The original *PLANET OF THE APES* is bananas (pun intended) | First Time Watching and Reaction
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THE ENDING IS SO SAD WHAT THE HECK HOW DOES A MOVIE ABOUT APES GO THIS HARD??
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Those old talking dolls were mechanical not battery operated and so would still work.
You beat me to it! Lol
"Tucked inside each mama doll’s body was a cylindrical bellows device called a “crier” or a “cry box” that drew in air when the bellows expanded and forced it out when it contracted, in a way similar to an accordion. Depending on the doll, the bellows would be activated by pressing down on the doll or tipping it over."
No millennia-old mechanism would still work. The pieces would be severely corroded.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 False. These dolls weren't made in China. Things just aren't made like they used to be.
@@jesses5463 Bro, real artifacts that old have to be painstakingly restored to even look like anything. Absolutely nothing actually works after a thousand years, let alone two.
Ollie totally missed the "See no evil, Speak no evil, Hear no evil" gag. That's one of my favorite parts of the movie.
That was actually done as a joke. When it was included in a preview screening, the audience reaction was so great they kept it in over the objections of the director.
He may not have missed that but not included it in his reaction here.
I have noticed that not many other reactors have made that connection either. Is the old cliché somehow becoming less popular - maybe considered tasteless? 🤨
The talking doll uses a gravity activated weight and sealed tube to create the "Mama" sound from the doll. No need for batteries. This was a common toy feature when this movie was made.
This is supposed to be an ‘intelligent’ university student ‘reacting’ to this. 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, it's "ancient alien" technology ^^
I DID see this in theatres the first time back in '68 and literally NO ONE moved for over a minute. Gasps of shock reverberated throughout the auditorium. One of the greatest moments in SCI FI history.
@magicbrownie1357 That's SO cool. I saw this on a B&W TV in the early 70s and the ending shocked my whole family (all 9 of us!) But seeing this in a theatre would have been super cool.
I saw this in a Drive-In theatre so I missed that experience. I do think the decision to keep the sound of the surf continue through the end credits was excellent as it made that ending resonate.
The whole theater, myself included, were absolutely STUNNED back in 1968. This movie is not only a Masterpiece, it is a magnificent work of art. 🍸
That's Charlton Heston, one of the biggest Hollywood stars ever.
....and one of it's worst actors, lol.
@@TTM9691
Nope
Oh, no, Charlton Heston was and always will be a great actor.😊❤
At the end he says, "You blew it up!" A allusioin to nuclear annihilation, which was a very real threat back in the day (and still is, of course...the younger generation has forgotten that).
Yep. since the 90's It has always erked me that folks assume nuclear war was no longer a worry since the Cold War ended in 91. I rem as a kid in the 70's worrying about world war with the USSR, I rem the 90's when the USSR fell and folks were worrying about nukes in their side being sold to terrorists, then by late 90's folks just forgot to fear - thinking all is world peace - nonesenece - the Russian still had their 6000 nukes the whole time! Then post 2000's Ruskies started acting like the old Soviet Union - so now the Cold War is back! and it seems I'm the only one that noticed!
anyway, nukes ain't going anywhere - if anything we got more from Israel, Pakistan, India, Norht Korea and China - even if the Ruskies/Chinese (whom we (the West) are clearly in a new revived Cold War 2.0 with) - even if they don't get "stupid" and self anialate us/then, we still got the Indians and Pakistanis who could get dumb - since they hate each other for decades now - and irreadiate 1/2 of South Asia.
Thankfully - MAD - works (so far - 80 yrs and counting) for all rational humans in positions of power - i do worry about the irrational ones, but nothing can be done about them.
I friend of mine when the Ukrainian war started told me not to worry about Putins nukes because "We have a Shield" (the old Reagan fantasy of orbiting laser satilights (this guy is my age - so he bought into the Reagan bullshit and thinks we got "protection" - I told him he was wrong there is nor ever was an SDI system and any ICBM from the other side will land on target and there is nothing you are I can do to intercept it - he did not beleive me!!!!!!!!!! - so something you can't fix stupid, sadly. ;-(.
anyway, ya you are right, seems the youngen's think Nuke War possiblity is some old musty fuddy duddy stuff of mid 19th century - like sword fighting for something! nope the threat never left and remains as relivent today as it ever was.
sadly.
Quite right, and you appear to be the only respondent I've encountered who points up this worrisome fact at this length. For this I commend you.
The near-future TV drama *Jericho* tried to bring the prospect of the (limited) use of nuclear weapons on American territory back into the public eye, and lasted two seasons (and there are many of us who wish it had run for a good deal longer). 😉
@@goldenager59 I've known of the TV show since 2006 or there abouts - like Firefly/Space avbove..........(and enve Star Trek" killed off, but had a fam base which 1/2 of the time allowed for the nest season. I'll get around to watching it - rem "back then" it was interesting - the few minutes I saw - so it is worth my time to find the show (the other show - with US in civil war and had the guy in "my own private idaho" (never saw the movie - just was his face as was the same in the TV show later - also cancelled 14-ish yrs ago - looked interesting, then killed off.............
oh well like all great TV shows - at least we have Threads (brit TV movie about a "limited war" - limited to American and Europe - so there is the rest of 9/10th sof the world. "Letters to a Dead man" is a less optomistice view of WW3 made by the soviets at the same time - early 80's, thenre there is "The Day after" which was a picnic and not memeroable in any way.
thanks for reply Sir!!!!!!! Ya Threads is bleak and excellent at the same time ;--(.
@@gaffo7836
Yes, *Threads* does rather make *The Day After* look unreasonably optimistic(!) - but then, the British have a more intimate memory of WWII and its attendant miseries than has the US; they most certainly have more experience with bombed-out cities (like, say, Coventry) and the difficulties of reconstruction. So long as a person is free to find and watch *Threads,* we have hope of at least one less person who would be willing to risk the madness of all-out obliteration. 😕
But anyway, do try to enjoy your day in the meantime. 🙂
@@goldenager59 indeed wisdom above. "we" "i" being american (not sure about you Sir/Madam) - did have the luxury of 2 oceans, so after 1789, only had to worry about ourselves - Civil War was a bad one, and today we all blame "the south" - with much historical revisionism (nothing about Lincoln accepting Sucession of part of Virginia to form West Virginia (while denying the right of other States to leave the Union - and also denying there was a Conferderacy that left said union via legal Vote of the voters (any male land owner - same as in the North - no women no landless males and no freed blacks had the vote - not in the South nor the NORTH at the time)..............and I'll not mention that the Emacipation Proclaimation only freed the Slave living in the 11? Southern State "in Reballion" - not an actual Nation is the Confederacy - according to Lincoln, who susp[ended the courts in Maryland also. Anyway I'm on my horse of Hypocrasy now - as a kiddo in the 70's never learned that the Emacipation Proclaimation ONLY applied to slaves in Southern States, never knew that Maryland and Delaware as Union States continued to have with Lincolns blessing, Legal Northern Slavery in those states for another 2-3 years.
but ya 2 oceans does shield America, the Brits and Russians fought the nazi thugs with valor and had no ocean to allow ignoring the threat.
As for the French - Vishy, will not say more for if i do my post will be removed by YT. I'll just say if you want to win any war, make sure France is not on your side, then you've won it. otherwise you've lost.
thnaks for reply Madam/Sir.
An interesting behind the scenes story was that when filming would stop for lunch the actors tended to segregate themselves based on their character makeup. No matter the actual race of the actors all of the gorillas tended to group together as well as the orangutans, chimpanzee's and humans. This happened through the filming of all 5 movies as well as the TV series.
Because it's human nature to want to be around similar people. Trying to force something different causes all the problems.
Ross Geller: ""We work in a museum of natural history. And yet there is something unnatural about the way we eat lunch. "
Sociologist would have a field day with that.
One interesting aspect of the ending is that it helps us understand Dr Zaius better. He's not just a villain. He knows the ruin that technological humanity brought itself to, and so is trying to hold back similar "progress" in his own society. Hence what he says at the end when the young ape asks about the future: "I may just have saved it for you."
"Beneath the Planet of the Apes" Explains Everything and is Actually the end of the Story!
It's the end but it's not the complete story. The next three movies fill out the entire story
LOL. It's a piece of crap, like all sequels - which almost always suck - it's a cash grab, it doesn't "explain" anything, it invents an "ending" that was never conceived by the geniuses who came up with the book/movie, none of whom worked on "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes" or any of the others. Get some frickin' taste, for chrissakes.
Beneath is definitely a downgrade in the franchise, repeating what we saw already with Taylor, and the ending being so anticlimactic. It's only when Cornelius and Zira go back in time during Escape, and start the whole thing all over again that it gets better, especially with Conquest.
@@sebastianemond5313 Battle isn't that bad either. The lesson at the end is peace and Utopia are not possible as long as there's free will. Cornelius tried to create a paradise but it was Aldos coup attempt that opened his eyes
@allenruss2976 Well, not necessarily *all* free will, since it wasn't the mutants or the humans that killed Caesar's son, but one of his kind; *ape* killed *ape.* Aldo was the one who wronged Caesar and started all the chaos, but still, the humans are never looked at or treated the same way afterward for the next few hundred years.
The lead actor is Charlton Heston, best known for the lead role in the masterpiece film “Ben-Hur” (1959.) He also played Moses in The Ten Commandments and was a major star in the 1950’s/60’s.
They were in my opinion his greatest movies, but everything I saw him in was excellent 👍
This is one of three sci-fi movies that Charleton Heston did around that time. The other two are "The Omega Man" and "Soylent Green".
Soylent Green left an impact on me!
Both of those are also really good movies.
The newer movies have all kinds of callbacks to the original pentalogy, and you should watch all of the original movies in order to recognize them; you undoubtedly caught that the name "Bright Eyes," for example, was re-used in the newer set of films, and there's much more (some things that are obvious, some less so). The production quality kind of deteriorates as the original series progresses, but the story quality does not, and taken together the films tell a wonderfull epic story, which in turn strongly influences the new series. Roddy McDowell, who plays Cornelius, ends up being the principal actor in the series taken as a whole, although he is not present in the second movie, in which Cornelius is a minor character and played by another actor, but he returns in a central role in the last three movies. The movies need to be seen in order to have their fullest effect. At some point in the seventies, the five movies were released together to be seen back to back in a full day event, with the advertising slogan: Go Ape! I had already seen all of them by then, but I spent the whole day in a theater watching all five movies, and it was wonderful.
This is the only one that's worth watching, the other four are rubbish.
@@hyacinthlynch843 Can't agree. As I said, the production quality deteriorates, but the films do build a storyline that is worth following; and I can think of numerous movies with really rotten production quality that are still highly worth watching because of the stories they tell.
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I disagree, I think the production quality is excellent. However, I do agree that the storyline is superb.
Don't miss Soylent Green, another great Sci Fi film with Charlton Heston.
Did you notice the three wise monkeys reference during the trial
Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil
🙊🙈🙉
I think part of what makes this ending work so well is that the rest of the movie is so fascinating. Ape society mirrors our own. We see ourselves reflected in how the apes treat the humans. I think that is what primes the audience for finding out what Taylor might find out there. What did Zaius mean by his destiny? And I think showing the statue half buried was brilliant. It just looks so wrong half buried I think it's more effective than if it was shown broken into pieces.
One thing to keep in mind is prior to 1968, you could probably count the number of big-budgeted science fiction movies made with top talent on one hand. There was Metropolis (1927), Things to Come (1936), Forbidden Planet (1956), Maybe War of the Worlds (1953) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (although they were literary adaptions so I don't know if I'd count that). I'd be hard pressed to come up with many more.
1968 turned out to be a watershed year for science fiction and horror. Besides Planet of the Apes, it also saw the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby, and Night of the Living Dead.
Regarding the makeup, Planet of the Apes was only the second movie to receive an Academy Award for makeup. It didn't become a regular category until 1981. And the makeup was purely prosthetic, foam latex glued onto their faces.
I would say the sequels are worth a watch. At least once. The quality was variable, and the budget was cut with each successive movie. The Tim Burton version is worth watching for the makeup but not much else.
To your list, I would add From the Earth to the Moon (1958), The Time Machine (1960), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Mysterious Island (1961) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961).
Charlton Heston appeared in two other classic 70s science fiction films, The Omega Man and Soylent Green.
@@brachiator1 I know my classification is a little ambiguous, but I would consider those as low-budget and/or juvenile oriented films. I’m looking for serious films made with a-list talent. The original producer of the POTA films said that he hired Charlton Heston and Rod Serling as the screenwriter to let people know this was not some silly Saturday Matinee fodder. He also wanted Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Zaius and Blake Edwards as the director. They even shot a test scene with Heston and Robinson to demonstrate the subject matter could be treated seriously.
Don't forget Fantastic Voyage (1966)
1968 was a watershed year culturally for the Western world. Art mimics society.
It's always sad when the younger generation doesn't get the "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" shot. Such a clever shot
And that reaction was pretty much what happened in the movie theater when we saw it there during first run. Consider too, that we were in Brooklyn, which is definitely close enough to feel kind of visceral about it.
This movie was a critical and box office success.
I absolutely can imagine seeing that ending in theaters for the first time, because I did. I was in the 7th grade when it came out and my BFF and I went to see it together. You could have heard a pin drop during the final scene. People were so stunned hardly no one was speaking as we exited the theatre. It was incredible, and IMHO it's still incredible when people such as yourself can experience that 56 years later.
In the book they landed on an alien planet. That's why in the reboot with Mark Wahlberg lands on an alien planet run by apes. In that one though humans can talk. Charlton Heston has a cameo as a dying ape who knows how the apes started and that the humans used to be the dominant species.
They could have done special effects for the spaceship crash, (remember, this was done around the same time as “2001: A Space Odyssey.”) They just didn’t have the budget for it. The ape makeup is Oscar winning though. Later sequels started to go cheap with the makeup though, giving background apes just a pull-over mask, like you’d buy at Halloween. The main actors were multi-piece latex prosthetics though.
As many people point at 2001 (and it was a technical breakthrough, without a doubt), the original Planet of the Apes was essentially THE genre-defining science fiction film up until Star Wars made everything sci-fi about space
POTA won the Oscar for best makeup effects, some say because few people realized that the apes in 2001 were people in prosthetics as well. I think they all hold up really well today.
I don't have to imagine what it felt like to see this in a theater for the first time. In 1968 I was 18 and saw it back then. It was extremely popular.
I love this film, as old as it is (even for me, who is ancient) I still find that the plot is compelling and well acted, and the makeup still holds up to this day.
As for the sequels. I’m personally not a fan of Beneath, but I have a definite soft spot for both Escape and Conquest. I just love the story told over both those two films, plus they star Khan himself, Ricardo Montalban. Always enjoy watching him at work.
This movie was a huge hit Ollie! I was a kid and we even had trading cards for planet of the apes like baseball cards! I was very disturbed by the ending as most of us were! Thanks for the reactions, good job!!
I hope you plan on doing the whole series. It’s a great social commentary and would make a great reaction
This movie really stands up well and has a plot which addresses many moral and ethical issues, including those involved in science versus religion, egocentric domination of other groups considered inferior, social hierarchy (here, orangutans are seen as superior to chimps and gorillas), etc. It's a thought provoking look at humans' greed and exploitation and propensity to make war.
The best director Schaffner/composer Goldsmith combo was Patton, 2 years later, with George C. Scott's thunderous, yet complex Oscar performance as the titular "blood and guts" general in WWII. I recommend watching Patton more than words can describe - still the most exciting historical biopic of all time. Filled with George C. Scott's epic, profound performance and Goldsmith's rousing, red-blooded musical march (with crashing drums/gigantic horns that make you want to jump into the screen and be part of the action), the movie had me completely hypnotized by its sheer intelligent intensity.
To see more with *Roddy* *McDowall* check him out in FRIGHT NIGHT (1985). Get more of *Kim* *Hunter* in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951).
I loved him in Fright Night.
@@Bfdidc I'm glad you did! 🙂 I first saw him as the vicar 'Mr. Jelk' in BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS (1971). His part was small in that, but he played it perfectly.
I also adored teen McDowall in Lassie Come Home (1943), co-starring Elsa Lanchester and a very young Elizabeth Taylor.
@@Divamarja_CA Absolutely, Marja. And he did MY FRIEND FLICKA that same year! Wild to fathom his first on screen appearance was in 1938. He had a great, long career.
I saw this in 1968. The audience was dead silent as the credits rolled and all you could hear was the sound of the waves.
The year was 3978, which was 2,000 years after the movie was released.
2,010 years
@@BlueShadow777 Right, good catch. 10 years after the movie release, the astronauts are launched.
It was crazy popular and spawned 4 sequels, a prime time tv show, a Saturday morning cartoon and tons of toys and merch
I remember. I had some of the toys as a child. And the movies played in TV many many times.
Idk how faithful Rod Serling’s script is to the novel but seeing as he was the creator of The Twilight Zone, the ironies, parables and twists are very similar to the stuff on the show.
It wasn't faithful to the original novel hardly at all. In the original novel, the Apes actually did inhabit a different planet, and were technologically advanced. Due to the technology of the era for special effects.... it was decided that the Apes should be more "primitive" technology wise.
There is a good documentary about the Apes movies, called "Behind the Planet of the Apes". I highly recommend watching it.
Also, I have a hardcover copy of the original novel by Pierre Boule, as well as the novelization of the movie. Two VERY different stories..... but also, both really good (IMHO). Ironically, Boule considered Planet of the Apes (or, in its original French, "La Planet De Sange") to be one of his "lesser" works.
Now that you've seen this movie, you can watch the trilogy again and you will notice a ton of throwbacks. One of them is the orangutan Maurice. His character was named after Maurice Evans, the actor who played Dr. Zaius.
I know I'm that annoying Internet guy...
The noise from the doll comes from a growler, it's not powered by battery
Was there an active sci-fi audience in 1968?
That was the same year that the original Star Trek series was entering it's third and final season, and yes, it had it's devotees (I was among them).
The same year that 2001: A Space Odyssey came out. Nobody understood it, but everybody went to see it.
The same year humans left the Earth behind them for the first time; for a day three humans experienced an environment where the Moon, not the Earth, was the dominant gravitational force.
What a year to be alive. And I was eight years old.
Yesterday, I did a search to see if you'd reacted to this movie; today, you reacted to it! Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket!! 😂
When I was a kid, the movie made it's debut on television, which is when most of the kids my age saw it. The subsequent sequels got profoundly less money for the budget and short cuts were made, but they still did fairly well, especially on TV, which spawned the TV series. They marketed the hell out of it, too, with a lot of merchandise aimed at kids. I know few kids who dressed up as Apes for Halloween and one Christmas I received a series of comic books that had an accompanying record that went with it to listen to while I'd read along.
In the early 2000s the TV series was released on DVD, which my nephew, who was 6 at the time, received as a Christmas present. The series starred Ron Harper and James Naughton. Roddy McDowell, Cornelius in the film, appeared in the TV series as "Galen" (pretty much Cornelius). While Ron Harper passed away just two months ago. Naughton is still alive. His younger brother, David, also an actor, is known for his leading role in "An American Werewolf in London", the 1970s hit song "Makin' It" (the theme song based on the TV series he starred in) and the Dr. Pepper commercials of the era, singing the jingle that everyone seemed to sing along to. It never made me a fan of Dr. Pepper, though.
Enjoyed your review and insight. I hope you review the old sequels as well. They are excellent too😀
Great reaction. Just a little general information: 1) Dolls back in the day didn't need batteries Some were mechanical but didn't require mechanics for it to make noises. You simply pushed in the belly, and it made sounds (akin to a squeeze toy). 2) People who saw the movie would tell you it had a surprise ending but wouldn't reveal what it was. You had to go to the theater to find out. 3) When the "Planet of the Apes" toys came out, almost everyone was more interested in buying ape toys over humans. Guess apes were more fun back then.
When I was a youth (about 9 years) back in the 1970's, a few of these films were shown at a cinema, as part of an afternoon-during-week "children's film" series. These are not "children's films!!!! Yet, my Brother and I went to three of them. Of course, I didn't understand all the implications and mythology of "Apes" -yet, made me a fan! I think these were part of the "Go Ape!" media blitz, when the TV Series was broadcast -or just after Star Wars....or just local cinema. Our Mom could drop us off, and have time, or do matters, and pick us up after.
I bought the set of original films on VHS -and have the super Blu-ray box (slipcase, with book). This week, will got see the new "Kingdom" 🌎
I saw this movie when I was 13. Of course we had no idea of the ending and we thought through out the movie that Taylor was on another, distant planet. When the Liberty Statue was revealed there wasn't a sound in the audience, and that was in the day when a movie was not a cineplex.
The lore upon which Rise of the Planet of Apes was based came not only from this movie, but from its sequels. Of the sequels to this (Beneath, Escape, Conquest and Battle), only Escape from the Planet of the Apes and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes do I ever rewatch. Escape is delightfully unique, but does set up an alternative origin story for Caesar from Rise, and Conquest has so many plot points in common with Rise that you might as well call Rise a remake of it.
The movies were actually based on a series of books
@@jakesternberg188There wasn't a series of novels. Just one novel.
Ollie, I'd highly recommend you check out the sequel "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes" (1970) as much as its surprisingly dark, and the follow up "Escape From The Planet Of The Apes" (1971) which is kind of a delight, but bittersweet and ironic.
The actor playing Caesar is in "Poseidon adventure" you should add that to the list. It's like Titanic, but with a lot more action and adventure.
The prosthetics in this are *still* fantastic. Great film
The Planet of the Apes was an important film because it was a culmination of different events happening from around this time (1968): space travel, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Cold War.
This is a monumental film. The first time I watch ed it is when I was like 15 years old. Before that I watched the TV Series (which is only 13 episodes and a different timeline). You hit the spot on the Apes and the different roles in society. I didn’t see it the way you did it as in Race. The concept of racism actually raises in one of the future installments of the sequels. Basically the Orangutans are the law makers, politicians, and religious figures and somewhat science (in a twisted way), The Gorillas are the Military, and the Chimpanzees are the people, the scientist, etc. But the way you looked at it is also very interesting as to what was going on in that time period. The sequels after this are not as good, but worth the watch to understand the full story. The second film is Beneath the Planet of the Apes and the second half is brilliant. The third is Escape from the Planet of the Apes and here is where Ziro and Cornelius jump back into Taylor’s time. The next two films is Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes and follows the rising of the Apes with Cesar. The new trilogy is basically a reboot of these last two films. The Tim Burton Planet of the Apes is totally different. It’s a remake and a story of its own. Some elements he used comes from the 1963 novel Planet of the Apes. In the novel, the planet is not earth and it’s actually another planet. I will keep it at that so that you can watch if if you wish. I do highly recommend for you to watch all of them so that you can get a full understanding of them. This is a true Science Fiction film and very thought provoking with so much elements. By the way you enjoyed this film and the new ones, I am pretty sure you will enjoy the other films too. By the way Dr. Zaius is played by Maurice Evens. He was a noted Shakespearean actor on the stage that brings in those elements to this film but also another of his notable roles as the re-occurring father of Samantha on the TV Show Bewitched. The Orangutan Maurice in the re-book was named Maurice playing Homage to Maurice Evens. Great Review. I am glad you enjoyed it.
I like the extended edition where it shows those Spaceballs coming out of Mega Maid's nose at the end.
21:22 remember Stuart was the only female on the spaceship. Stuart was her last name.
I saw it in the theatre when it came out
Another 1960s Charlton Heston film is Soylent green
It was actually 1973. It and The Omega Man (1971) were the two sci-fi films that he made after the success of Planet of the Apes in 1968.
Good analysis, and questions. I was a boy, when in a weekly magazine in 1967 there was an article about the making of this new movie, while they were still filming. It was promotional, to stir up interest for the release the next year.
We read about the title and the idea of a planet with apes as the dominant species, and we saw pictures of the make-up of the apes. That openness about an upcoming movie was modern for its time.
The anticipation was high, and I went to the cinema when the movie was released. The ending was kept secret very well, and thus was a major surprise to the whole audience. Huge reveal. Social courtesy was alive and the ending was not spoiled for new audiences, neither in the media or in personal conversations.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes is my favourite of the sequels; it has some splendid art direction, good special effects, and some offbeat new characters.
Agreed. Better than the conventional Escape and Conquest, they try to hammer home messages.
You see at the 25:38 part where the orangutans are doing the whole See No evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
The squeals *are* good, if you enjoyed this one you'll enjoy those too.
This movie has four direct sequels and while none of them is quite as good as the original, its interesting how this series forms an almost complete narrative circle.
26:00 Tennesse vs Scopes and The Butler Act were similar reactions to teaching evolution. Maybe Taylor’s trial is like a flip of that.
The book on which the film is based takes place on another planet.
Definitely need to watch the sequels. Especially Beneath and Escape.
Since you have now seen this movie, you also need to watch the Simpsons episode "A Fish Called Selma" from season 7. Its a really fun episode. :)
"I love you Doctor Zaius"
What's wrong with me?
@@ursidaeDHDI think you’re crazy
@@Redneckkratos I want a second opinion!
@@ursidaeDHD YOU’RE ALSO LAZY!!!!
@@ursidaeDHD You're also Lazy!
Beneath the Planet of the Apes is very good. After that they get less and less good, but still fun. 2001A Space Odyssey came out in 1968 as well with better ape effects. The lady who designed the ape mask inner workings went on to do sculpting for C-3PO, stormtrooper helmets, & the nude women tables for A Clockwork Orange.
I like the Ape houses and buildings. I always wondered what happened the the locations.
This movie was a masterpiece of set design, among other things.
Use these words on YT to find a vid about the locations then and now: Planet Of The Apes 1968 - Filming locations - Finding Ape City
There's vids on YT about the filming locations of Planet of the Apes that are worth a look.
The beginning (The Forbidden Zone) was filmed in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon, and the Colorado River, Lake Powell... The later scenes were filmed out in California, in Malibu Creek State Park, northwest of Los Angeles... The same area where they filmed the MASH tv Series.
The 4 sequels to the original 1968 film are hit-or-miss, but i think the 3rd and 4th films are essential, as you get some great backstory. Plus, you get to see Ricardo Montalbahn (Khan, from Star Trek II) play the lead in one of them. But you should really react to all 4, since no one else is doing it.
Definitely watch all the classic Apes movies. They are absurdly profound and well-acted.
Oh please watch all 5 of the original movies! Especially the 3rd and 4th movies of the originals are important for the franchise canon. The 2nd movie is one of my personal favorites, though both the 2nd and 5th movies take a bashing from some. Who's to account for my tastes. I also liked the 2001 Tim Burton version of Planet of the Apes. Helena Bonham Carter's make-up was fabulous in that one.
All the social commentary you ask about is indeed exactly what you suspect and was written in the era of Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry who were masters at making social commentary without beating the audience over the head with it... so the messages are palatable to an audience that may have rejected it otherwise. The more times you watch it, the more of those messages you'll catch. One thing you were wrong about was the "battery" in the doll... you're obviously born past the era of manual technology. Back when I was a kid, there were talking dolls that required no "batteries", they were wound up springs, either by a knob or a string that was pulled to do the winding and the recording was literally a kind of physical recording (like a vinyl record). So to be sure, the talking doll was no 'continuity problem' or "blooper"... it made perfect sense in 1968. (I was there)
"Without beating the audience over the head with it..."
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Because LET THIS BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD and DEATHS-HEAD REVISITED are "subtle"?
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I agree with their message 100% but it's an incredibly tone deaf conclusion to say they didn't "hit the audience over the head with the message" back in the day.
@@miguelvelez7221 That wasn't the "message" I was talking about. I'm referring to things like the class system of the apes and other things that are quietly inserted for viewers to absorb but aren't mentioned overtly. This film contains many instances of social commentary, some are addressed directly while others are just there for those who notice.
@@RonColeArtThere are a number of "hippie" references that would have been very obvious to the film's original audiences, such as the line about "Don't trust anyone over 30." It's funny to see so many references just fly over the heads of many current viewers (noted in 2024).
@@brachiator1 I've seen some reaction videos (including this one) where the person doesn't notice the "hear no evil - see no evil - speak no evil" reference. That saying may be largely lost to history now because I suspect many younger people have simply never seen it referenced anywhere else. The fact that it's always been depicted by monkeys can seem "offensive" as a knee jerk reaction to ever reproducing it. It's one of the world's first "memes".
Same way with the rest of the movies. I rewatched Battle the other night and saw messages I never noticed before. I was was also thinking what would the sequels had been like if Rod hadn't died
Oh my god, you maniac!
You did it! You really did it!
You finally watched this classic movie!
Yes, Zaius and the ones in charge are orangutans. The scientists are chimps. The gorillas are the warriors and cops. Very separated.
Both "Planet of the Apes" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" were released in US cinemas in April 1968 🤔 Apollo 7, the first crew orbited in Oct'1968, and Apollo 8 orbited our Moon that December.
It was a commercial and critical success at the time. You really should check out the sequels. Watch the second one, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, at the very least. You'll get hooked.
A bona fide sci-fi classic.
You absolutely should watch the sequels. Granted, they're a mixed bag, but I totally love the third movie. I'm undecided yet whether I like it better than the first one.
dude, u r CRAZY!! i watched this last nite & had to come over here to 'comment.' congratulations on yur 'thesis!' . . . :)
I love this movie and the sequels. All worth the time watching.
Another Jerry Goldsmith classic score!
Great reaction ! Since you enjoyed this so much I think you should check out Logan’s Run (1976). It has a similar vibe. Think you’d love it !
24:42 "These stupid nets. I wish all nets were destroyed!" Spoken like a guy who is about to be sucked into a world without nets. And who will then suddenly be vitally in need of a net, but there are no nets! He will also learn how nets are crucial to our modern society. And he will call out "come back, nets!" And then he will wake up from the nightmare with a newfound appreciation for nets. -- Brought to you by The Net Appreciation Board.
"Beneath" and "Escape" are good sequels.
I prefer the sequels of the original series to the reboot. I hope you watch them. Stay awesome!
Me too! 👍
I prefer real props & make up over CGI monkeys & green screens... I also prefer good acting, writing & originality over stuff that has been remade. 😉
Thanks for posting your review, I really enjoyed it. I had similar reactions like you, when I first saw this movie on television in 1972. The 14 year old me was mid blown by the whole movie & I was stunned by the ending. BTW, I like the modern day 'Ape' movies, but the 1968 original is my favourite.
There are actually many people who don't like the CGI version of Planet of the Apes that you seem to be very much into. Of course these people you don't hear from much but I for one just really dislike them. But I won't get into that now.
Wonderful reaction.
All you need to know about the impact of the original APES films and especially the first installment was that George Lucas himself hoped his little movie called Star Wars would at least be as big of a hit with audiences as the APES franchise of the time.
When they started the production of this movie (based on a blatantly satirical book criticising contemporary society, politics and religion), the studio executives who saw the script asked if this movie was political in any way, as they were worried about controversial movies.
The answer was something like "What? Political? Not in any sense. It's just a sci-fi adventure." And the production continued.
Sometimes stupid bureaucrats is a good thing. :D
Hopefully you'll watch the rest of the films in this series. The five films tell a complete story, including the birth of a talking ape baby, the rebellion of ape slaves; & the beginnings of the ape society, including a hint who might be the Lawgiver cited thru this movie.
This is its own alternate history. Apes enlisted as slave labor before the 21st century. Talking apes arriving from the future mere months after Tyler & co left!
In the original novel, the scarecrows are to try to keep the animals (humans) away from the crops. Since this really is an alien planet, the humans have golden skin. They're completely naked. They're mute. Humans not being allowed language or clothing has been ingrained for so many millennia that they destroy the hated clothing. Clothing = apes.
Prior to this movie, humans in ape costume were comical. They weren't realistic. Before the studio would agree to make this movie, the makeup artist had to prove an audience wouldn't laugh at the film. He did so with even more minimal makeup!
They made huge compromises on the book. The original version had apes driving cars & flying helicopters.
The book was a commentary on society at the time it was written -- like the hunters at the beginning posing with their prey.
You should read "The Forever War" from Joe Haldeman. One of the topics the novel is about, is the stangeness of your home when you return after a loooong time.
"Planet Of The Apes" is also a french novel, it's slightly different, especially the ending. But i didn't love it that much. Maybe it's a better read in french.
In medieval times there were trials for animals. There were even verdicts were grasshopers were forbidden on specific fields and the like.
There's lots of nods to the original movie that's in the new movies ,such as answering why they couldn't talk .
Dr Zaius was played by the actor who played Samantha's father in the TV series 'Bewitched'.
A better frame of reference would be he is one of the top Shakespearean actors of all time, Maurice Evans.
We’ve got another one! Please continue with the originals! They need more attention, even if they’re not as good as the first. Those walked for the reboots to run. And two of them are fan favorites
And you’ve already watched the reboot trilogy?! Then there’s way less of a chance of you switching to them after this one!
The Burton one can be left alone, but if you’re curious, go ahead
Actually Escape and Conquest will go a long way to referencing the New Ape movies. Escape is my favorite of the series.
I think you missed the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil pose the 3 courtroom judges were showing.
He missed a lot, speculated on nothing worth speculating on and criticised while bearing a woke mentality.
26 min mark. Yes the first folks to form the Theory of Evolution was Charles Darwin and Wallace around 1860 (1850?) - Charles Darwin wrote a book on it - very famous "On the Origin of Species". It was not well received and got much pushback esp from the Religious folks.
And yes the Orange guys are Orangatans(sp). They are the "Aristocracy" men in power - most are also the Religious Authority (i.e. the whole trial was basically a representation of middle age Catholic authorities persecuting "free-thinkers"/heretics - i.e. The Iquisition). Dr Zaus knows more and is not a Religious ape (just plays the role of one) He KNOWS, is a scientist and believes in evolution (the movie is not clear on if he believes Apes evolved from Men - or not - or even vise versa - I assume he agrees with Zira/Conileius and that Apes evolved from Men). But HE KNOWS man had a civilisation before the apes, and he knows man destroyed himself. I'll amand aby above a little on that Zaus is not a religious ape, he is a "liberal "christian') - for he does ask Taylor to read the scrolls concerning man - which is a good and accurate passage - so the "Lawgiver did good" on that verse.
The movie is basically a social commentary on Two Things:
Hypocrisy and Racism.
2 prime movers in all societies - sadly.
1- One of Goldsmith's best score ever
2- Written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, his script eschews most of the book and instead creates a brilliant social commentary and satire in the guise of a sci fi film. Every sequel and reboots completely missed the mark in thinking this is a story about intelligent apes. It's not, it's about humanity's greatest sins.
This is the best one to me still out of all of them including the new ones. My second is "Conquest Of The Planet of The Apes", then the next two new ones "Rise" and "Conquest".
The TV serie is worth watching also ! it directly based on this movie franchise in the seventies.
@RolyPolyOllie Reactions -- "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" is a worthy sequel. The later films not so much.
Three strong recommendations:
"Lawrence of Arabia"
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"
"Thirteen Days"
You definetly should check out the OG sequels, most are very good and together they make up for very good plot.
The talk about evolution was a big debate and still is…what to tach in schools and so forth
You can believe in religion and science together. It was a Roman Catholic priest scientist that proposed the Big Bang theory and secular scientists who strongly opposed the theory initially.