The Planet of the Apes: Holes in the Plot

[Tom Terrific]

Here is Roddy McDowall getting the whole ape makeup in 1968.

Trivia question:

How many actors got full ape makeup for:

1. each of the original five 20th Century Fox films?

2. each episode of the 1974 TV series?

3. each episode of the 1975 Saturday morning animated series? Oh, the answer is simple: zero. No makeup artists needed for cartoon characters.


I understand many ape actors not filmed up close just wore simple expressionless Halloween masks. You can hear voices calling from some of them at a distance and it's no wonder the mouths don't move.

 

[BAYLOR]

Here is Roddy McDowall getting the whole ape makeup in 1968.

Trivia question:

How many actors got full ape makeup for:

1. each of the original five films?

2. each episode of the 1974 TV series?

3. each episode of the 1975 Saturday morning animated series? Oh, the answer is simple: zero. No makeup artists needed for cartoon characters.


I understand many ape actors not filmed up close just wore simple expressionless Halloween masks. You can hear voices calling from some of them at a distance and it's no wonder the mouths don't move.

You can clearly see it in the second film in the crowd scene when Gnberal Urko is giving this speech. With edited and better cara work thye might have been able to get around the . The biggest disservice the studio did the films was thye kept citing the budget , when thye should have been going bigger and better. One way they could salvaged the movie series was o change the ending of the second film and continue the story in that future time frame.

 

[Tom Terrific]

I was in the army. I know how nasty that camo face paint was. Hot, sweaty itchy and greasy. The ape face makeover was reputed to be nasty to wear for any length of time.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Yes, that's the documentary I saw abut the future evolution. . At one point in their evolution I think Octopi were called Swampus because they had evolved so that they could exist in the Swamps. This was before they took to the trees, which they did to escape a Giant land dwelling predatory octopi.

At one point Tortoises became giant dinosaur like herbivores grazing on the land.

The lLast Anthropoid species on the planet went extinct because of some flightless predatory Terror bird like predator.

The small mammal had big eyes and looked like a mouse. The Spider put out seeds to attract theses mouselike mammals .

Hey @BAYLOR, I stumbled across this Youtube video that referenced this earlier series!:

Just thought to put it your way!

 

[Tom Terrific]

Hey @BAYLOR, I stumbled across this Youtube video that referenced this earlier series!:

Just thought to put it your way!

A future world without warm-blooded cuddly mammals? My soul may someday be reincarnated as a flying fish?

 

[Venusian Broon]

A future world without warm-blooded cuddly mammals? My soul may someday be reincarnated as a flying fish?

Intelligent beings that have evolved from insects, say, may regard mammals as disgustingly hairy sweaty meatbags!

 

[BAYLOR]

Intelligent beings that have evolved from insects, say, may regard mammals as disgustingly hairy sweaty meatbags!

Yes , we mammals would be so beneath them .

 

[Tom Terrific]

Intelligent beings that have evolved from insects, say, may regard mammals as disgustingly hairy sweaty meatbags!

Not all mammals sweat. Mammals are more prone to body odors than other animals save for fish.

 

[KGeo777]

The first movie is not consistent with the rest.
In Escape, Cornelius knows all about talking humans--that they had cats and dogs--while in the 1968 film, it is a mystery to him (although Dr. Zaius knows).
Also the gorillas are closer to the book in the first--they run the society. They provide the needed infrastructure and the orangutans and chimps are not so important. And they make the gorillas dumber in the sequels.

James Cameron had a project--he wanted to do a sequel which would incorporate CGI recreation of Charlton Heston--this was 25 years ago.