RIP Charlton Heston.
As a Catholic kid growing up it was hard not to pass Easter without watching DeMille's TEN COMMANDMENTS with the family on ABC from 6:30 pm to 12:30am.
I'd usually fall asleep right after the Red Sea sequence when Yul Brenner get his pagan ass handed to him by Moses and Disney's EFX crew at the time. Furthermore when I went to Universal Studios and saw their version of it on the tour, I remember thinking how crummy it looked in real life, and that the tour was full of shit.
The other drama of the week was if Franco Zefferelli's JESUS of NAZARETH was being shown as a mini series on NBC and the Climatic final 7th episode was on Sunday night, when Moses was kicking Egyptian butt on NBC. So there'd be the switching back and forth or generally Jesus won since Ten C. was shown every year. That bummed me out because Moses's movie had better special effects and a better ending - Egypt and Idol worshippers got thrown unmercifully into the SMACKDOWN hotel. Jesus got beaten to pulp, nailed and died. Ugh. Oh yeah he delivered us from evil.
Back to Heston though. Also as kid I saw that futuristic monkey movie he did on the 4:30 movie after school when each week would have a theme, so I watched all the Planet of the Apes series in a week not doing my homework, and growing up in NYC the ending always made me look at the Statue of Liberty way differently.
I also loved BEN HUR, but the OMEGA MAN always had a soft spot in my heart because watching that as a kid living in the city and seeing him battle wacky druid types every night creeped me out because that could happen if I got off on the wrong exit on the Subway system.....
Having seen the Remake or updated Version in I AM LEGEND, I will say that Will Smith channelled some of the desperation that Heston had in the '70's version and shot it into the stratosphere because he was dynamite; my only real complaint is that those Zombies looked really crappy. They should've just used real people.
Yo Chuck,
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!
3 comments:
All hail the manhood that was Charlton Heston!
And while you're at it...
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! (PotA)
It's a madhouse!
(sound of rushing water stops)
A maaaaaaaadhooooouuuuse! (PotA)
Oh. My. Gaaaawwwd. (taken from virtually every flick Chucky ever made)
My personal weird favorite moment from that movie is after the Astronauts land and one of them plants the American flag and the camera pans up to Heston laughing and it dissolves into the sun....
That was always trippy for me.
It's a maaaaadhouse!
The C-shaped scar all stiched up in Landon's head did it for me.
Great stuff for a 4-year-old!
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