says same thing in Rise
10:50 He wasn't planting a little memorial for the dead astronaut. He was being patriotic. He was planting the American flag on that planet just like we planted the American flag on the moon. Taylor was laughing because the odds of America still being around 2000 years later is astronomical.
Linda Harrison, who played Nova, is now 78. I read that she still makes appearances at Planet of the Apes conventions. She had a small cameo in Tim Burton's 2001 Planet of the Apes movie.
THANK YOU for reacting to this great movie from my childhood!, I was 7 years old in march 1968 when my older brother took me to see this, it was the first movie I ever saw in the theatre, the apes scared the hell out of me when they first appeared, and the ending silenced the entire theatre!. LOVE this film!!
Landon was not building a memorial to Stewart, he was planting the American Flag on a newly discovered planet. That's why Taylor was laughing at him. Like it mattered anymore. Also: the only miniature used in the opening crash scene was when the ship was going down after they abandoned it. Everything else was practical.
The original story was actually set on an alien planet where the apes had a twentieth century level civilization. A graphic novel adaptation of Rod Serling's original script was published in 2018.
I saw this in the theater when it was first released. John Chambers (who created Spok's ears in Star Trek) won an Oscar for his creation of the apes' costumes. Later in life Chambers was awarded CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit for his involvement in the Canadian Caper, in which six American hostages escaped during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The incident was the basis of the film Argo.
The Dr Ape calling Heston Bright Eyes was used in the newer films when they used the ALZ-12 on Caesars mother. Another callback was when Caesar grabs the guy in the Ape prison and says Hestons famous line "get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape." There are several others, but i wished they filmed the newer films on the East Coast so they could show when the Statue of Liberty falls. Maybe in Kingdom?
@@jimpepper7148 I liked that reference. I'm glad they didn't show the actual Statue of Liberty falling. This is a reboot series. It shouldn't have to feel like it needs to lead to the original series
Also I'm sure in the planet of the apes reboot, there was a radio or TV broadcast mentioning that a space ship had launched or got lost. That was a nice nod to the originals too. So technically they could feature it crash landing in a sequel if they wanted.
Linda Harrison was a true beauty of the New Hollywood era. She wasn't in a lot of movies, though. She was in the first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, as well as Airport 75 and Ron Howard's Cocoon. She even makes a cameo in the Tim Burton remake of Apes; she's one of the humans caged in with Mark Wahlberg when the apes are first introduced. Fun fact: she was in the running to play Ellen Brody in Jaws because her husband, producer Richard Zanuck promised her the role. But Steven Spielberg also promised Lorraine Gary the role, and the latter got the role.
1:15:45 The Barbie Reference is to the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, but I can see how it’s reminiscent of Planet of the Apes, which I believe is from the same era of film making.
Something I absolutely dislike is whenever the original (1968) “Planet of the Apes” has a photo attached to the discussion, it’s always the Statue of Liberty. Biggest spoiler ever. That’s like a caption of “He finally realizes he’s dead” on a picture of Bruce Willis when talking about “The Sixth Sense” (1999). And it seems like everybody does it.
There were no miniatures used in the crash landing scene. The landscape was real as was the ship in the water. The Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in the states of Arizona and Utah is where larger portions of the film were made, including Lake Powell ... the lake where the crash landing occurred.
roddy mcdowall, who plays "cornelius," just 2 years earlier played a high school student (he was 35) in the film "lord love a duck." one of the weirdest and wildest films you're ever likely to see. he was a child actor who starred in john ford's oscar winning "how green was my valley" (1941). he starred in 2 kid classics in 1943 "my friend flicka" and "lassie come home." he also appeared in "the longest day" (1962) about d-day, "the poseidon adventure" (1972), "the legend of hell house" (1973) and "fright night" (1985). he has a credit list about a mile long. one of my favorites. thanks for the video.
Don't forget his appearance in "Cleopatra" as Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus. (He's also in a fine "Twilight Zone" episode called "People Are Alike All Over.")
Another C. Heston movie that you must see is called “Ben Hur”! It is Heston at his best. It is a very long film, but well worth the view. It is considered a really Classic!!!
My ranking of the originals: Planet of the Apes Escape from the Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Fun Fact : Doctor Cornelius in the movie was played by the legendary actor Roddy McDowell who also voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman The Animated Series along with Kevin Conroy. Both phenomenal actors. R.IP.😢
Yeah man, Jerry Goldsmith was infamous for his experimental percussion and later on electronic orchestral fusions, this is one of his best semi avant garde scores
The fact that the "hero" of the story, Taylor, isn't very likeable at first is especially interesting because you truly get to see his character develop where his shock at the end hits emotionally. So many deep issues raised, from science versus religion, evolution versus creationism, prejudice and discrimination versus equality, and themes regarding social hierarchy (here, the orangutans look down on chimpanzees and gorillas) and species claiming superiority over other beings. A great film!!
I'm surprised so few recognise as you have the deep and profound examinations of the human condition explored in this film. Remembering the time this was made and the activism ongoing during that period (and still) it really has some powerful messages.
What a great reaction to this classic movie! I was too young to see the movies in theaters, but you have no idea how popular the Planet of the Apes movies were back in the 70s! I was in disbelief when the battered Statue of Liberty showed up on that beach as a kid in the 70s!
Nova was played by Linda Harrison who was also in the sequel Beneath the Planet Of The Apes as well as Cocoon and Airport 75 along with many television appearances including a Batman episode from 1966. Her natural beauty was stunning and now in her 70's still makes appearances at conventions.
It’s also really neat to see the irony in each characters fate, Stewart was supposed to be the new Eve/beginning for humanity but with her death solidified the end of modern humanity, Dodge was the most willing to put himself in harms way to learn something no one else new but, the recklessness is what stopped him from learning anything by getting killed too early, Landon was prepared to die but, ended his story in a living hell, and lastly Taylor who was so cynical of humans ended up perpetuating the human’s beliefs.
It’s crazy that John Chambers, the man who won an Oscar for best makeup for this movie, went on to help the CIA to 6 Americans escape Iran during the Iran Hostage Crisis. I hope that these guys react to Argo to see the full and truly crazy story.
I remember first seeing this movie back before the first of the Ceaser films came out. What struck me most was it's pacing and how it felt so very counter to everything that I was watching from modern Hollywood. But also the kind of pace I actually like in movies. A classic for a reason.
Charlton Heston (who was a huge star for 30 years) was invested in the film from the first Idea. It took a few years for it to develop. It would rest on the ape makeup to make it realistic and not laughable. Not just people in an ape suit. If Heston pulled out they had their eye on Sean Connery.
Yes, we original watchers were quite shocked at the ending, and the scene and what it represented just "stayed" with you. Sadly, the ending is spoiled for the younger generation. And again, Yes, the make-up is still quite impressive.
That wasn’t a memorial for the woman astronaut that died, they were planting their flag, basically claiming the land for america. That is why taylor laughed, the o ther guy was claiming this land for a country that no longer exists.
She kept grabbing the bars, because she saw Taylor being defiant and standing up, so she decided to do so as well, gaining back some of her humanity. The reason why she wiped away what Taylor wrote and put her hand up against his mouth, because over the course of time it was forbidden for them to speak or even write. Throughout the centuries they kept this memory of how dangerous it is for them to speak.
I had a massive crush on Roddy McDowall, who plays Cornelius, at the time I saw this movie (late 70s?) & I loved that you could see his acting (& his incredibly expressive big brown eyes) through the amazing ape makeup. He’s also fantastic in the original Fright Night (1985), you guys should give it a watch!
one of the greatest joys of some of the rebootquels, when done right , is seeing the passage of time in filmmaking and how much we have learned. there is a magic and humanness in this one that will always be relevant. so much of this film is in the DNA of the newer trilogy and clearly in Kingdom.
I was born in '71 and my sis in '75. We never watched any of these movies in the theater, BUT back in the day when there was only basic cable and HBO, TBS would run a Planet of the Apes marathon once a year, and we would watch it in its entirety every single year. We still let each other know when'where the movie series is available to this day. Thanks for doing these reactions!
I'm glad someone besides me caught how stunning the cinematography was in the first quarter of the film. Everyone taps his fingers waiting for the primates to show up, but if you see it enough times, you realize that the movie is already in third gear by that point.
Charlton Heston was one of the late great classic actors. He was Ben-Hur in the movie of the same title, and Moses in The Ten Commandments as well as other leading men roles.
I can't stress this enough. This movie came out in the cold war. He wasn't damning the apes to hell. And "planet of the apes" name has nothing to do with the apes that live earth now.
I saw an interview with Roddy McDowell who said that when he first wore the make-up it was so uncomfortable that he cried. Yet, he made a few more Ape movies. I also read that Rod Sterling (Twight Zone) helped in writing this..
The beginning of Barbie is a callback to the first section of "2001: A Space Odyssey", not "Planet Of The Apes". Ironically enough, both movies were released on the same exact day, April 3, 1968! (There are apes in that one too! And an even bigger wtf ending!!! :P)
@@charlessperling7031 Interesting! The studios used to crank them out back then. You're under contract, you'll make three pictures a year and like it! :D
I would love to see reactions to the other 4 films (not many people do reactions to them)-- Also, recently watching Rise with subtitles, I noticed Tom Felton's character is named 'Dodge'! Not only that the credits reveal his full name as Dodge Landon! (Obviously references both characters from this film)
1:17:25 Mark! Hmm. I still don't think of his laughter as "maniacal". I thought that he was laughing at what he thought of as futile gestures when they should be in survival mode. 🤔 As for the flag, I thought it was about marking territory, not making a memorial marker. 🤔
Landon wasn't preparing a memorial for Stewart, he was simply planting the US flag on a planet 2000 years into the future for a people and a country that no longer exists. That's what sent Taylor into a laughing fit when he saw what Landon did.
37:25 Mark! Aha! Back then, "spoilers" were pointing out stunt performers and how the special effects and sets were made. Also, how stage magic/illusions were done! Not what you younger people think of as "spoilers" nowadays! 😁
Goldsmith was influenced here by early 20th century modernist composers like Stravinsky (the dying dinosaurs in Fantasia come to mind repeatedly) but also the wild avant-garde Hungarian-Austrian composer Ligeti who was a big deal in 1960s experimental serious music. His haunting work is best known in popular culture from Kubrick's 2001 (also 1968) in the caveman opening and the light show sequence at the end. The lead-up to the arrival of the first monolith uses Ligetis Requiem which is the craziest, most upsetting otherworldly music ever and amazingly was almost brand new. I think Requiem wasn't finalized until 1965.
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You guys are awesome the proper way to watch planet of the apes is watch originals 2003 version then the newer versions then after that you guys can react to new movie coming to theatres
Can you guys please react to the next planet of the apes movie it’s titled beneath the planet of the apes
You guys suck you guys skipped over one of the most iconic movie lines ever learn how to edit right without editing over important lines
The Martian would be a great choice. I especially enjoy the 'unrelated' fact that after Interstellar, The Martian is a great palette cleanser for Matt Damon's screen presence.
Now y’all gotta watch beneath the planet of the apes. Escape from the planet of the apes conquest of the planet of the apes
That Statue of Liberty scene at the end is so iconic with such a powerful message. Easily one of the greatest twists in film history.
it's up there with the twist in the empire strikes back
Especially when the Spaceballs come out of its nose
There’s NO WAY THAT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WOULD SURVIVE THAT LONG
@@mem1701movies In fairness she looks real dead. Her eyes didn't even blink once.
@@bl8388 pretty sure i seen her finger move.😂
"Planting your flag" is a real tradition, often used to "claim" that ground in the name of whatever that flag represents. The laughter was because Taylor understood how ridiculous "planting your flag" would be, light years away and thousands of years in the future.
That's how I always interpreted that scene, as well, though I found their interpretation interesting.
I always thought he suspected it was Earth, which would kinda make that pointless.
yeah it was done on the moon too when man went
Right? As far as Taylor knew, the country that the flag represented most likely no longer exists and the ending of the movie proves that it doesn’t.
@@Karmagirl29 they never thought it was Earth ever. You've been over spoiled by modern technology. The truth is as fantastic as those planets are in Star wars, comic books and other modern sci-fi... If we do manage to get to the nearest inhabitable planet, chances are it's going to be almost identical to Earth. It's going to have oceans, it's going to have rain it's going to have plant life.
1:03:15 - It wasn’t as much about the apes having evolved, but the fact that the human race got into a nuclear war and destroyed themselves and the planet. Even the color of the sky was unrecognizable.
When they planted the Stars and Stripes it was to claim the planet for USA, which was what Heston's character found so amusing
Appreciate this. I couldn't tell what he was laughing at.
I’m surprised these hipsters didn’t understand that
Yeah, how did they not get it? He was claiming the planet. I got it when I was a teen way back in the 80s.
@@bl8388 laughing at claiming something for a country that , by any logical assumption, doesn't exist any more! It's 2000 years later.
The irony is that not only the USA ceased to exist by that time, but the whole of humanity as well. Not only this, but they have even regressed into the level of animals. So the flag, and all what it stands for, was a sad joke indeed after-all, and the cynical, laughing man had the insight and the intuition to see this. His view of humanity, with which the movie started, turned out to be spot on by the end.
Yes, Taylor found all sentiments of the triumph of humanity ridiculous. But he wasn't a complete cynic. He tried to humanize Nova by giving her a name and trying to teach her to speak and his pained reaction to the final twist proves that he, probably, much to his own surprise, still had better expectations for humanity.
Remember, too, that the threat of nuclear war was especially real during this time period, so the ending where Taylor realizes that humans had indeed destroyed the world during his absence really hit the audience hard.
The big three: Zira, Cornelius, and Zaius were so iconic. And the makeup was so well designed to allow them to ACT through it.
The best twist ending that was spoiled for me by parodies and nods throughout my childhood before I saw this as an adult.
Damn Dirty Apes!!!!!!
Same here. But I hate that the VHS and DVD covers for this film spoiled it. It's one thing for others to make fun of it but they shouldn't be spoiling it for people buying the film
Madagascar spoiled the ending for me
@@copuim_dealer for me it was like half of the shows on Cartoon Network.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ruined it for me lol
Charlton Heston - oh, right, the guy from Wayne’s World 😂😂😂
Y’all need to watch Ben Hur
And a lot more.
and the Ten Commandments, just to start.
I'm a child of the 70s so The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Airport 75 and Earthquake are my Heston movies.
@@reesebn38 🫱🏿🫲🏻
@@reesebn38 Love The Omega Man, even if it wasnt a faithful adaptation of I Am Legend the novel.
Talor wasn't laughing at Stuart death an it wasnt a memorial it was the fact that landon was planting a us flag down as if it mattered 2000 years in the future on a distant planet.
When he plants the flag he isn't having a burial, he's claiming the planet in the name of the US of A. This is what Taylor finds so funny. The ending we finally get, that Heston liked the most, came from Rod Serling's contribution to the scripts (most of which were re-written). He had actually used it before in a Twilight Zone episode where 3 astronauts crash. Thinking they are on Mars one kills the other two to extend his supplies only to crest a final hill and see the Las Vegas sign glaring out into the night showing they had been on earth the whole time and would've been rescued if he'd just been patient.
Rod Serling only came up with the idea of the ending. But as depicted in the film, it was not written by him as he 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 you may have missed when Taylor first speaks and says 'Take your paws off me you damn dirty ape'' is the same line Malfoy says in 'Rise' When Caesar first says 'NO'
And Malfoy's name was Dodge, a nod to Heston's fellow astronaut, just like the name of Bright Eyes was used for Ceasar's mom in Rise.
And little girl in War is Nova, surprised it was edited in the middle of that iconic line.
They call him Bright Eyes, same as the ape in "Rise"
@@minnesotajones261 Not to mention his full name was Dodge Landon, so including the reference to Bright Eyes all 3 characters are references.
They missed loads as usual. I'm giving up watching them
1) Taylor, the ultimate misanthrope, is forced to defend humanity throughout the movie once the first hunt ends. What irony.
2) Look at Taylor's face while Cornelius reads the 29th scroll. He knows these words could've come from himself only a short time ago. He's stunned.
3) Also, as far as the ending, the quote from Einstein I think applies: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".
Linda Harrison (Nova) was a Miss Maryland and first runner-up in the 1965 Miss America pageant. She was the second wife of film producer Richard D. Zanuck (Jaws, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). She used her new-found fame in POTA to get a lead in the TV series Bracken's World a year later but that only lasted 2 seasons. Later credits include Airport 75 and Cocoon (+ sequel). Cool trivia: In 1967, Harrison was featured in some test footage for a Wonder Woman series. Harrison played a glamorous mirror image of Wonder Woman, which existed only in the imagination of the homely Diana Prince character, played by Ellie Wood Walker. Nothing came of it.
Thanks, and still alive as of May 2024.
Linda Harrison also appeared briefly in a scene of Tim Burton's POTA in 2001. Kris Kristofferson was in the same scene. I think it's when Mark Wahlberg is put in a wagon containing other humans.
@@rogers.5153 The last Burton movie to feature his girlfriend, Lisa Marie (not Presley) and the first to feature his future (now past) partner, Helena Bonham Carter.
@@HuntingViolets Lisa Marie was so hot in "Ed Wood"!
This will always be the best Apes movie. The social commentary and themes throughout are still relevant today, and the impact this movie had on cinema can not be overlooked. Truly a remarkable achievement. Charlton Heston is just so damn good
I am surprised that you didn't know about the end twist, because it is so iconic and referenced.
Oh great Spaceballs.....There goes the planet😂😂
They don't usually watch older films. That's why?
The Barbie scene isn't a callback to this movie. It was a callback to 2001. (The movie, not the year.)
2001: A Space Odyssey
They built that entire Ape City set. It was darned impressive.
Looks like Santa Fe.
In 1968 these were the top five movies. 2001 a space odyssey, Bullit, Planet of the Apes, Night of the Living Dead, and Romeo and Juliet. In 1968.
That's an insane group. They're all iconic movies 50+ years later
33:10 - BRIGHT EYES? - Dr Zira calls Taylor 'bright eyes' because of his blue eyes. The ape in the reboot was named 'bright eyes' as a nod to the 1968 movie. Don't forget... this is the original story from which all other movie references are based.
James Franciscus, who starred in the sequel, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", said that when they broke for lunch, all the humans sat together, the chimpanzees sat together, the gorillas sat together, and the orangutans sat together. Kind of thought that might have been a story made up for talk shows since I'm not sure actors could eat in the ape make-up.
They can.but very carefully.
One of the best Sci-fi movies ever made!
Based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.
The original script, based on the novel, was a lot different than the final cut of the movie, as the Apes drove cars trucks tanks jeeps buses trains as well as flying helicopters and airplanes and having a hierarchy similar to the United Nations but this was deemed too expensive and the budget was cut down to $5 million dollars.
The film was a box office and critical success making $32 million dollars.
It won an Honorary Oscar for Best Makeup at the 1969 Academy Awards.
The novel is completely different, including the twist.
Roddy McDowell as Cornelius was fantastic. He did most of the movies and the tv series. I saw him on some talk shows still in makeup. lol.
One of the actors who played one of the orange haired apes was in a full costume during an interview on a talkshow.
@@mildredpierce4506 I think that was Paul Williams. I was wrong. Roddy did it on the Carol Burnette show.
Paul Williams indeed was in full makeup on Johnny Carson's version of The Tonight Show. Well worth looking up on UA-cam! (as is Roddy McDowell on the Carol Burnett Show!)
A few Easter eggs:
Nova - same name as the little mute girl in War
Cornelius - same name as Caesar’s younger son
Bright Eyes - same name as Caesar’s older son
The scare crows - same as what Woody Harrelson’s army used in War
“Damn dirty ape” - Malfoy says same thing in Rise
“It’s a mad house” - Malfoy says same thing in Rise
Also, the part of Dr Zaius was played by Maurice Evans, who got an honorable mention as the orangutan Maurice, in the recent trilogy.
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He wasn't planting a little memorial for the dead astronaut.
He was being patriotic. He was planting the American flag on that planet just like we planted the American flag on the moon.
Taylor was laughing because the odds of America still being around 2000 years later is astronomical.
"Don't look for it Taylor. You might not like what you find.." The most chilling line of the entire movie.
Linda Harrison, who played Nova, is now 78. I read that she still makes appearances at Planet of the Apes conventions. She had a small cameo in Tim Burton's 2001 Planet of the Apes movie.
THANK YOU for reacting to this great movie from my childhood!, I was 7 years old in march 1968 when my older brother took me to see this, it was the first movie I ever saw in the theatre, the apes scared the hell out of me when they first appeared, and the ending silenced the entire theatre!. LOVE this film!!
One of the best lines in my opinion" would an ape mak a human doll..... that TALKS?
Super underrated movies i loved these growing up
Landon was not building a memorial to Stewart, he was planting the American Flag on a newly discovered planet. That's why Taylor was laughing at him. Like it mattered anymore. Also: the only miniature used in the opening crash scene was when the ship was going down after they abandoned it. Everything else was practical.
Just beat me to this lol
Isn't using a miniature also a practical effect? I really don't know.
The reveal of the apes on horseback is one of the best reveals in movie history.
The original story was actually set on an alien planet where the apes had a twentieth century level civilization. A graphic novel adaptation of Rod Serling's original script was published in 2018.
I saw this in the theater when it was first released. John Chambers (who created Spok's ears in Star Trek) won an Oscar for his creation of the apes' costumes.
Later in life Chambers was awarded CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit for his involvement in the Canadian Caper, in which six American hostages escaped during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The incident was the basis of the film Argo.
The Dr Ape calling Heston Bright Eyes was used in the newer films when they used the ALZ-12 on Caesars mother. Another callback was when Caesar grabs the guy in the Ape prison and says Hestons famous line "get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape." There are several others, but i wished they filmed the newer films on the East Coast so they could show when the Statue of Liberty falls. Maybe in Kingdom?
Another call back line in Rise is "it's a mad house!"
Caesar is doing a jigsaw of the Statue of Liberty in RISE...
Weird, using Heston's line against Caesar.
@@jimpepper7148 I liked that reference. I'm glad they didn't show the actual Statue of Liberty falling. This is a reboot series. It shouldn't have to feel like it needs to lead to the original series
Also I'm sure in the planet of the apes reboot, there was a radio or TV broadcast mentioning that a space ship had launched or got lost. That was a nice nod to the originals too. So technically they could feature it crash landing in a sequel if they wanted.
Love to watch people who've actually worked in the industry react to older films/filmmaking like this. Awesome!
Fun fact. You could still smoke in planes in the 80s-early 90s
This movie is a work of art
The first of the new trilogy shows a shot of a newspaper about a crew leaving for space to reference this
And the great Roddy McDowell as Cornelius
Linda Harrison was a true beauty of the New Hollywood era. She wasn't in a lot of movies, though. She was in the first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, as well as Airport 75 and Ron Howard's Cocoon. She even makes a cameo in the Tim Burton remake of Apes; she's one of the humans caged in with Mark Wahlberg when the apes are first introduced.
Fun fact: she was in the running to play Ellen Brody in Jaws because her husband, producer Richard Zanuck promised her the role. But Steven Spielberg also promised Lorraine Gary the role, and the latter got the role.
1:15:45 The Barbie Reference is to the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, but I can see how it’s reminiscent of Planet of the Apes, which I believe is from the same era of film making.
APES... and 2001 came out the same year.
"I hope by the end of this, Taylor teaches her how to speak"
Well I really hope you watch the rest of the original Apes films!
Something I absolutely dislike is whenever the original (1968) “Planet of the Apes” has a photo attached to the discussion, it’s always the Statue of Liberty. Biggest spoiler ever. That’s like a caption of “He finally realizes he’s dead” on a picture of Bruce Willis when talking about “The Sixth Sense” (1999). And it seems like everybody does it.
There were no miniatures used in the crash landing scene. The landscape was real as was the ship in the water. The Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in the states of Arizona and Utah is where larger portions of the film were made, including Lake Powell ... the lake where the crash landing occurred.
roddy mcdowall, who plays "cornelius," just 2 years earlier played a high school student (he was 35) in the film "lord love a duck." one of the weirdest and wildest films you're ever likely to see. he was a child actor who starred in john ford's oscar winning "how green was my valley" (1941). he starred in 2 kid classics in 1943 "my friend flicka" and "lassie come home." he also appeared in "the longest day" (1962) about d-day, "the poseidon adventure" (1972), "the legend of hell house" (1973) and "fright night" (1985). he has a credit list about a mile long. one of my favorites. thanks for the video.
Don't forget his appearance in "Cleopatra" as Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus. (He's also in a fine "Twilight Zone" episode called "People Are Alike All Over.")
The singer Paul Williams had a role as an Orangutan in one of the later Apes movies, and showed up on The Tonight Show (Carson) in full makeup.
That appearance clip is here on YT, I watched it about a week ago.
I actually saw this movie in a theater when it came out in 1968. I was 13 years old. The ending was really a surprise and freaked a lot of people out.
Another C. Heston movie that you must see is called “Ben Hur”! It is Heston at his best. It is a very long film, but well worth the view. It is considered a really Classic!!!
Paul Williams appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in his makeup for Planet of the Apes it's incredible
Rank the ORIGINAL APES... aaaand GO!!
1, 3, 2, 4, 5.
My ranking of the originals:
Planet of the Apes
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Rise, dawn, war and 1
The rest can be forgotten and buried
1,3,4,5,2
19:54 - Gordon "Have you ever eaten raw corn?"
100% it's just like eating raw carrot, totally fine, and I think it has a lot more flavour : )
No it's not a miniature set - it's Lake Powell.
Fun Fact : Doctor Cornelius in the movie was played by the legendary actor Roddy McDowell who also voiced the Mad Hatter in Batman The Animated Series along with Kevin Conroy. Both phenomenal actors. R.IP.😢
No, it wasn’t a miniature… it was a full-size spaceship they designed and made for the film.
Yeah man, Jerry Goldsmith was infamous for his experimental percussion and later on electronic orchestral fusions, this is one of his best semi avant garde scores
That ending was the original movie twist that has never been topped.
The fact that the "hero" of the story, Taylor, isn't very likeable at first is especially interesting because you truly get to see his character develop where his shock at the end hits emotionally. So many deep issues raised, from science versus religion, evolution versus creationism, prejudice and discrimination versus equality, and themes regarding social hierarchy (here, the orangutans look down on chimpanzees and gorillas) and species claiming superiority over other beings. A great film!!
More like religion against each other before even trying to go against science.
I'm surprised so few recognise as you have the deep and profound examinations of the human condition explored in this film. Remembering the time this was made and the activism ongoing during that period (and still) it really has some powerful messages.
41:35 - you may recognize the president of the ape council - that's James Whitmore. He played 'Brooks' in The Shawshank Redemption.
What a great reaction to this classic movie!
I was too young to see the movies in theaters, but you have no idea how popular the Planet of the Apes movies were back in the 70s!
I was in disbelief when the battered Statue of Liberty showed up on that beach as a kid in the 70s!
Nova was played by Linda Harrison who was also in the sequel Beneath the Planet Of The Apes as well as Cocoon and Airport 75 along with many television appearances including a Batman episode from 1966. Her natural beauty was stunning and now in her 70's still makes appearances at conventions.
It’s also really neat to see the irony in each characters fate, Stewart was supposed to be the new Eve/beginning for humanity but with her death solidified the end of modern humanity, Dodge was the most willing to put himself in harms way to learn something no one else new but, the recklessness is what stopped him from learning anything by getting killed too early, Landon was prepared to die but, ended his story in a living hell, and lastly Taylor who was so cynical of humans ended up perpetuating the human’s beliefs.
36:57 Mark! Uh, they're not meant to be sculpted statues, though, but examples of taxidermy work! 😁
It’s crazy that John Chambers, the man who won an Oscar for best makeup for this movie, went on to help the CIA to 6 Americans escape Iran during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
I hope that these guys react to Argo to see the full and truly crazy story.
Really enjoyed your conversation about the film. And yeah, the twist was a big deal when Planet of the Apes originally opened in movie theaters.
I remember first seeing this movie back before the first of the Ceaser films came out. What struck me most was it's pacing and how it felt so very counter to everything that I was watching from modern Hollywood. But also the kind of pace I actually like in movies. A classic for a reason.
"I can't wait until he can talk again"
One of the most iconic moments in film.
Jerry Goldsmith also did the soundtrack for the movie Patton from 1970.
And for television the theme for "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
Charlton Heston (who was a huge star for 30 years) was invested in the film from the first Idea.
It took a few years for it to develop. It would rest on the ape makeup to make it realistic and not laughable. Not just people in an ape suit. If Heston pulled out they had their eye on Sean Connery.
Such a shocking ending at the time! The makeup was also mind-bending
Yes, we original watchers were quite shocked at the ending, and the scene and what it represented just "stayed" with you. Sadly, the ending is spoiled for the younger generation. And again, Yes, the make-up is still quite impressive.
I saw this first run in 1968 on a very large screen when I was 21. Fine reaction from you both!
John Chambers, the genius behind the makeup, won an academy award for it
I was 9 in 1968 and saw this in the theater. This movie is incredible and CGI had nothing to to with it.
That wasn’t a memorial for the woman astronaut that died, they were planting their flag, basically claiming the land for america. That is why taylor laughed, the o ther guy was claiming this land for a country that no longer exists.
She kept grabbing the bars, because she saw Taylor being defiant and standing up, so she decided to do so as well, gaining back some of her humanity. The reason why she wiped away what Taylor wrote and put her hand up against his mouth, because over the course of time it was forbidden for them to speak or even write. Throughout the centuries they kept this memory of how dangerous it is for them to speak.
Smashing the dolls in Barbie is an almost shot for shot reference to 2001 Space Odyssey.
Lake Powell, near Page AZ. It is a stunning area (the opening scenes).
I really hope you keep reacting to the rest of the original series 🙏 a lot of channels stop at this one and never finish.
Taylor was not laughing at a memorial for the the dead astronaut. His colleague was planting a tiny US flag, claiming the new "planet".
I had a massive crush on Roddy McDowall, who plays Cornelius, at the time I saw this movie (late 70s?) & I loved that you could see his acting (& his incredibly expressive big brown eyes) through the amazing ape makeup. He’s also fantastic in the original Fright Night (1985), you guys should give it a watch!
The Barbie opening scene is a callback to 2001: A Space Odyssey, not POTA…though the doll does look similar.
You should continue these to see the original Caesar’s story.
The opening scenes were shot around Lake Powell and another lake in the same area.. all of it practical effects.
Planting the flag isn’t a memorial for the dead astronaut. It’s like when we put the American flag on the moon. A symbol of “we were here.”
one of the greatest joys of some of the rebootquels, when done right , is seeing the passage of time in filmmaking and how much we have learned. there is a magic and humanness in this one that will always be relevant. so much of this film is in the DNA of the newer trilogy and clearly in Kingdom.
I was born in '71 and my sis in '75. We never watched any of these movies in the theater, BUT back in the day when there was only basic cable and HBO, TBS would run a Planet of the Apes marathon once a year, and we would watch it in its entirety every single year.
We still let each other know when'where the movie series is available to this day. Thanks for doing these reactions!
I was born in '74. Children of the 70's baby!
@@TylerD288 Damn Skippy! :)
I'm glad someone besides me caught how stunning the cinematography was in the first quarter of the film. Everyone taps his fingers waiting for the primates to show up, but if you see it enough times, you realize that the movie is already in third gear by that point.
Love this sci-fi classic that still holds up today and far surpasses Tim Burton's remake.
Charlton Heston was one of the late great classic actors. He was Ben-Hur in the movie of the same title, and Moses in The Ten Commandments as well as other leading men roles.
I can't stress this enough. This movie came out in the cold war.
He wasn't damning the apes to hell.
And "planet of the apes" name has nothing to do with the apes that live earth now.
"YOU MANIACS!! YOU BLEW IT UP!! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!"
That classic movie quote never gets old. He`s cursing all of Mankind...
I saw an interview with Roddy McDowell who said that when he first wore the make-up it was so uncomfortable that he cried. Yet, he made a few more Ape movies.
I also read that Rod Sterling (Twight Zone) helped in writing this..
The beginning of Barbie is a callback to the first section of "2001: A Space Odyssey", not "Planet Of The Apes". Ironically enough, both movies were released on the same exact day, April 3, 1968! (There are apes in that one too! And an even bigger wtf ending!!! :P)
A week later, Charlton Heston appeared on screens in another movie, "Will Penny," a very well-regarded Western.
@@charlessperling7031 Interesting! The studios used to crank them out back then. You're under contract, you'll make three pictures a year and like it! :D
I would love to see reactions to the other 4 films (not many people do reactions to them)--
Also, recently watching Rise with subtitles, I noticed Tom Felton's character is named 'Dodge'!
Not only that the credits reveal his full name as Dodge Landon! (Obviously references both characters from this film)
"don't look for it Taylor. You may not like what you find."
Yes. He knew.
1:17:25 Mark! Hmm. I still don't think of his laughter as "maniacal". I thought that he was laughing at what he thought of as futile gestures when they should be in survival mode. 🤔
As for the flag, I thought it was about marking territory, not making a memorial marker. 🤔
Landon wasn't preparing a memorial for Stewart, he was simply planting the US flag on a planet 2000 years into the future for a people and a country that no longer exists. That's what sent Taylor into a laughing fit when he saw what Landon did.
37:25 Mark! Aha! Back then, "spoilers" were pointing out stunt performers and how the special effects and sets were made. Also, how stage magic/illusions were done! Not what you younger people think of as "spoilers" nowadays! 😁
Goldsmith was influenced here by early 20th century modernist composers like Stravinsky (the dying dinosaurs in Fantasia come to mind repeatedly) but also the wild avant-garde Hungarian-Austrian composer Ligeti who was a big deal in 1960s experimental serious music. His haunting work is best known in popular culture from Kubrick's 2001 (also 1968) in the caveman opening and the light show sequence at the end. The lead-up to the arrival of the first monolith uses Ligetis Requiem which is the craziest, most upsetting otherworldly music ever and amazingly was almost brand new. I think Requiem wasn't finalized until 1965.
The Barbie scene you commented on was referencing the Dawn of Man scene from "2001: A Space Odyssey" also made in 1968.