Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes (1968)

57 mistakes - chronological order

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Revealing mistake: When Taylor approaches Miss Liberty, there should be horse tracks in the sand extending to the end of the frame. About 1/3 of the frame shows smooth sand preceding some horse tracks.

Audio problem: After Taylor's been hit Dr. Galen says "he's lost a lot of blood", but his mouth is not moving.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While during the trial Honorius says Zira and Galen experimented on Taylor his right-hand swaps between being by his side or resting on the chair.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: During the trial Honorius walks around the room and stops to deliver his words. Watch his feet and you'll notice a dark spot right where his feet are, which serves as the marker.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Zira visits the cages and asks Taylor if it still hurts. Taylor holds the iron bars with both hands parallel to each other. A shot later his right hand is positioned higher.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the three arrive at the planet Taylor asks for water and Dodge shows his canteen. Check the strap of his backpack changing between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie begins Taylor starts rolling up his left sleeve with his right hand. Shot changes and his hand is away and the sleeve is already rolled. Up.

Sacha

Character mistake: A space traveler would not be "going to Orion." The major stars in Orion vary in distance from the earth from 243 to 1,360 light years. Orion is only a constellation as visible from Earth; once you get away that far, the stars would not be in the same alignment as they are from Earth. They would have been going to a specific star, probably Bellatrix at 243 light years, as Taylor mentions being at 320 light years.

apolloguy

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Suggested correction: I'm not sure what scene you're referring to, but I never heard anyone say they went to Orion. Taylor says they're on a "planet in orbit around a star in the constellation of Orion. That could be Bellatrix." To Taylor, who is from Earth, the star is still in the constellation of Orion.

Bishop73

I agree with your take, but I still think it could be interpreted as Orion's stars all being in close proximity. And I would hope they would know about the 320 - 243 light year issue.

apolloguy

Continuity mistake: After Zaius warns Taylor not to go to the Forbidden Zone, Taylor turns the horse to face Cornelius. In the closeup after Zaius tells Taylor "You may not like what you find", he turns the horse around again.

Movie Nut

Revealing mistake: After Taylor gets up from being dragged in the square, another ape tries to rope him. As this occurs, the stuntman is easily distinguished.

Movie Nut

Other mistake: As the Apes first appear on horseback, as the second one from the camera's left turns around, you can see that the rifle doesn't have an ammo clip in it.

Movie Nut

Other mistake: After the rocket hits the water, the view of the landscape bobs up and down. But the movement at the top and bottom of the view are slightly jerky rather than the smooth stop and go that a real bobbing craft would have.

Movie Nut

Revealing mistake: During the desert walk you can see footprints in the sand from previous takes, also dark lines in front of them which they follow like a pathway.

George Taylor: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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Trivia: During breaks, the ape makeup couldn't be removed. It is interesting to note that the chimps naturally hung out with other chimps during breaks, the gorillas natually hung out with other gorillas, and the orangutans naturally hung out with other orangutans.

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Question: What caused the original nuclear devastation depicted in the movie?

Socks1000

Answer: I think that this is meant to be a mystery. Taylor/Charlton Heston, an astronaut, leaves a world set somewhat in the future after 1968 (when the movie was made) but still recognisable to cinema-goers at the time, to travel through a "time vortex" to arrive in a world in a distant future, which has changed beyond recognition. Taylor meets the orangutan Zaius/Maurice Evans, and Zaius hints that he has some idea of what had happened, but Zaius' knowledge is either limited, or else Zaius is not going to tell Taylor (or his fellow apes) the full story. At the end of the movie Taylor discovers that, at some point between his leaving his own time and arriving in the "Planet Of The Apes", the world had been devastated by a nuclear war, but I think that the exact time, causes of, and course of this nuclear war are deliberately left as a mystery. Sometimes I think a bit of unresolved mystery actually improves a story, and I think this is the case here.

Rob Halliday

Chosen answer: World War III.

Grumpy Scot

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