http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/26/planet-of-the-apes/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/26/planet-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-3766 Loren Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:48:45 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=25#comment-3766 What the title sequence for "Planet of The Apes" succeeds so spectacularly at doing, is to immediately persuade the audience to accept the challenging idea that Charlton Heston and his crew are alive in a vastly distant and advanced future. The stainless, antiseptic look of the starship's bridge; the absence of any sound other than Heston's voice; the silent ballet of the strangely colored astral bodies moving in the unvisited space outside the ship...all of this was a new vision of the future for 1968. It was a vision of machinery designed not to look like machinery, a statement on how masterful of his environment Man has become. The future looks...well, under control, and therefore looks cool! What the title sequence for “Planet of The Apes” succeeds so spectacularly at doing, is to immediately persuade the audience to accept the challenging idea that Charlton Heston and his crew are alive in a vastly distant and advanced future. The stainless, antiseptic look of the starship’s bridge; the absence of any sound other than Heston’s voice; the silent ballet of the strangely colored astral bodies moving in the unvisited space outside the ship…all of this was a new vision of the future for 1968. It was a vision of machinery designed not to look like machinery, a statement on how masterful of his environment Man has become. The future looks…well, under control, and therefore looks cool!

]]> http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/26/planet-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Frank Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:42:34 +0000 http://www.artofthetitle.com/?p=25#comment-123 Virtuosic scoring from Goldsmith. Virtuosic scoring from Goldsmith.

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