What does the end of the world look like? It is a question that many director of genres have been asked, especially since post-apocalyptic (and simply ordinary apocalyptic) film has increased in popularity after the invention of nuclear weapons. For most directors, setting up for the apocalypse tends to fall into one of the two categories: it is either a widespread urban ruin, with former skyscrapers now in a mess, or a huge desert landscape where the old world's dentus is scattered through miles and rock. Very few films showing the end of the world decide to make the apocalypse look like an idyllic view of the ocean.

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However, this is exactly what the 1968 "planet of the monkeys" did, as production chose to set its climate turn on and around the foot of Malibu. Sitting on the Los Angeles periphery in Southern California, the combination of the beach and a prominent rocky rock makes the point look and feel like a place out of time, the quality that extends to the very name of the area. According to a promotional piece for Malibu Beach's nearby IngPoint Dum was intended to be named after Padre Francisco Dummec, with the surname "Dam-me". However, someone misinterpreted the spelling based on the pronunciation and instead stuck "dum".

During the history of the cinema, Point Dum enjoyed life, which is somewhere between lavish beauty and eerie malicious. It is an ambience for everything, from fun in "The Great Lebowski" to Tony Stark's films in the films "IRONEACLE man", but it is also where the surreal horror film of 1974 was filmed "Messiah of Evil" was filmed where his 1993 legend was. One can argue that the point of the point appeared on the "planet" planet "Planet" planet ". Inheritance. The scene is certainly the most iconic moment ever recorded at the point, as the footage of the broken statue of freedom (apparently constructed by a kitten and cardboard) with a view of the beach while astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) realizes that he has returned to Earth all the time. The movie series "Monkeys Planet"And the genre of cinema in general. That's a twist that might not have hit so hard, it wasn't for the unique look of points.

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One of the ingenious aspects that made the end of the "planet of monkeys" - the discovery that Taylor and his spaceship inadvertently traveled to the future of the earth, in which people became silent and subordinates of the race of intellectually advanced monkeys - an the entire timer of a plot twist It was that Pierre Bull's novel was solid that the film was adjusting. The book revealed in advance that its astronauts travel to a completely separate planet ruled by intelligent monkeys, where people are lower species. The turn of the novel involved astronauts who returned to Earth and found that intelligent monkeys began to grow there. It was the choice of screenwriters Michael Wilson and Rod Serling to make the novel's political and social metaphors harder for the audience in the Cold War era using A twist that Serling is already working on its series "The Dusk Zone" (Specifically, the episode "I recorded an arrow in the air").

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A trick for a twist would be not to reveal that Taylor had his adventure in the post-apocalyptic country until the last moment of the film. While this was achieved by placing most of the film in the desert (locations such as Lake Powell and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area) were used, the real bait and switch used a pickup point for the climax. The location resembles the end of the world in the literal sense, with the earth, rock and sand coming next to a huge, blue ocean. The greatest inconsistence comes from the visual icon of the Statue of Freedom Broken (or buried) on the beach, a visual sign of Taylor (who left the then World Future Year since 1972) from where and when it was. The view of fallen freedom has thus become a powerful shortened paradise for dozens of genres of films to follow when looking to evoke the fall of the United States on a large scale: everything from "Independence Day" to Cloverfield and the poster art for "Escape from Newsnick" owes a debt.

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Similarly, the "planet of the monkeys" owes a debt to the pointing, a location that may look beautiful one moment and dark and infertile next. If the final twist in the film was set at an internal location, or some Nondescript exterior, it would still be intellectual engagement and had some emotional weight. However, it would not have the same influence as to see Heston on DUM's beach, beating fists helplessly against the sand. The film has certainly helped contribute to Point Dum's popularity as a tourist attraction after its release. Ironically, those maniacs for making films, they blew it.