Lennox- Planet of the Apes

An Imprisoned Mark Wahlberg

The apes give the humans no rights. They give them no chances. Although the humans can walk upright and speak their language, they still look down upon them. With the apes being physically stronger than them, they could do nothing but sit back and take the punishment. I believe it is safe to say that humans were not treated like humans. The situation felt very familiar. The Europeans believed themselves to be the superior race, and they enslaved the natives of America and Africa to do their work, as if they were animals.

In the scene where the cage is being drug through town, the little ape boys begin to throw stones at the humans saying that his father said it was okay. Those humans, they were locked up in cages. They were compacted together, uncomfortably in a cage. They did not receive seats, there was even one man who appeared to be very ill, or dead. These humans don't even receive protection from a little ape boy.

Another scene I would like to mention is the one where the little ape girl purchase a human little girl and takes her as a pet. The small child is separated from her mother, she is then given a collar and a cage. You can see the small child has been crying, and it appears that her cries were silent. That small girl may have understood that there was no way out of her situation. The apes had no care in the world about taking the small child from her mother. The only thing mentioned was, "Make sure you get rid of her before puberty." Harsh.

The final scene I would like to mention includes the house humans: the bald man and the Asian lady. The were so well behaved compared to the new house humans. They knew when to bow and when serve. They even stayed quiet in their cage at night. They accepted their fate.

All of those scenes show how inhumanely the humans are treated. We may sit back in awe and shock, but in our very on country, humans have been placed side by side in vehicles, their children had been sold away and some humans decided against even fighting their situations anymore , they decided it was just the way of their life. Those humans had people like Ari; they had others who would risk their social status to get them equality.

Lennox- Ed Wood

Ed Wood & Company 

 

Ed Wood was different. He was unique. His vision was his own and Tim Burton understood that. The actors selected for the Ed Wood film resembled Ed Wood’s own group of actors very well. In Gothic Fantasy, we learn that Tim Burton has always been a fan of Ed Wood’s film, and as a true fan of many things myself, I know what it is like to watch your fascination go down the drain because of choices made by an ignorant or uninterested director. Burton did what any fan would do and stuck to the truth as best he possibly could.

Ed Wood’s films were as unique as himself. Those poorly shot scenes are viewed as great works of art in the eyes of fans. If those fans were to view Burton’s biopic and see those scenes had been drastically for the entertainment of the audience, there would be a fit to throw. Burton’s job as a fan and a director were to make this biography as believable as possible. His job was to make us think that we were watching Ed Wood live his life, not to be entertained by his life story.

The scenes from Plan 9 from Outer Space were shot perfectly by Burton. It was as if Burton had literally taken the scenes directly from the original film. This had to be very pleasing to the eyes of fans and it had to have made them think they were actually watching Ed Wood direct this movie.  

This is why. Burton did not change or fabricate the work of Wood. He preserved it. It was Ed Wood’s work, not his. A painter would not paint the Mona Lisa with alterations and try to sell it to dedicated fans of Leonardo Da Vinci passing it off as parallel to the original. He has altered the originality that the fans fell in love with. Sure the extras are nice, but it is not the same thing. Tim Burton would be out of his mind to alter the art of Edward Wood Jr. and sell it to old fans and oncoming fans as a parallel work.