Daily Dialogue — January 18, 2015

“Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”

— Planet of the Apes (1968), screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, novel by Pierre Boulle

Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Revelation.

Trivia: Michael Wilson was brought in to do a rewrite of Rod Serling’s screenplay. Wilson’s contribution is most evident in the kangaroo courtroom scene, Wilson being an embittered target of the blacklisting Joseph McCarthy “witchhunts” of the 1950s.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Classic Twilight Zone-like twist at the end. That figures seeing as the script was co-written by Rod Serling.