Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
No 350 – Planet of the Apes Director – Franklin J Schaffner The 70’s had a really set view as to what spaceships looked like (with the exception of Alien ) – white and clean. If you set a film in a clean white ship , it looks 70s. Check the last few scenes of Revenge of the Sith where George Lucas finally remembers that the film has to lead chronologically into A New Hope and starts creating a 70’s sci- fi vibe. So we’re looking at Charlton Heston , smoking a cigar in space (as one does) as he finalises his preparations for an auto-pilot journey home. There is also some mumbo jumbo about how time on Earth has travelled much further than time on the ship. So the crew are in 'hyper sleep' and time passes... But it goes wrong and the ship crashes – the only female astronaut dies (bye bye pesky woman, don’t think you’re getting a line, or even particularly mourned by the characters), and the three remaining men find themselves on a mysterious planet about 2,000 years in the fu...