Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Planet of the Apes franchise and the Statue of Liberty, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(franchise)#Background
The ending of the first movie still provides interesting implications all these decades later.
http://www.potamediaarchive.com/MainPage1.htm,
http://www.potamediaarchive.com/EastCoast.htm,
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Forbidden_Zone

Rod_Serling brilliantly turned the first movie into an unofficial Twilight Zone episode.
Here is an audio version similar to an old radio play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film)#Production
The first movie in the P of the A series uses time-travel in the story-line, just like the pilot episode of the Twilight Zone had done around a decade earlier.

http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
The Statue_of_Liberty became quite a pivotal moment in the 1968 movie.

File:National Park Service 9-11 Statue of Liberty and WTC fire.jpg
and during the World_Trade_Center's_destruction in 2001.

An illustration for the 1970 movie depicts NYC skyscrapers in the distant background of the statue.
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Beneath_the_Planet_of_the_Apes_(1970)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(franchise)#Forbidden_Zone
The view looking north & west towards Lower_Manhattan with the Brooklyn_Bridge in the foreground.

A new installment in the series was released in July 2001 running at 119 minutes.
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(2001)

The ESB & the CB are the two tallest towers at the New_York-New_York_Hotel_and_Casino This hotel opened in 1997 & happened to omit-the-twin-towers. So in a way, it became a representation of Manhattan in the years before & after the destruction of the WTC in September 2001.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty#Depictions,
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth#Depictions,
http://www.potamediaarchive.com/images/ZaiusPoster2.jpg

http://www.potamediaarchive.com/links.htm

http://www.craveonline.com/film/articles/180251-the-series-project-planet-of-the-apes-part-1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAH-Tw2hue8
another 1968 movie trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzpPGypcX4

2011 Rise_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes
2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSNQFdyI084,
Dawn_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apeshttp://www.dawnoftheplanetoftheapes-movie.com

http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/prophetic-pillars-on-st-john-the-divine-cathedral

http://www.youtube.com/user/CinemaSins