Daily Dialogue — June 11, 2012

“Take your stinkin’ paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”

— George Taylor (Charlton Heston), Planet of the Apes (1968), screenplay by 
Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, based on a novel by Pierre Boulle

“Take your stinkin’ paws off me, you damn dirty human!”

— Krull (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), Planet of the Apes (2001), screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and 
Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal, based on a novel by Pierre Boulle

“Take your stinkin’ paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”

— Dodge Landon (Tom Felton), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, based on a novel by Pierre Boulle

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is originals and remakes, suggested by Saint716. Today’s suggestion by The Bark Bites Back.

Trivia: Allegedly Jerry Goldsmith wore a gorilla mask while writing and conducting the score to “better get in touch with the movie.” He also used a ram’s horn in the process. The result was the first completely atonal score in a Hollywood movie.

Dialogue On Dialogue: TBBB offers up this observation: “All three of these are presented in different contexts: inferior man responding to superior ape, superior ape responding to inferior man, and finally superior man responding to inferior ape.”

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