I was a child in 1968. I might not have understood everything I saw on the evening news, but I knew it was a tumultuous time. (OK, I didn't know the word "tumultuous".) As I mentioned the other day, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Robert F. Kennedy would meet a like fate two months later. There were riots, demonstrations and strikes everywhere.
Anyway...In honor of the 50th anniversary of Planet's first appearance on the big screen, I am offering this:
In the midst of it all, some of the cultural touchstones (and cliches) of the late 20th Century made their appearance. Among them were two movies that became nearly all-purpose metaphors--2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes.
Both movies, er, films, made lots of money for their studios. If you feel your reputation will be sullied by indulging in a taste for a mere movie, you can turn either into a film by reminding yourself that the music you hear when a chimp uses a shinbone to bash in the skull of a skeletal remain is Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathrusta. And, Planet of the Apes is based on a novel--namely Pierre Boulle's La Planete des Singes.
(I confess that I learned of the basis in the Boulle novel only recently--as in, about half an hour before I started writing this!)
Anyway...In honor of the 50th anniversary of Planet's first appearance on the big screen, I am offering this:
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