Word: apes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled with bitter misery. Henze has said: "This music fashions, out of itself, its own new dwellings from which it will emerge and explain itself only for those who can show it a suitable visiting card." Those with the right...
...Naked Ape, Morris...
...NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. A witty mixture of established anthropological theory and wild speculation on the evolution of Homo sapiens...
...about the conflict of man and monkey was a clever, abrasive piece of science friction. But on the screen the story has been reduced from Swiftian satire to self-parody. The script is cluttered with man-monkey analogies, as crude as "Human see, human do," "I never met an ape I didn't like" and "he was a gorilla to remember." At one point, three of the simians simultaneously cover their eyes, ears and mouth. The best thing about the film results from Producer Arthur P. Jacobs' decision to allocate $1,000,000 for masks and costumes...
...NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. A witty mixture of established anthropological theory and wild speculation on the evolution of Homo sapiens...