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Topic: Planet of the Apes trailers?
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted July 14, 2013 05:42 PM
I take your point Ernie, but the book it was based on bore little resemblance to Franklin Schaffners film, although it was an improvement, thanks to folks like Rod Serling. The Tim Burton film, I WOULD buy tomorrow, I think Burton is a Director, that had he been based in Europe, would have received better acclaim. His take on the "APES" was I first thought unnecessary, but then times change, and it's such an abstract book, Burton's film fits the bill.It's an American film, and one of my favourites ( apjac/Heston) and perhaps would not have worked as well anywhere else,(like europe) although both "War of the Worlds " films were based in the USA, and the original story was based in England, it took the BBC to show that tripods could be used believably as war machines in the series "The Tripods" way back in the '70S, where Hollywood couldn't in the '53 film.The definative "The War of the Worlds" has yet to be made, as is Pierre Boulles "Planet of the Apes"
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted July 19, 2013 08:45 PM
I just have to say that this film inspred me to study astronomy, while a schoolboy, I didn't miss an episode of "The Sky at Night", from the late but great, Sir Patrick Moore. Heston delivered, literally, a shakespearean deliverey to his lines, which isn't suprising, giving his love of theatre, a truly epic film that I love, Burtons film was a different take on a truly odd novel, but I think wasn't all bad. The dialogue wasn't any worse than what we the British public have had to endure from Hollywood, eg; refering to Richard the Third as, " Dick Plantagenet" by Loretta Young, is surely not to be taken as historic, but the same pap is delivered by Hollywood now as fact, and kids believe it.
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