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Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi

Posted by Zonk on from the damn-dirty-apes-wouldn't-keep-their-paws-off dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As you're probably already aware, Charlton Heston passed away yesterday. Wired has a piece looking back at Heston's extremely notable work in the sci-fi genre, with roles in films like "Planet of the Apes" and "Soylent Green". 'Heston also roared out some of sci-fi's greatest and most memorable lines, bringing his macho swagger and over-the-top intensity to the screen in movies like 1973's food freak-out flick Soylent Green and the Planet of the Apes series. In a pivotal scene from 1968's Planet of the Apes (see clip), Heston's character, time-traveling astronaut George Taylor, utters the first words spoken by a human to the simian rulers of a bizarro future Earth: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!'"

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  1. Let's not forget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He also fought for our rights to carry phasers and other types of disintegrator rays.

    1. Re:Let's not forget by Duhavid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now, now, you are getting into interpreting the constitution there. Guns was all they had back then, so that is all you can have now.

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    2. Re:Let's not forget by moderatorrater · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ray Guns Don't Kill Zygornians, Zygornians kill Zygornians!

    3. Re:Let's not forget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dibs on prying the gun from his cold, dead hands.

  2. Republicans by deft · · Score: 1, Funny

    Would also likely point out his work in Michael Moore sci-fi films.

    Damn, I'm totally independant, but I wish I was republican for a moment, if for nothing else but to throw out that zinger.

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  3. Oblig. by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Pries the musket from his cold, dead hands*

    1. Re:Oblig. by AaxelB · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn you! I was just looking for somewhere to post this and be witty.

  4. Most famous quote. by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny
    Read the journal entry, and the first comment. I don't want to take any credit away from plover ... http://slashdot.org/~tomhudson/journal/200218

    ...and the originator of "you can have ... when you pry it from my cold, dead hands".
    I call shotgun!

    Because apparently we CAN pry it from his cold, dead hands.

    1. Re:Most famous quote. by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

      What people fail to realise is that Aussies were never really gun nuts to start with, owning a handgun has always been uncommon, carrying one has always been socially unacceptable. Well no kidding, have you seen what passes for knives over there?
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    2. Re:Most famous quote. by TempeTerra · · Score: 2, Funny

      Richard Stallman, is that you?

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  5. The Line That Almost Was by Skeetskeetskeet · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Get your stinking ankh off me you damn dirty Pharaoh!!!"

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  6. Re:Finally... by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 4, Funny

    He was not the right-wing nut that some people claim him to be. Ssh! The truth isn't convenient! ;)
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  7. Re:Yeah, Heston! by Vectronic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I searched and searched, and I just could not find the movie where he played the "Dog Fucking Fag"...

    If you are so Anti-Heston, you could at least explain why you are... such, you are Pro-Gun Control, or Anti-Biblical Stories, or something...

    But, i'll assume that when you die, many people will spout off... "I am glad that anonymous fucking coward is dead"

  8. Is his hand cold? by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I call dibs on the gun.

  9. MOSES? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 3, Funny
    WHO is this MOSES???

    RS

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    1. Re:MOSES? by lord+merlin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not sure, and off-topic, but I am spartacus....

    2. Re:MOSES? by bakes · · Score: 2, Funny

      No no - *I* am Spartacus!

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    3. Re:MOSES? by Avagadro's.Phone.Num · · Score: 2, Funny

      Edward G. Robinson said it best... "Where's your Moses now? See..."

  10. Re:He was legend by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    The original ending is the zombies win. No producer in Hollywood will ever shoot an ending like that.

    Sure ... unlike pretty much every zombie movie ever made.

  11. Re:Oblig by mfnickster · · Score: 4, Funny

    > What will they say about Slashdot? All I can think of is that the first page of the guest book at the way will be full of "FRIST PO$T!!1!"

    They'll probably say "NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT."

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  12. Re:RIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I second the motion for James Earl Jones.

  13. Re:RIP by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah, Calculon had a terrible voice before they gave him that 1.7 upgrade.

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