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- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!quadsys!roland
- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: Planet of the Apes
- Message-ID: <Bxup1q.34y@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
- References: <1992Nov13.165354.7797@b8.b8.ingr.com> <1992Nov15.110820.322@news.uwyo.edu> <69591@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:03:26 GMT
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- In article <69591@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- >Planet of the Apes was released the same year as 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- >Apes won the Oscar for Best Costumes. It was later noted by
- >either a media critic or Kubrick himself that the Academy voters
- >probably didn't realize the pre-humans in 2001's "Dawn of Man"
- >sequence were very agile dancers in costume, and that they probably
- >thought they were very well trained simians of some kind. Compare
- >if you wish, the simian costume jobs on both films and draw your
- >own conclusions :-)
- >
-
- Right! I almost had to laugh out loud at the ape sequence in 2001.
- The costumes were substandard even for the times.
-
- Planet of the Apes was a stunner, though. Probably one of the most
- powerful endings of any movie.
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-
- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
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