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MguyXXV 
"X marks the spot"
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 Posted - 07/15/2024 : 07:47:45
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Fabulous, but I'm furious!
I loved this film. If you've got a hard-on for things like absolute plausibility and reality and whether i really comes before e except after c, well, fuck you and continue complaining about how monkeys could not possibly fly in the Wizard of Oz.
The film is relatively fresh and approaches the Apes canon from the perspective of at least one ape colony not previously represented in earlier stories: they have no knowledge of their ancestor Caesar. In adopting this fresh perspective, the film is also able to give noble and notable homages to the original 1968 Planet of the Apes like chilling and yet humble echoes of the original film soundtrack (Jerry Goldsmith) that John Paesano cleverly incorporates in the new soundtrack. Aficionados will immediately recognize parallels between the "valley" and the "forbidden zone"; the human hunt scene through the tall grass; Mae's (Freya Allan) escape from the trapping net and Taylor's (Charleton Heston) similar escape; an ape's invocation of the name "Nova" for a seemingly feral human woman; the parallel between the beach-side archeological cave in the original and the beach-side vault; the ape's finding of the doll that says "mama".
So I was eager to see the credits, waiting to see the name of Pierre Boulle (who wrote the novel from which the entire Apes franchises derive, and who created the character Nova), Rod Serling and Michael Wilson (Serling wrote the original adaptation; Wilson rewrote the adaptation, with he and Serling creating many of the homages mentioned, which are not part of the original novel); and Paul Dehn (who wrote the screenplays for several of the 1970s sequels and created the character Caesar). I saw a very conspicuous thematic credit to Jerry Goldsmith's original score, but there was no credit given to any of the aforementioned writers. None. I'm furious!! How does this happen? And suddenly, quite obvious homage begins to taste like theft (or, more likely, a gigantic omission from the credits department).
So if anyone knows any survivors for the estates of any of the aforementioned writers, I know a lawyer in L.A. who would love to get them some justice.  But see the film anyway, it's great.   |
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
