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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

    *Pries the musket from his cold, dead hands*

  3. 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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  4. 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"

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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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