Interesting: Planet of the Apes

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catwoman

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Saturday night I saw "Planet of the Apes" from beginning to end. (Never done that before.)

This is a 1968 movie. Very interesting scene toward the end, when Cornelius, fiancee, nephew & Charleton Heston (astronaut Taylor) & Nova (the human slaves, treated as animals) flee to an excavation in the Forbidden Zone.

There are human remains that indicate that humans had existed alongside apes:

Taylor: Reconstructing a past life. . . . Whoever owned them must have been in pretty bad shape, he wore false teeth, and eyeglasses, and a . . . failing heart . . . towards the end with this prefabricated valve . . . I don't say he was the same man like I knew at home, but he must have been a close relative because he had all the same weaknesses. He was a weak, fragile animal, but he was here before you. And he was better than you are!

That's very interesting ...
 
Yeah, Ross.

What I was intrigued by was that Planet of the Apes was released in 1968. The first artificial valves are only about 50 years old -- don't know if that's mechanical or tissue.
One of the screen writers was Rod Serling.

I was curious if whoever wrote that passage was seeing artificial valves as the wave of the future for saving hearts. I just wonder why the "prefabricated" valve was thrown in, if it had been big news about that time....

Guess that's just the journalist in me, always curious!!
 
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